What's Blooming Wednesday

I tilled another garden.
I know, I just tilled one last week. I have indeed lost my mind. I had three areas that needed connected and then I added a little for more perennials. I also saved $50 from Christmas and bought a bunch of flowers I didn't have: a crazy daisy,  purple toad flax and an assortment of perennial salvias. Also found some great perennials on Craig's List for $1. What's a plant addict to do? Guess in another few years I can open up for tours:)

Here's what's blooming this Wednesday. What's blooming in your yard?

Lovely anemone in my favorite colors. I forgot I planted these:)

One of my absolute favorites, lily of the valley.

The flowers look like fairy bonnets.

Gorgeous lilacs. Not many blooms this year for some reason.

This is my studio window. Don't I have a nice view? I have a bird feeder mounted to my window.  Chickadee friends stop in and say hello during the day.

I'm a sucker for swirly things so you can imagine my delite to find this tulip with an unusual leaf this morning.

The new garden. Still needs a few annuals up front.

Found the rusty jack o' lantern garden stake at a yard sale last weekend for $1!

My newest Painted Pony, Wild Flower. Always a exciting to find ponies blooming in the garden. This one has 16 different types of wildflowers painted on her sides. Working on a new rearing pony. I have resculpted the mane and tail and I'm painting him a dark dappled palomino. He will look like he's just pranced out of a fairy tale.

Thank you Promise for the lovely blog award:)

What have I been up to?

Sorry, haven't posted in a few days. Wondering were I've been?
Well, besides seeing the new Harry Potter movie, which was awesome if you must know, I made a new flower garden!
There is this wonderful greenhouse near my mom's, Groff's Plant Farm, that was having a one day customer appreciation sale. I got a flat of 18 perennials for $15.50 plus a free flat of annuals and that smoke bush I've been wanting for only $13.99! I LOVE this greenhouse! So I had to make a new garden to fit all these wonderful plants. Then my new flower bed needed a birdbath so I picked up this gorgeous wildflower and butterfly one at Roots Country Market. I think it fits in beautifully and birds were bathing in it within minutes.

Just some of the new plants I bought: Scabiosa, Bellflower, Leprechaun Gold Columbine, Pink Salvia, Cherry Blossum Delphinium, Devotion Blue Trachelium, St. John's Wort, Beard Tongue, Coreopsis Double Sunburst, Blanket Flower Burgundy, Red Fox Spiked Speedwell, Purple Volcano Lyre Leaved Sage, Angelonia, Pearly Everlasting, White Gold Lantana, Lemon Rose Scented Geranium, Mexican Heather, Cupid's Dart & Jacob's Ladder. I think some of the names sound so romantic:)
Okay, I really need to get some painting done now...

Blood, sweat and dirt...

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."-- Claude Monet



I have been so busy in the yard I haven't gotten much else done. I'm so proud of my new flower garden (mostly perennials) that I thought I would share a few pictures. My wonderful husband bought me a weeping redbud that is in the corner of the boomerang shape. I can't wait to see it bloom next spring!


This was the garden half way finished. I wish I had taken a before photo. When we moved in nearly 2 years ago there was an oval garden in the back that was entirely over grown and a butterfly bush that had a lot of dead wood that I cut off and put a large saucer in for a bird bath. This year I enlarged the space around the butterfly bush and connected the two beds in a large boomerang shape.



Here's the finished garden. I have a lot of plants in there that will grow tall and spread such as shasta daisies, lupine, black eyed susan, yarrow, coneflower, dianthus, salvia & baby's breath.
Also planted a knock out rose, two blueberry bushes, glads, spirea, lady's mantle coral bells, scotch broom, meadow rue, borgae, obedient plant, sunflowers, spiderwort, morning glory, geranium, portulaca, foxglove and more!


Veggie garden is getting big. Just added a small patch behind it for cantaloupe and watermelon. Instead of bamboo poles for tomato teepees, I thought I would try using large branches.


Guess who's going eating lots of salad this week? I have three varieties, like this romaine, to choose from. My favorite is red sails but the black seeded simpson is ready too!

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One more gorilla photo from last Monday! Thanks for all the comments. I'm sorry if I'm not able to always comment back but I do appreciate hearing from other bloggers.