Canada Garden

When we go to the state fair, Mark is always a good sport about going to the floraculture building first.  If I had enough energy, I'd g...

The house is full of beautiful flowers, "leftovers" from a beautiful wedding that Leah & Amy did this weekend. 

It sure looks like they're talking, doesn't it?  I would think a zinnia and a cleome would have some things in common. 

My all-time favorite coleus, Alabama Sunset, has fallen out of favor with most garden centers.  The last time I found one was a couple of ye...

  It's always a blast when we have our Betsy & Kyle over to visit.  They liven life up. 

With all this heat and humidity and chasing bunnies and digging in dusty dirt, G dog and Lilla got a much needed bath this week.  Our Betsy ...

One of my favorite combos of the moment--double wave purple petunia  with love-in-a-puff. 

  It's a glorious August Saturday morning.  We're heading off to breakfast and to the Farmer's Market.

The last lily stand of big beautiful pure white blooms is going full force now.  Love them with the green zinnias and hosta blooms.  This on...

Here is this year's evolution of the driveway pots.  I  wanted some serious height this year and I'm always trying to find something...

The one in the middle came from mammy's.  I had two of them, but one day I sat in one and it just kept going back and back and back in s...

The orange lilies are gone.  All gone.  One more lily wave to go for this season--great big beautiful white ones  just beginning to bloom o...

It's been a good summer for reading! The Scent of Rain & Lightning , Nancy Pickard, about a girl whose parents were killed when sh...

This is one of the last daylilies that I added to the garden.  For the past few years, I've been saying "no more daylilies. . . .  ...