My Garden

I just going to share some pictures of my flowers on this post.  The rain has been plentiful and the flowers are bigger and blooming earlier than normal.

Happy 4th of July

Happy Birthday America!!

Have a wonderful day and enjoy all the food, fun, family and fireworks.

picture from The Barn Artist

Thanks to all who have served our country and kept us safe.  Let Freedom Ring.


I will be spending part of the morning in my garden and a few other activities.  This will be the lowest-key 4th of July for us in history but will be celebrating with family in a couple of weeks.

My Welcome Home

As I posted on the 4th of July we have been on vacation and arrived home late Friday evening.  Saturday morning I went out to walk around my flowers, many of the perennials bloomed while we were gone.  I felt like it was my own special welcome home, it brought a big smile to my face and joy to my soul.  What is it about vacations?  You are so excited to go, have a great time while you are gone but it is so very good to be home.
Here is my welcome home.










Now for some close-ups!
I think this one looks like the bloom is jumping out of the picture.



I love Gerber Daisies, they were one of the flowers in my wedding





My garden is recovering from the severe drought of last year and I had to add several new perennials this year.  So in three years my garden should be looking filled in again, just like this saying goes…..

First Year Sleeps, Second Year Creeps, Third Year Leaps

Now off to pull some weeds and see what I can sew later in the day.

Flowers

Thank you all for the kind comments on my dress from the last post, I appreciate each and everyone.  Many of those comments had something about my flowers and Andrea asked who was the gardener.  Well, the answer is Me!
I thought I would share some pictures today from my flower gardens.  The main one is a big “U” shape off of our deck.  But the shape is an upside down “U”.
I bought some new blue pots for the deck this year and my wave petunias are doing fantastic

Nest we step off the deck and to the left starts the biggest flower bed, which part is next to the house.


As the bed curves around you come to a water feature.  This runs very rarely as there is a hole somewhere and I have to fill it daily to run it (which I do not do).  I do like how it looks and the dry water feature is fine with me.

From the water feature, the bed curves out into the yard.  This part is what you saw in yesterday’s post.

anther view


Now there is an arbor that leads to the pergola and the swimming pool.  I have a gorgeous climbing rose on this arbor along with a clematis on each side. The clematis are gorgeous in the spring.  I usually do not have to cut the climbing rose back but after last year’s hot and dry July and August, the rose was not in the best shape.  So it is starting over

The bed now is the other leg of the “U” shape and runs parallel to the pool.  The next few pictures picture were taken from the arbor



I took some pictures from the end of the bed looking back.




At the front of the driveway I have two flowerbeds on each side.  One is beautiful and filling in so nicely, it is around our flagpole.  The other is suffering with the heat and poor soil, no pictures of that one today!
The flagpole bed is on the east side and the sun was bright this morning so the colors look a bit off.  The bed is a mix of daylilies, roses, a couple of yews, marigolds, summer phlox, black-eyed susans and Russian Sage

A closer view

Now one last bed, this one separates the house yard from the barn/machine shed yard.  A long raised bed with roses and ornamental grasses and evergreens.


Hope you enjoyed the look into my garden.  I like more of a cottage-themed garden with flowers everywhere.

Simplicity 4076 (again I know)

I will have to count up the number of times I have used this pattern, it is one of my favorites for knit shirts.
Lynne and have been emailing about some RTW garments, she had some great ideas for pattern suggestions.  For a top on the Cabi site, she suggested Simplicity 4076

I used the crossover view but changed it so both sides had the ruching.  This is such a quick top to make.  Here it is

close-up of gathers

what happens when you are hurrying before self-timer goes off, oops


A couple of shots from the garden