Category: Garden

april – it's finally here

It’s that time of year again. The time when I post my obligatory photo of the first blooming daffodils in the front bed of the house. I have three types of daffodils planted. Early blooming to late blooming. Bright yellow to a very pale yellow. I took these photos this morning after a quick spring…

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three tickets to the orchid show

Greg, Megan and I traveled up to Cleveland this afternoon to see the Orchid Show at the Cleveland Botanical Gardens. This is the second trip in a month for Greg and I. Today we became members. We only have to visit three more times this year for it to pay for its self. That’s very…

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a very good sign

Maybe Spring is right around the corner. Today’s high temp. was 65 degrees, and my early blooming variety of daffodils are starting to break through the mulch.

super sunday

Greg and I had a really great day today. We’ve been in dire need of more tropical surroundings so we headed up to the Cleveland Botanical Gardens Glasshouse today. It was positively refreshing and as Greg said, it recharged our souls. It’s been a brutal winter. Also, this visit was my first real test for…

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inside out

This is the view that I get from the couch as the sun begins to set in the west and makes the flowers in our garden begin to glow. I particularly like this shot because of the bee that has settled on the center flower. And the view of one of the purple cone flowers…

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