Garden PIcture Contest Fall 2008

Bunches of Color  The garden is abounding in color: pink cosmos, purple petunias, yellow marigolds, double petunias, zinnias, and more.

Pictures of Peonies  Pictures of peony flowers for a garden picture contest

From Barren to Beautiful  After moving to the country, we called the view from my mom's window a "barren wasteland". Unfortunately I am not, and have never been, a gardener. My ...

Wet Dandy  Dandilion seed head after a rain

Blooming skyvine  This is a photo of a skyvine that I have been trying to get too bloom for two years. So far it has about 10-12 blooms, but I am hoping for more before ...

Cyrtanthus falcatus  This is one of my favourite flowers in full bloom during September and October 2008. It is an amazing experience to see the florets open and going through ...

Webtastic  Early morning dew. enhances natures "ART"

Cotton Candy - January 2006  What a beautiful winter morning it was. I took about 50 shots that morning. The snow has to come down rather sticky, barely frozen, and no wind at all,...

Last Beauty of Summer  There are still the odd blossom on this
Rose bush, but this one seems to let us know how glorious it can be, when you can
capture the light at the right ...

Harvest from our first Plum tree  For three years in a row, we were blessed with a bounty of plums. A lot for the sqirrels, enough for us.
Is it not nice to share??

Woolly Mammoth!  My handbook on Ontario wildflowers describes the Mullein as "stout, grey and woolly". About right!
According to the literature, the Mullein seems to-...

BLUE BLUE BLUE FLOWERS  I found these blue wonders along our long farm driveway. Anybody know their name?

The Flower Boutique In the Garden  These are grown in my garden and most people walking by have to come up and touch them as they can not believe that they are real.

Fern Claw  I never stopped to look at an opening fern...off with the old on with the new color and texture!!!

honeysuckle blooms in october  i love the colours and the flowers

All in the Garden  My puppy also enjoys the Garden , Nature is soooo innocent...

Freeeeze  I was just taking a pic of a zinnia, never noticed the Bee till the last second...

Funky flower  I Took this pic through a cylinder,wrapped in Gold paper,It was Just for fun, Made a cool pic

Dancing on the way out  Some flowers are Not so pretty at then end of the year, But I think they Dance the way out!

Dandy Dandelion  A weed is just a HOMELESS Flower

This is a photo of my Mom standing in her perennial garden.  My Mom lived her life in Harlem, GA, a small town just outside of Augusta. Like a kid at Christmas, she eagerly awaited the first sign of her perrenials ...

Astonishing azaleas  These scented azaleas are part of a walk in Van Dusen Gardens, Vancouver, BC. In full bloom in May, I have never seen a more vivid display.

Pictures of Roses  pictures of roses for garden picture contest

Angel Kisses welcome visitors to my garden  Angel kisses, waves of perennial flowers, and colorful bird houses welcome visitors to my Northwest PA garden

Pond Lily  This beautiful lily blooms in my small pond every year.

Habaneros on a plate.  This was a day's picking of my Habanero pepper plant.

Surprise in our compost pile  we were turning our compost pile faithfully until we started building block walls.
We forgot all about the compost pile and one day all the vines lead ...

I am trying to be Green  Beginner Gardener to the MAX ....I tried to make the front of the house look nice this year....I think I'll work at it a little more next year

Front of House Fall Decoration  This stunning display was set up using bales of straw, pumpkins, mums and of course, a scarecrow. Fall is a welcome visitor for us, and we love this time ...

Web of Beauty  Some mornings if you go out at just the right time you can find some really cool webs

Study in Cool  A vignette of cool colors in the hot summer sun - blue veronica, rosy primrose and lavendar catmint.

My Own Paintbox  Spring color in my own front yard - who needs grass? Sedum, rosy primrose, Lavendar Lady lavendar, Shasta daisy, Royal Candles veronica, Dutch clover,...

Right at Home Scarecrow  I love everything fall!! and this little guy seems just as happy about it too, nestled in among the black eyed susan vine.

Dogwood Flower  This white dogwood flower, photographed against the South Carolina BLUE sky has turned out to be one of my best. I couldn't say it is "just" a dogwood ...

Pavlova Aster  Early morning sun. 3 feet high, multiple blooms

Pink Water lilies   My husband and I were taking the tour of Brookgreen Gardens when I found this beautiful pond with the most gorgeous pink water lilies. I just had to take ...

Protea cynaroides (King Protea)  This Protea plant was planted in my garden as a seedling during 2005 and flowered with a single flower on a single branch plant during August 2007. I took ...

Weedless Gardening   This year we decided to tackle and take on Weed-less Gardening. It turned out splendidly! Next year we'll take a swing at Lasagna gardening. :)

Glorious Greens   We grew many varieties of organic lettuce this year with good success and while the slugs and bugs enjoyed a few salads we shared and enjoyed many this ...

Flower bulb pictures  Flower bulib pictures from garden photography contest

AUTUMN MID-STRIDE AT RAKU PLACE  FOR THE BRIEFEST OF MOMENTS, GREEN'S DOMINANCE
IS SUBSUMED IN A LANDSCAPE OF CADMIUM. IN A ZONE 4 GARDEN, IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, A USUALLY PEACEFUL ...

Heavenly Blue Morning Glory  Two summers ago, after 8 years of trying, I finally got a profuse crop of Heavenly Blue morning glories. I captured these blossoms one late-August morning ...

Slate Garden  Our new slate garden.
Replacement for bulbs that never came up and a lawn that was forever full of weeds and never really grew - courtesy of the monolithic ...

A Perfect Christmas Cactus  I salvaged this cactus 3 autumns ago and it was pushing 3 inches tall. Now I am taken aback every autumn/winter at how it explodes with a bouquet of flowers ...

Early morning stretch!  Everything in the garden was covered with a heavy dew on this early fall morning. The Gaura blooms were standing up so tall, stretching toward the sun,...

Ready for take off!  This butterfly had been flitting around the lantana blooms all afternoon, but finally sat still long enough for a few pictures.

Looks like fireworks  One of my favourites. Makes me thing of favorite bulbs.

END OF SUMMER IN PARADISE  Taken the first week of Oct.,the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is my grape arbor. In spite of having a less than sunny summer, we had a bumper ...

Springs Delight  A view from our deck of our water lily garden area. In the picture are a pink dogwood, green and red lace leaf maple, a japanese pastel willow, a gunnera,...

Garden show off  This brilliantly colored peacock kale is aptly named. The cooler weather intensifies the color even more.

Cabbage Lace  A cabbage lies forgotten in a corner of the garden...by all but the insects that is.

Night Blooming Cereus  This is my night blooming Cereus. I have it as a potted plant as it would not survive in my East Tenn. area outdoors in the Winter.
Last week I had six ...

tropical passions  I took this picture of my garden one day i just it turned out ok , i love tropical plants i hope you do to

My backyard paradise  My hobby is tropical gardening, i live in north texas, i have 20 different types of palms and many tropicals, i am in zone 8 , the way i see if you cant ...

Insect pictures  insect pictures for a garden photography contest

Raindrops On Roses ...  Taken in the pouring rain in the rose gardens of a hotel in Kelowna BC Canada.

Poppy Passing  How interesting, even in its "final hour".

.. Like Orange Sherbert  Someone, in another spring long past, must have had some fun watching their poppies flourish. How delighted was I when our first June at this farm heralded ...

Its a start..  We have started to re-do our garden.
Look at the boulders we dug out already.
Photo taken - Barrhead, Scotland.

close up single flower-unusual  My kids wanted their own garden so we went to a garden center and they made their selections and planted watered and weeded all summer. They are very proud ...

FROG ON FLOWER  This and many other little frogs could be found all over the garden this year. They'd even jump on me while I was picking raspberries.

Pink Double Flower  So many wonderful flowers this year.

Colorful Containers  Here are four containers pushed together to create a wave of color. I think the blue Plumbago is my favorite.

Pink Double Poppy  My garden in June is full of these beautiful Double Pink Poppy.
Where this garden is located if facing the Pacific Ocean on on the hillside in White Rock,...

A glowing autumn dahila  This is a dahlia that grew in our garden this fall. I hope I can dig them out and successfully overwinter them so that they can be enjoyed again next ...

Fall colour  Blackeyed susans, sedums, bergenia(second blooming), cannas, heleniums and golden seal all contribute to make a lovely fall show in my front yard garden....

High Bush Cranberry  Our highbush cranberry has outdone itself this year - the brightest red I have ever seen

FLOWER POWER  I had a Beautiful Garden this year. Planted 4 part rows of flowers and everyone enjoyed them. It's great to have a fresh flower arrangement every week....

Fall Colors  This is my oldest and largest flower bed. It is a two level, 75' long by 6' wide bed on the North side of our property.
It contains hundreds of annuals,...

Perennial flower pictures  Perennial flower pictures uploaded for a flower garden photography contest

passionflower, a vison of summer loveliness  This year i have grown a passionflower, it is the first time i have and what a joy, the flowers, the sent what a revelation. I have only been gardening ...

Next year...  This year was supposed to be the Doing the Garden Year, but life intervened.

So...next year....

All finish  Pretty to the end this flower makes nice picture

Jeweled Dew Drops in the early morning  This wild petunia stood out jewel-like in its morning tinsel of dew. While out for a walk on our trails, I was in awe of the beauty of the many flowers ...

My first Brugmansia & Banana  There are two bananas here, and some calla lilies, and canna and hosta to keep the Brugs company. It got a little crowded. Next year I will keep it a ...

Dew drops on leaves  The only thing left in my small container garden are the Iris leaves, which are withstanding the heavy frost very well. I live in Golden, BC (Rockies)...

Plum tree blossoms  This picture was taken of our second planted Plum tree in May 2008

Shades of Green  This is a view from the edge of our pond, showing the different shades of green

Luminous Waves  This is simply a closeup of Wave Petunias along my wall.
The color and detail just glowed. I thought it would make a good watercolor so I snapped a picture ...

Autumn Beauty at it's best  This picture was taken this fall and it shows the beauty and simplicity of grasses. I don't think alot of people think about grasses because they have ...

From garden to table  We have a very small yard so we have built a raised garden and have planted pepper and tomatos. Evey 3 days we get a big basket to veggies and we have ...

Hedon Out Path  HI ALL: You won't believe this. But, here we are all over this plot, called Triptych Path's Garden's. This one get-away, a la front, of course separating,...

Dialogue over a rose  red abbundance, the gardener, the little lady and the lamb

A Sea of Pink  Same color different flowers...very appealing.

fall colours  we shared the sour cherries with the birds, but we kept the leaves for us :)

morning light  Last week i took a lots of pictures from my garden. Many of my roses are still blooming with big flowers and bulbs and strong colours.

Dandelion... spreading  Dandelions: not WANTED, but with many health uses

Mosaic   a protected area with clovers, coleus and other fresh ground covers.

End of the season fall dew  here in Missouri our growing season is at an end, and yet this climbing rose is still adding foliage and buds. Picture taken early morning catching the ...

Bluestars  Heaven ...Another name for Garden

Eight Varieties Tomato  The highlight of my day is seeing what the garden has to offer. Many of these are heirloom varities which I grew for the first time this year.

Hanging Out With a Pal  This little fella is one of a pair that has lived in my old birdhouse for several years. They produce several sets of youngsters each year and provide ...

heart to heart rose  My rose opened up with heart shaped petals this year after having lovingly buried it for the past three years to overwinter in our zone 3 climate.

Annual Flower Pictures  Annual flower pictures for garden photography contest

Color in the Cottage Garden  I took this picture in my back yard cottage garden in September. The Zinnias and Ruella were very colorful this year.

The Last, Best Color-Splash!  This photo was taken October 9, 2008 at a corner of the front bed. This is probably my most splashy Fall colorfest.
Formerly Zone 4, now classified as ...

Peaceful Moments  I wanted a place to go that would bring me peace after a very stressful day.

My two tomatoes  My wife & sister-in-law w/ some of my "mortgage lifters".

Raspberries  Raspberry bed smaller then a parking stall produced 83 pounds from Sept 5-Sept 30, 2008. After it froze her in WI the first week of October, I've only ...

Pumpkin Love   We have a homestead farm and pumpkins are always a family favorite, my kids and grandkids love them! We like to carve pumpkins for Halloween and then feed ...

Dainty Fairy of my garden!  This is one of hundreds of blooms from a mass planting of mixed columbines I started from seed last year. They bloomed far beyond my expectations and I ...

Mom's, Mum's, & Max, An Better Grace et al  Our garden is all about an series or meaning's, about *Ttiptych Path's*.. We have few neighbour's interested in gardening. So, I alway's go back to my ...

Blue Hydrangeas  This was the best year ever for the hydrangeas.

Something for everyone  This picture of chokecherry fruit shows the fullness a garden can have: something for everyone. While our eye is drawn to the striking red of the fruit,...

Garden June 2, 2008 Just planted  This is the before photo, look for Garden Sept 08 for the end of the season garden.

Garden-full view  Ya, I know it's a bit windblown, however I and many family members had fresh flowers every week. I also grew: Peas, Beans, Cauliflower, Broccoli, Lots ...

Peas  Bumper crop of Peas this year. Crispy Snap Peas

Sapphire blue Agapanthus  These are the first agapanthus I have ever grown (a gardener for 30 years!). I am pleased the colour and think it is "Storm Cloud" but am not sure as ...

The end of summer . .   The last of my abundant little garden- only the acorn squash, some tomatoes and zinnias are left . .

CLEMATIS  THESE CLEMATIS WERE IN FULL BLOOM FOR MOST OF THE MONTH OF JUNE ON THE SIDE FENCE AT THE ENTRANCE OF OUR HOUSE HERE IN WHITE ROCK, B.C.

Contrasting Colours  The deep green of the forsythia bush contrasts with the bright red of the burning bush and the deeper red of the crabapple.

Late summer bloomers  Black eyed susans, blanket flower and Marsh mallow(hibiscus). Loved the combination of colours.

Flower pot flanking our entry  This was my first attempt at a large pot with various flowers in it and I was proud of it! Included in the pot is red verbena, trailing vinca vines, coleus ...

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