Garden PIcture Contest Fall 2008
Judging -
by Doug and friends - the more votes you get (as measured by comments) the easier it is to get noticed by the judges. Votes are not the only criteria but they are important.
One of the prizes will be awarded based on the number of votes.
Number of pictures to enter:
It is recommended that gardeners restrict themselves to their best pictures. Only one prize will be awarded to each person so make your picture the best one.
Closing date for entries October 23
Closing Date for Comments Nov 6
Winners
Winners will be announced by being posted here and in the newsletter.
Prizes
We have several hard copy books including Foliage by Nancy Ondra for the first place winner(s)
Five other winners will get their choice of ebooks from Doug's ebooks.
PIcture with the Most Votes
Night Blooming Cereus
Runner's Up.
Best Insect Pic
Cutest Pic
Most Innovative
Best Use of Colour
Best Landscape
Best Use of Light
Closeup Award
Book Prize Winners
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Peonies What a delight even the little one think so
Bunches of Color The garden is abounding in color: pink cosmos, purple petunias, yellow marigolds, double petunias, zinnias, and more.
Tree peony My tree peony lives happily in a large container, under the eaves of our house. It produces huge blooms that, although they do not last very long, are ...
Yellow Picotee Begonia w/ Orange edges Every now and then there's a spot of sunshine in my shaded garden. Most of the time, the sun arrives in the form of a bright begonia in a hanging basket....
Grasshopper on Cosmos I couldn't believe the wind died down enough to get this picture! And that the grasshopper sat still long enough! The cosmos hadn't done well until after ...
Swallowtail Butterfly on Coneflower The grace and beauty of butterflies and flowers always amazes me, no matter how many times I see them, no matter how many pictures I take. I'm much more ...
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 ...
A Field of Phlox It's uplifting to see the Phlox in spring, it's a sure sign of flowers to come.
Fancy Columbine a spring beauty
Wet Dandy Dandilion seed head after a rain
The Fly and The Flower a wasp mimic fly on a False Sunflower
Frosted Susan fall frost on a Goldsturm Black eyed Susan
Ivory Queen Allium This is the first year for 'Ivory Queen' allium in my garden, and I planted 6 bulbs last fall in a bed of woolly thyme. They all came up in the spring,...
Monarda plus bee This bumble bee looked exquisitely happy- almost like he was in heaven playing around on the Monarda in my gardens.
Pink Roses The Roses also had an exceptional year in my gardens. While the Pink ones are not typically my favorite this shot is.
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 ...
Finnegan and the Cosmos Finnegan was patiently waiting for me to play w/ her while I snapped more and more photos of my flowers. I looked over and saw her laying by the Cosmos ...
Iris The Iris had a fantastic year in my gardens...this particular one was really quite stunning
Rudbeckia maxima Rudbeckia maxima in my gardens are so huge that I looked for another way to photograph them- looking skyward seemed an obvious choice.
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 ...
Lysimachia plus The bumble bees just adore the Lysimachia this particular one was very patient while I composed this shot.
Daylilly I took this picture of a most gorgeous DAYLILY shortly after it had rained- water droplets just enhanced the all ready beautiful colors.
Allium I'm always amazed at the intricacy of flowers. The close up of this allium in my garden demonstrates that!
'Black Knight' Iris I often take 30 or 40 digital pictures at a time in my garden and if one or two of them turns out, I'm pleased......as with this one - a close up of my ...
Webtastic Early morning dew. enhances natures "ART"
Yellow Calla I planted 10 calla bulbs in my Johnson City, TN garden, and this one was by far the best of the bunch. I was especially happy as yellow lilies are my favorite....
Three in a row...Milkweed Tussock caterpillars line up Milkweed Tussock moth larva stay together on milkweeds as they feed. A group of three like these seemed to be a common number found together on various ...
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,...
Pink tulips and Variegated Iris leaves This is an April photo next to my back patio
Praying mantids are all over my garden It has been fun watching the many types and sizes of mantids around my garden this summer and trying to photograph them. This particular guy was poised ...
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-...
Bellflowers that glow These beautiful flowers are growing in part-shade . I just want to pull up a chair, sit and be mesmerized.
Elegance of Grasses This is a progression of a different grass in approximately 2 weeks..........just amazing
lily and guest one of the surprises I got when my niece split her perennials
Hawaii Fire Hibiscus This was taken at the Queen Kapiolani Garden in Honolulu while on vacation last December.
Tiger Lily This flower blooms in mid-August. This plant grows under the eaves with evergreens all around and with about an hour of sun a day.
Hosta in container Happy Hosta growing in a container. This Hosta never met with a slug all summer.
Closeup of Ruffly Orange Begonia I brought in some begonia blossoms after they'd snapped off from a heavy rain. I shook off the water and laid this one down on my desk to photograph. The ...
Peony We found this peony growing under the eaves of our new home. I moved it into a sunnier location and each year the plant displays more flowers.
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...
Unidentified insect but Not sure about this one, I think its a Flower fly MORPHED?
Red Damselfly This beauty showed up in my garden in late September in Ohio. She's feeding on a Rose Campion. I've never seen a red damsel fly before.
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
Lord Baltimore Hibiscus This miracle of nature broke ground late but quickly made up for lost time by shooting to 7 feet tall and producing these amazing dinner plate size blooms....
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.
Morden Blush Rose Picture of Morden Blush rose. This rose survives zone 3 winters without any protection and blossoms all summer long!
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.
Red Lillies I don't remember the variety, I bought a couple of bulbs several years ago and had to move them last year, because it had become to shady for them to flourish....
A Colourful Walk Way with lilies
This is part of the garden that runs along the side of my sidewalk that leads into the house.
At night, the lights will cast a shadow among the leaves ...
Yellow Coneflower with Purple Sage I took this photo in June, 2008, in my garden in Indianapolis, Indiana. Yellow coneflowers are high on my list of favorites, and most of my garden consists ...
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
Crocosmia Blooms in Sunlight Last year I bought a house and inherited a wonderful garden, with over 140 different plants and trees. I'm still trying to figure out what they all are,...
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.
Silver Cup Lavatera This is my favorite picture from this season. It is a Silver Cup Lavatera........this was taken in August and this plant is still blooming today, October ...
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,...
Beth in the Iris Garden Kaaren Jones' Iris Garden, rural Shawnee County, KS.
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
Newly Emerged Swallowtail on Sedum We found the pupae of this swallowtail and my son kept it in his bug habitat. We came home the evening that it emerged and let it go on our sedum...she ...
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 ...
Iris Taken in my garden recently on a grey, damp spring morning.
White Calla Taken in my garden recently on a grey, damp spring morning.
Cosmos with colour accent on centre Taken at the gardens surrounding the Lake Side Walk adjecent to the Nottingham University in the U.K. (South Entrance). The flower is a Cosmos and I used ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rose with Rain Drops This is one of the hardy explorer roses - Champlain. We had just received a short rain and the roses seemed to have hung onto the droplets for future ...
White Butterfly on Wild Flower This tiny gorgeous white butterfly floats from flower bud to flower bud with a looping motion. It stays around all summer and our garden beds received ...
Butterfly on Flower This is a beautiful black butterfly that flutters from flower to flower and is very hard to get a photo of - it's just too active. I ran around our gardens ...
Raindrops On Roses ... Taken in the pouring rain in the rose gardens of a hotel in Kelowna BC Canada.
Peony and astilbe
This peony popped up in the middle of a well-established white astilbe. I think I will leave it where it is. I like the contrast.
Blue Browallia This is the first time that I've ever grown this flower. I bought five, but this is the only one that has survived. I'm not sure why...I guess I still ...
Castor bean leaves Taken from below, this picture highlights the large green leaves of a (green) castor bean plant.
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 ...
red and white lily over ballon flower This is a red and white lily leaning over some balloon flower below in a corner of the NY botanic garden. The contrast between the red and the white is ...
Red Hibiscus My first attempt with a Hibiscus last year only had two blooms. This year it was a non-stop blooming beauty.
Chorus Line of Daylilies I've really fallen in love with daylilies in the past few years. Their luscious colors and ruffled petals make them irresistible! This section of a mixed ...
Datura blossom with a friend inside while weeding I was looking at my Dat's, when I spotted this green critter tucked inside the flower....I believe he is an Eastern Grey Tree Frog...I was ...
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 ...
Zinnia with friend From my garden at the end of the Summer- a lovely zinnia (with little friend)
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 ...
Hannah's Sunflower This is the first year we have had a real garden so I let my daughter plant sunflowers against the fence. They all ended up being over 14 ft tall and the ...
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
Moon Flower I planted this moon flower with the morning glories only to realize that they bloom opposite each other. One at night, the other in the morning. Beautiful ...
A Daisy Like No Other I took this picture in my front yard, and I"m amazed at the complexity of this flower! It is truly a work of art.
Sunflower Detail Tons of sunflowers line the vegetable garden at Lookout Inn in Brooklin, Maine. This detail shot shows the "flowers" within the flower.
Virginia Bluebells and Sweet Woodruff This is in my front garden which is very dry and shady. I did not plan this combo as the Sweet Woodruff spread from another area of the garden but I just ...
Spring Bulbs - Allium These alliums are nestled among the foliage of irises and day lilies. I do not remember the species though.
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....
Violets These violets are planted in our tree garden in front of the house.
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,...
President Hibiscus I took this picture in our front yard in Miami Florida. It was my first attempt at growing these.
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 ...
Wild Rose close up Wild rose is the center piece of one of our raised beds. This close up shows the intricacy of God's creativity.
Monarch Butterfly on Native Ontario Sunflower In our garden is a huge stand of Maximilliani Sunflowers (Ontario native?)Every fall we have our Monarch butterflies that come through on their way Southward....
Next year...
This year was supposed to be the Doing the Garden Year, but life intervened.
So...next year....
Blue Morning Glory I planted the Morning Glories in our front yard this year with the Moon Flowers.
All finish Pretty to the end this flower makes nice picture
White Picotee Begonia with Hot Pink edges I have four hanging baskets in my yard and each year I try different varieties of begonias. It's a flower that keeps on giving all summer long, with the ...
Frost on Coneflower
Now that's the icing on the cake!!!
Fall Roses As you can see it is October 23ed, I still have blooms on my roses. In August I had went to WA for the birth of my grandbaby and my husbnad and son for ...
close up Toad Lilly Macro photo of a fall Toad Lilly
Frosted rose Took this shot just before my morning walk...I never noticed the face till I downloaded..."Burrr Its cold out there!!!"
Autumn Afternoon Anemones One day this week, I came home home early from work to find the afternoon sunlight doing beautiful things to the plants in my front yard garden. Here you ...
Tobacco Hornworm Not exactly a garden shot, but I did find him in my garden, munchin' down on some of my tomatoes.
Ferns I took this picture at the Maine Botanical Gardens - a wildly beautiful place in Boothbay, Maine.
Zinnias This was the year I featured zinnias as the primary annual in my front garden. What a treat! They were colorful and very low maintenance
Coneflower In a New Light I discovered after taking this picture of a coneflower, that the camera captures so many things about a flower that I seem to miss otherwise.
Sword Dance Peony It was a very windy day. The Peony looked like they were dancing as their name depicted.
Iris after a rain What's not to love about an Iris? So lovely, so dependable, so hearty. A lovely addition to any garden.
A forest of columbine . . . In addition to the love of gardening, I'm always looking for a fresh lens angle & these Columbine were perfect. They look like a forest. Kind of a "bugs-...
Wavy horned monarch This monarch caterpillar had developed wavy tentacles sometime in its molting. The milkweed plants that I left around the yard attracted lots of monarch ...
Sunrise on glowing Teasel The shape of Teasel at sunrise resembles a candlelabrum. The addition of dew drops adds the glow like real lighting! It was fascinating to see the flower ...
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 ...
Yellow next to Yellow milkweed bug Having many milkweed plants in the garden to attract Monarch butterfies has provided other colorful critters to the garden. Here a large milkweed bug really ...
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)...
Fruit of "Jack in the pulpit"
For a number of years I have waited for
the fruit of "Jack in the pulpit" to "ripen".
Too bad, my "Better Half" is such a "Neetfreak", he likes to tidy ...
Plum tree blossoms This picture was taken of our second planted Plum tree in May 2008
Canna Lilies blooming in our pond
After a severe hailstorm, some of our
pond plants "survived" the damage
Shades of Green This is a view from the edge of our pond, showing the different shades of green
Sunny Yellow Rudbeckia These wonderful perennials popped up quite unexpectedly in my Vancouver, BC garden this summer. Dozens of blooms on six-foot stalks attracted bees, butterflies,...
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 ...
Dancing coneflowers These are "Sunset" coneflowers with 'White Swan". They look like they are ready to "partay" , at least dance and twirl!
Mixed lilies I divided some hedge lilies and planted them between day lilies. The day lilies had to be trimmed to allow some sun through to the smaller lilies.
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 ...
Lady bug in a hot place This ladybug likes it spicy! Found this ladybug on my super chilis.
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 ...
Orange Lilies Lilies are wonderful plants. Happy to multiply. Always a bright block of colour.
Bachelor Button My neighbour generously shared some of her Bachelor Buttons with me.
old farmhouse peony I wonder who planted these peonies; their scent is lovely.
Dazzling Stunning White Daisies Anyone? I have this white lovely daisies coming up among my mint and what a gorgeous smell when you touch the mint plants.
Poppy from no where This is one of the many plants that just seem to get planted in my gardens. Every year I take care of it and this year was the first year that I saw how ...
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 :)
'new dawn' in the october evening light I love the colour of this climbing rose, is a milky pink and is even beautiful in the evening.
Early spring "flower in flower" At my new home I was taking pics of the new blooms... the aspect of flower within a flower was just to nice to pass up.
purple dahlia I love the colour and it has huge flowers, this is from last week
camayeux rose Is blooming only once, but is very beautiful. The picture was taken in the morning, after a raining night
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.
cute cyclamen i took this picture last week, they are tiny, small but cute
Dandelion... spreading Dandelions: not WANTED, but with many health uses
Rose Hip This was taken on a rainy morning in my garden in North Idaho.
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
Evening Sun Hibiscus Giant Hibiscus in Paradise Garden Community Garden that I volunteer at in Delhi Twp. The way the light was shining through these on this particular evening ...
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 ...
Look at me hellebore This hellebore was determined to be noticed. The plant, from Heronwood nursery stock, has thrived in a raised bed in my back garden.
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.
Deep orange double begonia. This is the fourth year I've grown hanging baskets filled with begonias. For my shaded garden, they've been such a colorful treat. My favorites are Picotee ...
Zinnias in the Cottage Garden I took this picture in September. I love Zinnias. They are so colorful and easy to grow. I simply scatter the seed heads each fall in my Cottage Garden ...
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 ...
Elegant Drain Pipe Lilies These yellow lilies grow by the water pipe at the end of our house, here in Ontario. Now they are never taken out of the ground and come back every year,...
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 ...
Amaryllis Some February brightness brings hope that winter will eventually end ...
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 ...
Lillies The orange lilies were growing wild against the base of the rock. I added the yellow lillies and red crosmia.
Blue Hydrangeas This was the best year ever for the hydrangeas.
Wild Columbine This is a large area at the base of a huge peice of ledge. The columbine grow wild. Although I do help them out by weeding around them.
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 ...
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
red caster beans with leaf This is the prettiest red in the fall but leaf and fruit.
Echinacea purpurea One of the many purple coneflowers in my front yard. I love looking at and photographing close-ups of these flowers. They also attract so many bees which ...
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 ...
Frog on dahlia This Pacific tree frog climbed into a dahlia in my garden, and spent the day there. He was asleep some of the time, but did not fall out. These frogs ...
Spring Frolic While strolling through my garden, I spied the flies.
The end of summer . . The last of my abundant little garden- only the acorn squash, some tomatoes and zinnias are left . .
BUTTERFLY I had ALOT of Butterflies and Hummingbirds this year.
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.
Beautiful Tulip Tulip
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.
Lilies The fallopia makes a love backdrop for these lilies.
Late summer bloomers Black eyed susans, blanket flower and Marsh mallow(hibiscus). Loved the combination of colours.
Fall mums 4 of 6 cushion mums made it through last winter here in Maine. I didn't pinch them back, but I don't think they could have gotten any bushier!
Sunflower: Betsy's Garden This sunflower was found in Betsy's lovely cottage garden in Brooklin, Maine
EREMURUS - Foxtail lilies These foxtail lilies are a big attraction on my street. I have noticed folk stopping in their cars and received many questions and comments on them .
Daisy This is a simple little daisy. Perfect little flower. I love daisies because they seem so cheerful! They are also resistant and hardy in the harsh Quebec ...
Echinacea or purple cone flower This is a beautiful Echinacea. I am a little concerned this year to see only bumble bees on my flowers...I didn't see one bee this summer! I love these ...
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 ...
Stargazer Asian Lily The Stargazers are one of my favorite flowers. So big and graceful, it always amazes me that they can survive the cold winters of Quebec! I took this ...
