Blooming Tuesday - Mid August, 2011

Its Blooming Tuesday at Mrs. Green Thumb Jean's blog.We are creeping toward the end of an extremely hot and dry summer in Eastern North Carolina. We have watered our plants almost every single day!

Here are a few that are still looking pretty good.

A close up of a red Petunia right after being watered.



The Zinnias are still blooming, but I do need to do some serious dead heading!



Lavender Petunias:



Sweet Williams:



Yellow Four O'clocks:



A different view of the Zinnias:



Crinum Lillies:



This lime green Coleus has grown to be a HUGE plant!:



I love how these Gerbera Daisies mimic the ones on the flower pot:



The back door of a birdhouse:



I put these two pictures at the bottom so as to not freak you out too much!

Blooming Tuesday

Today is Blooming Tuesday at Mrs. Green Thumb Jean's Blog.

My hubby made this huge bouquet of crepe myrtle blossoms. Wouldn't several of these be pretty sitting around at a casual outdoor party, such as a cook out?



My hubby also made these two teacup bird feeders for me. I love them!





Here is part of the process of making the china cup bird feeders. My hubby found the things needed to make them at a local hardware store. I bought the china cup and saucers at a thrift store last fall.



A bouquet of Zinnias on the kitchen table.



This is the Mandevilla that I overwintered this past year. You may remember it as the plant that kept trying to get outside at the dining room window. Its come a long way. I hope I can keep it through another winter.



These are wild petunias. I wish all the plants in my yard fared as well as these do. I don't do anything to help them, yet they grow and grow, happy as can be.



On the eastern side of our yard are cotton fields, as far as you can see. They are just beginning to bloom.





Can't wait until late fall, when the whole field will be covered in white cotton, just like snow.

Blooming Tuesday

Its Blooming Tuesday over at Ms. Green Thumb Jean's Blog.

Yesterday I showed this picture, which I love. Well, here it is again,as well as some more pictures from my yard this past weekend.




Peekaboo bird houses:



Mr. Sunshine catching some sun:



A garden angel and tiny Lantana blooms.



A butterfly showing off his wings:



The Zinnias are still blooming around the birdhouses.



Another color of Sunflower:



These two are in competition for the brightest pink.



Eggplant blooms! I wish I liked to eat them....



A Sweet William in the middle of a bunch of mint.



Lots of color:

A Stroll Through My Garden

When I was growing up the garden was the place where vegetables were grown:



The yard was where flowers, shrubs and trees were grown. So I feel a little fancy calling my yard, "my garden".

But, when I looked at these pictures, I realized most of these plants were growing in containers. So the Blog Post Title should have been "A STROLL THROUGH MY CONTAINER GARDEN", I guess.

My 86 year old mother went to a private school through 8th grade and this desk was used in that school. There's a good chance that she sat in it at one time or another. Its a small child's desk, maybe 1st grade through 3rd grade. The desks were connected to each other in rows and bolted to the floor.



The Zinnias are doing well, considering they have been battered by two windy thunder storms recently.



Some other spots in the "garden".













This post is linked to MRS. GREEN THUMB JEAN'S BLOOMING TUESDAY. Why not take a stroll through some gardens, much prettier than mine!

Blooming Tuesday, Early June, 2011

Its Blooming Tuesday at Mrs. Green Thumb Jean's Blog.

The Zinnia garden is coming along well. We are in a very dry spell right now, so we have been running the sprinkler on several areas of the yard. Otherwise, they wouldn't be nearly this big. Just a few more days and there will be a riot of blooms here.











One of the Daisies I bought on the clearance rack. Poor thing, its kind of weird, don't you think? :o)



My sister gave me what was a tiny Butterfly Bush that she ordered from Home Shopping Network. I planted some Petunias around it in this pot and all of the plants took off and are huge! And the red, white and purple clash quite a bit. Oh well, the butterflies don't care!







Here are some more blooms from around the yard.

























Happy Blooming Tuesday!