plant ID

Though this is growing in the above ground tin pond and doesn't seem to mind wet feet, I don't think it is any sort of bog plant. Is it one of the gazillion campanulas?

Bee Balm & unknown

Finally found the tag for this beautiful Bee Balm. The doe ate everything last year (and 8 years before) and the tags have been misplaced... I miss Doereen but not her appetite!

Have not found the tag for this one though. Its growing in a pot in the tin pond. What is it?

prickly pear

What is attacking my prickly pear?

peafowl and Brugmansias

a few years back a peahen flew in and honked at us. She ended up staying for a year, maybe two, at which time I gave her to a fellow who had a peacock but no peahen. Missed her. She once raised a Bantum chick. It was the cutest thing; little feathered golfball following the enormous peahen. She was such a good mother. anyhow, this evening I heard a loud HONK and then this peafowl flew from the ground to about 30' up in a Sycamore tree, a good 100' from take off. I had no idea they could fly that well. Hope it stays! I think its another hen.

This is ther Brugie my brother bought for me last year. It is absolutely loaded with buds and flowers which smell divine.

changes

last June I tore out and dug up LOTS of Vinca Major and Oregon Grape. Not to mention removed the fence that was older than Yours Truly.

It is now becoming a dry garden of yuccas and aloes and such. Ahhh.

just some blooms

The Shrimp plant never stops blooming. At least not now that its fenced off from hungry deer.
Dawson strolling through the new cottage garden in the early morn.
Alstroemeria
LOVE The grasses!

wind chime

I totally LOVE this shell wind chime. Its not only beautiful but sounds wonderful. I love the glass balls too. Thanks again, Chris!!

(both items were purchased at PeraDice, 918 24th St, Sacramento, Ca.)

plant ID needed

Does anybody know what this is? It had a marker but the Gnomes erased it and I sure don't remember the name.

deer

Jasmine gave me the raspberry this morning.

door knob & Delphinium

Oh my gosh! Is this thing going to let me blog again or will I type and type only to have it all vanish POOF! into cyberspace? I'm too tired to do this tonight.... so this will be a short test.

blog issues

Still having trouble posting things to this. Will try again later with pictures....

evening primrose

They were pretty last night





















and they were pretty this morning!

frustration

I keep sending pictures off to post on this blog but then they vanish into cyberspace. I don't get it. It worked in March. Is Picasa no longer talking to Blogger? I see that this posted. Where the heck are the photos I tried to post this past week???

Nun's orchid

2 years ago my friend, Al, gave me a baby Nun's orchid for my birthday. Last December it started sending up a flower stalk, which reached 28".. and which started to bloom yesterday. Its almost my birthday again so the blooms are another gift. Thanks Al!

Springhouse-greenhouse

So this is how Spring Fever affected me. I bought a "SpringHouse"! It will probably be more of a "Fallhouse" since its major function for me will be to winter over the tender succulents. I did order some Queen's Wreath seeds so will be starting those soon.

Heck, it could also double as a guest room! It is 6' x 6' x 6.5' and cost less than $100.00. What a deal! Took only minutes to set up with the help of Dear Friend, Karen.
It is tethered by ground stakes in several grommets and it is also tethered to metal fence posts at the corners. It will be tested today= windier than all get out! the floor has been "bedded" with shredded cedar over cardboard.

Pink Flamingos

Meet Dulcy and Mahar. They just flew in and were named in honor of my favorite Portland, Oregon garden writer, Dulcy Mahar.. who's garden I would love to see sometime.

I used to think pink flamingos were about the tackiest things around but then, something happened about 10 years ago and I suddenly had a flock of them. Apparently someone else liked them too because they all vanished one spring. Mind you they were on the yard side of the picketty fence, a good 25' from the road. Guess they should not have had their heads poking through the fence because, well, they vanished! Grrrrrr. These two will join the 6 who have come since the um, migration, but who have been content to stay up near the house where they are guarded by fearsome Attillas-The-Hens, Carla and Bette.

The sun is shining, its cold, but THE SUN IS SHINING so I am headed back outside to see what can be done without sinking into the muck and mire.

and, there's more!

Also blooming; white Hellebore, Snowdrops, and Oxalis.

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day

I don't know why this won't allow me to post more photos than 4 at a time but here they are. Hardenbergia, which I thought I had killed last winter, my favorite violets, the feral narcissis on what we call "the hill", and a clump of pink Hellebore.