Wordless Wednesday, Sept 12, 2012

What Do You Do with Your Garden Flowers?


Well maybe just  a few words. Through out the years, I have been lucky enough  to have inherited my mother's and grandmother's green thumbs. So, as a result, I usually have lots of  flowers to make into lovely bouquets. I love to have fresh arrangements all Summer and through much of the Spring.

One of the later bouquets of flowers from our gardens.

This year,  as the sunflowers were beginning to go to seed I made a decision for me.  I thought I'd  do something a  little different. I usually leave the heads on my front deck for the birds. But, since it has been such a fruitful Summer, I figured the birds wouldn't miss  few sunflower seeds, just for this year. I decided to take all the larger heads of Sunflowers and break them open and spread them around the ground where they had been planted all Summer, to see if any of them would germinate and come back next year.
I did this just between two heavy rains we had, so I am hoping that  some of them come back next year. I had one large sunflower that came back from last year. This is how I got the idea.

Sunflowers growing and getting taller.

A large head like this one yields hundreds of seeds.



So...what do you do with your flower gardens?

Gardening...love it or hate it!!!

               

                Oak Lawn Images is not just about photography. We like to provide a place for anyone who would like to come and enjoy the peace and serenity of our beautiful scenery. So, we work very hard all Spring, Summer and Autumn on our gardens, to provide a nice spot for folks to sit and relax as they take in the breathtaking view that we  are lucky enough to enjoy. 

We’ve just recently been able to get out and remove some of the fast growing weeds like dandelions, creeping Charlie, trip weed and stray grasses from the gardens. It’s been raining and wet so many days that it’s been hard to even get out. Here in the eastern part of Canada, we’ve had to do what gardening we can between the downpours.  And of course there’s  the high rubber boots and old clothes.

Today, for the first time I was able to do some badly needed edging. I managed to get two gardens, one tiny and one medium one finished. We still have about 15 to go.

We’ve been lucky to have some of the early plants in bloom. We have the grape hyacinth’s, some of the tulips, pansies, daffodils, one of the bleeding hearts and most recently the rose tree of China.

We’re just hoping we have some good days ahead to get out at the gardens, before the black flies and mosquitoes arrive.

I’m wondering how everyone else feels about gardening and how you’re coming along with your own gardening?

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Looking forward to hearing your comments and your own gardening stories.

Kathy