I have named a few of my flowers for you, but as Walt says....
"You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about
birds and trees and flowers... a certain free margin, and even
vagueness...perhaps ignorance, credulity helps your enjoyment of these
things." -Walt Whitman
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| French Lavender in the herb garden |
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| About Face |
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| About Face |
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| Marmalade Skies |
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| This is Mr. Lincoln |
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| Madarense Geranium bloomed early this year |
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| Pomegranate tree is just beginning to blossom |
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Have to come west to get some beautiful flower photos! It will come soon. xo
ReplyDeleteNancy, I feel for you all with this long winter. Hoping that the sun comes out to melt away all the cold soon, and you will be in the herbal garden, enjoying the scents of your plants.
DeleteI love French lavender, it is my favourite; it does best in my climate; I must get a new plant as my last one has succumbed to old age. It has delivered many cuttings over some years. Fine roses and other beauties, besides the calendulas, are they all growing in your herb garden? I use some of the calendula flowers in my dried herb mixture, do you?
ReplyDeleteHi Titania, boy am I late at responding to your visit. Often, I don't turn on the pc and miss many of the posts.
DeleteI have only lost one plant so far and that was to a gopher. I had thought that they didn't like lavender but I guess if they are hungry they will eat it.
The roses are growing along the pathway next to the herb garden and the calendars grow in all my beds. I keep them out of the herb garden though since they reseed so easily. I have dried them and I also use the flowers in salads. I use them as cut flowers regularly as I love the smell and they last quite some time in a vase. I also have used them in oils, like almond to put on my hands when they are dry in the winter months.
Thank you for visiting. It was good to see you.
I cannot imagine what it would be like to have the beautiful varieties of flowers all blossoming together...with our brief summers things are either staggered or all done at once. Our winter lingers on which means we might have lilacs by the end of May
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, I will visit your gardens and savor it all.
The winter is long overdue to move on! I do love lilacs and wish we could grow them, but the heat normally comes in May and they just don't like that, as you know. We do have a mountain community that is just 30 minutes away and I can buy cut lilacs from a roadside stand. It is one of my favorite trips in spring. I come home with armfuls of lilacs!
DeleteCome by anytime you need a flower fix!
I'm afraid I don't agree with Walt - It definitely increases my joy in and love for natural objects if I know their names, just as I like to know the names of my friends.
ReplyDeleteSome of the friends you and I share are About Face and Mr. Lincoln, pomegranate trees and French lavender. I'm so glad to come here and see all these garden beauties. Thank you!