Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Flowers Around Our Home

Inspired by all the family posts on beautiful flowers in your yards, I decided to share a few of the flowers here. These Columbine grow wild around here and are right outside our door.
These Lily of the Valleys were planted by the door by a precious owner. These are another Minnesota wild flower. They line the property.The next photos are flowers I have grown: My spring cactus finally bloomed this year.These are Salvia I planted in some huge barrel planters that were already on the property. They look a little sun scorched but they are coming back nicely. My favorite right now are my Marigolds. They handled the transplant a few weeks ago very well and also survived being leveled by bunnies and now look at them. (They are also planted in barrels)
Lastly, I planted Geraniums (.98 cents) around a little palm I had left from last year. I like Geraniums because they are hard to kill.

4 comments:

Jan said...

Your flowers have really grown in a week! Those are very excellent photos. You must have a much steadier had than I! Oh, right now we are having the most BEAUTIFUL sunset. Pinks, purples and golds!

Hillary said...

I like your flower pictures. Thanks for sharing them. I have some Lilly of the Valley that should bloom soon.

Sara said...

Geraniums are hard to kill, huh? I think I can manage to kill anything as long as it's in a pot. We'll test your theory, because I've got a couple potted geraniums right now. They aren't dead...yet.

Jen said...

Hey I love your pics Alissa. I finally got time to pick up my fancy spancy camera and shoot some. I wish you were here to shoot pics with me. I'm needed to find some cool places to take pics of, its a lil difficult now if i go outside a lot to take pics I just might pass out from the heat lol. miss you love