Welcome to my garden!

This morning when the early morning sun was shining on the dew laden flowers in our yard, I went outside and took some photos to share. I tried to capture the pink climbing roses on the wooden fence but you can't see the overall beauty in a photo. Nor can you smell the sweet fragrance of the antique roses. I like to cut them and make bouquets for church, friends, etc and keep some on our breakfast table to enjoy. I also root these roses to give away.
(Click small photos to enlarge)

Sweet Shrub bush

I planted a sweet shrub near our outdoor swing so I can smell them. But there's a problem with this bush. It is not from the wild, but given to me by a friend who bought it a nursery, and it doesn't have the sweet perfumey smell as those taken from the woods. I might replace it or add another variety nearby. At least the tea olive bush (tree) fills the air with the best smelling perfume around, several times a year. We are letting it grow into a tree.

The purple blooms of the clematis welcome us as we walk out the back door, as it climbs up a post on the corner of the porch. It blooms most of the summer, a few big blooms at the time.

The purple iris have had a good spring. Once there were over 2 doz blooms in the corner of our back yard bulb flower bed. I guess the gladiolas will be blooming next in that flower bed.

The geranium on the back porch was purchased this spring for $10 and I've never gotten such a bargain! It has been blooming ever since March. Might be because I feed it Schultz bloom fertilizer.

Near the geranium is a flower bed of hostas. They love the shade along the porch and add texture and color to the cement porch.

Our window boxes are filled with old fashioned petunias from the yard of my friend Glenda Williams. She gave me these before she moved to Geneva this spring. I put pots of plants in the window boxes so I can take them out and replace them when they begin to look bad.

The little yellow coreopsis are blooming all over the yard. These hardy perennials come back every year and are drought resistant. The bees and butterflies love them, as do the hummingbirds.

I hope you have enjoyed a tour of flowers blooming in our yard on May 1, 2008.