I love Foxgloves! My zone 4 garden is not always kind to these plants, they often die off from harsh winter temps, but I keep trying. Even if I can only grow them as annuals, they add such color and charm to the garden.
Tag: perennials
Summer Days
The days have been hot and steamy around the garden. The Swallowtail Butterfly have been fluttering around all the flowers that have finally popped in the garden.
The prettiest thing in my garden…today.
When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.
— Minnie Aumonier
No Search Engine Needed
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
For The Flutter Friends
Butterflies are attracted to the colors red, yellow, pink, purple and orange!
The Butterfly Bush is the perfect way to bring them in.
This Spot Of Ground
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
Gertrude Jekyll
Color Creeping In
I Call It ‘Happiness’
A Room With A View
Take Time To Smell The Flowers
And then get to work on all the garden chores!
The garden work is plentiful this month with flowers to dead head, weeds to keep at bay,
and the vegetable garden to tend.
down to earth digs 