It's no secret that I love flowers. Our children gifted me a lovely arrangement for Mother's Day. One from each of them. Also Grayden had gifted me roses a couple days before Mother's Day. It's nice to have so many lovely flowers gracing our home.
I'm so thankful to have little or no pain in my knee now. The flareup of arthritis in my knee sure did leave me worried. I'm trying to be careful and not do any kneeling in my garden.
"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
Here are a few flowers that are blooming now. Our abundance of rain has made my garden happy. It's so important that our water table is not low before our usual dry, hot summer begins.
Can you guess what these flowers are? They are foxglove.
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| Red Knockout Rose |
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| Native Columbine |
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| Pinkie Climbing Rose |
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| Pinkie Climbing Rose |
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| Nellie Moser Cematis |
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| Pansy |
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| Rudbeckia |
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| Sarah Bernhardt Peony Bud |
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| Jackmani Clematis |
This is not a flower but a host for wasp on an oak tree. It is also considered a gall and some folks go to great lengths to remove them. Our oaks are much too large and the few that we get we just let them be. Soon they will look like a golf ball as the gall progresses.
Our eldest grand's birthday is soon so his parents are flying in for a few days. It is always nice to have them visit. I can hardly believe that Samuel will be 22 years old. How in the world can that be? Time is passing faster than these fast moving clouds.
