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Blooming Flowers

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I’ve been talking lots of butterfly pictures this week. Our butterfly bush is just full of them. This morning, I managed to get a picture of a butterfly on the mimosa tree. They were going from blossom to blossom. Taking  this picture was no easy feat, as I’m short and the tree is tall. lol
Here’s a little video I took of the butterflies on the butterfly bush.

If you want to see pictures of our vegetable garden, visit Saturday on the Farm.While your there, join the Saturday on the Farm Carnival.

For more flower pictures, visit Tuesday Garden Party at An Oregon Cottage.
Flaunt Your Flowers at Tootsie Time.
Also visit Outdoor Wednesday at A Southern Day Dreamer.

Blooming Flowers

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I’ve been talking lots of butterfly pictures this week. Our butterfly bush is just full of them. This morning, I managed to get a picture of a butterfly on the mimosa tree. They were going from blossom to blossom. Taking  this picture was no easy feat, as I’m short and the tree is tall. lol
Here’s a little video I took of the butterflies on the butterfly bush.

If you want to see pictures of our vegetable garden, visit Saturday on the Farm.While your there, join the Saturday on the Farm Carnival.

For more flower pictures, visit Tuesday Garden Party at An Oregon Cottage.
Flaunt Your Flowers at Tootsie Time.
Also visit Outdoor Wednesday at A Southern Day Dreamer.

Blooming Flowers

by

I’ve been talking lots of butterfly pictures this week. Our butterfly bush is just full of them. This morning, I managed to get a picture of a butterfly on the mimosa tree. They were going from blossom to blossom. Taking  this picture was no easy feat, as I’m short and the tree is tall. lol
Here’s a little video I took of the butterflies on the butterfly bush.

If you want to see pictures of our vegetable garden, visit Saturday on the Farm.While your there, join the Saturday on the Farm Carnival.

For more flower pictures, visit Tuesday Garden Party at An Oregon Cottage.
Flaunt Your Flowers at Tootsie Time.
Also visit Outdoor Wednesday at A Southern Day Dreamer.

Blooming Flowers

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Well, I went for a walk, and didn’t find anything new to photograph. Oh, the 2 butterfly bushes are in full bloom, as well as the 3 hibiscus bushes. There are still glads blooming, and one lone lily bloomed this week. But I have shared those a lot already.
I did find a surprise while out for a walk. I found Jewelweed growing where it isn’t supposed to. And that would be in the creek. lol The creek has dried up, and the weeds have taken over. I was pleasantly surprised to find the Jewelweed! 
In this picture, I am standing beside the driveway, and the goat pen is behind the bush. Alas, I don’t have any close-ups of the pretty little orange flowers. The pictures all came out really dark. It was actually sprinkling when I was taking these pictures and I had to use the zoom. Otherwise, I would have fallen into the creek. lol No, I wouldn’t have gotten wet, but there is about a 3 foot drop between the grass in the picture, and the bush. Nope, I’m not going there! lol
Anyway, we have had Jewelweed in other places on the property, but this is the first time in that spot. 
I found out this spring that you can use Jewelweed to treat poison ivy. One site said to take the leaves and freeze them into ice cubes, then you can put the ice cubes onto your poison ivy.
Hopefully, the leaves in the ice will stop people from using those ice cubes in their drinks!
While on my walk, I enjoyed seeing the Lambs Ear in the Bible Garden getting so big. No blossoms yet, but soon.  And just to keep it real, I included a weed in the picture. lol

If you want to see pictures of our vegetable garden, visit Saturday on the Farm.While your there, join the Saturday on the Farm Carnival.

For more flower pictures, visit Tuesday Garden Party at An Oregon Cottage.
Flaunt Your Flowers at Tootsie Time.
Also visit Outdoor Wednesday at A Southern Day Dreamer.

Blooming Flowers

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We’ve had quite a bit of ran this week. We needed it, though, our creek had dried out. In between the rain, I managed to take a couple of pictures.
The Hibiscus bushes are in full bloom. This is bush number 1.
Bush number 2 has pretty pink flowers.
Bush number three is the biggest bush.
We usually have to tie the bush together, but we haven’t yet this year. Considering all the rain we’ve had, the bushes are holding their own, only a couple of droopy branches.
The Butterfly bush is living up to its name, and attracting lots of butterflies. This one is on the big white butterfly bush right outside our front door. It’s pretty cool to be able to look the living room windows and see lots of butterflies on the bush.

If you want to see pictures of our vegetable garden, visit Saturday on the Farm.While your there, join the Saturday on the Farm Carnival.

For more flower pictures, visit Tuesday Garden Party at An Oregon Cottage.
Flaunt Your Flowers at Tootsie Time.
Also visit Outdoor Wednesday at A Southern Day Dreamer.

Blooming Flowers

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The glads in the front garden are blooming this week. These are a really pretty salmon color.

The hibiscus blooms have started to open. I have three bushes. This is a flower on bush number 1:

And on bush number 2:

This is bush number 3:

The Passion Flower has several buds on it. I like this picture because of the single rain drop inside the bud.

The purple butterfly bush is in full bloom.

In this picture, I was standing my my back up against the front door of the house. The purple butterfly bush doesn’t look so big from here! The bush on the left is hibiscus bush number 3 from above. 

Here’s another picture with my back up against the front door. The white butterfly bush is so big! My husband even gave it a big trimming earlier this year.

I don’t have mulch anywhere because of the chickens. I have big plans for the front yard. We are in the middle of adding on a front porch. The deck and 1 ramp are done. We have 1 ramp and the railings to do. Then I can work on the gardens.  🙂   Oh, yeah, I need to fix the chicken pen so the chickens can’t get out and get into my gardens!

If you want to see pictures of our vegetable garden, visit Saturday on the Farm.While your there, join the Saturday on the Farm Carnival.

For more flower pictures, visit Tuesday Garden Party at An Oregon Cottage.
Flaunt Your Flowers at Tootsie Time.
Also visit Outdoor Wednesday at A Southern Day Dreamer.

Blooming Flowers

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I thought there wouldn’t be pictures to share this week, but I went for a walk and found quite a few. Hope you enjoy them!

My daughters glads are starting to bloom.

I don’t know what variety these are, as they were given to us, but they are beautiful.

The Hibicus have a lot of buds on them.

I think the buds are beautiful, too. I’m anxious for the flowers, but look at this bud. It looks like if you tried to do anything to the bud, the “claw” would close on your fingers! lol

The Passion Flower that I trimmed and moved outside is growing like crazy. I found 2 buds. Oh, and a long legged friend.

Last week, I shared a picture of a mimosa blossom. Now here’s the tree. It’s so huge, and provides a lot of shade for this end of the yard. There are still blossoms on the tree, but you can’t see them in the picture.

And here’s a picture from the driveway, looking back at the tree. My husband keeps the lower branches trimmed off, so he can mow under the tree.

If you want to see pictures of our vegetable garden, visit Saturday on the Farm.

While your there, join the Saturday on the Farm Carnival.

For more flower pictures, visit Tuesday Garden Party at An Oregon Cottage.
Flaunt Your Flowers at Tootsie Time.
Also visit Outdoor Wednesday at A Southern Day Dreamer.
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