After nothing being in bloom last week it was nice to be able to take pictures of actual flowers this week.

The Day Lillies in the Bible Garden are blooming.

These lillies are so pretty! We had such a storm last night, that I’m actually surprised that these are still standing. The Hibiscus didn’t fare so well, they are laying down. Anyway, you can see rain drops on the flowers still.

The white wild rose bushes in front of the house already bloom, but the pink ones are blooming now. My husband found all these wild rose bushes and transplanted them into the garden in front of the house. We do have to keep them trimmed back as they grow wild. (pun intended haha)

Here’s a close up of one bush.

And a wide shot of the other one. Yeah, those are weeds. sigh…..

I wonder what will be blooming next week? Come back tomorrow for the Saturday on the Farm Carnival!

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There aren’t many flowers blooming today. In fact, these two irises are the only flowers in full bloom. They are also the last two irises we will have this year.

The roses have several buds on them. I can’t wait for these to bloom!

The Delphiniums are just about open. These plants usually get tall, with the flower spikes often needing staking so they don’t fall over. But this year the plants are only about a foot tall, with the flower spikes only a few inches taller. I’m not sure what the problem is.

The Day Lilies have lots of buds on them. The one looks like it will be open tomorrow

These are wild roses that we transplanted to in front of the house.

And in the herb garden, the Purple Cone Flowers are forming buds.

Hopefully, when I take pictures next week, these will all be in full bloom.

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I have had this Passion Flower plant for about 4 years now. I bring it in the house over the winter. This winter it went crazy! It took over the whole dining room. This picture is a little dark, but you can see it growing up around, behind and around the blinds. If you look close, you can see a vine going up the wall behind the picture and up to the corner.

Don’t feel to bad for the poor Passion Flower, in a few weeks it will have grown to cover all the supports in the pot, and will attempt to grow over the whole Bible Garden.

We haven’t had any fruit from it yet. I’m still holding out hope, though. We had it for about 3 years before it bloomed for the first time. Maybe the fruit will still come.

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Last year I was looking for garden markers to make as they are very expensive to buy. I found this idea somewhere, I can’t remember were. They are really easy to make, and look great in the garden.

I cut the top and bottom off a soda can. be very careful as the edges are sharp. Once you have the long piece, cut it to the desired size, make sure you leave enough extra around the edges for folding over. Fold over the edges using pliers (that’s what I used anyway), then make a hole in the top for hanging.

To write on it, put the marker on something soft. A magazine works well. I used a ball point pen to write the information on the metal. The ink doesn’t work on the metal, but the pen indents the metal.

I then used a metal clothes hanger, cut to the right length to make a hanger.

Here’s the back of the garden marker. I made this last summer, and it stayed outside all winter. The marker itself weathered well, but the hanger is rusted.

This is a easy way to use recycled materials in your garden. The soda cans stand up to the weather very well.

What do you use for garden markers?

This is our passion flower vine in the big pot above. I have had this plant for at least 4 years, this may be the 5th summer. I have had it everywhere, planted in the ground in my Bible Garden, a pot in the house during the winter. This is the first year it has bloomed! I’m so excited!

In the pic above, you can see 2 more buds next to the flower. There is another bud over on the left can’t you can’t see in the picture.

Isn’t it beautiful?

You know how you can tell this is really my flower, and not a picture out of a catalog? The weeds! Hey, the passion flower is in my Bible Garden. Weeds are Biblical.