Is this not cool looking? I have a few throughout the gardens for the butterflies.
And opened up! The ants like it too!
Jun16
Category Archives: plants
Jun9
My front step welcomes you
This is just one side of my step. The fuzzy plant under the birdhouse is new, really pretty and called Nicolletta (I have a friend named Nicolette-I should root her a piece!). I added a few Nasturtium seeds in with it. I also have a pot of pansies and that unnamed pink daisy like flower keeping it company. I have a pretty coleus and peachy begonia on the other side.
Splish Splash
We are expecting much needed rain today. My mom needs to come out this way and hopefully get her very pricey hearing aid. Unfortunately she isn’t the only family member who is hard of hearing, so is Bri’s dad and Bri was tested to have slight loss. I’m blaming headphone use! Bri is going to the eye doctor today(we are still trying to figure out why he doesn’t feel well so much). Sean and him were playing a little baseball and he thinks he hurt his knee and is limping around now. The poor guy!
I am so looking forward to Thursday evening as my ‘new’ high school friend Lorin and I are going to see James Taylor and Carole King down in south Philly. She asked me back in January if I’d like to go and I said sure, so she gifted me with a ticket. Will give you a report. If I take my camera, you’ll probably see a little video if I can sneak one in. And maybe Lorin’s hubby can take one of both of us. He’s driving us as she can’t drive at night and I don’t drive to south Philly! I guess I could, but I can’t drive Lorin home.
Jun6
The ‘C’ garden
This use to be the Circle garden, but Bri kept hitting a few box hedges on the right with the mower and they met their demise. It now looks like a ‘C’ which is the first letter in our last name! I realized my box hedges are a few different kinds, but just this year. It doesn’t bother me a whole lot, but the 3-4 different ones are bigger and needed more shaping. This is the garden where my irises, dinner plate hibiscus (the deer like to munch them), some Gladiolus and Black-eyed Susans are planted. I added a Julia Child yellow rose bush (gift from Brian), a gorgeous orange Wall Flower,
a pink Columbine and a few others. I think it needs mulch-I love and hate the stuff, but it sure gives the gardens a finished look, but my poor back is already bad this year.
Update-that’s a pot of Hens an Chickens on the white stand 
and a shallow bowl with colored glass too. Where the bowl is use to be where we had one of the monstrous satellite dishes.
Mar28
Dianne and Brian at the Orchid Show
Dianne and Delphinium, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.
Brian and I went to check out the orchid competition at Longwood Gardens today. Sean and I had gone earlier in the month to see the orchid display. The competition was only this weekend. Brian hadn’t been there for years and enjoyed it.
The crowd enjoying the different orchid displays:
Brian enjoying the conservatory after not going for many years:
Some of the gorgeous orchids-
What a society’s display for competition looks like”
I’m still uploading-have about 4 more photos to do as both Bri and I took our turn with the camera.
Jul2
My yard-early July 2009
Some longer shots instead of flower close-ups. Those are Chestnut tree catkins all over the place.
Jun29
Lilies!
Ah, it’s that time of year again. I really love all the varieties of lilies and have them in several areas of my yard. The deer already snacked on a few buds-so I have to see if I can mix up some homemade deer repellent-thanks to Turkey Feathers blog and Missy who pointed in that direction. I just sprayed what was left with insect repellent, seems to have done the trick, until it rains again.
Jun23
Fairies in my garden
June 24th is
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Fairies in my garden, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.Look who I found amongst the blooms and branches. They were quite friendly!
(I didn’t know about the 24th until a friend mentioned it on Facebook!)
Jun17
I went from using this for one thing…
Waterlily container with faux waterlilies, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.The plastic container worked a few years until it sprang a leak over this past winter (cracked). Now I am using it for its intended purpose-plants! I have planted 6 Romas (hope I didn’t plant too many) in it and I can walk down my back steps to it. Hope it’s not to accessible to the wildlife!
Jun7
Photoshopping and Planting
Two things I have been doing. Late last night I was working on a photo of me when I was about 6-7. It was taken for a contest for ‘cute kids’ way back when. Neither my brother or I won. Here’s the original-encased in plastic that was then bend. I had to use a filter over it to help with my forehead’s mark. I’m not totally happy with this-forgot my right arm and I just couldn’t get the forehead any better. But that is the correct color of the photo now.
to this:
And one of my 3 siblings and me:
Couldn’t help compare this to my pal Barbara’s kiddos as she has a big boy and a little boy with a boy and girl in the middle. Dave is 12.5 yrs older than Ken whereas Don and I were 1 yr and 8 days apart.
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Then I was potting up baby coleus my Flickr pal Joy had left at her house for me on Tuesday. I hope they grow nice and bushy!
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Tonight I watched Kate Winslet’s Oscar winning performance with Sean. ‘The Reader’ was a wonderful movie, but does have nudity and sex in the first half hour…so if you want to rent it, I’d watch it with the over 21 crowd.
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I have to make something good for dinner today as for two meals yesterday we ate take-out. I am having ‘a visitor’ now every 3.5 weeks and it’s pulling me down. I’m hoping it will lead to longer times between-mom said she had this issue too. It ain’t easy girls.
Jun3
Wednesday already?
Not feeling great on Monday and still went food shopping with Sean’s help, which is nice since he is helping to eat large quantities of it. Tuesday, I went to my hometown to get my hair done and see my brother’s family and my mom. I was hoping to meet a Flickr pal who happens to live in the same school district that I attended. Tell me we don’t live in a small world? She had lots of coleus babies that she rooted and planted for me, plus leaf snips (all bagged and marked) and I had a huge coleus plant that she loved and couldn’t get last year I gifted her. The first time we stopped by, I met her husband and he said she was running late. The second time, the little boxes of plants were waiting for me-she had said she was going to the hairdresser. She is free to come out here anytime and collect snips from my coleus and whatever perennial I have extra of. Another coincidence, her mother-in-law lives in the town where Brian worked from and they pass down this way a few Sundays a month.
I have so much inside work to do it’s not funny! An old high school friend wanted to drop in and I told her my house isn’t baby proofed as she has a 9 month old foster son. Another classmate suggested we meet at her house for lunch-hope the three of us can get together on Friday. This is all thanks to Facebook!
Collages & Creative Goodness 