Showing posts with label black berry lily. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black berry lily. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Mown, weedwacked & trimmed

Good evening Folks ~ We have had dinner, it is lightly sprinkling, and DH is out in his workshop.  He has been in his  computer quite a bit today in a CAD program drawing out the original back door lock mechanism to the ‘camper’ now stationary ‘gypsy wagon’ as we call it. He is making a door for the ‘front’ of the wagon and will be incorporating this lock into it.  He took drafting in jr. college and  enjoys doing things like this.  He drew up plans many years ago for his workshop, the barn and the storage building and he was given the go ahead to build and passed all of his inspections.

Yesterday morning after we ran our errands, I mowed and let me tell you it was miserable.  I was sweating buckets, drinking water, and decided to quit and not finish up the pruning I had started.  I did that this morning and weedwacked too.  It all looks nice now.  With all the rain we’ve been getting lately things have been growing like weeds.  We haven’t had rain for the past three days, but more is in the forecast for the next week or so.

Below, I’m standing at the edge of the sidewalk by the road.  This is our long view of property.

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Now I’m standing just inside the gate area.

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This is a closer view. My shed is by the pink crepe myrtle.

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Now I’m at the back of the property looking south.

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This is my newest garden section,

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I will close with the two pictures below of the blackberry lily.  I grew these from seed.

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I have more pictures, but I’m ready to go get horizontal to read for awhile.

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"There is no season such delight can bring,
As summer, autumn, winter and the spring."
 
William Browne, Variety, 1630

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Thursday, June 17, 2010

The Month of June

Good morning everyone. Coffee just finished perking so I'm about to have that first wonderful sip.

I've got several things I want to do today, and by the end of the day I'll see how many of them I accomplished. :-) There is clean laundry to fold and put away, a couple of potted plants I want to move to the front patio, some garden clean up from yesterday, fill some of my embroidered sachets with French lavender, fill some gelatin caps with herbs (my herb order came in late yesterday afternoon), I'd like to embroider more on my zebra longwing, I hope to make a homemade pizza for supper tonight too.

Yesterday morning I did some work weeding, trimming and planting of my little sheds garden. DH weed wacked for me since I was having cramping muscles in my right/back/shoulder blade/rib cage area. I had mowed the day before, and a couple of areas needed to be trimmed with the weed wacker. I love gardening and enjoy the work, but lately, sometimes I have to ask for help.

Yesterday I noticed my lily or iris plant had the flower stems and I had to take a couple of pictures. I don't know if this is a candy lily or a blackberry lily, should know in a day or so. I loved the way the sun lit up the leaves with the stem and buds inside.





Hope you all have a great day.

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"It is the month of June,
The month of leaves and roses,
When pleasant sights salute the eyes
And pleasant scents the noses."
Nathaniel Parker Willis, The Month of June


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Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL