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Thank you Perennial Gardener!
Thank you Digging in the Dirt!
Thank you Barbee!
Thank you Digging in the Dirt!
Thank you Aunt Debbi!
Notes about living and gardening somewhere down in Texas
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Favorite Quotes...
Where flowers bloom...so does hope.
Lady Bird Johnson
Just living is not enough..one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Han Christian Anderson
Lady Bird Johnson
Just living is not enough..one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Han Christian Anderson
What's blooming...
- Angelonia
- Begonias
- Black-Foot Daisies
- Cosmos
- Gerber Daisies
- Pansies
- Profusion Zinnias
- Red Geranium
- Rock Rose
- Roses
- Salvias
- Zinnias
Some of my favorite books...
- A Killer Stitch by Maggie Sefton
- At Home With Beatrix Potter by Susan Denyer
- Bleeding Hearts by Susan Albert
- Murder on the Rocks by Karen MacInerney
- Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
- Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly
- The Darling Dahlias by Susan Albert
- The Last Juror by John Grisham
- The Secret Garden by Frances H. Burnett
- The Tale of Holly How by Susan Albert
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Some of my favorite blogs..
- Alamo North (Texas)
- Aunt Debbi's Garden (Texas)
- Barbee's Blog (Kentucky)
- Canandian Garden Joy (Canada)
- Cherry Hill Cottage (Texas)
- Cindee's Garden (in Calif.)
- Cozy Little House (Oklahoma)
- Defining Your Home Garden (N.C.)
- Digging (Texas)
- Digging in the Dirt (Mississippi)
- From My Corner of Katy (Texas)
- From My Garden To Yours (Pa.)
- Gardening on the Gulf Coast (Mississippi)
- In the Garden (Tennessee)
- jenningsjunk (Texas)
- Life in Robin's Nest (Ohio)
- Lifescapes (Texas)
- Lilacs and Roses (Illinois)
- Mystery Reader Discussion (Texas)
- Never Enough Time (Illinois)
- Northern Shade Gardening (Canada)
- Perennial Garden Lover (Virginia)
- Red Dirt Ramblings ( Oklahoma)
- Robin's Nesting Place (Indiana)
- Rock Rose (Austin)
- Sun Rise in Sachse (Texas)
- Thanks for 2 Day (Virginia)
- The Transplantable Rose (Texas)
- Things I Love (Tennessee)
My Garden Fairy's Name
Your fairy is called Bramble Icefly
She is a bone chilling bringer of justice for the vulnerable.
She lives in leafy dells and bluebell glades.
She is only seen at midday under a quiet, cloudless sky.
She wears bluebell-blue dresses. She has icy blue butterfly wings.
Simple Joys...
- Pumpkin Pie
- Scent of a fireplace
- Fall leaves
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Thank you Perennial Gardener!
Thank you Digging in the Dirt!
Thank you Barbee!
Thank you Digging in the Dirt!
Thank you Aunt Debbi!
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12 comments:
Very refreshing!! love both colors and their container!!
That purslane is very pretty. I've heard it is drought tolerant too?
Isn't that plant great!?!? It's so easy and so pretty! Have you seen the one called Cinderella? It's pink with little a yellow fuzzy in the center.
How pretty! I simply cannot grow it well here. I've tried lean, dry soil, excellent loam but the plants just sit and pout and hardly ever bloom.
Marnie
Perfection indeed, look at all those blooms! :)
Love them! They look so much like moss roses, bet they are related.
Hi everyone!
JJ-I love the colors in purslane too. So bright!!
Tina--Yes, purslane are very drought tolerant. And, if a piece of the plant falls off in the ground, it immediately roots and starts growing and blooming! So cool!
Susie-I have not seen Cinderella, but I need to find one! Your description sounds beautiful!
Marnie--I always grown purslane in containers, although I have a friend that does plant them in the ground. They like hot sun and dry soil. Wonder if it is too cool where you are?
Racquel--the purslane has so many blooms, but wish it would bloom all day long. The flower open in morning and close late afternoon. Many times I never get to see it in full bloom.
Purslane grows everywhere here. It's in the ground & will take over if your not careful.
Looks like little poppies! Bright too!
Lola--really? It will take over? I did not know it would do that. What happens in winter?
MsRobin--I agree. You would think purslane and moss rose were cousins. Wish the purslane would stay open all day like the rose moss though.
Chandrmouli--they are cute little flowers. Now that you mention it, they do look like little California poppies!
It dies back to nothing. It's beginning to bloom around here.
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