The Front Garden

Well, the roses in the front garden are starting to do their thing, and I have been spending more time just sitting, looking and smelling.

Yes, there are weeds. Yes, there are rose bushes that did not get pruned this year. And, yes, there are a few plants that need to be cut back. But, I tend to be more of a hands-off gardener, and I love letting plants 'do their thing'.

Abraham Darby

  

Charles Darwin

The Shepherdess

The Shepherdess

Crown Princess Margareta

Pierre de Ronsard

 


I am sharing this post with this month's Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, run by Carol at May Dreams Garden. Stop by to see what is blooming in other gardens around the world!

In a Vase on Monday - The Garland and Pierre de Ronsard

With temperatures of 90ºF/32ºC, the roses in my garden have an increasingly shorter shelf life.  It's time to get them inside, where they will last a few days longer.

Here, I've used The Garland and Pierre de Ronsard in an antique Sure Seal mason jar from my grandmother's house.  It's actually my favorite "vase"!

I'm linking with Rambling in the Garden for this week's In a Vase on Monday meme.

Flower arrangements

I know nothing about flower arrangements - a pure and simple fact.  It is hard, however, to make beautiful flowers look ugly!

On the weekends when I have a bit more time to breathe, I usually wake up early to cut flowers, herbs or even twigs to bring indoors.  Just a few are enough to make me happy.  A dear friend of mine, Gema, took this photo at my house on Saturday and pinned it (no great feat - she has 20,693 pins!).  Somehow, things often look better from someone else's perspective...

Abraham Darby, Pierre de Ronsard, salvia

¡Un besito Gemita!

Update: just found a site where gardeners post their flower arrangements each Monday (http://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/in-a-vase-on-monday-wanted-dead-or-alive/).