my kitchen windowsil

A cutting of my Mom's jade-type plant, and cuttings of her impatiens are looking quite lovely!
*edit* The white flowers are california poppies that I accidently chopped off in the garden, they continued blooming in the vase for a few weeks.

Autumn Flowers

These flowers are in my Mom's garden in The Netherlands, late September.

buzzing with bees.



Mom's Mum

a Geranium that came back from its roots.

African Daisy

A wild red rose

Rainy Bloomday in August

It was a wet morning, so I put on my raingear and wellies, and had me a nice soft photoshoot. Here are my flowers blooming in wet Ireland.
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Wild fuchsia, still buzzing with bees. They don't mind the rain.
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One of my sweetpeas, from a mixed color seed pack.
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Self-sown nasturtium
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Sulking Impatiens
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Heavenly scented honeysuckle
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Campanula
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I don't know what this is, but bees love it. Each flower spike looks like a curled up caterpillar.
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Anemone (I took this photo yesterday)
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A runner bean flower, against my purple plum tree.
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Violas, self sown all over, and continuously blooming since early spring.
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Not a flower, but very colorful. Moyesii rosehips
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And lastly, some wildflowers in the potato patch.
Visit Carols' blog: May Dreams Gardens, where you'll find links to other people's flowers blooming in August all over the world.

Garden Bloggers Bloomday - July

There are so many flowers blooming, this is only a bit of it all:

Scintillation roses bloom alongside of my shed, just on the edge of the wilder area of my garden, "Peppermint Woods"

Scintillation againMirthful rose in the front garden

Wild fuchsia

Himalayan honeysuckle, it's become a giant shrub, filled with buzzing bees.

Malva in the front garden, a wren visiting on the wall. The only reason I knew the tiny bird was there, was because my cat was doing that "I see a bird" thing that cats do with their mouth. And the cheeky wren was teasing the cat.

Dianthus

Honeysuckle

Honeysuckle again

Cotton lavender

Evening primroseFeverfew and a lemon-scented geranium flower.

Feverfew

Campanula

Violas/pansies in the strawberry patch

Pansies form all over the garden.

My daughter, who lives in Dublin, has picked up gardening this year. She and her boyfriend planted seeds in all kinds of crazy containers. This is linaria from a wildflower seed mix.
It makes me happy to see my kids have the same kind of love affair with plants.

My shed, slowly being enveloped in nature.

Visit Carols' blog: May Dreams Gardens, where you'll find links to other people's flowers blooming in July all over the world.

Roses in art

Celestial, an alba rose dating from the middle ages. There are alba roses in Botticelli's 'The Birth of Venus'

William Morris, a David Austin English rose. William Morris also painted roses.

pink: Celestial, red with bee: Moyesii, red: Dark Lady, yellow: Graham Thomas

Green spider

I saw this pretty spider in the rosemary, when I went out to pick some for dinner seasoning. I love the coloring of it, green and yellows, a little spot of pink.

Garden Bloggers Bloomday, June 2009

It's blooming roses this month:

Marinette

Celestial

Celestial

Scintillation

Alba Semi Plena

The Dark Lady

Moyesii-Geranium

Mirthful

Graham Thomas

Blythe Spirit

William Morris
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And a few of the other blooms:

Philadelphus

Cow Parsley

Evening Primrose

Dianthus

Sage

Geranium

Malva

Nigella and a lemon scented Geranium

Viola

Viola

Alchemilla

? (pretty yellow flowers, needs ID. Anyone know this?)

Calendula

To bring some of the garden inside, I've made a little bouquet of Dark Lady and geranium to put by my computer (thats' my computer's name "Eyreequel")

Visit Carol's blog for more links to flowers blooming in June all over the world.