This is the first time in the two years I’ve lived here that it has rained nearly non-stop, during the day … real rain … like, heavy raindrops … for over a week. There are pools of water everywhere! This image off my back porch illustrates why I’m hiring “drainage experts” to pull the water [...]
Posts Tagged ‘flowers’
It’s raining!
Posted in flowers, weather, tagged flowers, weather on May 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Trial and Error
Posted in flowers, tagged flowers, Tulips on April 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is the first time I’ve grown tulips in the ground … from the raw bulbs in fall in the cold earth. I’m tickled with my haphazard success. I lost about half of what I planted out of ignorance. I now know bulbs are typically planted at a depth of about 3 times their size. [...]
Pink Madness
Posted in Bees, birds, flowers, tagged Bees, birds, flowers on March 16, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Every year I tell myself that this year I’m not going to get excited about my flowering cherry. But, heck! Spring is imminent and the bees are out in full force. I brought out the step ladder and just sat up there in the blossoms and got a little mad with pink. You’ll note the [...]
Cherry time
Posted in flowers, tagged flowers on March 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With this El Nino winter, the blooms are “breaking bud” much earlier than usual. My Akebono flowering cherry tree is a good 3 weeks earlier than last year. We had a cold snap and rain just as the blooms opened. But somehow they survived! It’s hard to photograph into the sky because the contrast is [...]
Almost
Posted in flowers, garden, tagged flowers on March 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s almost spring! Buds are beginning to break, flies and bees are rousing from their long sleep. There’s a quickening in the air while fragrant chimneys still burn. Here’s my Ribes Sanguineum just coming on. I’d pruned it hard late last fall, so it’s a little tardy. The Cherry Akebono on the other hand is [...]
Out and Afield
Posted in Excursions, garden, tagged Elsewhere, flowers, garden on February 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve been having spectacular pre-spring weather! I’m catching up on my vitamin D with all this sunshine. Morning temps have dropped to the mid-20′s. The Master Gardeners do a monthly field trip to wholesale nurseries. We drove south of Portland to the Willsonville / Aurora area — a hot bed of specialty agriculture (tulips, roses, [...]
My $60 tulip …
Posted in flowers, garden, tagged flowers, garden on January 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I bought several dozen tulips last fall. All but a few were planted in the ground. This is all I have to show for my efforts. My neighbor has dozens of naturalized tulips. I thought they were a safe bet. But no, the squirrels just thought I’d buried their food. Then there’s my Sarcococca (sar-ko-KOAK-ka) [...]
What it’s all about
Posted in Bees, flowers, garden, tagged Bees, flowers on August 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This is not just a pretty flower, but one heck of a bee magnet! I was watering my neighbor’s garden when I noticed this sole sunflower (suspiciously under the sunflower seed bird feeder) a-buzz with bees. There seemed to be a constant occupancy of two bees at a time. Yesterday, being Friday, I listened to [...]
This and That
Posted in flowers, Neighborhood, Walks, tagged flowers, Neighborhood, Walks on July 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
OK, this heat wave is supposed to wind down. I took my morning walk between 6 and 7 to avoid the heat. (So why don’t the sewer folks just start early?) I think these are culverts, but I didn’t have any success trying to ID the red “platform” thingies. Don’t know if pipes are placed [...]
Photo Hike
Posted in flowers, Hikes, Travel, tagged flowers, Hikes, Travel on June 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My brother Tom and his wife Vickie signed me up for a photo hike on the Piedra Blanco rocks with Chad Ress. Rocky outcroppings abound in southern California — to my delight. I thought this rock formation was particularly voluptuous: Part of the assigned exercise was to photograph people in nature. Chad choreographed this line [...]
