Greeting guests at the front door.
Black tea with lemon mint
“Mosquito is out,
it’s the end of the day;
she’s humming and hunting
her evening away.
Who knows why such hunger
arrives on such wings
at sundown? I guess
it’s the nature of things.”
– N. M. Boedecker, Midsummer Night Itch
Welcome! Thanks for stopping by. Join me on the patio for tea with mint. or lemon balm.
Orange Day Lily
So many of my esteemed fellow garden bloggers have names on every flower. Not me. I am clueless about the lovely lillies. Some were here when I moved in this house, some were gifts or I found them in a sale bin.
Standing alone, flowers about five inches across, plant about six feet tall, this gangly lily begs for a new home.
My house is 170 years old. There are lots of things growing on this little acre that I haven’t identified.
There is a big black snake living in the North East corner. I think we’ve never had a problem with mice because of that big snake. He is not in the picture because he lives in the Poison Ivy Patch.
I think next bloom day, I’ll have sunflowers to share. There are lots of pollinators (like honey bees) this year. I am not seeing many ladybugs and I sure could use some bungry ladybugs.
There is a killer black cat next door that kills the song birds that I feed and invite into my garden. Yes, it poops in my garden and spends a lot of time in my garage and on my patio. Every day.
Raddish with seed pods and flowers
Have you ever seen raddish flowers? I let a few go to seed, just so I could see the whole life cycle of the annual that is alsways in my spring garden.
Inspired by the words of Elizabeth Lawrence, “We can have flowers nearly every month of the year,” Carol of May Dreams Gardens started Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. On the 15th of every month, garden bloggers from all over the world publish what is currently blooming in their gardens.
I call these the house lillies because there are a lot of them and they came with the house.
Small blooms, but the flowers just keep on coming for days
in the front yard, along the front porch, several spiky lilies want to be in a better designed garden spoce.
