Spring is my favorite season! I love to be outside after the long, cold, colorless winter, and I've developed a real need to "dig in the dirt" each year when the weather starts to get warm. I enjoy taking digital photographs of my flowers and flowering trees, and I invite you to take a "virtual tour" of my gardens--which of course change, year to year! In Spring 2010 we added a raised bed for vegetable gardens and added two more in Spring 2011.
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Hoverfly on Coreopsis "Moonbeam"
Azaleas
The shady Hosta garden in early morning light
Cica's Garden
This is a memorial garden for my soulmate kitty, Cica, who died in April 2002 at the age of 20. Blueberry bushes, a bleeding heart and impatiens are planted here. In 2005 three astilbes, Cranesbill "Brookside", an azalea, Anemone "Honorine Jobert" and a columbine were added.
I think this picture of ripe blueberries is the most popular image on my website! It's been used by a magazine in New England, by Kohr Bros.®, by www.americanmeadows.com and in the book Practical Horticulture
© SBK 2005
Cranesbill "Rozanne"
© SBK 2006
Verbena "Homestead Purple"
© SBK 2005
"Dr. Huey" Rose
© SBK 2005
Rose Campion (Lychnis Coronaria)
© SBK 2005
Butterfly Weed
© SBK 2005
Monarch Butterfly on Buddleia "Royal Red"
© SBK 2005
Balloon Flower (Platycodon grandiflorus)
© SBK 2005
Bee Balm (Monarda)
© SBK 2005
Clematis "Jackmanii"
© SBK 2006
Clematis "Asao"
© SBK2006
Shasta Daisy & Pink Hollyhock
© SBK 2005
Stargazer Lilies
Beautiful, but deadly to cats!
Daylilies
© SBK 2005
July 2004: Blackeyed Susans
June 2005: Daylilies, Blackeyed Susans, Coreopsis,
Pentsemon, Monarda and Zinnias are in my "Yellow Garden."
July 2005: Phlox, Balloon Flowers, Dianthus, Verbena, Daisies,
Daylilies, Chrysanthemums & Zinnias grow in my "Mailbox Garden."
June 2006: Heuchera "Purple Palace," Hosta "Patriot," Liriope,
and Impatiens are in the new Birdbath-Shade Garden.
While it hovers and flies just like a tiny hummingbird,
a Hummingbird Clearwing moth (Hemaris thysbe) sips nectar from the phlox!
 Cica's Garden |
 East Shade Garden |
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 Dragonfly |
 Moth |
 Blackeyed Susan |
 Swallowtails "Puddling" |
 Virginia Toad |
 Butterfly Bush |
Too many pictures on this page!
Click on the links if you'd like to see more things in my gardens:
Cherry Blossoms Ripe Cherries Apple Blossoms Dogwood Blossoms
Scabiosa Dianthus Dahlia Iris Chyrsanthemum
Daisy Zinnia Butterfly Bush (Pink Delight) Blue Columbine
Gaura Coreopsis Dianthus Phlox
Yellow Marigold Red & Yellow Marigold Daylilies White Chrysanthemum Blackeyed Susans
Periwinkle Abelia Wegelia Crape Myrtle
Grapes Blackberries
ADVENTURES IN POND BUILDING...
The Big Hole in the Ground
Saga of the Preformed Pond
"An Accursed Piece of Ground"
Got questions about flowers and gardens? Check out these websites!
GardenWeb
The Garden Forums
sharon@art-rageous.net
