Time in the Garden: Lilies and Lavendar

The garden is abuzz and ablaze with with critters and color. I wandered around early this morning and took some pictures to share. The lavendar bushes are quivering with Honey Bee activity and if I had a bee hive I know that I could get some wonderful lavendar honey- might have to consider this!!!

I am busily working on several pieces for an upcoming show at Liberty Town, so I don't have much time for a long wordy blog post. I am surer that many of you will be relieved to spend a few moments looking at my garden without having to read my verbage. The dill is blooming along with the verbena and lilies surrounding my hummingbird stained glass piece.

The daylilies are simply amazing this year and I believe that this will be the last Japanese Iris for this year.

LAst year Becca was upset that we did not have more Blue Hydrangea's, so out came the lime and now we have BLUE, BLUE,BLUE!!!

These beauties are NOT hybiscus or oriental lilies they are daylilies!! Simply glorious pinky-peach!!!

Belinda's Dream is getting ready for her second show of the season.

I do love purple and green together in almost any form!!

The last two pictures are of one of my very favorite daylilies, Joylene Nicole. She has tons of buds per stem, lovely color and pie crust ruffled edges and a wonderful fragrance. What more can one ask for ????

I hope that you can all get outside today and spend some time in a garden- it is truely health food for the soul!!

Time for the Annual All Girls Road Trip!!!

This will be a very quick not e to let you know that Becca and I will be on our way to the Outer Beaches of Cape cod on July 11th. We will be on our way home on July 22 so I will not be blogging for awhile. Please please send all sorts of positive thoughts that the weather for the eastern seaboard will WARM UP!!! Regardless I will be the one huddled in blankets on the beach while theWild Child boogie boards her days away in the surf!!!
!!! (I'M NOT KIDDING!!!)

So I will leave you with some shots of what is currently happening in my garden!! My roses are blooming again and the daylilies are glorious!!


These lilies look totally tropical and they smell soooo good!!



The white Phlox are amazing!!



Belinda's Dream is enjoying the company of Flutterby daylily!




Flutterby is blooming her fool head off!!!



"SO Many flowers! MUST REST!!"


The Shasta daisies are starting to come on strong!! The white sets off the riot of color so well!! It gives the eye a place to rest!!!



DID I mention how much I LOVE MY DAYLILIES???

I hope that everyone has a wonderful couple of weeks! I'll be posting as soon as I get back from the BEACH!!!!

Garden Glories- A Quick Post

I have just spent a wonderful weekend In a fabulous workshop with the amazing Laura Cater-Woods at Artistic Artifacts in Alexandria!! Today I spent the day cleaning and prepping for a family visit on the 1st. My brother and his wonderful family of beautiful women will be in for a quick visit on home leave from Tanzania. I washed couch slipcovers, washed dog snot off of windows and am vaccuming out corners and dusting out crevices- not just your ordinary surface stuff- relax ----it does NOT happen often.
SOOOOOOO this is a long way of saying that this will be a quick post and a stroll thru the space that is my garden. I will be back in a day or two with details on the LCW Workshop, complete with pictures!!
as you can see my day lilies are coming into their glory!! these are no ordinary ditch lilies!! These are radiant and fragrant jewels. Anyone up for some divisions??? They are growing into huge clumps and need some serious thinning out this fall. They ship very well and love to be planted in the fall. Let me Know!!!
This stunning pink beauty is called Flutterby. there must be at least 15 buds per stem!!

The ruffled edges on these lilies is called pie crust, as the edges resemble the edges of pie crusts. This pink one is called joylene Nicole and is one of my favorites!!!! I have her sprinkled all over the garden!!

The hydrangea's are also stunning this year! theyare reveling in all of the reaint aht we have had and I am loving all of the colors in each blossom head!!!!

The garden welcomes visitors as you come down the drive and the SHasta daisies are starting to open. I expect a deluge of butterflies soon!!

I will be back soon with a posting all about the creative workshop but for now I hope that you have all enjoyed this little peek into my garden!!

Off to bed, I am tired- Man do I hate to clean, it just wears me out!! Art is sooooo much more fun, wether in the garden, on paper or fabric!!