Tag: plants
group name: growinggardens
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July 26, 2008 03:21 PM EDT --
Amazing how much our garden has grown in just under 2 months time.
This is June 2, 2008. We planted the garden May 4. so this is a little under a month since planting. It was . . .
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January 29, 2008 09:09 AM EST --
Saturday was an absolutly gorgeous day in my neck of the woods. I had planned to spend the entire day working on the bathroom remodel, but my mom called me around noon. She said that it was far too nice . . .
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February 24, 2008 11:09 PM EST --
Today I took another trip to my favorite Botanical Gardens, Selby. I took my mom and my son. They were having their third annual asian cultural festival.
They had a beautiful bonsai display. Everything . . .
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February 25, 2008 11:05 PM EST --
While at Selby gardens this past weekend, they had an Asian Cultural Festival. One of the displays were these gorgeous flower arrangements.
The women that did these used various parts of plants, . . .
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February 13, 2008 09:09 AM EST --
I took my boyfriend to Busch Gardens on Sunday for his birthday. (He turned the big 30!) We ended up by the Florida Resident Season pass because it was the same exact price as the one day admission. . . .
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May 29, 2008 10:38 PM EDT --
I was so excited that I was able to see, (and smell), the lilacs in bloom on my second trip up to Illinois. My grandma has a few of them on her property. They were just gorgeous, and smelled wonderful! . . .
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April 08, 2008 05:04 PM EDT --
I was walking around my yard looking at everything that's blooming. I took the camera with me, of course! Here's a few pictures I took from my yard.
This first photo is just a shot of what's . . .
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May 27, 2008 10:41 PM EDT --
I have a small pond in my backyard, and I was out there cleaning out the pump and filter, and I saw this fat guy! He was swimming in my pond.
As you can see, the pond was in desperate need of . . .
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June 13, 2008 09:31 AM EDT --
While taking th dogs out this morning, I found that two of m rose bushes had little rosae buds. It rained last night as well, so the raindrops looked beautiful in the sun this morning!
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April 04, 2008 06:53 PM EDT --
A few weeks back my mom and I went to a park in thew next town over. I believe it's called Bradenton Botanical Park.
It was beautiful. I think I posted a couple flower photos right after we visited, . . .
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April 04, 2008 10:28 PM EDT --
Here are a bunch of different orchid photos that I took at Selby. I can't believe how many different varieties there are. Everytime I visit the park, the green house has different orchids blooming. . . .
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April 02, 2008 03:17 PM EDT --
I have been working on my butterfly garden. I put it in the corner of my yard, under my nig oak tree, not sure how well it will do there, but I have seen a couple butterflys!! I also put a hummingbird . . .
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September 22, 2007 08:46 PM EDT --
I love the species clematis. Who wouldn't love the big hybrids with their showy flowers? But I've fallen for their smaller, yet very worthy, cousin clematis tengutica.
C. . . .
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January 14, 2008 03:44 PM EST --
I went to the Walmart today, not intending to buy anything but a paintbrush....I actually forgot the paint brush! (HA!), but came out with some gorgeous plants!!
I finally got one of the purple passion . . .
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April 14, 2008 07:39 PM EDT --
Sunday I went to the Florida Botanical gardens in Largo, Florida. I went with my son, and my mom. If you would like to see part one, you can do so here, http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977314281&nav=MyGather . . .
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April 02, 2008 02:59 PM EDT --
I built this pond all by myself about two years ago...it is still unfinished, just needs more rocks, due to lack of time, and big lack of money! (hopefully when we get that extra refund, and if nothing . . .
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May 10, 2008 10:36 PM EDT --
I made another trip to Gilroy Gardens today with my granddaughter. I took lots and lots of flower photos as usual! I was able to ID all of them except for these. I know my smart Gather . . .
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December 18, 2007 09:13 AM EST --
I have a membership to Selby Gardens because I just love looking at all the plants and walking around through there. Well, they have a holiday light display going on through the end of the month. They . . .
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April 30, 2008 10:58 PM EDT --
I was so excited to see tulips, daffodils, iris starting to pop through the ground, and even lilacs budding when I went up North. I don't get to see those things here in Florida. It's been almost . . .
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