May 29, 2012 by timquilts

Gardening Rewards

One of the rewards of gardening is seeing other people appreciate your work. My garden in the front yard attracts some attention each summer. I see cars that drive down the street slow down and spend a few seconds looking, and people who walk the dog down the street make a much slower trek past the house. Over the weekend someone stopped by to ask if it would be ok to take pictures. I am always happy to say yes and give a little tour. I think the plants grow better when they are admired. Here is another batch of pictures (click pictures to enlarge) and enjoy the tour…the plants enjoy it.

: back yard

: the red rose is dortmund and the peach is colette

: Mystery climbing rose was transplanted from a friends yard and is now beginning to bloom

: the Clematis grows well with the climbing roses

: Clematis

: America climbing rose

: ‘Christopher Marlowe’ Rose. Another Davis Austin English rose

: 4th of July Rose

: 4th of july rose

: New dawn climber will be a mass of blooms soon

: William Shakespeare 2000, another Davis Austin English rose

: jeanne lajoi rose

: Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)

: the Maiden Hair Fern made it through the winter and looks happy

: Brother Cadfael rose..another Davis Austin English rose

: back yard flowers

: first bloom on the seven sisters climbing rose

: Foxglove is a self seeder so they can pop up in unexpected places…but they know where they will look good

: Verdun rose, lots of bright small flowers

: primrose starting to bloom (plants were a gift from the garden of Sue Canty)

: can you see the hose?…I have had to do some watering

: front yard

: the scabiosa makes a good cut flower

: Lamb’s Ear (Stachys byzantina)…this will need to be cut back as soon aas the flowers are done

: red ribbons just starting to flower

: Molineux rose…one of the David Austin English roses and my favorite yellow

: dortmund and colette climbing roses

: lady’s mantle (Alchemilla mollis)

: the salvia beginning to bloom (I can’t remember the variety name of this one)

: Iris in full bloom, with the recent heat they will be all gone in a few days but the foliage and seed pods continue add interest

: Hostas and Iris looking great

: The vegetable garden…tomato and cucumber

Happy Gardening

Tim

June 25, 2011 by timquilts

Saturday Update…Pineapple blocks, Quilting, Garden

I finished another Pineapple block this week (9 to go). It is getting easier as I go….practice sure helps

The pattern calls for 12 blocks (see 6/19 post for pattern), I have enough fabric so I might make 16 blocks and make a square quilt, it would finish about 88″ .

I have been working on hand quilting the “you might want this” quilt (see Wednesday’s post). It is moving along pretty fast because its such a simple quilting pattern. Here is a look at the back which shows the quilting better