A Rose in the Garden

Planted in May of 2013, the three lupine plants in the church garden came into their full glory in early June this year. Like over-sized...

Okay. I'm actually getting bored with this photographing this amaryllis. I applied some Picassa magic--to hide the exercise bike in ...

So excited that the amaryllis has once again bloomed, this time with 4 blooms and a side shoot yet to open. It usually blooms for me at ...

My poinsettias are still holding up. But they represent WINTER.  This week the sun was out and the massive Michigan snows are beginning...

Many dahlias are blooming around the borders of Aunt V's vegetable garden

Aunt V's Hibiscus As the last blooms are fading on the hibiscus moscheutos, and the exuberant white hydrangea mopheads are turning...

My Casa Blanca Lily Today

Hemerocallis 'Drums Along the Mohawk'

Hemerocallis 'Playing with Sharks'

Hemerocallis 'Woman at the Well'

Green Tarantula El Desperado

When we did a plant shuffle this spring in my daughter's garden we had one plant left over. Not at all sure what it was or what colo...

This lilium regale is tied to a stake with pantyhose, but is still hanging--over Persicaria polymorpha, or Giant Fleeceflower.

Yuccas growing in the sand dunes of Lake Michigan

At the church garden all the annuals are removed in latter October. Dusty miller will come back, but it returns lanky and blooms yellow....

Sunset over Lake Michigan, with zoom. This weekend, summer showed up--boldly hot and beastly humid. The garden plantings that have been...

New this year at the church garden--this purple petunia fades like a pair of denim jeans!