June in the Garden

This is a scabosia or pin cushion flower photo from last year.  In an effort to get some of the Gardening page of my web page finished I selected a bunch of photos for the June album.  This one was particularly attractive for our Megashot on FaceBook page, that has the theme for this week of Pinks and Purples.  I rather like this one in square format.  I also used it in the Megashot Critique forum, since I have been doing a few saucy crits on peoples photos.  They may appreciate being able to return the favor.
I am really getting to like my Windows 7.  I find that I can use my Power Points viewer to create my own presentations, etc!  This is pretty incredible!  There was some poor person asking questions about some download of pps viewer that would not work on his/her Windows 7.... well.... get a techie!  I  was looking at my old pps creation that I did a few years ago and have loaded to my web page, and saw all the task bars and everything available to make a presentation right on the pps I was viewing.  I received another .pps in email and all the stuff is available there too.  You can tell, I am a bit excited about this ability to use Power Points.  Maybe I need to take a class on this.  It is really interesting.

I finished the under construction page for the 2011 trip to SW US and find that it all works the same as my Windows XP -- no problem.  :))

Flowers in September

This lovely mauve achillia is in bloom along the front garden strip by the street.  We have had about an inch or more of light rain over the paste two weeks and the flowers are responding very well to the moisture.  There are roses, Michaelmas daisies and  Japanese Anemones in bloom, that I have no photos for, but they are a fine addition to the Autumn garden.

The autumn crocus on a background of little perennial geranium leaves.  This particular autumn crocus grows beneath the grape by a rock retaining wall beside the steps that go up to the old sidewalk along beside the back garage.    I have these autumn crocuses in a few places around the garden.  They are a welcome spot of color in Autumn. 

These are new flowers in the front garden.  I hope they survive the winter and bloom again next year.  They are next to a helenium and a lavender plant.  The colors should look good in the Fall blooming period when they all grow and  become established.  This area holds pussy toes and other silver leaved plants with pink flowers plants, as well as a lovely veronica rock plant in blue and some dutch iris, that are in front of one of the rectangular beds in front of the hedge.  The rectangular bed holds peonies, a blue babies breath, and other self seeding plants.  This area needs more water in summer to look good.  When the leaves fall it shall get its leaf mulch for the winter.

This Arctic daisy is slowly expanding in the Sun Dial circle in the front garden.  It has burst into bloom with the recent rainfall.  Its a gorgeous low growing plant with a long blooming period.

  This is the Irish heather that is in front of the ugly water meter area.  Behind the water meter you see another heather in bloom.  These are very good plants with a long bloom period.  They can be pruned and shaped into evergreen mounds when they are not in bloom.    The water meter area is surrounded by cement blocks and now looks really awful.  I hope the blind meter maid is now happy with the mess.  The meter reader needs to be able to find the water meter.  The thing is only 2 ft x 2.5 feet long, with a stone path leading into it.  Why would that be a problem for this idiot????  And we live in the garden city, right?

This hosta is in the back garden, with the rhodoa by the deck steps. 

A lovely scaboisia.  These plants are very reliable and have evergreen foliage.  An excellent garden rockery or perennial plant.