Flowers and Friendships Continue to Bloom Year after Year !

This rose produces a beautiful array of blooms every year and never fails me, just like my friendship with my two special friends Carey and Wendy.  This weekend we had a wonderful time on a girls trip to McKinney, TX, great shops, great food, lots of laughter and wonderful memories.  [...]



Mr. Lincoln Always a Favorite

This rose is for my special friend Marcie who always enjoys seeing Mr. Lincoln Rose blooming at my front door when she stops by.



A Warm Summer Night in Bedford

Yellow is such a warm, happy color and tonite when I got home I found such an exquisite array of rose buds and yellow canna blooms, that I just had to share the moment with you.  Happy Day !!



“A garden is never so good as it will be next year.” …Thomas Cooper

One day last year when I was shopping in the garden center at Lowe’s I noticed the sales clerk filling a cart with plants.  We started talking and she said the plants were going to be discarded.   She said she would sell them to me for 50 cents each so I bought all of them.  [...]



A Lovely Surprise

This spring I planted a package of Burpee assorted perennial seeds in a small plot of soil next to the rose bushes.  I placed a marker there, but my yard maintenance man mistook them for weeds and wisked them away.  I had forgotten about it until two weeks ago this huge lovely surprise was all [...]



Coneflowers… Queen of the Daisies



Floating at P&B Garden

Loved my yard and day off today as I floated around in the pool starting a long 4th of July weekend off from work.  Looking forward to more floating tomorrow !!  Happy Birthday to Rachael !!!



Lord Baltimore is Back

My favorite thing to do on the weekends is float around in the pool and gaze up at the Lord Baltimore Hibiscus.  My bush is full of buds today and I can’t wait until I am off to enjoy the view from water.



A Sunny Yellow Wednesday

When I got home from work I found yellow mums and yarrow blooming in the front garden.  Yellow is such a sunny color and always makes me happy.  Mums are a great perennial and bloom in spring and fall.  My yarrow does not always bloom each spring but when it does it was worth the [...]



A Mom’s Greatest Gift

My favorite thing to do is laugh with Brian.  On Mother’s Day we set the record and laughed so hard we cried.  It had been a long time since I laughed that hard and it felt good.  Today when I went in the garden I saw my tropical beauty bursting with color and laughing in [...]



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