Neighborhood Flower Gardens

Smelling Billy's Fringed-Leaf Bleeding Heart (Dicentra exemia)

Ants on the Peony blossoms

Ants have a symbiotic relationship with Peonies.  The bud scales of each flower have glands that excrete a nectar composed of sugar, water, and amino acids, which attracts the ants.  The ants swarm, feeding on the sugary nectar.

Hens and Chicks

Blue False-Indigo (Baptisia) about to blossom 

Kelly's Dwarf Fothergilla bush in late fragrant blossom

Beautiful combination of Galvanized Metal, Stone, Golden Creeping Jenny, (Lysimachia nummularia 'Auria'), and Bleeding Heart (Dicentra spectabilis)

The perfect leaf arrangement of Hyssop officials

Striking color combination of Sedum and Creeping Jenny

An Allium bud just holding on before bloom

An early Allium flower

Mint, Creeping Jenny, and the silvery soft foliage of Lamb's Ear (Stachys byzantina)

The statue of the swimming lady in front of Creeping Speedwell 

(Veronica peduncularis 'Georgia Blue') 

Species Geranium - Bloody Cranesbill (Geranium sanguineum)

Re-seeded Foxglove (Digitalis) along the road

Hens and Chicks

Creeping Saponaria (Rock Soapwort)

Nature's perfect flower (Dicentra) Bleeding Heart

Welcome to our crazy home

My little gardener

Some of the prettiest lettuce I have ever grown.  This is Barcarole Romaine from Seeds of Change.

A Chive flower ready to bloom

Skyphos lettuce from Johnny's Seeds

Martha Stewart Bibb lettuce, Burpee Bibb lettuce and Skyphos

Crazy spotted and textured leaves of Siberian Kale from Comstock Ferre Seeds

Leaf of a Purple Kohlrabi seedling

Pea trellis and view of the garden on May 14th

One of the many varieties of Radish I threw in the ground during nap time a few weeks ago.

Giant Mustard seedlings mixed in with Rainbow Carrots from Seeds of Change

Pretty mixture of lettuce

Red Romaine from Baker's Creek (a free gift!)  It is beautiful and deep maroon.