Category: Flowers

We have a four different colors of irises in our back rock garden.  We also transplanted some to our front yard under our bedroom window.

We had this yellow rose bush at our old house.   When we moved to our new house, we left the bush behind, but my Mom had taken a small plant that had started growing next to the big bush.  When my Mom’s bush had it’s own babies, she gave one back to us.

This peony was growing on its own when we moved to our current home.  It was a tiny plant that was growing between a hedge and our front steps.  I kept digging it out, but it kept coming back.  I finally realized it was a peony and had Mike dig it out all the way down to the roots.  We replanted it where it gets a sun all day long.  A second plant came up behind the hedge and we moved that one too.  Now these peonies have overtaken a portion of the flower garden with their beautiful foliage and blooms.

Our roses and lilies are just starting to bud and will be blooming soon. The hydrangea that resides under our bedroom window with our irises will be in bloom soon too.  I can hardly wait!

Warm weather has finally arrived.  We were able to spend some time in the backyard last night.  Sebastian and Mike practiced their batting and pitching and Sophia and I did a little gardening.  We finally planted the sunflowers that we had started indoors from seed a few weeks ago.  We also weeded the vegetable garden.  Sophia was a bit more interested in the earth worms than the actual gardening.  She was also distracted by the lilacs that were blooming.  She picked a big bouquet of the purple flowers, then we found these pretty little blue flowers growing near our neighbor’s fence.