The Garden

Hello my friends.   Happy Tuesday and I do hope the day finds you well and happy.  We've had some rain lately which is very welcome and we are watching Hurricane Lee and that other pesky storm headed our way.  You never know where they will end up!  

Its Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4 once again and I thought it might be nice to talk about our gardens or house plants.  After all, houseplants are indoor gardens and fish aquariums can be water gardens.

1. Do you have a garden indoors or outdoors?   Houseplants count I think.  If not, why don't you have them?

I have a few plants in my kitchen window including an Aloe that was my mothers from the early 1960s.  It has grown into a little monster from that plant   My outdoor garden includes water plants, Wisteria that is just huge, wild beach roses, Irises called Cuckoo's Tears, and flowers.

2. Have you visited Longwood Gardens or any of the large gardens and horticultural sites around the world or your state? Tell us about it.

I would like to visit some.  Longwood isn't too far away I think and I would love to hear the pipe organ.  The town I lived in has a park designed by the same man who did Central Park in NY ...  which is out of this world beautiful.  That park is known for its Azaleas, cherry blossoms, and magnolia trees.  Brides try to time their wedding to take their photos there in spring by the lake.

3.  Most people really enjoy a little garden but I think we sometimes make too many excuses not to do things we really would enjoy.  Too busy, not enough space, etc.   But if we put our minds to it, anything is possible  Do you believe that?

If money is not a problem and if physical restraints are hampering you, it is amazing how much you can accomplish if you get busy and get to work!  Pessimism can drag us down and keep us from getting things done.

 4. Ideally, what flowers, shrubs and trees do you want in your little garden real or imagined?

I have some miniature roses around my smaller pond.  I bought them at the grocery store and they thrive outdoors.  I'd like more of them.  I also grow mountain pinks in white and pink in the front and I want more of that.  Out beck I have purple vinca vine and of course my beach roses and wisteria.

My iris and my gladiolas come up every year but I do need more perennials in the garden.

I would love to have a miniature Japanese maple tree as well. 

Views in my Garden

Beach roses

 

 

Thanks for coming along on this little adventure for Tuesday.  I hope you enjoyed it and will come share your thoughts with Tuesday 4 again!