~Where flowers bloom so does hope.
Lady Bird Johnson,
Dear sisters,
Welcome! You’re just in time for the first tour of the day of my Backyard Blossoms Flower Show! Every day, every hour brings something new in the garden and I’ve got a yard full of sunny faces just waiting to greet you!
I don’t remember another time in my life when I have been more ” in the moment” or aware of my ” inner sage” ( other than falling in love or when our children were born
) than the time I’ve spent in my garden this year. I know each leaf, each petal, each bloom intimately. I promise you will too by the end of this post!
Let’s walk (and talk ) among the flowers shall we?
Deb, WOW, your gardens are looking GREAT! I like the idea you did with the tiles for the borders of the beds. I have just been out in mine this morning trying to clean up a bit. Tomatos are looking very scraggly so I did alot of pruning I just couldnt bring myself to pulling them up with little green ones still hanging on to the vines. LOL! Maybe with all the cleaning they will get some fresh air circulating and make me some more of those great tasting maters. HA! Enjoyed looking at all your flowers and will probably go back through and linger a little longer in your gardens. Be Blessed Neta
Hi Neta! My tomatoes look kind of ratty too!! Lots of fruit along with tired yellow leaves…Perhaps I’ll do what you did and give them a little ‘ airing’! Hope it helps! Thanks for the note!!! xo Deb
Lovely! My life has been so nuts the past several months, that I didn’t get seed in the ground in the spring to give me my usual flower display in the summmer. 🙁 And now with the lack of rain and high heat, what I do have is waning. There is always next year.
I have often dreamed of having a cutting garden for people to come too. Maybe someday.
In the meantime, thank you for sharing your beauty, I needed the walk!
Hello dear Julia! So glad you could make the tour! You’ll have your garden one day!!! xo Deb
Oh my your gardens and photos are fabulous ! I had Cosmos like your first photo last year ! My gardens are doing better now that we have had rain after a long drought and the temps have cooled a bit , but I did loose more then I wanted to ! Each year I change up what I plant and keep a gardening journal so each year I can look back on it all ! I am yet to try raised beds . I couldn’t live with out my flower gardens ! Have a wonderful day !
Thanks Elaine! You and me both! Good luck with your raised beds! That’s great that you keep a journal from year to year too… Happy Weekend!
xo Deb
I understand the "FRUSTRATION" with the squirrels. They ravaged our new peach tree which had the promise of about a dozen peaches AND got most of the fruit from our apple "bush" which had a boat-load. I had to be content to pick the ones off the ground that they knocked down without biting into (they like to sample and take a bite here and a bite there). Even though it is not harvesting time, I snatched the final apple before they did. I did get a couple of batches of applesauce and apple cake made, but it was pretty sad compared to what could have been. love, Love, LOVE your flowers. Do you know if Dahlias are hearty enough for Nebraska? Just wondered!!
Hi Carol!
Darned squirrels!!! Well, at least you got a few things made from your fruit trees! Dahlias grow up to zone 8!
Thanks so much for the note! Enjoy your weekend!
xo Deb
Hi Deb,
Your flowers are a joy ! Thanks for sharing. I am happy to see the "fruits" of your labor. I was always a flower girl too, and slowly working on adding the edibles (vegetables and fruits), but flowers will always be my first gardening love. I was just thinking about saving seeds for next year, especially some of my zinnias that I especially liked this year, and a mexican sunflower that is very cool. Is the procedure similar for saving the seeds for these varieties? and is a glass jar the best way to store seeds?
as always, I look forward to your farm girl blog,
xo
Hi Laura,
I did a little googling and found this great info on saving and storing zinnia seeds.
http://www.ehow.com/how_4575731_save-next-spring-flower-seeds.html
Hope this helps! Thanks for visiting!
xo Deb
Your flower gardens are beautiful!! I am curious to what type of organic pellet you used to control insects?? Having horrid time with insect problems this year!
Kim
Hi Kim,
This is what I used and it’s worked beautifully! I apply it every three weeks and so far so good!
http://compare.ebay.com/like/180842401535?_lwgsi=y<yp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar
Thanks for the visit! xo Deb
Your flowers are so beautiful! We have had drought in our area my zinnias and
sunflowers are pretty pathetic. I hated watching my herbs shrubs trees flowers vegetables all dried up. It was joy to look at yours just so pretty. zinnias
are my favorites cut flowers. May try dalhias next year love the colors.
Hi Cindy!
Oh, I’m sorry to hear of your dry weather and your poor flowers…it happens to the best of us! My dahlias are getting beat from rain today… 🙁 I’m cringing inside!!!
Good luck with your dahlias next year! You know, they enjoy growing in pots too and would make a wonderful spash of color on sunny patio or a deck! Thanks for your note! xo Deb
Hi Debbie,
Thanks so much for sharing. What beautiful flowers keep up the good work.Love your stories.
Have a wonderful week.
Mary
Ah, thanks Mary! Will do… thanks for the note!
Love it,
Deb xo
Beautiful flowers and I enjoyed the stories that you wrote too, God is good!
Thank you Tanya! Blessings! Deb x0
Your flowers are truly beautiful! I can imagine how lovely your days must be, from morning till dusk…visiting your flowers. Thank you for sharing them with all your readers.
Barbara
Hi Barbara! Thanks so much…I have enjoyed the whole experience of this garden from seed to vase… My wish is that more farmgirls will grow more flowers in their gardens next year just cuz they are lovely to live with and SHARE…thanks so much for the visit… xo Deb