Hey Ya'll!

 

Hey ya’ll! Thought I better check in and let you guys know I’m alive and kicking. I’ve just been busy in the garden and living life. I’m pretty much all recovered from my surgery and things seem to be going pretty well. Sorry I haven’t been doing much blogging lately, but Flickr has changed there format and it seems to be such a chore to load the photos and I just haven’t had the time to do it. I’m pretty much posting all my garden photos on Facebook now simply because it’s quicker to do it. So please feel free to send me a friend request if you like.

Randy Parker

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I’d love, love, love to see you there. :0) To my coworkers, sorry guys, ya'll already know I won't friend you so... Ya'll know I love you, but I don't mix work and personal. Meanwhile, my posting on the blog may be a little sporadic. Hope all of you love this long spring we are having! Isn’t it just fabulous?!

Blooming 04/29/13

Hello everyone, I hope this post finds you enjoying spring. In the words of Dolly Parton in the movie Straight Talk “I’ve been busier than a one legged man in a butt kicking contest.” I’ve been planting things in the garden non-stop the past week and a half. I’m pretty sure at this point I’ve dug over 200 holes and put in at least 150 new plants. I’ve moved around a lot of stuff too, some things only an additional two feet here or there. Hey, if it’s a foot and a half too far to the left it needs to go to the right. At least I didn’t have to drag the root ball far. I still have a ways to go, but it’s getting there. Three years of neglect can really cause a decline in a garden. It is what it is; life throws us a curve ball every now and then, sometimes kicks us right in the gut or even at times reaches in and snatches your beating heart right from you chest. You pick yourself up, and just keep going. I’m very pleased with the changes I’ve made so far. I'm happy to have this perfect sping to get things looking pretty again. I’m even putting plants in my hanging baskets this year! ***picture me dancing a little jig after this statement.***

Why don’t we take a look at what’s blooming this week?

‘Blueberry Bliss’

‘Autumn Tryst’

I don’t have a clue what the name of this one is or even where it came from…

‘In Your Dreams’

‘Caesar’s Brother’

My Knockouts in morning sunshine… don’t they look ethereal?

The miniature roses in the hanging baskets… I have yet to figure out how to get my new camera to capture pink and red in the true shades. My old DSC F717 had perfectly accurate color when I photographed red. Does anyone have any solutions or setting I could try? 

My Grandmother's old Rose is just full of blooms this year. It’s been so happy since the last relocation.

‘Dr. William Van Fleet’  Grandfather of the rose ‘New Dawn’

Old fashioned Cabbage Rose…

‘Veilchenblau’

‘Orient Red’ Spreklia

‘Minerva’

‘Floris Hecker’

Last but not least… Dianthus ‘Esta’ 

Blooming 04/23/13

Tall Bearded 'Sugar Blues'

Amaryllis 'Apple Blossom'

Japanese Magnolia 'Jane'

Tall Bearded 'Christabel'

'Christabel'

Tall Bearded 'Slovak Prince'

Creeping Sedum

Amaryllis 'Desire'

Tall Bearded 'Beverly Sills'

Noisette Rose 'Reve d'Or'

Noisette Rose 'Crepuscule'

'Reve d'Or'

English Dogwood

Azalea 'Conlea'

Azalea 'Robleg'

Tall Bearded Iris 'Impressionist'

Louisiana Iris 'Copper'

Dianthus 'Raspberry Surprise'

Dianthus 'Margarita'

Dianthus 'Sugar Plumb'

Wild Gladiolus 'Corn Flag'

Floribunda Rose 'Charisma'

Blooming 04/12/13

Here are some things blooming in the garden right now.

Crossvine 'Tangerine Beauty'

Dianthus 'Fire Witch'

Amaryllis 'Red Lion'

Dutch Iris 'Carmen'

Clematis 'Candy Stripe'

Bourbon Rose 'Zephirine Drouhin'

Ajuga 'Chocolate Chip'

Knock Out Rose 'Radtko'

Noisette Rose 'Crepuscule'

Potato Vine 'Alba'

Lady Banks Rose 'Alba Plena'

 New Unknown Cameillia questionably name 'Pink Dawn'

Azalea 'Trouper Orange'

Bearded Iris 'Christabel'