Archive for the ‘Flowers’ Category

Rhododendron in Bloom

The rhododendrons bloomed this week! Ours are purple, as are all the ones I’ve noticed in this area. They are supposed to be “deer resistant”, but as you can see by the lack of flowers on the bottom, our bushes are apparently more tasty than they are supposed to be. The little rhododendron above this [...]

May 17, 2012 · Sheryl · No Comments
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Happy Mother’s Day!

I’m very lucky to have in my life lots of women who deserve to be celebrated today. I have a wonderful Mother, Mother-in-Law, Omi (grandmother), Grandma, and Godmother. Plus, I have lots of family and friends who are great Moms, too. I thought today I’d share a pic of my mother’s favorite flower, Lily of [...]

May 13, 2012 · Sheryl · One Comment
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Azalea Shmazalea

Growing up we had an azalea bush in our yard that I LOVED to cut flowers from… until I cut one with a bumble bee inside, and it was enough to traumatize me to never cut those flowers again! Of course, I’m a big girl now, and know bumble bees don’t usually sting you, so [...]

May 10, 2012 · Sheryl · No Comments
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I’ve got the blues…

Oh my. I’ve got the blues because I haven’t been blogging enough. I need to get my act together, otherwise, before you know it, May (peak spring flower season) will have came and went. But actually, I quite literally have the blues… Blue Ajuga that is! This lovely ground cover is all over my garden and [...]

May 8, 2012 · Sheryl · No Comments
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I’m in love… with Condursos Garden Center

I’ve been missing me some gardening! My posts have been scarce lately, due to some other commitments, mostly my job (seriously, can I please just win the lottery already?), but some fun stuff, too, thankfully! Every day to & from work, I pass Condursos Garden Center. I don’t always get out from work early enough (they close [...]

May 1, 2012 · Sheryl · No Comments
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Learning Experience

So this is the longest break between posts so far. Sorry, pretty busy the last week. I have been doing some gardening — cleaning up & weeding the flower beds, did some sprouting & transplanting (I took some pictures for a later post) — though not as much as I wanted to. Turns out, researching [...]

April 16, 2012 · Sheryl · No Comments
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Happy Easter!

It’s almost the end of the day here in NJ, but wanted to say Happy Easter.  It was a really great day, weather and family wise. There were so many great flowers out today, I had to get something on here. I bought my mother and mother-in-law each an Easter Lily. They were so pretty! [...]

April 8, 2012 · Sheryl · No Comments
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It’s SNOWING!

April Fools’! Ok, I know you saw that one coming. This was the mildest winter in NJ in a very long time, but you would have never guessed it would be from the last trickster holiday – Halloween 2011. NJ was hit with a horrendous snow storm the weekend before Halloween. I thought this was [...]

April 1, 2012 · Sheryl · No Comments
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Early Spring Blooms

So you already know that the daffodils have arrived, but what, do you ask, are the other early spring blooms in my garden? The pristine primrose — seriously, they look fake, right? Pretty purple flowers from the ground cover that I’m still working on finding the name for (please ignore the leaves, this was taken [...]

March 30, 2012 · Sheryl · No Comments
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Accidental Pruning: Hydrangea

My husband was cleaning up the yard the other day, and thought he’d help out with some of the gardening tasks. He accidentally pruned back my hydrangea thinking they were peonies. In case anyone is interested, peonies do not get pruned in the spring either, they get cut down to the ground in the fall. [...]

March 27, 2012 · Sheryl · No Comments
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