Anyone can join in, just post your photos under the Sunday Selections title, link back to Kim, then add your name to her Linky list at Frogpondsrock.
This week my theme is the garden - some shots of our summer garden in January 2008 when we were in the midst of an appalling drought. Grass got sacrificed and plants were watered with water reclaimed from the washing machine, the shower, and anywhere else we could find it.
If you click on the photos they will get bigger.
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| Scabby lawn, sacrificed to feed the garden. Not a sacrifice I regret. |
Lovely flowers again :) In a normal year our lawn is generally very brown by mid December and is just dust by mid January. The Spouse tries to keep a tiny patch for the grand kids to play on in the shade area but the wallabies eat it anyway. In drought conditions here, it is the vegie garden first, fruit trees second, then the flowers get what ever is left over.
ReplyDeleteI like these pics, so beautiful! I may join in Frogpondrocks with this linky. It looks like fun and I think we all have a bunch of unused photos:)
ReplyDeleteKim: Yes, our vegies get priority then the flowers. No fruit trees unfortunately. Maybe this year.
ReplyDeleteKim @ Stuff: Thanks. Do join in - there are some amazing photographers who play. And also amateurs like me, so no-one needs to feel self conscious. A great meme.
A lovely series of pretty flowers. You certainly have some beauties in your garden. I would like to invite you to link up with Today's Flowers, you would be very welcome. I've included the link even if you would just like to take a look at other blooms around the world. http://flowersfromtoday.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for stopping by my blog. I always enjoy my return visits here.
These are beautiful photographs of your garden. Very pretty flowers.
ReplyDeleteAre those begonias in images 6-7-8? They're lovely!!
ReplyDeleteI like the lilies too, they're pretty, but I'm glad they're not in my garden, I'm so allergic to the pollen on those stamens.
Denise, thank you so much. I will certainly have a look. And gardens are indeed one of my many obsessions.
ReplyDeleteLearncreatedo: Thanks - and I notice it was two minds thinking alike today.
River: Yes, those are begonias. We have a passion for them and have lots. And lots.
Is it the scented liliums that cause problems for you or all of them. One of my friends can't deal with the scented ones, but the Asiatic liliums (like the first shot) are OK.
Fantastic photos of a charming garden tended with much loving care :-).
ReplyDeleteWith a home-grown stash like that you'd need never go to a florist. Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI can't quite remember that Summer, although I remember the fig tree really suffered the following year. I think you did well to get such beautiful flowers with the summers we have been having :)
ReplyDeleteTiger lilies are some of my favorite flowers. Not the least of which is because they are the ones my hubby always gives me when he gifts me with flowers.
ReplyDeleteI love your flowers, as always. I can almost smell them. I think my favorite is the tiger lily.
ReplyDeleteThe brown lawn looks just like California in August.
Such a timely post for me, speaking of grey water. We just discovered this past week that, without knowing it, we had been supplementing our intentional watering of our own flower garden with unintentional watering from our washing machine. It seems when our septic tank was replaced last year, they forgot to hook the laundry up to the tank. Someone finally noticed sudsy water gurgling up from the ground. The soap doesn't seem to have harmed the plants. Now I'm almost sorry it's going to get fixed (previously unexplained sink holes aside)--I suspect I'll be having to water more.
DJan: We have a weakness for all the lilies and find it very hard to resist them in the garden porn catalogues that are sent to us.
ReplyDeletePaper Chipmunk: Oops. Though it quite possibly did some good. A little detergent in the water encourages water retention in the soil (for reasons I don't understand).
Interesting about the detergent. I do worry that the plants there are going to become too unhappy without the water they've grown used to. The septic crew is going to be showing up first thing in the morning. They say they won't have to dig up "too many" of the flowers. Sigh.
ReplyDeletePaper Chipmunk: I suspect that their definition of 'too many flowers' and yours are poles apart. Hopefully there will be a gardener among the workies to impose some restraint.
ReplyDeleteEC - I love any shots of your garden, whether they be from the archives or the present. Your flowers look like they know what kind of loving attention and appreciation is being showered on them along with the water, and respond accordingly! Have a great week.
ReplyDeleteYou know, Child, I love it that you love flowers so much. Peggy and I recently hiked up a small mountain that was aglow at the top with resplendent wildflowers, most notably farewell-to-spring. I wish I could have shared them with you.
ReplyDeleteSnowbrush: You have no idea how grateful I am for that comment from you of all people. The garden is one of my obsessions and is often my saviour (see previous post), but I often wonder whether it is small things for small minds. And, if I could have hiked up that small mountain, I would have been very, very happy to share the glories with you and Peggy.
ReplyDeleteWow - so many gorgeous flowers in spite of the drought back then... Lovely.
ReplyDeleteWhat a clever, entertaining, "different" blog!
ReplyDeleteDave: Thank you so much.
ReplyDeleteoh my oh my oh my oh my oh my..... from that first glorious lily with its ridiculous purple spots, i was smiling. and those begonias; why don't my begonias look like yours? love your posts. love your garden and am looking forward to watching it grow as the weather warms.
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Simply beautifully captured shots...lovely!
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