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I know that you are a very polite and kind bunch of bloggers and that you’ll say “ooh!” and maybe “aaah!” at these shots of my garden, but I am sorry to say that there are parts that are not quite what I wanted this year.
Why is that? Well, grieve me though it may to admit it, there are only 24 hours in a day, and this blog and all that accompanies does seem to be gobbling up quite a few of those hours at the moment. Leaving me less time to get out and pull weeds and divide plants.
Added to that our unusually harsh winter which took out several trees and bushes, and you have a good year, but not the best ever.
Anyway, our hawthorn tree looked great, the peonies and roses are about to happen, delphiniums are standing tall and I am rather pleased with my black and white window boxes.[blank]
I’ll just have to have the perfect garden in my next life!
Hope your week is off to a sunny week too.
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61 comments
Good Morning Sharon
It looks wonderful from here. I love how free it all looks.
Helen xx
I'm going to ooohhh and aahhh, because even if you think it's kind of disappointing, I think it's all gorgeous – I have a couple of shrubs in my front yard, and a small rose bush, and that's about the extend of my blooming!
I am not just being polite and telling you your perennial borders are so pretty Sharon. I am a bit jealous however, on how you can grow lupine and delphinium so very nicely….the wind out here on the prairie prevents me from having those sorts of flowers – an arrangement indoors with lupine would be such a treat!
I can see nothing to complain about here! Love the black and white window boxes.
So pretty! my hydrangeas and roses started blooming this morning!
You are so right, we think your garden is truely gorgeous. What are your dissappointments and concerns? Maybe we could help. My garden has been looking less lush with fewer blooms in the past 3 years and I now realise that the Manchurian pears were robbing the roses and iris of too much light. A storm on Christmas eve fixed that up and with one pear totally removed and another with several main branches gone light is back and I am hoping the roses will respond.
On another note, I was greeted by cattle in the garden yesterday morning! Writing about them seems to have summonds them!
Enjoy Spring in your beautiful garden and keep delighting us with it's beauty.
Oh Sharon your garden looks pretty perfect to me! And I simply can't help myself – but – "Oooooh AND Ahhhh" – it's exquisitely blissful!
Paula x
The flowers are beautiful!!! The work will always be there but the beauty of the flowers is not long lasting and we need to take the time to enjoy them!! Have a glorious day!!
It's quite funny that our daughter bought our home and took over my meticulous garden and has quite let it go. bummer. But I have to admit, from a distance (the pond patio chair) it still looks very beautiful. Gardening was my thing, not hers and she just lets it all go wild. I have to bite my lip and a nice glass of sauvignon blanc helps the matter, but the truth is..there is some real beauty in just plain old nature!
we aren't being polite, sharon…those flowers really are gorgeous! haha. I do know the feeling, though…I need to spend time out in the yard! Things bloom in spite of our neglect though! 🙂
May I just remind you,Sharon, we are not SUPER WOMEN !!! We can't do everything though looking at your garden, I may be wrong in your case. All looks great and is that a Sarah Bernhardt Peony I see ?
If not, could you let me know which it is ,I've fallen in love with it.
Joasia x
I'm aaaahing and ooohing, yes I AM!
But I perfeclty understand your feeling of not beeing able to accomplish everything you have in your mind, perfectly understand that!
My lupines are exactly like yours right now, don't you just love them!
I wish you a good working afternoon out there Sharon!
Fra
Sharon, I am having the same problem. Just very busy, too busy for the garden to look as I would like. Why does it bother me so at every glance? I am trying to make peace with the fact that I cannot do it all. Have a wonderful day.
PS Still trying to work out coming in October!
What struck me was the black and white window boxes! I have never seen anything like it before. How wonderful!!!
It all looks great to me. My summers here are so hot and humid everthing I plant dies.
Oh, that is always the way it is with gardening! But what you did show us ia beautiful!
Stunning photos!
best, teaorwine
It is beautiful, Sharon, I guess we will always find the faults with our own gardens, but yours, with that wonderful countryside, old world charm is dreamy!
They are all so beautiful, I especially like the lupines and delphiniums. It's hard to keep all areas of the garden in tip top shape all the time without lots of help…I keep trying!
Sharon, it may be perfectly imperfect, but it looks gorgeous from here. And I love your black and white window boxes, such clever garden design!
Enchanting! Now, if only I could go there! 🙁
You picked out the best. Keep your eyes on them. Get a gardener if you can for the shrubs and trees. Take care of your back. And enjoy it all. xo Jenny
I think you have a gorgeous garden! I see so many beautiful plants and the colors mix beautifully together. When we lived in northwest Indiana (near Chicago, Illinois), we had some of the most brutal and coldest winters. We never knew until the end of the season what plants and shrubs would survive.
Everything looks totally gorgeous!
Oh, and LOVE your new header photo.
You're much to hard on yourself…because it looks beautiful to me, but I've come to expect nothing less from you. I love everything!
I think you are a" true gardener"…
we are never completely satisfied with the state of our gardens…
there is always a weed to pull, flowers to dead head, something to prune, edges to shear…
the overall effect is stunning and beautiful.
Stand back and soak up all the loveliness!
It's startling in it's beauty…
ooh aah.
XO
We just returned from your lovely area and I was very impressed with the gardens. My blog today is about our stay – you may enjoy checking it out,
Gerrie
thank you for sharing pictures of your wonderful home and garden! It is all gorgeous
Nancy
Black petunias!
Divine.
I don't have a garden anymore and was NOT terribly talented with it when I did so I will ooh and aaah away over here in my corner of Arles!
Love the black & white window boxes. Where did you find black petunias ??
I think your garden looks sumptuous. Mine, too, suffers from neglect because there's simply no time to work in it. I'm in Southern Calif. USA and we have drought; barely any rain this year, so wild roses suffer, less of our California poppies in the foothills and purple jacaranda trees are looking very straggly. My hibiscus did pop out; they love the heat (in my opinion, we're already 'way too warm for May here; 86-degrees–F–on my shaded porch yesterday).
I have thought about what kind of time it must take when you and other blog owners diligently post every day; very time-consuming to maintain and keep a blog interesting and retain readers/potential customers, although I suppose it's all a part of doing business (it's a lot of sitting!) and it definitely seems a wonderful place of personal reflection and self-expression. Still, I don't see why you couldn't post every other day (instead of every day), if you need a break. Some blogs I enjoy only get a new post once per week but, because they're so good, I always check in. You've proven yourself with an excellent blog; I'd say, enjoy some summer, 'cause most of us will stick with you!
Something didn't come thru on my computer; although I've scrolled back thru the photos three times, I see no black and white window boxes, so I don't know what I'm missing (these that so many of the readers are glowingly speaking of…)!
Here are more oohhhs and aahhs. The flowers from your garden are beautiful. It's been a very cool spring where I'm at, and my roses are just starting to bloom. Appreciate the pictures, they are as always stunning. And a great start to my working week…:)
A lovely day to everyone!
It looks pretty gorgeous to me Sharon… Those blues and purples are just stunning… xv
Beautiful gardens, well done! You're much too critical… we only see the beauty and time invested in maintaining such a lovely garden. You, on the other hand, see what chores have yet to be done!? (reminds me of myself, haha) Your gardens are further along than ours here in Michigan, too!
Ahhh – lupins, foxglove and delphiniums – my favourites in the garden! J
Your garden looks simply wonderful.
I'm a definite ooh – aahher!
Have a lovely day.
Lizx
I think your garden looks amazing, as always. I know what you mean though, blogging, reading blogs, commenting on blogs is addictive, time consuming and so much fun. Ah well, perfection is highly overated with most things, right?
Karen
As always , glorious…..
Hugs
Erna
Your garden looks pretty good to me:) It takes a lot of time and hard work to keep them looking good, mine is suffering from a lack of attention this year mostly because we had such a cold,wet spring. I shall spend the rest of the summer playing catch up and most of the beds need a really good clear out anyway which they are probably not going to get – at least not this year!
I think your garden looks beautiful. I've never wanted a well kept garden, a little free form is so romantic! Love your lupine! They are so interesting looking!
XO,
Jane
I see no signs of neglect, Sharon! It looks quite lovely from here…..especially the black and white, perfect together ! N.xo
You're right. I will say it is a beautiful garden. I posted, I think last week, my low threshold for gardening pain. I used to have a large yard with gardens I worked in all summer. That's a full time job! I trying to accept there is no such thing as perfect. I can look at other gardens and see beauty, I look at mine and I see what I need to fix.
You have such a lovely garden…and I agree with Kathy Peck, I love the new header photo with the horses.
Ohhh, Ahhh!! Yes, balance is tough to manage. You do what you can, as best you can, at that point in time, it's all you can do. LOVE the black and white window box. Have never seen those daisies before-very cool!
I did oooh and aaah, because the flowers are beautiful! The first flower picture almost look like large lavender wands. Such pretty gardens you have.
betsy
Your garden is spectacular! The Lupine especially. It is a lot of work, but even when we neglect them they manage to come out beautiful!
Gorgeous, Sharon! Just gorgeous! What is that pretty tree with the little rose-bud like flowers on it? I just love it! 🙂
xoxo laurie
Your garden is beautiful. I especially like the large, pale pink flower with the delicately intricate petals.
Brad
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Same here! I've been weeding my old garden for my daughter. She has a black thumb.
Sharon I think your garden is stunning; the flowers are so lush and pretty!
xoxo
Karena
Art by Karena
A work of art. I'm going to look for black petunias, that combo is stunning. I wish we could grow delphinium here, but it's already too hot 95F and it's May. My weeds are doing well too.
Lookin grand to these baby blues! Enjoy your garden, smell the roses. xxpeggybraswelldesign.com
Your garden looks perfect to me, but I know how blogging eats away the time. Many times at the end of the day, I am shocked at how little I accomphlished because I was on the computer. I wouldn't have known you felt that way because your garden looks well cared for to me.
Those purple flowers in the first picture are stunning. They don't even look real!
Do you have any tips for making peonies last longer? They are my fav but their beauty is fleeting 🙁
Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely stunning! A dream garden! Glad a nice person gets to enjoy it 🙂
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The garden is full of beautiful colorful flowers, I love this wonderful garden!
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