flowers drained of color

like a vampire. The flowers are from Leaf & Petal…most i’ve planted at home. A few are at there stores.  I went to two different Leaf & petals yesterday. Life is good.

The Wild Hydrangea…

It dries on the bush. We bought two last year to go behind out mailbox, they are so happy, that even thought they are one foot tall, they are going to put out flowers.

These are some of my Azalea

They look just like tiny lilies packed tightly together. I thought they looked better inside. Right now all our Azalea’s flowers turned into brown paper bags caught in the rain & landed on our bushes. I question why they are so popular in the Deep South. They flower 1 week out of 52. The rest…

Pink floats

Cement birdbath @ the Birmingham Botanical Gardens placed in the Camellia Green house before renovations (current) The petals must be from a Camellia flower.

this rose is from Saab Nursery

Which is why there are black at the edges. I figured out how to make red look natural. I have spent a lot of time dumping red flowers because I couldn’t make them look real. I guess I would figure it out on my own red roses. Ok, so I reduced saturation by almost 50%…

and all I had was my iPhone

I, being the perfect daughter (dripping sarcasm, i write), visited with my mother (i am blessed) on Mother’s day. No camera, only iPhone (Ggrrr). I should know by now that I should never go home…(oops) to my parent’s house, without my (damn) camera. My mom made this piece of art (that I left behind 😦…

My flowers

I think that gardeners will not be impressed with anything I’m growing, thank goodness I garden for me. These little flower’s make me calm, take deeper breaths. And they make me happy. Happy is a butterfly that flickers through us, around us, maybe landing for a little while, but it never stays long. What is…

one fell out of the nest

this succulent, its name…., anyway, you can snap off a piece & stick it in the dirt & it will grow. Roots in the dirt & it will grow. A great plant to put in a place you want erosion to slow or stop. I LOVE it