Tag: gardens

grow what you wanna eat

these are going to become blueberries…i have five blueberry bushes, 8 years of age. you know what that means? i will have too many blueberries to eat…if you own dirt, consider planting blueberry bushes, they are beautiful & give fruit. AND they will bring big, fat bees…

i will take the peach

tree. i’ve had this wee peach tree for three years now.  i’ve seen peaches almost grown large enough to eat…however, the deer always eat them first, for they are not as picky as i am. the house must be sold within 5 months…i do hope the new owners love fruit. i have 8yr old blueberry…

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the shy one

So shy, is the Lentin Rose…i try hard to find a point of a spring flower who fears the sunlight. these are forced, with wire, to face me. a bit like putting a finger under the chin of a small child, to lift the face & be astonished by their beauty. happy spring Alabama

lit from within

i think these flowers appear to be lit from the inside, more than any other flower, is because they rest upon a body of water. which reflects sunlight. so they are, in fact, lit from underneath as well as above. Birmingham Botanical Gardens

zen garden (photo editing tip)

the first image is what it looked like to my eyes. the second image is what it looked like to my camera. to edit second image to look like what i SAW when i took the image, i added yellow & red–because the second image is cyan/blue. The Birmingham Botanical Gardens–Japanese Garden.