August 15, 2007
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It seems that I have been remiss in posting to Xanga. You know, you get busy and don't post and before you know it, it's been almost a month since you've posted. So here is a quick look at the color in my yard today. The first ones are Black Eyed Susans (or Rubekia) and the second are Gillardia (Oklahoma State Flower). The next is of some really beautiful Morning Glories that Alice gave me some seeds for. She received some seeds from a friend and shared them with me, and for some strange reason mine bloomed but Alice's didn't. We're going to make sure we harvest some of the seeds from these. The next two pictures are of my miniture rose bushes. They were really bought on the spur of the moment when Alice and I went to get all my shrubs for my back yard. We were at Home Depot and they had these little pots of tiny yellow roses and they were only $5.19 per pot so I picked up three. Alice didn't think they'd do very well nor bloom very long, but they have sure been a delightful surprise. They have bloom ALL spring and summer. I love them. And lastly my purple hyacinth vine that's growing on my back fence. It's a lovely vine that will put on pretty purple seed pods later on this fall. About the only thing I don't like about the vine is that it leaves behind a woody vine that's hard to get off the fence each season. But such is the price we pay to have beautiful flowers about us.
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Welcome back!!! I had been worried about you but figured you or one of your family would post to your site to let us know if anything was really wrong. Glad to have you post and really glad to get to enjoy your flowers.
:wave: Well hey there Miss Chris!:love
Your garden is looking just peachy:good-job:
that should have been :love: guess I clipped the end by mistake
I'm really thrilled with how your flowers have done -- and the yellow rose really did surprise me. I never would have dreamed that those little bushes you bought for so little would be such good varieties for Oklahoma. :love: Nice to see you posting again. :good-job:
My coral honeysuckle leaves those woody vines after a couple years. This year the wild morning glory has snuck in with it and I hate to see that take foot.
I love the brick borders. You have put so much work into your yard, you would never know that it was just one season old. We have had such a drought and water restrictions as well, so I have let the garden go, except my veggies. But even with neglect, the rubekia and gillardia just keep right on blooming. Thank you Lord for the faithfuls.
In my case, HP stands for Harry Potter. As a librarian, I deal in many areas of reading content that I may not espouse in my own life, and I was glad to see many inspired to read by HP, just as Lord of the Rings, Narnia, and Grimm's Fairy Tales did in times past. However, many times folks take themes to an extreme and at our library celebration of the last HP book, some of the volunteers out in the street fair focused on the occultish factors in the HP books. As a Christian, I was uncomfortable with some of it, and was glad my assignment was to keep the library itself functioning and tend to the restoral of it to a normal setting for the next open day. In the future, I will try to think ahead about scheduling.
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