by Ogee
Along with 100-degree temperatures are the season’s latest arrivals: Matilda Poppy, Hollyhock, Coneflower, Lantana, Coreopsis, Daylily, And very busy bees. 🙂
Categories: Gardening • Tags: Coneflower, Coreopsis, Daylily, Flower Photography, Garden Photography, Hollyhock, Lantana, Matilda Poppy, Summer Flowers
by Ogee
Categories: Gardening, Nature • Tags: Bees, Coneflower, Lavatera, Macro Photography, Nature Photography
by Ogee
“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.” – Henry Ward Beecher
Categories: Gardening • Tags: Coneflower, Flower, Nature, Photography
by Ogee
Here is another in the series of garden bed transformations at the Homeward Bound Memorial Garden. When we read about the need for volunteer gardeners in the Homeward Bound Newsletter last Fall, a group of us showed up to see and select “beds” that we would assume responsibility for. It was a little hard to find the beds! This is how the Perennial Garden began. The (very loose) vision. We wanted a palette of intense color, breaking every garden design […]
Categories: Gardening, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Bee Balm, Coneflower, Dahlia, gardening, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Perennial Garden
by Ogee
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” ~ Sam Keen In the hot Sacramento months of July and August, the garden is best tended to in the early morning and early evening. I snuck out to the Homeward Bound Memorial Garden late yesterday afternoon and early evening to get some of our weekly heavy lifting done, knowing that Sunday would also be over 100 – and that Maria, my Sunday gardening partner, refuses to quit as long as there is […]
Categories: Gardening, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Bee Balm, Coneflower, Garden, golden retriever rescue, Homeward Bound Garden, Roses, sacramento, Sunflowers
by Ogee
It is NBA Draft Day, an official holiday in my house. In other words, I might as well be invisible. So I took the opportunity to make an evening trip to the Homeward Bound Memorial Garden to get up close with some of our blooming friends – beginning with Deb’s first Dahlia’s of the season… Susan and Jeff’s Miniature Dahlias… Maria’s Sunflowers, Vonnie and Randy’s Roses, Sue’s Marigolds, and a host of others: Next up…wide shots of the garden as […]
Categories: Gardening, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Black Eyed Susan, Coneflower, Country Gardening, Dahlia, Day Lily, Golden Retriever, Golden Retriever Garden, Homeward Bound, Homeward Bound Garden, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Lupine, Marigolds, Memorial Garden, NBA Draft, Roses, sacramento, Sunflowers
