Cows knee-deep in clover; hum of bees: magnificent sunset. Butterflies flitting from flower to flower… strawberries red… cherries ripe. Mourning Dove’s call at dawn; shy wild rose by the roadside. White lily perfumed in Junetime; moonlit garden; starry night. Song of a mockingbird singing in the midnight moonlight. The evening fragrance of the sweet nightshade. [...]

Blazing “Bush on Fire” spirea white valley lilies. Sunshine o’er a rain-washed world; Birds at their bath. Wild plum. . .redbud. . .Easter lilies. . .Brown Thrushes. Smell of spicy pinks, happy pansy faces, saucy brown wrens. Hummingbird supping nectar from a honeysuckle cone. Blue-eyed Marys checkered blue and white among the ferns. Rainbowed Iris [...]

My Garden Beautiful Through The Year A candle aglow in the window; patter of sleet on the roof. The courage of a tiny snowdrop in the winter’s ice and snow. Redbird carroling to his mate on a late winter day. Alder shakes out its powdery curls; bluebird heralding spring. Graceful sway of the leafless yellow [...]

I visited a friend recently after a heavy rain and saw on her lawn a bed of pink Zephyranthes backed by ferns that made the loveliest sight imaginable. The lady said they were the carinata variety that had been in the family for years. “I simply could not do without them coming after the rain,” [...]

The north side of our house is not half long enough for all the flowers I want there. There are three distinct beds, though all are connected. First are the Funkias, or plantain lilies, the big white subcordata grandiflora, lanceolata, and a dwarf variegated leaf sort. Also in this bed is the old fashioned bleeding [...]

I have some plants of Polemcnium that were collected for me by a cousin in Arkansas. Perhaps they are a variety of P. Caeruleum that is commonly known in this section as P. Caeruleum or Jacob’s Ladder is more dwarf and has darker blue flowers than this Arkansas Polemcnium. The latter has very dainty pale [...]

I used the little bottle of sweetened water for them, but tied a tube of the Trumpet flower to its neck which so delighted the birds you could have caught them. Did you know this little fellow makes the Gulf Mexico – a distance of 500 miles – without a single stop? I saw the [...]

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