Having looked through countless pages of wildflowers for our area, I’ve made my final decisions for next year! I placed my order through Wildseedfarms.com of Fredericksburg, Texas. I loved the annuals corn poppies and cornflowers so much that I’ve ordered them again this time around. In addition, I chose Purple Coneflower (echinacea), which can be [...]
Both of them looking at me like, “Uh, do you MIND?!” The cornflowers are going gangbusters in the wildflower bed. After the flower petals dry and fall off, the flower base takes on this golden glow in the sunlight. I tried to capture it on film, but it doesn’t quite convey how shiny it was. [...]
There’s certainly no shortage of interesting blooms to keep me fascinated for this week’s Macro Monday. . . . . . . . . . . . . My daughter found it odd that a poppy’s petals were stuck together. As she tried to pull them apart, this little guy came running out to see [...]
Just a few blooms from the garden today, in celebration of Macro Monday. Got a camera with a macro feature? Take your pictures and post them to your blog. Then go to Lisaschaos.com and enter your blog address to be listed. And these were taken and posted on Saturday, but thought I’d add them:
I could hardly contain my excitement yesterday when I came home to discover that the first wildflower had bloomed. The winner is the cornflower: The next day, while working on the Native beds, Michelle wandered down the fence and yelled, “Joe! Come look!” Not only were more cornflowers opening, but the first poppy opened as [...]
