Friday, July 22, 2011

Summer days...

 Our summer is flying by.  We have kept busy doing a bunch of little things.  My husband has been mowing our food plots for the deer.  We have put in several trails throughout our property.  Since it is so wooded, the trails make things accessible.  It also makes it easier to move logs and other things we use for our winter projects.
Our window peepers are back.  Every year the Flycatcher family builds their nest on the highest peak of our cabin.  Then they spend the summer peeking in our windows.  Actually our upper deck is a staging area before they feed the little ones.  Still, they do seem to spend a lot of time looking in our door.

 

The rose bed is at it's peak.  The roses are going nuts, the day lilies, delphiniums, and daises all look dapper.  I learned from last year that skimping on fertilizer will get you in the end, so I have been diligent this year.

 








I love delphiniums and roses.  Almost as much a delphiniums and peonies.  Ah heck, I love everything with delphiniums.  They are so stately and their colors are iridescent.

 

 

My little round tree bed looks good.  It is not a color combination I normally use with the bright yellows and dark maroons.  I have been going to a few rummage sales and found this great birdhouse for $5.  I put it on the potting bench on the porch until I figured out where I wanted to put it.  That darn squirrel tried to modify it for her own personal use.  I am less than pleased.

Well, I'll leave you on the porch.  As you know my motto is, "coffee on the porch in the morning and lemonade on the porch in the afternoon."  I have learned this summer that if you make a bad batch of wine, it goes pretty good with lemonade.  I'm sure you are sick of blooms, I go a little overboard since it takes nine months of winter to get here.  My next post will be about berries.  

Oh I do have to show you another photo of the greenhouse, taken 4 days after the last one on the last post.  The pumpkin is almost on the ground.  I think it is planning an attack on the strawberry bed.  I had to beat them off of the tomatoes this morning.  I need to make yet another trip into the chaos with some scissors.  My pumpkins are bent on taking over the world, or maybe it is the squash, could be the zucchini, at this point I have no clue, but be afraid out there, be very very afraid.

16 comments:

  1. Wow, your flowers all look so beautiful! What a cool birdhouse for only $5, what an awesome deal! The delphiniums are beautiful, I have never grown them! Your greenhouse is doing great as well. The Black Hills of South Dakota definiately is a beautiful place! Thanks for sharing! Happy Gardening! Mindy

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  2. Hi, just found your blog. Your cabin and garden look absolutely lovely.

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  3. Wow, look at your greenhouse! How fun to see it alive with plants!

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  4. Coffee and lemonade I will be right over sounds heavenly. Your garden is beautiful. I love the five dollar birdhouse great find. That pumpkin is going to take over for sure. B

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  5. Love the pictures. A flycatcher is one bird my son has not seen yet. He has written down all the birds he has seen in his bird book!!

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  6. So much going on in your gardens! Love the porch, I should spend a little time on ours, too, and just sit for a spell and enjoy the scenery. Sometimes we work too hard and don't take the time.

    I have to get out in the field and cut some hay, too. Have a great weekend!

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  7. your gardens are lovely, and that greenhouse, wow, the transission is amazing!!

    good lookin tractor guy!!!!

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  8. The gardens are looking amazing. So much colour. Love that porch!

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  9. LOL on your pumpkin. It's in cahoots I think w/ my watermelon, which is taking over the earth. The birdhouse you found is quite cute!

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  10. Came to your blog via One a Day in the Garden, and I must say, you have a beautiful place! Such a gorgeous porch and surrounding flowers!

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  11. Wow!! A thousand times wow! Everything looks so beautiful around you. How fantastic! That big picture of your garden, with the fence type thing, and the rocks... I LOVE it!!

    The porch is so inviting! It is always a pleasure to come here.
    xxxx

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  12. I'm so jealous of the Delphiniums! I've never had much luck with them and they are one of my favorites. I love the birdhouse! Your greenhouse is bursting. I do think pumpkins plan on taking over the world. I noticed one is climbing the blueberry bushes in my yard.

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  13. Your gardens are just so inviting:-) I would love visiting with some muffins or scones and just enjoy the sounds of nature all around you!

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  14. HELLO!! I've been out of town for the last several days and am catching up on my blog reading and have enjoyed reading your news and seeing your pictures--I am in awe of your greenhouse and would be a little afraid too--If 'it' asks for something I wouldn't argue.... :-)))

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  15. I feel like I am looking at a fairly tale land when I see those pumpkin plants coming out of the greenhouse! That is so magnificent. You must be very very proud! I know I would be..dang!

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  16. I somehow missed this post, and it's wonderful! "Everything with delphiniums!" Love that quote.

    I particularily love your garden by the fence, something about a fence really sets a garden off to me.

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