Frogs, Frustrations, a Few Flowers, and One Fantastic Fern!

We've been so busy lately, both in the garden and in that other place...the real world.  Anyway, this weekend, we happily got out in the garden again to finish trimming away winter's wrath.  Most of our burned foliage was cut back in February, but we never got around to some of the bigger stuff.  This weekend was time to cut back dead leaves from the giant birds of paradise, the bananas, and the starburst clerodendrum.

A Positive Spin on a New Day

You know, sometimes, I'm just in need of a pick-me-upper.  Yes, I had a Melancholy Monday.  But I rose early this Tuesday morning and got my hands on as much positive reading material I could to put a proper spin on things.  Sometimes a little positive thinking and peaceful meditation is what we need to start a new day.  I have a nature that struggles a bit more than most with that concept of optimism.  My post today is hardly original, as I've gone a little quote-crazed, but I just wanted to share some of the inspiration I found this morning from some of history's great minds. 

The Power of Purple

All the other colors are just colors,
but purple seems to have a soul.
Purple is not just a noun and an adjective
but also a verb - when you look at it,
it's looking back at you. 

~Uniek Swain

The Orange and the Blue

Can you guess my inspiration for garden photography this morning?

Everywhere I look there's ORANGE and BLUE today.

My Favorites...This Month! (June 2010)

I am joining in with Simply Susan! to post my favorite plants...this month anyway.  It was pretty hard making the selection, as usual...harder really, since we have so many more blooms this month than any since the Great Florida Freeze of 2010.

summer scene stealers

Like every other garden in the world, mine is dominated by the color green...green grass, green shrubs, green leaves on perennials...even green weeds.  But all around the garden, here and there, can be found pops of brilliant color bursting out of that green sea.  If you're not careful, you just might get smacked in the face by one of these as you round the corner.

An Insect's View

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"Nature will bear the closest inspection.
She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,
and take an insect view of its plain."

~ Henry David Thoreau

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