The Southside Garden

So I've been away from the blog for a while.....

But that ol' camera has still been in my hands.  I am a bit upset that I will not have this record of my late spring garden, but that's life.  Anyway, here are a few shots of the lovely blooms gracing my garden right now:

My Favorites...This Month (May 2010)

I'm joining in with Susan of Simply Susan! to post My Favorites...This Month.  Pop on over if you'd like to join in.  May was a really hard month to narrow down favorites, but here are a few.  Click on the collage to enlarge.

MGB May 2010: Bouquet of Serenity and Sunshine

Well, here it is almost the end of May's third week, and I am finally getting around to cutting a bouquet.  So much has been going on in the garden and in life recently, that I've just not had time to think about it. 

Ha! I laugh in the face of winter!

Old Man Winter just can't keep a good garden down!  For those who haven't read my blog from the beginning, you are probably fortunate to have missed out on the whining and belly-aching that flowed from my fingers for the first three months of this year.  Central Florida was hit by a frigid, long-and-drawn-out winter, the kind that comes maybe once every twenty years here in my neck of the woods.  Just in time for me to start a garden blog.  Exactly the kind of winter that those pushing the boundaries with tropical plants dread the most.  But no more belly-achin' here!  I am thrilled to find that each week of May brings more growth and more flowers to this pseudo-tropical garden.  I'm so glad I didn't rip the whole lot of it out and start over.  From here on out, my only complaining will probably have to do with the incessant weeds.

GBBD: May 2010

It is a happy Garden Blogger's Bloom Day for me here in the month of May.  There are so many more new blooms to share than last month.