June Blooms and a Rock Family

    June is a busy month in the garden, with the weeds trying to keep up with the flowers. At least I finally know the name of my enemy now, the dreaded pearlwort! I'll have to tackle it further in the fall, once my perennials have died down. Here are some of my June blooms, plus a couple of photos from the cheery chickadees nesting in my yard. I found a cute rock project on Pinterest, and since I love rocks and love painting, I decided to make one for my garden. I'm linking up with Tootsie Time for Fertilizer Friday. 

Campanula

Clematis

Feverfew

Fleabane

Geranium

Spirea Buds

Chickadee

Chickadee with moth

Rock Family Project

Rock Family 

The Wall

     Well, I can hardly believe it but our retaining wall is finally done! With our old wooden wall, we had a mini mud slide every time it rained, and that was even before it fell down. Keeping our driveway clean at the bottom of our front steps was next to impossible. Now that I've finally gotten the mud cleaned up, I hope it will keep the inside of our house a bit cleaner too. The heather plants weren't very happy about being moved mid-bloom, and I probably lost a lot of bulbs, but I still think it was well worth it.
     My roses are blooming earlier than usual, along with some other flowers that usually bloom in June. I'm also sharing a photo of the plant that I bought for my mom for mother's day. I found the colours quite unique and beautiful for a Chrysanthemum. I hope you all have a lovely long weekend whether you're celebrating this weekend or the next!

Rose Hansa

Rose Therese Bugnet

Chrysanthemums

Choisya

Chives

Tulips Blue Diamond

Tulips Antoinette

Tulips Dream Touch

Happy Easter!

Spring has sprung and here are a few of the flowers that have been blooming in my yard. The first Camellia blooms were tinged with brown from the cool temperatures and rain but I was happy to see the later blooms lived up to their name, Pink Perfection.  I just love the anemone blandas and take way too many photos of them every year. We are planning on fixing our ugly, broken retaining wall that runs beside a part of our driveway, and I can hardly wait to see the end result. There will be a lot of digging, and a lot of mess, so I'm a wee bit concerned for my poor plants. My beloved hydrangea, young hibiscus and heathers are in that bed. Happy Easter!

Camelia

Anemone Blanda

Primrose

Crocus

Tulip Tarda

It's Not Spring Yet

Just when you think spring is on it's way....

Pink Dawn last Week

Pink Dawn on the weekend

Pansies

Fairy Garden

British Columbia Wild Flowers

      It won't be long until the crocus are blooming, and many things are showing signs of life here in the Pacific Northwest, but until then I thought I would share some photos of BC wildflowers taken over the years. Feel free to share the names of any of these, or to correct me if I've labelled them wrong. I am far from being a wildflower expert. Most of these photos were taken in the Fraser Valley, and a few of them are from Manning Park. I'm linking up with Glenda from Tootsie time this week for Fertilizer Friday. Now I must get back to planning my 2014 Garden!

The dreaded Bindweed

Beach Pea?

Dove's Foot Geranium

False Lily of the Valley

Wild Rose

Silverweed

Fireweed

Wild Lupine

Palmate Coltsfoot

Salal

Spiraea Douglassii

Merry Christmas!

      I hope you are enjoying the Christmas season in spite of the busyness and potential stress. I finally finished my Christmas shopping today! It seems like the people in my life get more difficult to shop for as the years go by. Then there are those family members who say they don't want anything at all. I wonder, does every family have one of those? There isn't much happening outdoors flower-wise, but I do have one flower photo to share that I took in November.  We didn't torture our cat with Christmas photos this year (yet) so I'm sharing an old one. Merry Christmas!

Choisya 

Tiger