The garden is flourishing due to the abundant rain and sunshine that’s we’ve experienced lately! I thought I’d share of few photos of the flowers and edibles that are growing in my yard.
I’ve got the most beautiful stand of foxgloves! They popped up where I usually have hollyhocks and the hollyhocks popped up elsewhere (they haven’t bloomed yet).
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The blackberries are going to be amazing this year! All those blossoms will be berries.
All the roses are blooming beautifuly. The pale peach rose in the foreground is a Savannah Rose.
The strawberries will be ready to eat soon if I can keep the chipmunks out! I have them netted to keep the birds out but those chipmunks always find a way in AND they don’t eat the whole berry. They’ll just take a bite! So annoying!
The red climbing rose that’s at the front of the house on one of the pillars is in bloom. It’s looked better other years – but still quite pretty against the white of the house.
I’m getting artichokes!! This is my first year! I have two artichoke plants but this one is doing better than the other one.
The Clematis always surprise me! One day there’s nothing and the next you have some big gorgeous blooms!
Lastly, one of my pink Knock Out Roses.
I wanted to invite all you creative homemakers to The Creative HomeAcre Blog Hop that I’m co-hosting on Sundays. The party link is up really early so you can link up your post before heading out to enjoy your Mother’s Day!
Dawn says
Everything is beautiful. Love the fox glove pic:) My strawberries are loaded with blossoms so should have strawberries in June.
Theresa H. Roach says
OH so beautiful! I enjoyed my stroll around your garden! Have a blessed day sweet friend, HUGS!
Judy Clark says
Manuela – Your flowers are just beautiful. All of them. Those foxgloves are gorgeous! I’ve never known anyone to grow artichokes. You must be a very gifted gardener!
Judy
debra says
LOVE your garden…you have so much going on and I am glad that you mentioned the netting for the berries as I have alot of strawberry blooms in my little raised bed and cannot wait for berries. I don’t want to share with birds or critters, no way!
Your foxgloves are stunning! Everything is but those are my favorite ! 🙂
Annie says
Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden…I’m aspiring to have a garden like yours:)
Penny @ The Comforts of Home & From Harvest To Table says
Your gardens look great! I have never tried to grow artichokes! How fun.
connie says
Oh my goodness, your garden is amazing!!! I love foxglove, but it is too dry here to grow it. Artichokes, that blows my mind . . . I’ve never seen how they grow . . . you have a absolutely marvelous garden!
Connie 🙂
Kathy @ Creative Home Expressions says
All your flowers look gorgeous, Manuela! I noticed that this morning my irises “popped” and they look great.
Glenda says
Wow – Your garden is flourishing ! Thanks for sharing your beautiful flowers.
Looks like good eating in the future. 🙂
Enjoy your weekend.
Kathy says
Yes, I agree we have really had just the right about of rain this spring and it makes all the difference in the world. Cooler days and the flowers just love it. Your garden is lovely. Everything looks so happy. Now I have to brace myself for our hot summer.
Kathy
Kathleen Grace says
Oh those chipmunks! We lost a huge crop to the little devils last year, one bite at a time:>{
If you find a solution, do share! The garden looks so beautiful, and I can finally say things are beginning to bloom around here so I don’t have to be insanely jealous of your garden. Lol.
Debbie J says
Everything is beautiful! We have never grown nor eaten Artichoke, but have recently been wondering about it. I will read more about it and maybe we will grow it next year.
Luisa says
Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful flowers! They are gorgeous. I have a few questions. 1. Do you net the blackberries? 2. What zone are you in? 3. Do you cut back your roses every year? I’m a learner and am always curious how others garden 🙂
Manuela says
Hi Luisa,
I don’t net my blackberries. I don’t know why, but the birds seem to leave them alone. Maybe because they have thorns? I do net my strawberries and we’ve built a cage to surround our blueberries.
Actually, I don’t cut back my roses in the winter or spring like most people do. I usually trim them once their blooming. It depends on what kind of roses you have. I have mostly climbing roses and Knockout Roses.
My area of Georgia is in Zone 7b, but I think we are heading to more of Zone 8 with our warmer than normal temps and people are planting more tropicals and their surviving! Which is scary and cool all at the same time.
Luisa says
Thanks for answering my questions! 🙂 I just planted a blueberry bush which I will net. When we first moved into our house, there were so many fruit trees, and berry bushes in the yard and somehow, deer, rabbits, and beavers destroyed them all. I have no idea how the previous owner maintained them. I just spent about an hour on your blog reading about your gardens and you have a pretty sweet set up with lots of inspiration! It’s also nice to find someone in the same zone (I’m about 45min north of Atlanta). I would love to plant some blackberry bushes…I can remember picking wild ones with my grandfather as a child 🙂 Anyway…sorry for being so chatty! Looking forward to future posts!
Cynthia says
I love artichokes, I could eat them everyday!! All the flowers look so lovely, I never have had any luck with Foxglove, maybe it is our weather in our area but they are beautiful. Have a great weekend!
Cynthia
Diana says
Everything looks beautiful!
My garden is . . . drowning. We have had abundant rain and abundant rain. And more abundant rain. And yo yo temperatures involving record lows and record late frosts. My yard looks so bedraggled right now it’s not even funny. I’ve done better foraging than growing this spring — hence chickweed pesto, dandelion cookies and fritters, violet syrup, and stuffed grape leaves using leaves from a wild grape that sprung up in the swamp yard that wants to be woods (one of these days I’ll finish up the blog posts about the latter two).
Love love love your foxgloves!
Lisa Lynn says
Gorgeous photos, Manuela! You gardens are so beautiful!
Susan says
Oh Manuela ~ you have such a gift! Everything is so gorgeous!! A very happy Mother’s Day to you dear friend.
Big Hugs,
Susan and Bentley
DFW says
Manuela,
Beautiful as usual, especially the Clematis.