Wordless Wednesday, taken 2/7/09

New Bed, Part 5, September, 2008

I was so proud of my hard work in my February GBBD post, where I put the pics on the sides. Since I had gotten into my html, and made my font larger, I had to go back and forth with my preview, and then edit some more after first published, to get the words to line up with the correct pics.  I post on Safari.  This morning, when I got on at work in Firefox, I saw that my words did not line up correctly.  I just had to put another post up, so that the off one would not be my current post. I wasn't brave enough to try it with the pics just on one side, but hope someone may have suggestions on how to do that.

Also, some have said they can't leave comments on my blog.  I went in and changed a setting, so hopefully, that will take care of the problem they were having.  I still have the word verification to reduce spam.

Octopus Bellflower, 9/14:

Blanket Flower, Salvia, Black and Blue, 9/16:

Cypress Vine from Volunteer, 9/21:

Do you think I'll have more cleomes next year?

Cleome, Almost Finished, Moonflower to the Right, 9/21:

Anemone, September Charm, 9/21:

Helenium, or Helen's Flower, 9/21:

Debonair Mum, 9/25:

From Front of Bed, (The orange/yellow flower in the front, is wallflower.) 9/25:

From Front of House, 9/25:

Spring, oh spring, please come soon!

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, February 15, 2009

Carol, at May Dreams Gardens, has her February Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day List up, and if I hurry up, I will be #28.

I do have some blooms that I was planning on doing a post on, and just this morning, decided GBBD would be a good place to do it, even though they are dried, and not on plants any more.

This basket of lavender, statice, and gomphrena flowers was from November.

I can't remember which kinds of lavenders these are, but these are from November, taken before putting the lavenders in the window well.

In November, when I had the idea to do a post on flowers I dry, there was some dill, that I put away in January, statice, quaking grass, and globe thistle.

The lovely beach photo is on a calendar my husband made for me from our June, 2007 vacation to the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

This is a rack inside our back door, above the steps that lead to the basement.  Some of the plants I already named are here, plus Sweet Annie, that I grew in the new bed, but pulled out shortly after cutting these to dry, because I don't think I have enough room for something that gets that big.  Maybe if I liked the plant itself better, I wouldn't mind the size of it.

The above pic was taken in November, and the rest of the pics in this post were taken this morning.

This morning glory hanging was my husband's grandmother's.  We've had it over 30 years.  It's always in bloom.

German statice is one of my favorite flowers to dry.

Here's a home for baby's breath, lavender, statice, gomphrena, nigella seed pods, and knautia, the little red flowers in the middle.

lavender

nigella, or love in a mist

gomphrena

I just realized I didn't include my strawflowers, but I'm putting some links in this paragraph. My houseplants are about the same as last posted.  There are a few African Violet blooms, but they aren't so happy right now.  My signs of spring are currently buried by snow.  I'll be spending time this afternoon seeing what blooms others have on this cold February day.  Next month, I hope will be a different story.

Thanks, Carol!

(Whew! I 've never done the pics this way, and with the larger font I use, it doesn't jive with the pictures, so I had to keep looking at preview, and that wasn't the same, so I was publishing and editing, hence, there was no hurrying, and I look to be #38 on Carol's Mr. Linky.)

Happy GBBD to all, and happy anniversary to Carol!