My sister challenged me to post a flower a day for a week on Facebook. Here's what I posted: Bloodroot growing by the side of the ...

Foxglove is one of my favourite flowers yet I can never grow them successfully. Richard's brother-in-law's garden is full of them...

Summer is so lovely. Long evenings, bees buzzing, butterflies flitting.  Especially when one of your many gardens looks like this. F...

 I love poppies and have good luck with my gorgeous salmon-coloured ones that bloom each year.  I've notice that the 1950s and ...

The flowers around here are gorgeous this time of year...I really have to start photographing them. I was in Richard's vegetable garde...

 A few years back I blogged about this sweet tree...  .. .growing in a little park in beautiful downtown Alexandria.  When our t...

 About five or six years ago I planted an Oriental poppy perennial.  Instead of the usual red, I chose a salmon pink one. For...

 About 10 years ago I planted two packets of lupines.  And year after year...  ...they doubled...  ...and tripled.....

 Our little vacation took us to Jim Thorpe, PA where everything was in bloom.  A blue train and pink crab-apple blossoms paired wel...

The hollyhocks have been absolutely amazing this year. I don't remember planting these...I must've tossed a packet of seeds into m...

Over the years, my mother's mock orange bush has gone wild! It sends out long tendrils, very likely to get more light because it's...

I plant pansies in these three flower boxes every year. They sit on top of the short rail fence in front of my house. They always make me...

   I love lupins! I got two packets of them in Oregon about 10 years ago and made myself a wild garden in the middle of the field. ...

 I just love wisteria and had only seen it in the States and never around here... ...but last weekend we visited Richard's sis ...

These delicate flowers seem to be absolutely everywhere. Coltsfoot   (Tussilago farfara) are usually the first plant in spring to bloom.....

I just love dandelions. I know many people see them as weeds but they remind me of being a little kid and bringing my mother a big bouquet...

...and my lawn is scattered with crocuses.

Great time of year for sunflowers, these shot in Richard's garden. Aren't they like the happiest looking flowers...