Sunday, January 27, 2013

Beautiful Azalea we purchased at Black Rock Farm.
Dodecatheon medea


Rhodotypos scandens, or "Jet Seed", a rare Asian shrub I found naturalized in the woods in Kittery Point, Maine.

A wonderful grouping of Dianthus hybrids I grew from seed.


Epimedium x "Ice Queen"

Sanguinaria canadensis -multiplex.

Baby chicks just a few days in the world.
One of the Barred Rocks as a fledgling.
The girls in their run.

The line up.
The first strawberry from the plants I grew from seed.



Blossom detail form a Rose I saved from the bulldozers at an old house site on Route 1 in Wells, Maine.



Pots on the patio circa 2009.

The patio before it was a real patio, circa 2009.

More patio pots.

A nice planter filled with lobelia, Echevarria, Coleus, and Cuphea.

Saturday, January 26, 2013

"Grandpa Ott's" Morning Glory.
Nice red Dahlia.

Amazing structures on the back of the same blossom.


"Chinese Houses".

Closeup of the Gazania.

Tropaeolum peregrinum or, "Canary Flower".

Sunlit Dahlia.

California poppy with "Baby Blue Eyes".

Roger getting silly with the Brugmansia.

Digitally altered Zinnia.

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Rudbeckia hirta just after a rain.
Gorgeous Jalapa mirabilis, or "Four-O-Clock".

I like dragonflies.....

This huge beauty I rescued from the greenhouse one hot afternoon.

A pile of rusty, vintage hand-like gardening claws.
Full moon.

Bijou and her daughter Cricket.

Bright purple-red hot peppers.


Platycodon, or "Balloon Flower".

Colchicum, or Autumn Crocus.


Native "Baby-Blue-Eyes"

The incredible flowers of the succulent Crassula falcata.
Summer's greatest bounty.


Nasturtium lit from behind by the setting sun.


Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Geranium blossoms.
"Grandpa Ott's" Morning Glory with a stray beam of sunlight hitting the stem end from the back.

Monardanella, or Spotted Bee Balm.



Marbled "Four-O-Clock" blossom.

Truly beautiful blossom of the Cardinal Flower.
Salpiglossus looking like a stained-glass window.

Not much to look at, but what a great name! "Enchanter's Nightshade".

Ever faithful Echinacea.
Echinacea with visitor.

Pansy called "Tiger Eyes".

Surreal flowers of Eryngium bourgatii, "Picos blue".


Vining Bleeding heart relative, Dicentra scandens.