Grandma's Gardens #3: Finally, the Front Bed is beginning to bloom!!!! Here's a few more ...

WHOA!!!! :-)

What a difference!!

Looks sooooo good!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

What she said!
Beautiful!

-- the day you quit learning is the day you quit living.

Thar be some thick Stella clumps. How old? Granted, Stellas do grow like weeds.. I have some Daylilies that multiply their fans, oh, once every 3 years?... Yeah.. slow growers… Good thing they’re pretty.

-- Planting Daylilies in Kentucky, zone 6b

Actually these Stellas were small pieces that I divided and brought over from our old home. The Stella I divided from at our former home were old. I had bought the original Stellas before they became popular or easy to find. So I am talking YEARS …

I was very pleasantly surprised at how much these guys have grown in one year … more than doubled themselves this spring. But then my Hostas really took off this year too. And they were also small divided pieces from all the “ol’ gals” at our former home. We have good soil here and I am thinking with the cool, wet spring we had the plants are just thriving.

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

Very nice GrandmaT.It looks like a totally different home with your special touches.Love the raspberry roses.Actually I like all your plants.They blend beautifully.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

Thanks Bon … I am pretty excited with everything blooming out front … and of course since I took the pictures even more roses have opened … looks like “Raspberry Heaven” out there—LOL!!!! Will have to take some photos in the coming days … cuz my Daisies, Dwarf Gaillardia’s and Balloon Flowers all have buds too.

Don’t ya just love this time of year … seems like every day there is a new surprise out in the gardens!!! :-)

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

Show stopper Grand T …..... love those colours and your raspberry rose. I’m anxious to view your balloon flower when it opens. What a major undertaking and all is so well co-ordinated and so pleasing to the eye.

-- blooz 5b - You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~author unkown

Thank you so much Blooz!!!! I’ll be sure to get the other flowers as they open … especially the Balloon flower … just for you!! :-)

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

Here are a few more flowers that have opened up within my front flower bed. Hope you enjoy the pics.

Still waiting on my balloon flowers, daylilies, dwarf Hollyhocks, Daisies and Rudbeckias “Prairie Sun” to open. Everything has buds … come on “girls”, show me your pretty colors!!! :-)

(For the next flowers I post from the front yard, I’ll start a new thread, as I think this one is long enough, especially for those without DSL.)

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

Beautiful pictures!
A real show stopper! Must be getting losts of comments from passerby!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

I just love your choice of plants GramT.They are beautiful.Next year I want to try some of those gazanias and gaillardia.Love the colours.If I was driving by your place I would have to stop and admire all your hard work.When I was in Oshawa last week taking mom for a drive we passed a house with the most beautiful gardens and the lady was out tending to the plants.I stopped and told her how great her flowers looked.I think I made her day. It put a big smile on her face and moms.Therefore it put one on mine too.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

Thanks E and Bon … I appreciate your comments!

Bon, what a nice story. I am positive that you made that lady’s day. I like you will comment on people’s yards/flowers cuz I know how it makes them feel … just wonderful!!! I have had several young mom’s and couples stop me while I have been outside. Asking me what this flower is or that one. They have all commented on my yard … and it always makes my day!!! I usually walk around with a smile on my face for the rest of the day!! I feel a large part of gardening is sharing your flowers/gardens with others … whether they just stroll by and look, ask a simple question or by giving bits and pieces of your “babies” to others. :-)

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

Nice GT. Just proves hard work and perseverance pays off.

-- I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Alberta Canada Zone 3A or maybe 3B

Thanks Bob … seeing the pic of the house I posted last summer with our first plantings and then this picture really blew me away with the change. When you are digging and planting you don’t really pay that much attention to the actual changing. It has been a labor of love and I enjoy and savour every moment I am in my little piece of heaven. :-)

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b