Pretty Views

His Royal Highness

Presenting His Royal Highness presiding over the Royal Gardens atop his Royal Passionflower Perch

Stunning Hollyhock

The red hollyhock in the corner looked extra beautiful to me this morning!

Most of the cannas are blooming now and it's getting hot out, so it's turning summer in my garden! LOL

May Flowers

Cannas

...and dwarf sunflower

Society Garlic and yellow daylily 'Bitsy'

Red Rose with lots around it

Cosmos

Guara

What's New?

Well...this hollyhock is HUGE and finally blooming!

Also a surprise is the double flower in the dark red shade! We love it!

Another pretty pink one started blooming too!

The canna and dwarf sunflower are really getting going!

And take a wild guess what happened when we visited Lowe's...yup we bought 2 more passionflowers! LOL Well they were the smaller lower cost ones and different varieties! How could we resist? I will say we were very good and didn't buy the $25 clematis that was SO PRETTY and so tempting!!! I mean it's not everyday you see clematis in the desert! Wow this is how bad it is...I kinda wish we had bought it! HAHAHA

OH and 'Lavender Lady' has a fruit growing! I just read the article linked to the name below and I guess we will soon see exactly what specimen this is...bummer about the fruit being hollow though.
These two are:
Passiflora 'Lavender Lady'
Passiflora 'Blue Bouquet'

Our first Canna to bloom! Yeay! And a dwarf sunflower!

A good photo of the color of my nice dark red hollyhock!

Tea in the Garden!

Spring Freestyle

Lots of flowers reseeded themselves like the cosmos, bachelor buttons, marigolds, and petunias!

Wish you could smell the honeysuckle!

Canna getting ready to bloom as well as a dwarf sunflower that reseeded itself.

A scarlet runner been that reseeded! I was surprised to see it today!

I absolutely love the look of this dark red hollyhock and even more so surrounded by bachelor buttons that came back on their own!

There have been a few colors of bachelor buttons that weren't around last year I love when that happens! I like the pink and white combo.

This one is a dark purple although it's looking more blueish in photos.

My fave pink wave petunia that reseeded. In this pot is also a calabrachoa that wintered over(you have to look very closely to see the small light pink flowers), and a strawberry.

I loved the way this looked with the cannas starting to get big and the wave petunias growing in it, and then the marigolds growing into the petunias. Isn't that one of the prettiest marigolds? I love the leaves so lacy and the flowers are very small. There is a sea of these marigolds that reseeded!

My spot in the garden has a pretty red mandevilla blooming and my geraniums that haven't stopped all winter!

This is the veiw of the hollyhock and bachelor buttons from the swing.

I can also see these clematis flowers dangling from the swing...so cute! I love how the bud looks like a heart and when they open is the most cutest bell ever!

Pretty Spring Flowers

We've had tons of ladybugs in our garden this year they love the bachelor buttons and cosmos the most!

Hummingbird

New Passionflower

Walking through Lowe's we found this beautiful Passiflora 'Victoria' and couldn't resist!!!

Shot focused on a bud.

Shot focused on flower.

Strawberries

Strawberries picked fresh from our garden!

Happy Lil' Madie

Clematis 'Pagoda'

Sweetheart rose!

Sweet Peas

Don Juan Climbing Rose

More Spring Flowers

Spring flowers

Rose in Winter

We are back to our unusually warm weather and the yellow rose started blooming again!!! I'm glad the snow didn't fully get it!

SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well anytime snow falls in the desert it is monumental! So when we woke up this morning and saw TONS of snow we had to go outside and play! Just yesterday our garden was blooming as normal we've not even had our first frost yet (very odd) so we knew something big would probably happen when it did hit. Still I would never have guessed it would have been this much snow!

We bundled up and went outside to take photos and build a snowman! Then we went for a walk and lucky for us we got to walk in all untrodden snow on our route!

Doesn't he look like the snowman from the movie Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer? I love his little chin that just happened to be there.
Then when we got back from our walk in a wonderful winter wonderland we decided to build another snowman for the front yard!

Cute eh? With a pile of snowballs at the ready for him too!

Still no frost...unusually warm weather!

Sweet Pea's getting going

Strawberries are taking off!

Butterflies & Hummingbirds

Hummingbird and Passion Flower

Click on the photos to see them closer!

We've had a different hummingbird visiting us I don't know what variety it is but it has forked purple on it's neck! SO beautiful! I just searched it out and I believe it is a Costa's Hummingbird!

ALSO we've been waiting all year for this passion flower "Passiflora Actinia" to boom and it finally has!