Garden Glimpses

This year we decided to go with a slightly different color palette in the garden, focusing on a color I don't use very often, yellow, and its cousins. To complement the soft yellow of the striped petunia, we combined it with Black Beauty (and velvety) petunias and also coleus and lime sweet potato vines.

This pink Oriental lily is just beginning its show in the back.

As part of our eat-from-the-garden strategy, we are harvesting nasturtium flowers daily for the salad.

Is this not the most wonderful clump of rose blooms? It smells delicious, too.

And our variegated hypericum is just beginning to bloom. If you need a good ground cover that will hold the soil in place, try hypericum. 

As I sit and write this at the kitchen table, I am also catching the soft lemony scent of the magnolia . Mmmm...

It's Time!

It sure seemed a long while in coming, but the time has come to start planting. No, not outside quite yet (the garden is still covered with snow), but I will start my seeds this week indoors.

My goal is to create a kitchen garden. Here is one inspiration- isn't it wonderful? (Loving that house, too!) 

I like the idea of combining the veggies with the flowers.

My other inspiration is Brooke's garden here. 

Our garden will be slightly different. We have so many flowers (perennials, hydrangea bushes) that we probably will need to tuck in here and there. Maybe a border of lettuce?


Will you be planting a garden this year? Care to join me?

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Spider gate

Although it's not very spooky, here is a garden gate worthy of the season! 

British Homes and Gardens

This charming gate is located at the Hoveton Hall Gardens in Norfolk, UK.