(aka Baptista)
Varigated Sage and other herbs...
View in back...Hebe, Cardoon, Wysteria, and Climbing Red Rose...
Looking up at the Black Locust in full-bloom!
SUMMER IS COMING!
A Gal from Oklahoma Who Now Hangs Out in Oregon. and actually finds the meaning of life in small, hidden treasures...
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Definition: | (verb) Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment. |
Synonyms: | tame, cultivate, naturalize |
Usage: | New World peoples domesticated a cornucopia of plants. |
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5 comments:
Hi BoggyWoggy,
I just love looking at the photos of your garden. The flowers look amazing and the way you have planned your garden looks great. The mosaic is just fabulous. I think I will get some of those tequila sunrise aquilegia as I am partial to a tequila now and then! This way I can enjoy the tequila without the bad head!!
I thoroughly enjoyed my virtual visit to your garden.
Sara from farmingfriends
Thanks, Sara.
Black locust, thanks. Good to know. What spectacular photos. I am afraid of the poison oak in my front yard-which-is-a-feral-pile-and-not-a-garden-anymore. Did you see that the City of Corvallis has placed a lot of geo-cache things all over town and if you take all their pictures with your phone you will win a prize?
Did you know that someone has taken all but one of my geocaches? It's very disheartening!
Now I know what that mystery flower in my front yard is - it's a columbine! Beautiful pictures, all of them :-)
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