Let It Shine

Hardy Perrenials Hi there fellow garden enthusiasts. Welcome to my little blog. I thought I would share with you a few more pics of my flowers.  So come along with me on a tour of my garden as I  share 6 more hardy perennials that I have growing in my gardens. I’m always on the lookout for perennials that will bloom the longest with a variety of heights, colours and bloom times. The variety of colour and heights of the flowers will add visual interest while the different bloom times keeps your garden in bloom all season long. For a structured garden, you may want to keep your bloom colours down to three. Just like interior decorating, you want coherency you should have one main colour and two accent colours.  For a less formal garden just go wild. It really depends on your taste. Purple Cone Flowers, Echinacea purpurea . This first flower is very popular. They are called Purple Cone Flowers. The scientific name for it is Echinacea purpurea. I lov

Hi there fellow garden enthusiasts. Welcome to my little blog. I thought I would share with you a few of the pics of plants in my garden. So come along with me on a tour of my garden. One of the things that I love about gardening is watching and waiting in the spring to see which plants have decided to bless me with their presence this year. I say this because I've had a few perennials disappear over the winter to never be seen again. Spring is so green. It's refreshing after all the dreary brown.  I have a few tulips and daffodils . . .but my granddaughters just can’t help themselves – the flowers are too pretty. The girls come running to me with huge smiles on their faces and tulips in their hands – “Grandma, look what I have for you.” I just smile, hug and kiss them up as I thank them for the beautiful flowers. I’ll remind them some other time that they aren't supposed to pick the blossoms from the garden. Unless grandma says it’s okay. Early in the spring