This first one looks like someone splashed paint all over it.
Another bloom from the same bush, drained of color, but interesting.
From another bush we have a pretty blue...
... and at the same time, same bush we have purple:
The next photo shows the one and only bloom on the bush outside my kitchen door. Sadly, I believe that bush needs to be removed, but you really have to appreciate its last valiant effort.
Geraniums make good cut flowers, especially when you put them in the refrigerator or on the back porch overnight. These are the last of my orange blooms. I cut it back and it's trying to make more, but I'm hoping it will rest before next spring.
Speaking of right at home...
This doe is a little too relaxed at the edge of the garden. She's beautiful and I bear her no ill will, but I'd like her to move off and let Wally and LuLu have their yard back. No such luck... she returned later with her whole family.
That's all this week from the Miller residence. Wishing you a beautiful day!
How fabulous to get up this morning and see all this beauty!! The hydrangea's are gorgeous, love all the various colors!! We have no flowers right now, just snow and cold and VERY windy, I hope the power stays on since Greg is gone until Sunday! With the windchill today it is to feel like 10 degrees out...brrrr...glad I am inside where it is warm!!!
ReplyDeleteYour hydrangea's are absolutely beautiful! Even the drained one (smiling). And, that's a beautiful photo of the doe too. Are they still doing a lot of damage to the garden? Don't you love the fall? I have Four O' Clocks all along the back garden fence and they are giving us a real show right now. The last big burst of fall color I think. We don't really get a fall or winter - maybe for a couple of weeks. But by March we are in bloom again. Have a wonderful weekend, Leslie! Hugs, Susie ~
ReplyDeleteSo fun seeing all the hydrangeas different splashes of colors. We have one bloom that is the size of a 10" dinner plate. I actually have it finishing drying in the house. Such beautiful and interesting colors and blooms from all our plants. So wonderful seeing your varieties too, Leslie. The 4 legged critters have been visiting our place every day too. In the last week we have had different deer families every day, a coyote chasing 2 yearling does and the does chasing the coyote..almost like they were playing. Our bobcat visited too. All in the daylight hours. A real wildlife refuge:-) We do have fun in the country.
ReplyDeleteHappy Fall my friend. Hugs..Nancy
wonderful flowers. amazing all the different colors and shadings. That deer looks so pretty. Have a great day
ReplyDeleteGorgeous flowers. We don't see any blooming flowers here outside at least this time of year. We do see some white snow on the ground though. LOL
ReplyDeleteI've never seen a spotted hydrangea like that! Beautiful. I have been unable to grow colored hydrangeas...mine are all white or ivory or "limey" white. Not sure there are colored ones that are hardy enough for this climate. However, I did buy a potted one this year that I'm going to see what happens over the winter. All my flowers were gone weeks ago. I planted 10 new peonies this fall in a space my husband built at my request. ;-)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful nature and lovely flowers.xx
ReplyDeleteI'd spend all day in your garden, just soaking up the beauty! Awesome colors on your flowers!! And I'd be so excited to see a deer family that close! Mine are a distance away.
ReplyDeletesuch a beautiful garden Leslie, that Doe is nature in excellence. Poor Lulu and Wally, but I'm sure they don't mind :)
ReplyDeleteOh my your flowers look beautiful, I love that speckled look even if it isn't supposed to be that way. Beautiful to bring some in too! It would be so fun to see the deer come so close but I am sure it isn't good when you want to let Wally and Lulu out.
ReplyDeleteOMG... I would love to have deer at the back of my garden... Oh Wow!! Beautiful photos and what gorgeous hydrangeas you have! Hope Wally and Lulu are doing well!
ReplyDeleteOMG your flowers are ALL just GORGEOUS!!! You certainly have a green thumb! Yes Mama Deer looks quite comfy and how nice that the rest of the family came to visit ... but I'm sure Wally & LuLu aren't too happy about them being there! LOL I have a MaMa and sadly only one of the twin fawns visiting my 100 year old apple tree each day right now ... I'm afraid the other twin must have been hit by a car (sad face) but I do have a video of them taste testing from my rose bushes, etc a few weeks back that is just adorable (other than them eating my roses of course! lol). Happy day my dear friend and thanks SO MUCH for sharing these awesome photos! ONE DAY I'm going to come visit your gardens in person!!! Beware! LOL
ReplyDeleteI alays enjoy looking at your flowers. Ours this year did not due well for some reason. I had very little blooms on our hydrangras and our mums did poorly as well. I don't know if it was the weather but I guess we will see next year. We also had a family of deer that happily ate some of the garden that my husband had thought he had protected. He finally gave in and took down the fencing and let them have their way. That didn't turn out well either this year. Well, there is always next year.
ReplyDeleteWOW! your hydrangeas are stunning. I love how they turn different colours due to the fall weather. Mine don't seem to change that dramatically, but my pink ones get a deep burgundy/brown colour, still very pretty though. Love the doe, great capture. They are so sweet but I know they have done damage to your plants. Bill and I were out of town on the weekend and came across some bucks and doe's. I hope to share some photos of these shortly. Thanks again for sharing your garden, just beautiful! Have a wonderful day.
ReplyDeleteWOW love all the different coloured gorgeous hydrangeas the pain splashed ones look brilliant -there just seem to be blue or pink grown here-cannot image seeing a deer in your garden!
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I never dreamed that hydrangeas could bring about mottled or spotted coloring like that, Leslie! Thanks for the pretty photographs. Do you feed your various plants different elements to achieve the variant of colors? They do not grow in our area, so I always enjoy seeing them in other people's yards - and NEVER HAVE I SEEN them spotted. Such full gorgeous geraniums, too! Mine have dwindled to nothing in the summer heat. Here it is Nov 11, and it is 86.2 in the shade! The geraniums outside my window have begun blooming a little bit again because of the nights cooling off into the low 70s and sometimes upper 60s! For the first year all my Christmas Cactus are rotting, even though they continue growing in clay pots under the protection of the lanai roof. In 18 years, this is the first time the rotting has taken place, and it probably is the overwhelming humidity and heat.Plants are like my life-long friends. I love them forever, and hate seeing them die completely. My Swiss Cheese Philodendron is more than 40 years old! It moved from Tampa to where we are now, and has weathered several freezes. I can name which friend gave me which plant (just like Christmas ornaments when we put them on the tree and they bring back memories). I even have a remnant of my Mom's geranium, and she passed away in 1992. So sentimental, am I, over the smallest of things at times! Wishing you a fabulous season of Love! hugs, de
ReplyDeleteSpectacular Hydrangeas Leslie, mine didn't bloom well either, but they seem to alternate so I hope next year they will recover and give me those amazing lilac and blue flowers I love so much.
ReplyDeleteThe flower in the first picture does look like someone went out there and splash them with paint, it's beautiful.
The rest of these blooms are just as spectacular, maybe that's why this amazing doe likes your garden so much, but I do hope she returns to the forests so Wally and Lulu can go out and play.
Thank you for sharing the pictures of your garden, it's always such a treat.
Sending hugs, my friend.
Maria.
Great flowers and yes she does look all comfy and at peace in your garden. I's sorry they eat the flowers but just look at her. Awww... Its great and I am sure that they don't mind sharing. She brought the family back which makes me giggle. :-)
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