"Yeah well, you'd be ticked off too if you had to sit outside under an apple tree all damn Winter waiting for Spring"...
Looking over the fence... this is growing in my neighbor's yard - mimosa! Same word in French.
Not many of these left now that Fall is here, but that makes them all the more special. I caught my dog Pixie trying to pull a couple of these off the bush with her teeth! It made me laugh to see her tugging at the raspberries but I still scolded her :o)
The Peppermint Dahlia I planted in a rare fit of gardening is blooming like mad in the garden out back, so I just had to snap a photo. Hard to believe that this huge plant sprung from just one bulb! Here I would like to admit that I am the world's laziest gardener. So no oohing and aahing, ya'll. And the number one thing I hate about digging in the yard is all the extremely gross creepy crawly things that one unearths while gardening. Eeeeeyew! But when something this amazing blooms it's worth it.
I'm really liking this idea I saw on
You have to get down on all fours and hunt for these little things, but they are so worth it: wild strawberries. They have taken over a certain corner of my garden, and they overan the lemon thyme so I'll have to plant more somewhere else. But then again lemon thyme does not taste good sprinkled over vanilla ice cream, whereas these berries do. Yum.
Woohoo! I'm off next week- no training classes and no hustling back and forth to Paris- so I'll have time to smell the flowers I hope. I stepped out into my yard and discovered that the peonies I planted a couple of years ago finally decided to bloom this year! I had almost forgotten what color they were supposed to be, so it was a nice surprise to see these pure white flowers with a touch of blood red in the centers. They smell wonderful too. 
Oh yeah, and my Charles Rennie Mackintosh roses are in full bloom. I really love this shade of pink, but I doubt that my camera does it justice. If you'd really like to see some lovely flowers, check out what's blooming chez
I'm experimenting with color here and in my garden! I am trying to learn a little bit of html to liven up my blog and because I love learning things. I'm also trying something new in the garden. I picked up the prettiest dahlia bulb yesterday, and I managed to plant it this afternoon before it started raining. It goes by the name "Mick's Peppermint", and looks like 
A lot of the time I am attracted to them because of the names they have- i.e. the pink English roses I have out back are Charles Rennie Mackintosh roses, and I just had to have some Labrador violets in honor of my dog. More English roses than you can shake a stick at
