backyard bouquets

Backyard Bouquet #6

– Posted in: Flowers on the Brain

Here's my bouquet of the week, picked on Saturday. For my "something wild" I have daisy fleabane and the inula, which just showed up in the chicken yard, though some people grow it as a garden plant. The "something weird" also counts as "something wild": the chartreuse seed bracts from a tree growing wild in [...]

Backyard Bouquet #5

– Posted in: Flowers on the Brain

For this week's backyard bouquet I kept it simple. No more one-of-everything-in-the-garden. I just went with what I had a lot of. The white Incrediball hydrangea is really putting out blossoms, although they are not as big as they have been in the past. Since this shrub was dug up this spring, thrown in the [...]