So, there we are, we have finished the first two month os the Susan’s Garden Project. I have to wonder at this point if I have enough images to complete all three hundred and sixty five pictures. Well, we shall see.
The text is generally from the corresponding Facebook post although I have cleaned them up a little.
Day 64 and the beauty just never ends. It is a single garden but every day the plants are different, the flowers are different, the light is different. Always new beautiful pictures every day.
13th of June and it is Day 65 of the Susan’s Garden Project. A garden provides endless opportunities for pictures. This project is great because it gets me looking at images I took years ago and have long since forgotten.
June 15th is Day 67. I am enjoying this series of pictures. It has me searching through my old files and looking at images I had totally forgotten about. They are all taken around our house and in Susan’s Garden. This is a portrait of a daisy I took several years ago.
Day 68. This looks like a composite photo but it is just the way the camera saw it in the garden. It was after a rain shower and the rose was standing there, wet, with a background of yellow daisies.
Day 66 is 14th of June and this is an admission I should not make. But, I guess every garden has one. This is ours. It is the only one I remember in all these years.
Day 69 is the 17th of June. The colors and shapes of the blossoms in the garden are endless and very beautiful. And each year there are new flowers. The opportunities for pretty photos are endless.
Day 70. The flowers can also yield kaleidoscopic images and patterns. This is the inside of a tulip blossom – or maybe an image from a kaleidoscope? It is June 18th.
What is it about roses? They are beautiful, romantic, and all over Susan’s garden. Even in the rain they are beautiful. It is the 19th day of June and it is Day 71.
Day 72. Flowers close up are wonderful too. The shapes, the shadows, the subtle colors can make for incredible images.
Day 73. From the backyard grass there is a staircase leading up into Susan’s garden where the vegetables live. On the stairs she has pots with hot peppers growing and there are flowers along the walls on both sides. It is really very magical.
Day 74. The staircase up into Susan’s garden is not our only staircase. Along the side of the house from the front yard to the back yard there are these stairs which Susan also uses for pots. Here she grows tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers as well as roses and others flowers.
June 23rd is Day 75 of the Susan Project. Today was a beautiful sunny day, the air was warm, the plants had that special sweet smell you find in a garden. I found this in the berry patch. Actually, I found a whole bowl full of these!
Susan’s garden is an endless swirl of shapes and color highlighted by the sun. There are pictures everywhere you look. These pictures remind me of the pleasure walking in a garden brings. It is June 24th and day 76.
June 25th and it is Day 77 of the Susan’s Garden Project. Susan has Baby’s Breath in some of her planters. They are not the double blossom variety but just singles. But they form a white cloud over the containers. Very pretty.
Day 78 is June 26th. With all these pictures of fruit and vegetables it is easy to lose sight of the garden as a whole. Today I went up to the back of the property and took this picture of the garden and back yard.
Susan does not keep track of the names of the rose varieties she has. She gets them from clippings, as gifts from friends, and even buys the on one. But to her they are all just roses. And there are lots of them! June 27th and Day 79!
We have lots of fuchia in the yard. There are single blossoms that come every year by themselves and there are the double blossoms like these that come in hanging baskets around the patio. What a wonderful flower! Day 80.
It is June 29th and Day 81 of the Susan’s Garden Project. We have a clematis vine that comes back every year and it is regularly covered in a mass of blossoms. This picture was taken a few days ago and you can see what I mean.
June 29th and Day 81 of the Susan’s Garden Project. We have a clematis vine that comes back every year and it is regularly covered in a mass of blossoms.
1st of July and it is Canada Day and Day 83 of the Susan’s Garden Project. This Spring, and every other spring, we have tulips everywhere in the garden. They are wonderful with the sun shining through their petals.
I don’t know the names of all of the flowers Susan has in her garden but they are still full of wonder. Day 84.
July 3rd and it is Day 85 of the Susan’s Garden Project. Along the side of the house we have a patio where our Madinna dei Fiori stands. I have built boxes for Susan where she plants tomatoes along the wall. The wall is south facing and gets full sun all afternoon. The tomatoes she gets are fantastic.
Day 86. Every year beside the garden shed in the upper garden the Calla Lillies come back. She does not plant them. They look after themselves just fine and have been doing so for at least twenty years.
6th of July and it is Day 88. Staying up close with the blossoms, this one attracts the hummingbirds like no other. They are after it all of time the plant is in bloom, which is right now.
Day 89 of the Susan’s Garden Project. I have posted a couple of pictures of Calla Lilies and here is another. I like their simplicity and delicate curves. They are an elegant flower.
Day 87 of the Susan’s Garden Project. Views of the garden are nice but getting up close and personal with the flowers is a totally different world.
We are looking at pictures of Susan’s Garden at its best. But we have to remember that in winter it is desolation. This is a picture from January of 2022 of the garden. Day 90 is July 8th.
Yesterday we looked at Susan’s Garden in January of 2022. Today I went out into the garden and took a picture from about the same position. Notice the two faucets by the sidewalk in both images to get your bearings. Day 91.
10th July is Day 92 of the Susan’s Garden Project. Every morning in the summer I like to have my coffee on the patio. I walked out this morning and it was so beautiful I immediately got my camera and took this picture. Then I sat there with my coffee and enjoyed Susan’s flowers.
Day 93 of the Susan’s Garden Project. Not all the flowers are in the garden. Some hang above the garden. In yesterday’s picture we saw hanging baskets around the patio. Susan creates amazing baskets.
July 12th is the 94th day. This is another of Susan’s amazing hanging baskets.
15th of July and it is Day 98 and lets look at one last basket. Susan knows how to keep these healthy and blooming constantly.
Today is Day 95. Our lot slopes down to the front and on the street we have a rock retaining wall with a garden built into it. And yesterday, July 12th, it looked like this this.
Day 96 and we are still on the subject of Susan’s hanging baskets. She waters and feeds them every day all summer and the flowers cascade of the edges of the baskets and down the sides. They are a sight!
Day 97 is the 14th of July. The colors in Susan’s baskets assault the eye and bring an intense joy just to sit surrounded by them.
Day 99 of the Susan’s Garden Project. This is a Black Eyed Susan growing with white daisies.
If you look back, on Day 70 I posted an image of the inside of a red tulip. This is the inside of a yellow tulip. Day 100 and it is the 17th of July.
I was walking in the garden looking at the flowers and I took this picture. All year I find pleasure in Susan’s garden. Day 102.
When Susan is given flowers as a gift, in pots, she places them in the garden when they are done blooming and sometimes they come back. These lilies survive just fine in the garden are a amazing to look at. Day 101 and it is the 18th of July.
The 20th of July is Day 103 of the Susan’s Garden Projects. Yesterday I took this picture of a dahlia blossom in the garden. The colors in this image are wonderful.
21 July is Day 104 of the Susan’s Garden Project. Susan was given a bag of Dahlia roots a few years ago and now they pop in the garden everywhere, uninvited but very welcome!
Day 105 and this picture is a treat. On the side of the house, by our Madonna dei Fiori, Susan has four planters in the form of swans on the wall with begonias planted in each. This one has the most amazing orange blossoms.
Day 106. Our last picture in the Susan’s Garden Project was of a begonia in one of Susan’s swans. There are five swans on a wall in the garden in which Susan plants begonias each year.
The 24th of July is Day 107 of the Susan’s Garden Project. We actually have lunch at this little table quite often surrounded by Susan’s Flowers.
On Day 13 I posted a picture of Susan’s beans starting up the poles I put in for them. Today I went into the garden and took this picture for you of those same beans. They are there to the left of the walk way up to the top of their ten foot poles. It is Day 108.
On Day 13 I posted a picture of Susan’s beans starting up the poles I put in for them. Today I went into the garden and took this picture for you of those same beans. They are there to the left of the walk way up to the top of their ten foot poles. It is Day 108.
Day 112 of the Susan’s Garden Project and it is the 29th of July. There are endless opportunities for beautiful photographs in Susan’s Garden although it is not that large. I love to get in there with my camera and prowl for an image that delights me.
27th of July is Day 110 of the Susan’s Garden Project. Susan has lots of visitors to he garden. Unfortunately we have noticed that we get fewer bees than we used to. But some still come by.
Day 111. As we have said before, Susan’s garden is full of Black Eyed Susans. Sort of appropriate, don’t you think?
Day 113. We are well into summer now and we are eating well from Susan’s Garden. There is more than we can eat and family and friends who drop in leave with their arms loaded. Take a look at this purple cauliflower. Yes, there is such a thing.
July 31st is day 114 and tonight we will be eating broccoli.
Here we are on August 1st and we have a picture of a Dahlia. these are wonderful flowers and there are so many different blossoms. Susan left them in the ground from last year and most of them came back on their own. Day 115.
Day 116 and here is another Dahlia blossom.
Day 117. Susan has pots all through the yard and garden full of flowers. Every corner is full of flowers!
Day 118 is the 4th of August. Did I mention lavender? Susan has a big patch of this wonderful plant. Crushing the flowers in your fingers releases the most wonderful scent! And the bees love the blossoms.
Day 119. Foxglove is another flower that makes an appearance every year all on its own. Its origins are so long ago Susan cannot remember planting it or where it came from.
Black Eyed Susans are another flower that looks after itself and comes every year in profusion. Day 120 is 6 August 2023.
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