Sunday, May 15, 2011

Magnolia Mania


The Beginning .......slender shapes of Pink





If you look up....you will see......Lovely contrast against the Blue Sky
Look at the softness of a single bloom. You can feel the scent. 
Peak inside this delicate Bloom
A vision of Colour.
This Tree has not yet reached it's Peak of blooming
  
Another View

Is this is more breath taking than.......?
If I could paint..this is how I would capture it...just like this.......

And when the blooms become frail, they let their petals fall to the ground
to form a carpet of colour.......

This is the Japanese Magnolia.

Pretty in Pink

While strolling through a Toronto Park  a couple of weeks ago,
we came across this lovely blooming shrub in a backyard that backs on to the park.
I am totally in the dark about what this shrub is.
I would love the answer, because is worthy of adding to the garden one year.
Is it an Azalea Plant?

Is this forever or a summer fling?



Sunday, May 8, 2011

I never realized that they were metallic

BLUE....


and what a pretty white belly.

Do you know what this pretty bird is?
This is the male. The female does not have any shiny blue.


Friday, May 6, 2011

IT ALL LOOKS GOOD IN THE BIGGER PICTURE

THE GLORY

Here you can see results of hard work protecting the bulbs in the soil
........but my smugness would not last very long at all

The Tulips have been beheaded

The mystery ????????????????????    is solved here

but now what???????

I started looking up how to stop this problem on the internet
and found this

Every morning, I run around the garden with my spice shaker of cayenne
sprinkling  what is left of the tulip flowers.
I still don't understand why this seems to be only happening to my
tulips in the neighbourhood!!!!

Next year I am planting these.
It seems daffodils keep the enemies away when planted among  tulips.
I still think there is something different about MY TULIPS....

Please ....
why don't you stick to eating nuts?