Foxglove

Foxglove (digitalis) 

My first foxglove is blooming beautifully. 

Why don't I have a dozen more?

Digitalis is poisonous.

 I have given scads of the medical form of it at the hospital.

 It is given for various heart conditions.

 It is in a planter to keep it away from our cat.

I see three or five foxgloves along a white picket fence (a friend has given me a piece of picket fence) or at the base of our stone front stoop. 

In Olive Out news Joe and I installed a new gas hot water heater over the weekend. It was a lot of work but think of the plumbers charges we saved. That installation snow balled into forcing me to clean the laundry room whether I wanted to or not. My laundry room is clean but will never be seen here. It is not photo material. Real life is not always pretty.

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Tell me do you dream about flowers?

Olive

Flower Garden Emerging

I am awfully excited about my first foxglove.        

Vinca and a vintage garden spreader.

Phlox-often seen at old home places here in the south. 

It is very slow growing.

Nasturtium I grew from seed. 

It is one of the easier flowers to grow from seed.

 I am trying to buy only petunias (annuals) this year at the nursery.

 They can take our heat. 

The geraniums in the earlier post were an unexpected bargain.

However I am easily swayed when it comes to flowers my peeps.

The perennials are emerging in the flower garden. 

Some have winter burn but will survive.

My rusty wheelbarrow is always nearby.

 That pod of grass was filled with felled pine trees from the February ice storm. 

In a few weeks the flower garden will be filled with

 blooming roses, day lilies, and other beauties.

We are thankful for rain yesterday. 

We took  items to the booths and got incredibly wet but had a good time.

If you are in the Deep South plants labeled full sun (not roses) really need

 some partial shade because our full sun is brutal.

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happy gardening

Olive