What better way to spend a Saturday morning, after rain showers throughout the night, flowers covered in raindrops and perfect overcast skies? The conditions were too perfect to not make photographing my flowers a priority. I had made a challenge to myself to photograph more this summer. Especially all of my flowers. That challenge has been a failure up until yesterday.
It has been hard with my day job, vegetable garden, multiple flower gardens, strawberry patch, raspberry patch, and going to a local organic blueberry farm to pick blueberries to meet my own challenge. Yesterday, I decided to let the weeds that needed pulled, making pesto and dead heading flowers wait for another day. Although I do find dead heading annual flowers therapeutic after a trying day. I needed to play! And play I did.
The first image in the gallery below is of snapdragons from Johnny’s Seeds. I planted Johnny’s Early Sunrise Mix. And they have been so beautiful, I plan on planting them again next year. If you look close on the right side of the frame, there is a newborn praying mantis. They are born brown and turn green as they mature.
My purple prairie clover is blooming quite nicely. It is a native wildflower to Iowa. The yellow flowers behind are black-eyed susan’s. Also a native wildflower to Iowa. The final image in the gallery is of new growth to one of my snapdragons. Soon there will be more flowers.
What have I been doing with all of these flowers? Every Monday I take a bouquet to work and put on my desk. If I can’t be home in my garden, at least a small portion can go to work with me.
The bouquet tomorrow is limelight hydrangeas and a few queeny formula mix zinnias. The queeny formula mix is also from Johnny’s seeds and is a mix of the queeny lime series zinnias.
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