I love the color of these buttons...they are the same color as my bridesmaids dresses...Oooo... so long ago...LOLmore of the "septic tank" garden...my "mound" up at he entrance is starting to color up too...

There must be someone with flower pictures...This spring has been very good for them...pretty soon we will all just pass out from the heat...

I'm still planting my flowers. I just put all the pics on my facebook page. I'll have to post them here tomorrow. I'll need a bigger yard to compete with yours!

I can never tell the difference between a weed and a flower so I hit everything with roundup.

well....a weed is a plant out of place...so in your case...you have no plants...sad yard...you kinda sound like my husband...he asked me the other day if I was going to weed eat the butter cups in the barnyard down...I just laughed and said... but I like the little buttercups...life is like flowers...its just a matter how you view it...

Oooo...I was playing around and took this at night...

Night photography is fun, but ohhhhhhhh, that date stamp....save it for the real estate work.

I don't want to scare you, but there was a large bear hiding in the flowers. Be careful!

LOL...thats Rex...AKA... Mugzy...Sponge Bob...and a host of other names I cannot share...or I will be censored

OK...some more flowers...but pretty soon they will be shot with the temp in the midwest hitting consistant 90+ degree Daylilys can take the heat pretty good...

Here's a bit of proof that we also try to grow some "flowers":

Dahlias don't much care for our climate here in Vermont, where the winter temperature may occasionally dip to -67°F . . . . so we have to dig their rhizomes (or tuberous roots) up each fall and protect them over the winter. They reward us by growing very fast to over 4' tall:

And they produce long lasting blooms that may be 7" (or more) across. Better horticulturalists than we might produce much larger ones, especially where the growing season is more than 60 days !

So while Dahlias are very tedious and frustrating to deal with; Dahlias can also sometimes produce massive rewards . . . . just like in Real Estate !

Oh yes...Dahlias are a challenge...very nice Vermont...your yard does have that rural feel...LOL

Okay Miss Ditty, these aren't really "Flowers" per se; but they are living things. We watched some advertisers on TV suggesting that growing tomatoes "Upside Down" would make it all so . . . so . . . so much easier to harvest them because you wouldn't have to bend over to pick them. So, we've got a few experiments in progress attempting to grow "Upside Down Tomatoes" just like they showed us on TV (but without sending any valuable money).

All are home made contraptions or other modified gardening material. Here's one that's growing out of the bottom of a hanging pot made of Coconut Fibre:

That's more of our "Rural" Neighborhood (devoid of neighbors) across the road.

And here're a few other candidates hanging from the Pergola at our Office Entrance. It looks like conventional Pots allow the Tomatoes to keep more moisture around their elevated overhead roots:

Hope the neighborhood still has that "rural" feel ! Not quite as seen on TV.

LOL... Ive seen 5 gallon buckets used...I have faith... they will bear fruit... I sowed potatoes eyes above ground and just used mounds of straw...it worked and I did not have to dig...who knew...

Beautiful. Vermont & Ditty, nice digs.