{"id":810,"date":"2009-06-04T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2009\/06\/flower-gardening-update.html"},"modified":"2019-06-24T15:22:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T19:22:08","slug":"flower-gardening-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2009\/06\/flower-gardening-update.html","title":{"rendered":"Flower Gardening Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/lalvender.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343457502855300434\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;\" src=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/lalvender-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I promised that once a month, I&#8217;d stand in the same spot (next to the piles of slate destined for the garden paths&#8230;trust me, they aren&#8217;t moving anytime soon) and snap photos of the flower garden. I love flower gardening. I could spend all day out there. The butterflies are out in full force. On Tuesday we counted 20 butterflies alone at the front of the garden. This morning as I snapped these pictures, several hummingbirds swooped by to drink nectar from the feeder hanging on the arched trellis entrance, but I was too slow to capture them.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the garden on May 4, 20<a href=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/FlowerGardenMay09.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343457122358303666\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;\" src=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/FlowerGardenMay09-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>09:<\/p>\n<p>And here it is: the flower garden, today, June 4, 2009. This is the hot, sunny, sloping area next to the driveway that the guys building our house thought of as wasted space. They&#8217;ve told us they wondered what we&#8217;d do there. Even the UPS delivery man stops to look at the flowers when he drives up. The flowers make me so happy! Annuals, perennials, roses and a ton of weeds, all in happy, messy profusion.<a href=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/GardenJune409.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343462292906022578\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;\" src=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/GardenJune409-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/flowerjun04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343461811548470434\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;\" src=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/flowerjun04-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/gardn3june409.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343461812641463106\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;\" src=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/gardn3june409-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The majority of the plants are from SpringHill Nursery. Remember my story about them? I bought two kits and they had a year guarantee. I called them to ask for a replacement on just six plants that had died. Each kit had at least 30 plants. They didn&#8217;t just send me new plants &#8211; they sent me the WHOLE KIT! TWO KITS! So my flower gardening joy is complete. More plants to play with!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promised that once a month, I&#8217;d stand in the same spot (next to the piles of slate destined for the garden paths&#8230;trust me, they aren&#8217;t moving anytime soon) and snap photos of the flower garden. I love flower gardening. I could spend all day out there. The butterflies are out in full force. 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