Pretty Flower Friday

Today I thought I would showcase my beautiful butterfly bush, which is blooming in all it's glory right now. The hummingbirds are going crazy, enjoying the pink blooms and playing and chasing each other around it. It really is fun to watch!

Our giant butterfly bush that is becoming a bigger monster every year... it's crazy how big this thing gets!



Now, if you look closely you can see the hummingbird... they are so hard to catch a picture of. They just move TOO fast!

Have a great weekend & stay cool!!

Pretty Flower Friday

Pretty Flower Friday is back! Here is a photo of one of my favorite flowers in my backyard, my Lavatera. Enjoy and have a good weekend!

Pretty Flower Friday.... on Sunday!

I totally spaced posting a new flower photo on Friday, probably because it was a bit of a crazy day. Anyway, wanted to share a lovely picture of my Clematis vine that just began blooming this past week. It is just so pretty!!!!

Enjoy!

Pretty Flower Friday

Happy Friday!

I hope you all had a great week. Below is today's edition of Pretty Flower Friday. I actually took this picture last week, oh well! This is a petunia I have planted in a pot with Bacopa. It's so pretty, plus pink is my favorite color.

I'm still patiently awaiting the blooming of my clematis... it's going to be so pretty. We've also got quite a few strawberries that are getting close to being ready to pick. Lynsie has been loving those little treats. We just have to beat the birds to them!

Pretty Flower Friday

Thank GOODNESS I took this picture earlier in the week because this petunia does NOT look like this anymore after yesterday's severe thunderstorm / imminent tornado warning. LOL! Yowza!

Anyway, this pot is so pretty and I just had to share:

Pretty Flower Friday

Here are my Pretty Flower Friday flowers!! This is a container I planted that has wintered over fuschias for quite a few years and this year I decided to add in some hot pink impatiens. So far they are looking so pretty and I'm sure they will look so nice when the fuschias start to bloom.

Sorry the picture isn't all that great, I need a new darn camera and it was getting a bit dark outside. I promise a better picture next week!! :o)

Pretty Flower Friday

Alright, I'm designating Friday's...

PRETTY FLOWER FRIDAY'S

and if I'm good at this, I'll be updating with a picture of a pretty flower from my garden. I should have alot of them this year (I hope) as I planted a friggin' ton of flowers!!!!

To start off this wonderful, fun tradition I am going to share with you a photo of our giant flower pot here at work. We first established this giant flower pot in July of last year. My wonderful, friend Jennie's hubby planted the flowers which carried us through the summer. In the Fall, my mom came out and helped me pick some plants that would survive year round and add a little something to the pot during the Winter instead of a pot of brown dirt. That looked nice added to what had already been planted. However, with the nasty icy and snowy winter we had, nothing survived but the year round stuff we planted in the Fall.

Here is a "Before" photo of the pot:



After having the flower planting bug Mother's Day weekend at my own home, I decided to go the nursery and stock up our lovely giant flower pot at work with what I hoped would be beautiful flowers. So far, the giant flower pot is looking good and happy with what I've planted in it. The flowers I planted include a fuschia; some bacopa in pink, purple and white; impatiens that are a nice purplish-pink color; and a nice grass that should stay green year round (at least that's what the nursery told me!). So far, things seem to be really happy and I'm hoping we get some more beautiful blooms in the next few weeks. If they get really spectacular, I will for sure update.

As of right now, here is what we've got:




Keep your fingers crossed that all works out and we get lots of beautiful blooms this summer!!