Patio Photography & What I’m Reading
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Today I’m showing you my patio photography and discussing what book I’m currently reading.
Oh my, I’ve been having so much fun gazing at flowers and plants on my patio. Taking photos of blooming flowers really makes me happy.
Patio Photography:
I’ve loved photography for 20 years. Way back when you had to have your pictures developed somewhere.
I get so much enjoyment from planting plants and flowers and then watching them grow throughout the season. There is joy every single time I take a photo of the way plants evolve over time.
I am completely enamored of gardening and the ways of nature.
I have a funny story. You know how I had questions about a plant that came up in my galvanized container garden? The one I just couldn’t figure out the identity of? I kept thinking it was either Black-eyed Susan or cone flower.
Lemon Balm:
Well, yesterday I figured it out and it’s neither of those flowers. It is lemon balm!
Did you know that there are health benefits to using lemon balm?
I had planted lemon balm in the galvanized container that sits squarely on top of the other three containers. Sedum seemed to take over in one of them. It apparently crowded out the lemon balm that was planted in the container originally.
Maybe the lemon balm gave up fighting the encroaching sedum and dropped down to the containers below. I don’t know how that occurred, but I know I didn’t plant it there.
Isn’t it odd how things like that happen in a garden setting or in nature? Sometimes it is birds or squirrels that are the culprits of planting seeds. But I don’t think that was the case this time.
A Pepper Plant:
Two of my vegetable plants are putting out flowers. I’ll be glad when my tomato plant has those delicious tomatoes I love.
There’s nothing better than a veggie burger with a homegrown sliced tomato.
What I’m Reading:
I’m reading David Baldacci’s “The Fallen” from the Memory Man series.
I love this series of books and have read them all. I so enjoy Decker, the main protagonist, and all his exploits as he solves crimes with his FBI team.
Your patio plants look wonderful. You certainly have a green thumb.
I enjoyed your patio blooms! Here I had two daffodils that survived the cold and then two days later we went to 85 degrees and they succumbed to the heat
Beautiful! I love the close-ups, but I was wondering if you would show some wide angle shots of the patio so I could get a better idea of where you place things in relationship to each other. I am trying to plan a container garden on my deck, which I’ve not done in an extensive way before. I am cutting down on flower beds in my yard as it’s getting too hard to take care of them all. I want to have a really showy container garden this year instead. Like you have!
I love your garden! And i love to go outside each morning and see how my plants are doing. I planted lettuce this year and it is doing so well I think in another 2 weeks I will be eating it.
I hope your pup is feeling better.
Thanks Brenda for replying to my comment and for letting us know what you think of the books you read. I can’t wait to start the Decker series. Your patio garden is lovely and the photos look as if you could reach out and touch the plants. sue
I just bought a plug in for my book reviews that will make them more detailed. I’m currently trying to figure out how to use it!
I bet the lemon balm is very sweet to smell. Your garden is really coming to life. Before long you will have juicy tomatoes to enjoy.
Have a great rest of the week.
Kris
The patio smells of lemon and alyssum.
Wow, look at all those flowers!!!! We have a lovely warm day today with abundant sunshine…..I put a load of wash on the line before I went to work, and I plan on cooking on the grill this evening after a cocktail on the swing – happy dance! Perhaps a few of my daffodils might be blooming by the time I get home as well!! 🙂
Sounds good! Wish I had a seat at your table.
I need to get some lemon balm to enjoy the fragrance!
I always have lemon balm, mint, pineapple sage and lemon verbena.
I love your photography and your garden progress pictures, especially since growing things here in the Northeast are still mostly asleep. Gardening and photography are two of my favorite things too.
We have a lot in common then!
Wow! Your patio garden has really taken off; the photos are just beautiful. I need to plant a few more herbs and I really like the lemon balm — not sure why I have not planted any here in St Augustine. But that is easily remedied with a trip to the garden center. And I do love visiting the garden center — both centers where I enjoy shopping have lots of cats that live there and you never know when you will encounter them. Sometimes they are lounging in the sun on the garden paths or dozing in the shady areas in the plant areas. Once in a while they are laying across the counter at checkout. They are always friendly (well as friendly as cats can be) and love to be stroked. Going to the garden center for me is a lot like going to a museum — I can spend an entire morning just walking through the different sections and looking at the new selections.
Love the Decker series and David Baldacci.
Oh I do too. Decker is so lovable even though he tries not to be.