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Michigan is a perfect garden spot. The springs and falls are glorious, the summers get hot (but not extreme) with plenty of rain, the winters are cold (again, not extreme) with plenty of beautiful snow and lots of down time to plan next year's gardens. The soil here is sandy and a tiny bit alkaline. If I had a wish it would be for more loamy soil and shorter winters but oh well!

I had long grown daylilies but discovered the incredible advancements in variety of form, color, and accents about 7 years ago and started buying more. I have about 350 varieties at the moment. I hybridize my own seedlings and have a large seedling bed. My garden here is relatively new (moved in 2008) but getting established.


It's tempting to plant beds with only my favorite flower but it's the combinations with other plants that make a garden beautiful so I'm careful to keep the entire composition in mind so that my garden is beautiful spring through frost.



Gardening is a lot of work - but how nice to come home after a busy day and forget my cares for a while by immersing my mind in maintaining beauty.




Monday, February 19, 2007

Pictures??? Test???


I was wondering how to make my garden pictures where if a viewer clicks on them, they get a bigger size. Mine don't do this and maybe because I made them elements instead of a post? So let's see; I'll upload this another way and see if it's clickable . . . by the way it's the lovely Sabine Baur.

Oh! That worked. Let's see if I can change the ones on the right.
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3 comments:

Gotta Garden said...

This is WONDERFUL!!!! Your pictures are fantastic! A week old already and I only just found out today!! Lol! Welcome to blogging! I'm so glad you're here...I'll be stopping by to see what you're up to!

February 19, 2007 at 5:12 PM
Colin and Carol said...

Clicking on your photograph worked fine.Excellent pictures and now Louise you have been tagged

Maybe because my Great Uncle Pat moved to Michigan and it seemed so far away......

February 23, 2007 at 2:54 PM
Colleen Vanderlinden said...

I just found this blog, and I'll be coming back often :-) I'm always excited when I find another Michigan garden blogger. Your garden is absolutely stunning!

February 26, 2007 at 7:49 AM

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