Sand Lily Growing in Jefferson County Oregon
Previous Next Meet the Sand Lily! This beautiful wild flower is just one that blooms here in the High Desert of Oregon, the county of Jefferson County Oregon. Overlooked by many for it blooms as you can see very low to the ground. We do know of a spot that these do bloom and our […]
Sweet William Flowers
Previous Next Meet the Sweet William Flowers part of the Dianthus family of flowers! Pretty easy to grow and once you have a spot they like, they keep coming back due to seeding so well here in our garden. We grow most everything directly into the soil, the few plants we grow in pots I […]
Columbine Flowers Blooming in the High Desert
Previous Next Meet the Columbine Flowers we grow here in our garden! Unlike my other post, “Life on the Columbine Flower”, this will be just the Columbine flowers themselves. The Columbine that we grow is the “old world”, species. That is they have beautiful spikes. The new hybrids do not have these spikes. However we […]
Iris Flowers In My Garden
Previous Next Meet the Bearded Iris Flowers. Most of our Bearded Iris Flowers are the “Tall” species. We have had these Bearded Iris flowers so long we have forgot their names. Yes flowers actually have names the breeders give them ha! In 2015 we will have a dozen or so more colors of the Bearded […]
Poppy Flowers In The Garden
Previous Next Meet the Poppy Flower! Or the salt and pepper shaker flower. One thing all Poppy flowers have in common is the seed pod. When dried they are like salt and pepper shakers! Many of us have learned this from childhood and it is a good way of remembering them! Above photograph is a […]
Sunflowers From My Garden
Previous Next On this day in September of 2014 the day was cloudy. I still got some photographs. The sunflower is a yearly flower we grow for the beauty and for the birds. The colorful sunflower above has the tiny black sunflower seeds that contain oils that the big seeds contain, though not as much […]
Four Oclock Flowers in Bloom
Previous Next Meet the Four O’Clock Flowers that were blooming here in our garden in the high desert of Oregon! We placed the big seeds here and there not knowing where they were going to like what spot the best. They bloomed where we could get NO other flower to bloom along with blooming through […]
Gloriosa Daisy Flowers Blooming in the High Desert
Previous Next Meet the Gloriosa Daisy! Much like the Black Eyed Susan however the Gloriosa has more color! We looked and looked for seeds and I had to go to the internet to get the seeds shipped to our home to plant. Several plants with several colors of the Gladiosa Flowers sprang up! These photographs […]
Variety of Moss Rose Flower Colors
Previous Next Meet the Moss Rose Flower! This is a species of flower I really do insist on having every year. I like them, I really like them! The Moss Rose comes in several colors! Here in the High Desert of Oregon we grow these in containers mostly. Why? Well, they tend to like peat […]
White Lily Flower Bloom
Previous Next Meet our White Lily Flower that is part of our Lily patch. Since Guy is home I asked him the name of this Lily to see if he could remember the name for everything has a name. Na he did not remember. We have had this blooming for several years now. I pulled […]