A couple more pictures of the gardens:
There area all kind of shrubs in this photo: the light green is a Spirea (I am unsure what kind - maybe Neon Flash) and behind it is a honeysuckle. The vine on the fence is, I believe, is a clematis. The one in bloom is a Snow Mound Spirea, and behind it is the Varigated Weigala that I featured in an earlier post. Of course, the dark thing in the background is Prince.
Here is a closeup of a branch from the Snowmound Spirea:
Unfortunately I didn't get pictures of it in full bloom - it seriously looks as if someone had covered teh branches entirely in snow.
The Clematis pictures came out washed out. Unfortunately the afternoon sun is too strong for good picture taking. Here is Clare deLune:
and Crystal Fountain :
For Cop Car, so she can see that there is no snowball bush, here is the shrub garden we put in last summer. The light in this one is too strong also, but you get a general idea anyway. The picture was taken early June:
Gorgeous photos! BTW: I just returned from 10 days in wonderful Topeka--at the state emergency operation center. For the flooding in 20 counties of Kansas, don't you know? How did you fare?
Judy & Don were here, overnight, a few days before I left. Judy loved all of the photos that you had posted of your pets and flowers! (Don was busy doing something else while we were gawking.)
Posted by: Cop Car | July 10, 2007 at 09:09 PM
I assumed you were out with the Red Cross. Seems to be a never-ending season of emergencies this year!
Posted by: Bogie | July 12, 2007 at 04:07 AM
Yes--I am still working the flooding. Unfortunately, it has blown my right hand--this one-handed typing thing sucks! The hand hurts like heck, but I finally got some sleep last night--12 hours. I was so sleepy--having survived on 3-5 hours per night for the last week--phone calls and my usual poor sleep syndrome. We've cut back to 11.5-hour days--plus total of 3 hrs of driving, for me. Started assignment on the 1st. HH didn't accept assignment--so he could cleam up the mess from our own flooding--yard, only, again.
Posted by: Cop Car | July 15, 2007 at 07:00 AM