If you go into the garden today............

[Doris_Pinks]

A few snaps taken this morning................

      

 

   

So lovely to see colour again!  ;D

[Doris_Pinks]

[Tulipa]

Doris, what lovely photos, you garden looks beautiful.  After the winter the colours look so good now don't they.  It is just what we need to cheer us up.

[dragonfly]

Wow Doris, they are superb piccies.  What a lovely garden you have......  :D

[honeybee]

Just beautiful Doris  :)

May i ask?  What is the beautiful blue star shaped plant?

[Doris_Pinks]

It is a Camassia, Honeybee, as you can see by the many photos one of my favorites!

The online dictionary says this "Camassia \Camassia\ n. a genus of scapose herbs of North and South America having large edible bulbs."

Learn something new every day! Never knew they were edible :o Prefer to see the flowers though!

[GREENWIZARD]

you have staff DP~noticed your sign ;D ;D
lovely pics :)

[Doris_Pinks]

That's why I had children GreenWiz! ;D  No actually, I think the sign refers to ME! (Kitchen up there ;D)

[aquilegia]

Gorgeous. That blue one in particular. I've never heard of it before.

[Yellow Petals]

you have staff DP~noticed your sign ;D ;D
lovely pics :)

LOL I noticed that too!  Hehe.  Didn't nip down the local nursery did you, Doris?  :-X :P

[dibberxxx]

lovely pictures what lovely garden looks stunning  the  camassias are really great  ithink i would like sum of them .thanks for the pictures

[Doris_Pinks]

YP,Wish I did have staff to help me on the plot, but they all decline! :(  The garden is mine, all mine, and I love it that way!
The sign is from a railway station, my Uncle/Godfather was an avid collector and when he died I asked the executor for it!
Have fond memories of it being on his shed, near where we used to have bonfires in the warm summer evenings, and packets of crisps n hot chocolate, watching the bats and wildlife! ;D ( I was a lucky kid! ;D)
Thank you for all your nice comments :D I loves me garden, and it is nice to share with others that like gardens too!

[Marianne]

Doris Pink, I cannot see anything at all but big red crosses ! :'( :(

[simon404]

Lovely story Doris  :) and the pics :) o May thou art the fairest month - whats the poem?

[honeybee]

Yes, lovely story about your Uncles sign and your happy memories of times shared together.

Thanks for naming the plant for me....Camassia !!
I will definitely have to remember that one :)

[Doris_Pinks]

Sorry Marianne, but looks OK for me??

[Yellow Petals]

Yep, still looks ok to me too.  Lovely 'ol Garden there, DP.  Almost oriental in appearance.  What is the almost alien looking plant, bottom right?  I'm sure it's looking at me!

[GREENWIZARD]

i have camassia cusickii DP it's a paler shade blue.

[wardy]

Marianne  - it maybe your settings are tweaked too high (your security settings that is)  I was having the same problem and the only thing I could find to tweak was the security settings.  There is like a sliding bar which you can move up and down for higher or lower security settings

Good luck

[lorna]

Doris pinks.. I so enjoy the pics which are put on this board. Your garden looks absolutely fabulous,  Oh dear I have turned green again Thank you for sharing. Lorna.

[Heldi]

Gorgeous garden DP.