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17 comments:
What a beautiful images, love them all!
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nice. thanks for sharing that bit of beauty going into the weekend vicki
Gorgeous Vicki. There isn't anything colorful around the new cottage. I miss that from the mobile home. It's mostly woods and lots of vines full of honeysuckle which smell great but not a lot of color. I can't afford to plant anything right now I I'll enjoy it through your pics.
Your photos deserve a book. They are just gorgeous.
Yes, welcome sweet Springtime! Beautiful photographs.
Lovely! I am so enamored with the Kousa dogwood. Being from Georgia orginally, I grew up surrounded by the traditional dogwoods. But the "Kousa" ones seen more commonly around here have really won me over. This year they seem positively loaded with blooms - you can hardly see the leaves! Surprising how sad I felt for your dead luna moth. Poor pretty little moth. :(
What lovely photos - all of them make me feel wonderful. Guess butterflies aren't affected at all by poison ivy!! Lucky critters!
o lovely especially the luna moth and the spice bush butterfly. -- barbara
Great photos, they're all so beautiful I don't think I could pick a favorite. The month of May sure is pretty in NC!
Mid may has lots of beauty to bring to your garden!!!! Lovely!!!
hugs dear vicki
Everything is absolutely marvellous! Poor butterfly...
IT's a rainy day when I look through the window. But a turn of the head, and I have beautiful spring in your photos. Thank you.
Lovely images! You have some healthy looking poison ivy!
wow, you have a kousa dogwood, i love it. a few of them grow on Garinish Island here in our village harbor. your peonies and your bearded iris is so much faster than mine.... your plants photographs are beautiful!
Thank you, Marinala! You have a lovely web page!
Barb -- when we first moved here, all my plants came from neighbors who gave me starts of things like daylilies and iris and such; maybe you'll find some nice folks with plants they'll share.
Brenda -- a nice thing about Kousa is that it doesn't get the anthracnose virus or whatever it is that's killing so many of our native dogwoods.
RNSANE -- you should see or cows -- they eat poison ivy with no evident effects.
Kat -- We are really good at growing healthy poison ivy, alas.
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