The Red Dahlia in Our Garden

Oh how beautiful these flowers are!  These red dahlias are truly lovely.  I usually buy  different colours of these flowers every summer. It is a  bushy  and herbaceous  perennial plants. When autumn time is almost coming, I dig it again from our garden and store in a cool dry place.  It cannot withheld freezing cold temperature during winter time. When spring time comes, I usually plant it again.

For you info, Dahlia is the national flower of Mexico. I believed they had a good choice!

These beautiful red dahlias in our garden.

See You Next Year Again Tulips

They are gone now in our garden. I guess they are only resting down the soil to get ready for spring next year. They had already done their part beautifying our garden during spring season. I am missing the tulips in our garden. I am not really sad because I know I will see them again next year.  I don't have to worry too because I always take pictures of them  everytime they are coming back to our garden.

Two kinds of tulips  in our garden. See you next year again!

The Yellow Dahlias in Our Garden

I haven't seen the flowers of the dahlias until now in our garden. I replanted some last spring time but everytime the leaves are growing the snails are eating them. These pests are really unstoppable.

Dahlias are herbaceous perennial plants. Like sunflower, daisy and chrysanthemum, they are members of the Asteraceae or Compositae, dicotyledonous plants. I love these flowers and hope to see them this year before autumn time comes.

The Yellow Dahlias in our garden. Also known as Dahlia x hybrida. This image was taken last summer 2011.

Fresh Sweet Starwberries from Our Garden

I finally harvested some sweet strawberries from our garden. I don't have a lot but at least from time to time I can get some fruits from it. The best thing is, it is free from any chemicals because I never put pesticides or insecticides on it. We don't a lot this year since the area where I planted a lot before is already a big patio and garage now. I am hoping to plant more in the flower pots since I also hate the snails going on it on the ground. With the flower pots, I can put them on the table. Hopefully this week I can already replant some.

Fresh strawberries that I just harvested from our garden.

Dianthus Barbatus or the Sweet William

Germans call these flowers "Bertnelken". There are already some colors in our garden but I still bought another three colors. I already have white, pink, fuschia, purple and some color combinations.

Dianthus Barbatus or the Sweet William flowers are herbaceous biennial or short-lived perennial plant growing to 30–75 cm tall, with flowers in a dense cluster of up to 30 at the top of the stems. I spread some seeds on our garden last year and I found out that they grow back again this year. I was so happy with it. I will see if I can get more colors the next time I go to the garden center.

The Dianthus Barbatus or the Sweet William  in our garden. They are still blooming until now.

The Yellow Daffodils in Our Garden

Most of them are gone now  and  I am happy to see them once in a year. Daffodil is the  common name  of the Narcissus flowering plant. They are bulbous plants and are winter hard. They always bloom flowers every spring time. It feels like a therapy for my body and spirit everytime I see them blooming in our garden. Truly such a beauty of nature!

These daffodils are from our garden and was captured last April 2012.

All Narcissus species have a central bell-, bowl-, or disc-shaped corona surrounded by a ring of six floral leaves called the perianth which is united into a tube at the forward edge of the 3-locular ovary. The seeds are black, round and swollen with a hard coat. The three outer segments are sepals, and the three inner segments are petals. Though the traditional daffodil of folklore, poetry, and field may have a yellow to golden-yellow color all over, both in the wild species and due to breeding, the perianth and corona may be variously colored. Breeders have developed some daffodils with double, triple, or ambiguously multiple rows and layers of segments, and several wild species also have known double variants. wikipedia

Spring Time is Garden Time

Spring time is truly garden time for me but sad to say, it is still very cold outside. I went this morning in our garden to check some flowers and I am happy to see that a lot of tulips and other flowers are already blooming. I want to do a bit cleaning and planting but decided not to staty too long because it breeze is still cold. I don't want to get sick only for this reason. I can wait until the weather will be nicer and friendlier in the coming days or weeks.

Spring time is just one of my favorite seasons of the year! Here are some of the few blooms from our garden.

these tulips always love to come back every year. I already have this for seven years in our garden.

the daffodils are slowly getting weakened. These are the first ones that bloomed in our garden since almost three weeks ago.

I love the color of this viola flowers. It is one of my favorite colors. They are also blooming now. Other colors such as yellow, red and orange are also in our garden.

First Bloom in Our Garden

Spring time is finally here! The calendar in front of me says that spring in Germany officially starts on March 20 this year. I went outside our garden today to look for the first blooms of the flowers. I already saw a lot. One of it are the tulip flowers. Hyacinths, violas and the little white wild flowers are also blooming. It makes me happy again to see the beauty of nature in our garden. I love it!

One of the first tulips in our garden.

Narcissus, Daffodil are Coming Soon

I am slowly feeling the spring air. I heard today over the radio weather forecast that the temperature in our area will be milder. They also mentioned that on Thursday, we will have up to 18 degrees Celsius temperature. Spring is almost coming. This is the time of the year where the tulips, narcissus or daffodils will start to grow and bloom in our garden.

Sad to say, I can't see the process of blooming of these flowers because I will be away for a 6-weeks trip to Spain starting March 11, 2012. I believed I will see some of the flowers when I come back in April. If not, I will also see some of these flowers in Spain.

Here are some of the narcissus or daffodils from our garden. This was taken last spring 2011.

You can also see the white flowers of our cherry tree. I can't see it again this year because we already cut this tree. In its area stands now our terrace and carport. The narcissus were also replanted in the other areas of our garden.

beautiful narcissus in our garden from spring 2011.

Narcissus is a genus of mainly hardy, mostly spring-flowering, bulbs in the Amaryllis family, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. It's common name in English is Daffodil.

Just Our Garden

This is just a part of our garden. For now you cannot see any flowers outside because it is winter season. When spring comes, I know I will be seeing again some flowers especially the tulips. I planted more last autumn time and can't wait to see it. Our garden will also have a new look this year because we did some changes in it.

You can here some roses, cosmos, gumamela or hibiscus, poppy peridot, gladiola, lavender and many many more.

a part of our garden taken last year.

Red Geranium, Pink Roses and What's the Yellow One?

It seems that the weather today is not so friendly. I heard over the radio that the streets and highways in Bavaria, Germany were very icy and slippery this morning, thus caused some car accidents to some drivers. Be careful especially to my friends around in Bavaria.

I found again some flowers in my External Hard Drive. I know I have lot of them especially the ones taken from our garden. I just have a bit difficulty in trying to find it in my EHD because until now I still don't have the time to arrange my flower files. I know one day I can find time to fix and arrange my picture files.

Here are some flowers from our garden. I hope to see them again in summer. I need to plant the others again because they won't come back after winter time like the red Geranium here.

red Geranium in our garden from last summer.

I guess this flower belongs to Asteraceae or Compositae family...it has two visitors at the same time.

Pink rose looking on the cloudy day..will see them again this spring time!

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Yellow Dahlias in Our Garden

It seems that the author of this site is quite busy for a long time. Yes, she is. She had a vacation in Spain last time, the holiday season, some tasks online and offline and so many things that she is taking care of. She has finally the chance to update this blog.

Here are some dahlias from our garden last summer. I love these flowers and can't wait to see them again next year.

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Dahlias grow naturally in climates which do not experience frost, consequently they are not adapted to withstand sub-zero temperatures. However their tuberous nature enables them to survive periods of dormancy, and this characteristic means that gardeners in temperate climates with frosts can grow dahlias successfully, provided the tubers are lifted from the ground and stored in cool yet frost-free conditions during the winter.

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Gladiolas in Our Garden

This is one of my favorite flowers in our garden. These are called gladiolas, also gladiolus, gladioli (plural) or sometimes called the sword lily. I hope to see these flowers again next year.

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the gladiolas from our garden last summer 2011.

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Wet Gladiola in Our Garden

Here comes the rain,
and make our garden wet.
All the plants are happy,
As the rainwater drops.

taken last summer 2010 in our garden....guess i am always late in posting but better than nothing..love this plant..

Gladiolus (from Latin, the diminutive of gladius, a sword) is a genus of perennial bulbous flowering plants in the iris family (Iridaceae). Sometimes called the sword lily, the most widely used English common name for these plants is simply gladiolus (plural gladioli, gladioluses or sometimes gladiolas).

The Cosmos Flower Has A Visitor

As I went to our garden to breath some fresh air this morning, I heard some sounds. I was trying to look around where it came from. I was even afraid because I heard a loud sound from bees. There, they go! I saw them sipping the flowers from the wild grape vines.

The cosmos flower below has also a visitor who is trying to sip the minerals in its flower. Hopefully next month, I can see again the blooms from the cosmos flowers in our garden.

This was taken from our garden last summer 2010.

Cosmos is a genus, with the same common name of Cosmos, of about 20–26 species of annual and perennial plants in the family Asteraceae. Cosmos are herbaceous perennial plants growing 0.3–2 m tall. The leaves are simple, pinnate, or bipinnate, and arranged in opposite pairs. The flowers are produced in a capitulum with a ring of broad ray florets and a center of disc florets; flower color is very variable between the different species. The genus includes several ornamental plants popular in gardens.

Lilium Flowers Are Blooming in Our Garden

One of my favorite flowers in our garden are currently blooming now. Thanks to the rain for the past days until today. It makes the plants and the flowers happy. The farmers in our area might be smiling at the moment. They finally have the rain that they are asking for their fields. The only person that is not happy is hubby because he cannot work outside for our garage and terrace.

The lilies you see below are only some of the flowers that I planted in our garden. I am happy seeing them blooming right now.

Lilium is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants growing from bulbs. Most species are native to the temperate northern hemisphere. They comprise a genus of about 110 species in the lily family (Liliaceae).

Poppy Flowers

This is my birth flower. That is also the reason I bought some last year for our garden. I am glad to know that they are back again in our yard. Poppy are flowering plants which belongs to poppy family. There are a lot of kinds of poppy flowers. I will see what are exactly the ones in our garden.

a kind of poppy flower.

Roses in Our Garden

We have been transferring some flowers and plants in our garden since two weeks ago. When it will be raining in the next days, I will be doing it again. I find it not good digging plants and transferring it when the weather is hot. I am afraid the plants will die.

We are almost done with the roses. I still have some more that needs to be transferred. Anyway the roses below was taken last summer 2010 in our garden.

did you see the castle tower on the picture..yes, we live near a castle ruin and I love it.

The First Crocus in Our Garden

I am happy to see the first flowers that are currently blooming in our garden this spring time. The crocus are finally here! Who tells the crocus to come back in our garden every year? That is the power and magic of nature and its Maker! It makes my day happy everytime I see it outside...amazing beauty of nature!

I took this photo last week in our garden. Spring is finally here!

Nature Around and Heidelberg City

I got here different images taken in different time and place. The first image was taken during our visit to Heidelberg, a very beautiful and romantic city in German State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The second image was taken in Rhorbach in Bavaria, Germany. Last but not the least, this was taken from our garden. We had a visitor, the cat's neighbor.

Heidelberg — having been a former residence of the Electoral Palatinate in the past — is the seat of the University of Heidelberg which is well-known far beyond Heidelberg's and Germany's borders. Furthermore, Heidelberg is a popular tourist destination due to its romantic and picturesque cityscape's character including the Heidelberg Castle and the baroque style Old Town.

The tower of the Parish church in Rhorbach, Bavaria, Germany.

we had a visitor in our garden, the cat's neighbor. sometimes he is so bad because he pees around our garden. that is the reason why I cannot plant vegetables in our garden.

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