Flowers At Home
That Make Me Happy!
You might say I'm a plant guy. I love beneficial plants of all sorts. I love to take care of them, and I especially love having them around our home, indoors and out.
With much thanks to my lovely wife and her decades of adding perennial flowers to our borders, and to my equally long era of adding flowering shrubs and trees, and more recently planting flowers in my vegetable gardens, we are blessed with a very wide variety of outdoor blooms that begin in early Spring and don't end until late Fall, as well as many indoor houseplants that blossom.
In the flower beds that surround our home, we have had several varieties of daffodils, bleeding hearts, coreopsis, evening primrose, tiger lilies, Asiatic lilies, white lilies, Solomon's seal, turtle head, bishop's hat, several shades of purple iris, dwarf purple iris, cosmos, white iris, lily of the valley, pink lily of the valley, violets, false indigo, grape hyacinth, black-eyed susans, asters, saxifrage, peonies, several varieties of pink roses, yellow roses, 4 colors of ground phlox, and more that I can't think of right now.
Every year I grow at least 3 rows each of snapdragon as well a few more rows of an ever-changing variety of other annuals in my raised garden beds. Plus I plant tall sunflowers in several bare spots in the borders around our house. And the herb bed contains chives, lavender, thyme, oregano, mint, sage, and catnip that bloom every year.
As for bushes, there's forsythia, 4 different colors of lilacs, pink and red azalea, rhododendron, wisteria, hydrangea, honeysuckle, several different kinds and colors of roses, plus some less conspicuously flowering evergreen bushes including boxwood, holly, yew, and arborvitae.
Then there's the 2 large red maple trees in our front yard, the 2 magnificent tall tulip trees along our side yard, and the mega-hedge of arborvitae trees along the back. Not to mention all the white clover in our lawn.
Indoor blooming plants include: night blooming epiphyllum, spathiphyllum, african violets, asparagus fern, orange clivia, jade (which I didn't even knew blossomed until one day, decades after getting it, one of mine suddenly did!), and others, some of which bloom as often in the winter as they do in the summer.
So, for your viewing pleasure, here's a large sampling dating all the way back to 2001 of our Flowers At Home That Make Me Happy!
April 4, 2024
Daffodils in the snow
October 10, 2023
Pink Hydrangea
Coreopsis
Red Zinnia
the last Snapdragon of the season
Sungold Tomatoes
Dill
Pink Zinnia
Orange-ish Zinnia
Roses
Little Purple Asters
May 1, 2023
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Euonymus
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Dwarf Purple Iris
September 27, 2022
Large Purple Asters
Pincushion Flower
September 18, 2022
Bachelor Button
Black-eyed Susans
Cosmos
Euonymus
Lemon Leopold Sunflowers
Zinnia
July 7, 2022
Catnip
Zucchini
Queen Anne's Lace
June 26, 2022
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Cilantro
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Bok Choi
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Tall Snapdragon
June 21, 2022
Yellow Columbine
Lavender
Pink Clover
Red-Twigged Dogwood
Coreopsis
June 12, 2022
Mountain Laurel
Sedum
Purple Verbena
Gazania
Red Petunias and Yellow Mini Petunia-looking Flowers
June 4, 2022
Burnet Saxiphrage
Pink and White Striped Petunias
Mouse Earred Coreopsis
Pink Petunia and Purple Don't Knows
White Clover
May 30, 2022
Peas
May 21, 2022
Lily of the Valley
Pink Lily of the Valley
Chives
Red Azalea
Bush Rose
Purple Iris
May 16, 2022
Bishop's Hat
Wild Strawberry
(Only the the flower makes me happy ---
I've been pulling this weed out of my lawn for decades.)
Honeysuckle
pale lavender Phlox
purple and pink Plox
April 25, 2022
Pink Azalea
Grape Hyacinth
April 15, 2022
Forsythia
Red Maple
old Hyacinth
April 14, 2022
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Large Cup Daffodils
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Common Boxwood
February 7, 2022
Orange Clivia
Tulips
September 7, 2021
Wisteria
Giant "Evening Colors" Sunflower
It is an honor that this photo was selected to be part of the UMass-Amherst's Mass Aggie Seed Library 2024 Nature Photo Exhibit!
August 27, 2021
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