Everyday Living

A Walk In The July Garden

~ Flowers, Gardening, Summer

Happy Thursday sweet friends. I hope you are having a wonderful week!

“And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭5‬:‭2‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Grab a glass of iced tea and stay inside where you are cool. I will brave the heat and humidity to share a walk in our July garden!

July is when Hydrangeas Paniculata or panicled hydrangeas are the stars of the garden! They are the easiest to grow and most adaptable of all hydrangeas and there are many varieties to choose from. They also bloom on new wood meaning they create their flower buds for the year only after they have begun to leaf out in spring. This means that they can be pruned without negatively impacting their bloom. Not only are they a beautiful addition to a garden or landscape, but they grow from chilly USDA zone 3 through balmy USDA zone 8. We live in USDA zone 8a.READ MORE

A Celebration Of Sunflowers

~ Flowers, Gardening, Summer

Happy Tuesday sweet friends! Are you ready to celebrate?

“The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation—”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭18‬:‭46‬ ‭

Each year when the sunflowers bloom, I get excited and celebrate their arrival by photographing their happy, sunny faces! Grab a glass of iced tea and join me for a visit to our sunflower patches.

I order sunflower and zinnia seeds from Johnny’s Seeds. We have had wonderful success with their seeds for several years. They still send out catalogs and I feel like a child again (remember the Sears Christmas catalogues) as I peruse pages of flower and vegetable seeds!

‘Sunrich Orange’ have just started blooming. Their blooms are 4 to 6 inches in size and are single stem!READ MORE

Simple + Southern Sunday No. 452

~ Simple + Southern Sunday, Summer, Sunshine Cottage

“The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens!”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭113‬:‭4‬ ‭ESV‬‬

I often name a photo, I suppose as an artist does a painting. I called this one “Anticipation”. Will a thunderhead with rain and lightning develop? Could there be a rainbow? Looking at the sky can bring many thoughts to mind to give us pause and wonder. Maybe that’s what happened when singer and songwriter Dottie Rambo wrote words like “The sky shall unfold, preparing His entrance…”!READ MORE