The Clematis is vibrant and reassuring as it blooms on the trellis at a friend's home. The Clematis growing next to this one is finished blooming and she said that it was white. I tried growing Clematis in Prescott but it must have been in the wrong part of the garden because it did not do well.
This vegetable garden is in the tray of a portable bar-b-q and it makes a wonderful mobile garden. I would not have thought of using a defunct gas grill for a portable garden. The best part about this little effort is that it can be moved around so that it stays in the sunlight. You cannot do that with a raised bed garden. She has tomatoes growing outdoors and they seem to be doing well. She has a Bay plant and says that it has to be brought in for the Winter. When we visited Bar Harbor the bus driver pointed out a few Bay plants growing wild and apparently they do well out in the weather but then weather on the island may be a little more kind to plants than inland where we are. I am really enjoying seeing all the flowers in bloom. The wild Daisy plants are all over as well as Phlox and Lupines. they have a little orange flower here that they call Indian Paintbrush but it does not resemble the Indian Paintbrush plant that grows in Arizona.
I always look forward to the Day Lillies blooming. I just happened to catch this one before it began to close for the day after gracing the garden with its gold.
The Iris growing in the parklet at the State House are almost done but it still makes for a wonderful picture right next to the fountain.
Peonies are my all time favorite flower. At Toshogu Shrine in Japan, they had carved Peony flowers all over the entrance way as well as a very famous carving of a cat under the Peonies. This particular carving has a legend that goes like this: a very famous wood carver was asked to carve decorations for the Toshogu Shrine and he became quite boastful about his skills. He said that he could carve just as well with his left hand as he could with his right hand. So during the night when he slept his enemies cut off his right hand. So to prove his boast, he took the chisel in his left hand and carved the famous "Cat under the Peonies" sculpture that graces one of the gates at Toshogu Shrine. this shrine was erected to honor Tokugawa Ieyasu who was a great warrior during feudal times in Japan. He was the first Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
In the middle of this blog post, the computer shut down so I re - did it. I am not going dotty - just interested in preservation of thoughts and the sights of Maine.
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