One of the three tea hybrid roses began producing beautiful white blooms in April.
As Corrie’s fourth angel anniversary approaches this month, I share pictures from the end of April to today. I decided to let Corrie’s gardens and flowers speak more than my words.
One of my four containers I’ve created for this season with pineapple sage, basil, cilantro, and parsley.
Due to recent physical and mental stress from recent triggers and nightmares as May 27th approaches, I took off work last week based on medical advice. I spent time in Corrie’s gardens or at my favorite garden nurseries when I wasn’t resting. This season, I’ve become interested in containers.
We’re fortunate to have a deep set front porch; the kind not made on houses anymore. The kind couples in old, romantic movies discuss in their dream home one day. I wanted to create my own containers instead of buying all of them, so I started with a Vermillionaire plant, which hummingbirds love, and lilies. Then I created my first herb container, as shown in the above picture.
Trailing Sage, coleus, and a Coral Belle are packed in the larger container.
My third container filled with annuals. I’ve also become interested in trailing plants this year.The Weeping Red Bud Tree in Corrie’s Anniversary Garden. On Corrie’s angel anniversary, we plan to plant something here each year. I set up the center plants first.
John’s mother’s and grandmother’s rose shrub. It originally came from John’s grandmother’s house, and he said it was the only rose shrub his mother kept. I plan to give it company with my two new rose shrubs.
I bought these roses, without knowing their name, last Thursday. I plan to put them near John’s mother’s rose shrub.
Due to worry about Japanese beetles, I haven’t bought roses in almost two years. I spent time last year moving several rose shrubs, so they weren’t all in the same garden.
Last week, I mostly disengaged from anything online. But I felt a weight lift as I spent time with the plants. Almost two and a half weeks’ worth of pictures are shared today, the first day of May. I recently learned the first Sunday in May is International Bereaved Mother’s Day, while August 25th is International Bereaved Father’s Day.
I moved one rose shrub on the other side of the angel statue in the Butterfly Garden last year. I also cut all of the rose shrubs back hard in late winter. They all look healthier.
Never a better time to share pictures of plants than now. One of my students said today, “You should be a photographer.” (I used to work as one.)
A patch of grass John did not mow because of the buttercups. While we’re also supporters of pollinators, he left them in honor of Corrie. “I didn’t mow anywhere with buttercups in honor of Corrie,” he said.
I bought my favorite Weigela, My Monet. Last year, I bought them on Amazon because I couldn’t find them anywhere, so I was excited to find them locally.
I was happy to follow doctor’s orders to do “a little” plant shopping last week.
Another landscape picture where wildflowers grow in the field.
Honeysuckles and other flowers in a tree, of which I don’t know the name, grow. They spell like jasmine.
The front garden, currently without a name, at the front of the property with the Japanese Maple Garden right behind it.
Calla lilies became my favorite flower not long after Corrie earned her wings. I don’t remember how I found out about them. They are beautiful and strong flowers. They last a long time in floral arrangements.
I planted or replanted Calla Lilies in Corrie’s Butterfly Garden and in the flower area of the Arendelle Garden.
The strawberry plants came from a wonderful co-worker and teammate, and I planted them along the wall in a no dig garden.
John’s mother’s Rhododendron blooms in front of the house, and at the entrance of the Cora Bell Garden, a shade garden.
Pink Dianthus, which look to me like small roses, bloom in Corrie’s Butterfly Garden.
Verbena I planted on Monday in the flower section of the Arendelle Garden.
The Spanish Lavender this year has exploded in blooms when last year they were small.
Cherry Deutzia, Pineapple Sage, Golden Globe Arborvitae, Dahlias, and Coral Bells in Arendelle.
Front of the Arendelle Garden with pansies and salvia.
The sky above the farm last week.
A floral arrangement I made for students to give to teachers/ staff of their choice at my school called Corrie’s Cups of Kindness.
They say teacher turn over is high right now, and many teachers will leave the profession in five years or less. I will enter my seventh year as a full-time teacher, and my 12th year in education after I'd started as a sub and teacher assistant. I was the student in the 1990s you did not want in your classroom because I was diagnosed with ADHD and did not know how to socialize with other kids. I was due to be tested for autism, but this was considered an ostracizing experience for a child then, especially a girl. I am a third generation teacher and author of seventeen creative works.
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