With the hopes that this will actually encourage me to do enough gardening (i.e. weeding) to add to the site each year, I've revamped the organization a little: each year (or maybe a couple–three years) gets its own index page.
Caring for tree peonies. 02jun2020
Watercolour sketches of white tree peonies, 2018 02jun2020
26may20 shima nishiki from watercolour block 12jun2020
3 sketchbook pages of blooms from my shima nishiki tree peony 11jun2020
Peony in white... 01jun2020
snowdrops...in snow:) 06apr2020
rock iris 07apr2020
veronica/speedwell flowers 08apr2020
Chionodoxa, beautiful star-eyes... 09apr2020
fall flower pictures taken with the lensbaby. 04oct2017
Some pix of my `eyed' pink daylilies. 05sep2017
Swallowtails in my garden, circa 2014 & 2017. 07sep2017
celebrating some `oh, finally' successes with lilies.
First spring bulbs of 2016 14mar2016
Summer flowers from my garden, especially tree peonies: post made 27jun15. Posted 07oct2015
spring garden; page created 1may2015, posted 06oct2015
Monarch caterpillar & pupa 15sep2014
Milkweed, shot in Jan., with snow 23jan2014
Late summer garden pix, shot 11sep2013 25sep2013
hachidori—hummingbirds—sort of shot in my garden. 30jul2013
yellow yarrow in the front yard. Also, lemon yellow daylilies. 29jul2013
My perennial garden peaks in July.
Pix of my sweetshrub, just ending, and clematis, just starting. 05jun2013
white tree peony blooms. I take soft-focus pix. 22may2013
2013 pix of my striped tree peony, with a side of wild ginger. 18may2013
siberian squill (wood squill, woodland hyacinth—Scilla siberica, in the lily family), last week of april; grape hyacinth, first week of may. 07may2013
My garden is flooded. So here are some pix to remind me that it will survive. 20apr2013
The first flowers to bloom this year. 01apr2013
mauve, pink and blue plant hanger for a friend. 01jun2013
purple morning glory with water drops
A slightly blurry photo of a monarch in flight 04oct2012
Red begonias, with lensbaby. 23aug2012
Butterflies and real eyes. 28apr2012
In which I discover an unexpected benefit of a dandelion ridden lawn 28apr2012
red berries; mostly to make a test page 04nov2014
pretty picture of a stella d'oro daylily
White tree peony shows off my new camera's capabilities. 22may2010
With the black eyed susans now just opening and the daylilies going full-bore, the garden is officially peaking. Originally posted 18jul08. 18jul2008
After sitting as a proposed index for 12 years, I've repurposed this page to show off garden pix taken 06jun08 (the day it was made;) 10jan2020
I actually photographed these autumn chrysanthemums three days before fall officially started. 09jan2008
roundup of 2007 garden posts. Which, since I didn't even start writing 'em till mid-August, are likely to sparse this year. C'est la vie. Originally posted 18aug07. 18aug2007
End of summer summary. Originally posted 15aug07 15aug2007
2006 16jun2006
2005 (so far) 16oct2005
Well, gee. My plans to post every day for at least a year lasted almost 2 months before succumbing to angst and the need to get on with my life. Summer always seems like it ought to be slow, lazy and carefree, but it never is, because I do much of my traveling then. I've just returned from one t...
2001 01jan2002
1998–2000 01jan2001
Some wildflower pictures taken end of June 2002 in Door County WI state parks and van Riper State Park, UP, MI.
Unless otherwise noted, text, image and objects depicted therein copyright 1996--present sylvus tarn.
