flower garden – New England's Narrow Road

Pictures of Hydrangea Flowers

I photograph hydrangeas for my Hydrangeas Blue blog, for making wedding stationery for my BlueHyd online store, and for use other places I write online.

Recently I added some hydrangea shrubs to my yard and although I didn’t think they would bloom this year, they did!

It’s a wonderful surprise and I’ve been enjoying photographing these pretty hydrangea varieties.

white hydrangea blushing bride — Blushing Bride

starfish and blue hydrangea flower — Endless Summer

Blue Hydrangeas in Bloom

Learning From Experience – Which Hydrangeas Are Best? (hydrangeasblue.wordpress.com)
Taking Hydrangea Flower Cuttings (hydrangeasblue.wordpress.com)
How To Propagate Hydrangeas (hydrangeasblue.wordpress.com)

Red and Yellow Columbine in My Garden

I planted this Columbine in my flower garden last year and this Spring it has really grown. It’s loaded with flowers that are just beginning to go by.

Columbine is one of the flowering plants I’ve come to enjoy most in my New England landscape. The colors are gorgeous and they provide seeds when the flowers die which I can plant for the following year.

I also have purple and pink plants, but none of them bloomed as profusely as this one.

columbine plant — Pretty Columbine in my Garden

Although Florida, where I now live, has it’s own beautiful nature, flowers like the columbine will not grow there. I also miss my peonies and hydrangeas.

Almost Planting Time

Last year I bought some Nasturtium seeds and planted them all around the edges of my newly dug gardens. Some of them did very well, but the red ones especially did not.

For some reason they got aphids (I think) all over them and died.

Nasturtium seed packets — Ready to plant!

I didn’t buy seeds this year, but I did collect seeds from the dried out pods last year and I’m hoping they will grow once it’s safe here to plant seeds – which should be very soon.

In fact this weekend will be in the 80’s and I might not be able to wait until June 1st -which is the safe planting date for this area. This time of year the temperature is like a roller coaster…today was about 52 and tomorrow will be mid-eighties.

I think lots of New Englanders will be planting.

Playing With Cosmos

Cosmos flowers are one of my favorites to photograph. These grew in my yard over the summer – I started them from seeds in early spring and they grew into small trees!
I love the look of the petals and the white ones are my favorites.
The seeds are easy to collect and use the next year too. See more of my floral photography at Big Blooms