What's Blooming Today

When a broken flower pot becomes part of a garden design.

May 30, 2018June 1, 2018 Blooming

There are many fun ideas for transforming the use of your broken flower pot. 1. The bottom broken out. By placing it around a plant, you can highlight a favorite flower and add color to your flower bed. With a…

Ponderings

Thanks for sending a rainbow Dad.

May 28, 2018May 28, 2018 Blooming

Happy Memorial Day. As many of us will spend the day with family and friends relaxing and enjoying life … remember why we have this luxury. But most of all … Experence the good moments, like my Memorial Day experience…

The amazing variety of color and unique smell of each colored bearded iris. whatsbloomingtoday.com

Flower

You are beautiful in any color.

May 25, 2018June 6, 2018 Blooming

As the last of my bearded Iris bloom, the heat of Kansas comes in on the wind. Many plants that say (Grow in full sun), like the iris, will grow well in a little shade from the intense heartland…

Flower

Is giving an peony flower nice or naughty?

May 15, 2018June 1, 2018 Blooming

A story I have been told, about 3 girls getting ready for a dance. The boys arrive and give the girls big pink flowers with the sweetest powdery smell. One of the boys giggled nervously, but without much notice. The Peony flower,…

Flower

Among the gray/brown forest yet to bloom spring growth, stands alone a white flowered tree, so beautiful it almost glows with it’s dull surrounds, the Dogwood.

May 13, 2018June 1, 2018 Blooming

We banked our boat on a log connecting us to the shore. In the woods of Sac Township, Missouri the leaves were only starting to come out and the terrain was rocky and moss covered. Very picturesque with springs leaking…

Fungi

Have you ever wandered to see an Orange Fairy Cup in a field of Morels

May 1, 2018May 13, 2018 Blooming

With great patients and hope I wandered along the creek at Hillsdale lake. As I wove between the close growing pre-forest growth, this is were the abundance of Morel mushrooms were this year, not by the Old growth trees, I…