your garden is just stunning! how many years have you been working on it? I bought a house with a barren landscape and it's taking so long for my shrubs and perennials to fill in and look lush like yours. I'm inspired by yours!
I like the slide show idea. Just one photo doesn't give the full impact that wandering (and wondering) through your garden must give. But collectively, I feel like I had quite a walk through the garden.
Phillip, the vine with the intense red large flowers is mandevilla 'Red Riding Hood". The other vine with the smaller flowers of a reddish-orange is ipomoea coccinea called "Star Glory" or "Orange Morning Glory" or "Scarlet Star Glory" or "Orange Noah". Seeds were sent to me as a gift and it is the most awful invasive plant I've ever encountered. I'm sorry I ever planted it as it so rampant and invasive....worse than kudzu.
I have full-screen versions of these slideshows playing at the bottom of this page. Just scroll down or page down to see them if you would like. For some reason, the slideshow frames are squenched small and narrow at the top of this template/layout, but display fully OK at the bottom of the page. Enjoy...Jon on 8-19-08
Welcome to an online ramble in our small cottage garden located in Vicksburg, Mississippi. There are several hundred pictures on this blog so click on OLDER POSTS under the bottom of the last center picture of this page to see previous older posts and pictures on the other pages. Have a look around and feel free to click COMMENTS under the pictures if you wish to type a question or to leave a remark. Scroll or page far down to the bottom of this page to see my automatic slideshows of about 400 photos of this little garden. Feel free to copy, take, use or enjoy anything on my blog as nothing is copyrighted by me in this amateur blog I have deliberately put in the public domain. You may have the shirt off my back if you want or need it.
"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden." --Goethe
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Another Favorite William Faulkner Quote
William Faulkner wrote:"To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi."
A Favorite Quote By William Faulkner
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
From Act 1, Scene III,Requiem for a Nun
Mississippi Historical Marker
The Magnolia State
Magnolia Grandilflora
Mississippi's State Flower and Tree
3 Stages Of Magnolia Flowers and Buds
The Most Beautiful Native Tree and Flower In Mississippi
My Favorite Magnolia Painting
by Martin Johnson Heade
Mockingbird
State Bird Of Mississippi
Mockingbird Singing ..It's A Southern Mockingbird...Your Cats Will Love To Listen To It!
Vicksburg National Military Park
Siege of Vicksburg in 1863
Siege of Vicksburg Historical Marker
The Worst Chapter In Our History
Cannons and Flags
Just 4 of hundreds of real Civil War cannons on display in Vicksburg
Mississippi River Car and Railway Bridges At Vicksburg
Tow Boat and Barges Under Both Bridges
Vicksburg, Miss. River Bridges
Crossing Over Ole Man River To Louisiana
Vicksburg's Two Mississippi River Bridges
Looking West Over to Louisiana Between the New And Old Bridges
Vicksburg Old Courthouse Museum
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A Quote from Henry Mitchell's, The Essential Earthman
"Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's not a question of superior or inferior taste, merely a question of which detour we are on at the moment. Getting there (as they say) is not important; the wandering about in the wilderness or in the olive groves or in the bayous is the whole point."
Favorite Gardening Books by Henry Mitchell
The Essential Earthman, One Man's Garden, Henry Mitchell On Gardening
14 comments:
your garden is just stunning! how many years have you been working on it? I bought a house with a barren landscape and it's taking so long for my shrubs and perennials to fill in and look lush like yours. I'm inspired by yours!
What a wonderful garden, flowers and plants. Love to come for a visit.
Your blog is on my LIFE FEED.
-Cheers.
I like the slide show idea. Just one photo doesn't give the full impact that wandering (and wondering) through your garden must give. But collectively, I feel like I had quite a walk through the garden.
JON, What a feast for the eyes! Thanks for the slide show -- I enjoyed it tremendously.
TERRY THORNTON
HILL COUNTRY MONROE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI
Lovely slide show. You must be enjoying your garden and all the wonderful plants.
Jan
Always Growing
Thanks to all for dropping by and for your kind words about this slideshow. It is easier to do it this way than posting 20 photos one-by-one.
Great photos Jon! What is that vine with the red flowers?
Phillip, the vine with the intense red large flowers is mandevilla 'Red Riding Hood". The other vine with the smaller flowers of a reddish-orange is ipomoea coccinea called "Star Glory" or "Orange Morning Glory" or "Scarlet Star Glory" or "Orange Noah". Seeds were sent to me as a gift and it is the most awful invasive plant I've ever encountered. I'm sorry I ever planted it as it so rampant and invasive....worse than kudzu.
Hi there!
I'm glad to see another Mississippi blog! I do a daily photo of the Jackson metro area. Stop by sometime if you're interested. :)
Unfortunately, I can't watch the videos here at work (firewall), but I'll take a look later tonight at home.
Halcyon at http://magnoliadailyphoto.blogspot.com/
I have full-screen versions of these slideshows playing at the bottom of this page. Just scroll down or page down to see them if you would like. For some reason, the slideshow frames are squenched small and narrow at the top of this template/layout, but display fully OK at the bottom of the page. Enjoy...Jon on 8-19-08
Your photos and your gardens are absolutely beautiful!! I hope you don't mind that I added you to my blog list.
I like your slideshow very much. The pictures are "full of life" when looking at them.
Thanks for sharing with us.. Nice blog..
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