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Reaping My Harvest

I have some nice hydrangea bushes in the front of my house and while I've admired them from my windows for the past three years (they were planted by the previous owner) I've never brought any inside.  So yesterday I armed myself with a basket (like a proper gardener) and went to bring the outside in.  They made a lovely little bouquet on top of my wood burning stove and brightened up a dark corner.

 

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I picked enough to fill another vase which I placed on a side table in the family room.  I also picked a couple of the pink roses from the bush in front of my house and one from the yellow rose bush my son gave me for Mother's Day.  And then I added a couple of pentas for more color.

 

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While I love flowers from a florist (or from the flower markets in France) isn't there something special about cutting those grown in your garden and bringing them inside to enjoy?

 

I have a little project lined up for myself.  Have any of you readers heard of Roll n Grow?  It's advertised on TV and I ordered some......a Spring Bouquet and an English Garden.  Apparently, you have to do just as it says.....roll it out on your soil.....and they grow.  If you have any experience with this, leave a comment and let me know.

 

I might get nothing.....and then again, I might end up with a spectacular growth of flowers.  All the more to cut and enjoy inside!  I'll keep you posted on this one.

 

See you here next time........

 

 

 

Posted on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 06:00AM by Registered CommenterTerri DuLong in | Comments12 Comments

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I remember being at a house where the owners would cut their garden blooms and flat them in a crystal bowl filled with water. Very pretty. Maybe they got the idea from a Martha Stewart program. I don't know.
July 16, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterBig_Dave_T
So Beautiful! C'est magnifique!

Gee, I don't know what gets into me. Random French phrases just seem to come to mind when I visit your blog! Maybe it is a sign that I should try to have my mom teach me French again and maybe this time I won't giggle (like I did when I was a little girl) and will learn something!

Your flowers are lovely. I love fresh flowers also, but can't have them in the house in PO, my cats try to eat them >^..^<
July 16, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterJoyce
I wonder if you needed to prepare the soil in anyway (like light raking) before you rolled out your flowers?
July 16, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterchancy
Home clippings are great :) Beautiful flowers!
July 17, 2008 | Unregistered Commentergoofy girl
Hi Terri: I've tried the "roll and grow" thing twice and never had any luck...but I have a brown thumb so don't judge it by my standards. Good luck.
You have a show place just as it is.
July 17, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterginnie
Terri,

I just passed on an award to you.

You have been such a wonderful inspiration on helping me get started with my blog.


Please stop by Sunbonnet Cottage to receive your award.

Many thanks.

Melissa
Sunbonnet Cottage
July 17, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterMelissa
A rose garden is one of the most beautiful types of gardens. However, since roses are thorny and delicate by nature, this type of garden is one of the most challenging to design and to maintain.
July 18, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterroses garden
I love to cut flowers and arrange them, too. I specially like to take these arrangements to friends for dinner, but getting them there is hard. I haven't found an easy way short of putting them in a vase and holding it on my lap while my husband drives. Any ideas from Terri or readers?
July 18, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterML
In the home I had before Martin and I married there was a very very old hydrangea on one side. It was blue and huge. I loved bringing those blooms in and showing off in vases. AND they last so long compared to some other flowers. I have planted 4 new bushes at our house so maybe, years down the road, I can have a bounty of blue blooms again!
July 18, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterDeana
Interesting! Would love progress photos...
July 19, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterMarge
Yes hydrangea in the home sure do brighten it up ! Mmmm I can almost smell them from here :) What a wonderful 'gift' your previous owner left, that keeps on giving!
Simple floral arranging is so easy in Florida. Summer rains here have brought roses inside, at my home, as well. I've never tried "Roll-N-Grow" but be sure to keep us posted with great photos if you have any luck. Thanks again for sharing >
July 30, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterBrian
I just love those flowers, I have them during my childhood days in pots, big and small planted by my late Ma (an aunt who had adopted me)who surely has green fingers.

But now I have my pots so congested with all sorts that I have not even got a single hydrangea. My space for plants is plentiful. They spread the entire compound but I just managed to concentrate in the planter's box and in those pots by the walls, area that is reachable by our garden hose.

Why are there congested pots? Each time I prune them, I do not have the heart to throw them away. So I would shove into empty parts of the other pots...sharing the space, so to say. Some hardy cuttings, I plant them by the fence shared with my neighbor.

I have some herbal plants grown in my garden as well. They would be perfect give aways for friends who would like to consume them. Sometimes I even give them my congested pots to take home.

Terri, I am racing against my grandson's napping time...he would wake up anytime now but before he does, I would go on reading your beautiful write.
August 7, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterroyalTlady

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