I just spent a delightful hour over at GardenBookstore.net‘s Facebook fan page, where there was an interactive interview with Christa Hanson about garden photography. Part of the conversation revolved around organizing your photos–and I realized that I don’t really take advantage of all the iPhoto doodads, so I hoofed it over there and began sorting. Would you like to see the flower pics I sorted? Yes, I thought you would!
This is my friend, Kellie’s, back patio that I redid for her several weeks ago. I told Kellie, “Water every day!” and as you can see, she has! Kellie gets an A+ in container planting maintenance–woo hoo, Kellie!
Here’s some gorgeous purple coneflower that I shot at Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center last month when Joe Lamp’l and his crew were here filming for their PBS series “Growing a Greener World.” I never get tired of this flower!
This past winter we had some mighty cold weather for Texas! In December, I spent the night at my sister Laura’s place, and we woke up to frost on her Knockout roses! Isn’t that beautiful?
I couldn’t resist including this pic–this spring I was leaving a jobsite, and right around the corner was a neighbor whose garden motto had to be “More is More!” The exuberance of it made me break out into a grin and pull over to take a shot. Thank God I had my trusty Nikon with me!
This purple ice plant is such a dependable bloomer, even when you forget about it. Wait, let me say that again: Even when you fuggetaboutit! I just made my New York family happy. 
These were the flowers on my balcony before I changed the flowers out for succulents. Now, you know I love flowers, but there’s a limit to what I can water everyday, so I had to switch some things out. But they sure were pretty, weren’t they??
I’m adding this photo with a caveat: Although I don’t really love bicolor iris (it just gets too dang ratty), I do love this pic of the flower! It just looks like it’s floating, and the colors are just gorgeous.
So that’s my flower show for now! I would love it if you’d hop over to my Facebook fan page and add your own photos of flowers–the more, the merrier!
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This is beautiful Jenny.
My wife love flowering so much, and she is an avid gardener.
I am sure she would have agreed with you on all the gardening tips you mentioned above:) The watering part is really important I guess, and also Sunlight exposure..she loves Lily flower, and so do I.
Now we’re waiting for full summer. So that we can get our outdoor work again.
Jay Chua
Publisher, PorchSwingSets.com
I always enjoy looking at pretty container gardens. Maybe because I suck at it. All mine have succulents and cactus in them. I’m with you on that.
Lovely pics my dear!
Ha, I see that wine bottle in your balcony boxes! Nice pictures; I was just realizing my photo library is getting too large to manage, better do some organizing myself.
Great advice, I’m going to check out iPhoto. Plus, I appreciate ANY advice on garden photography, because it makes my garden look better!
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