May flowers! In between bouts of rain and storms, we have had some nice sunny days for our flowers. Our storms...we had 5 tornadoes in the past 7 days in Georgia. The most recent one was just one county over from us and it was so strong, it destroyed a home with an eighteen-year-old boy sustaining severe injuries. We all pray that he will fully recover. Tornadoes can pop up at any time during a severe thunderstorm! The weather forecasters do a great job at informing us of impending storms but still, that last one really did come up very quickly.
Depending upon the soil, the mophead hydrangeas are either blue or pink. All of them in our area are blue but since these are in a pot, we have the pink ones! (Personally, I love them both. Never met a hydrangea I didn't love.) The blue ones require an acidic soil; the pink ones must be alkaline. Isn't there an Agatha Christie story with the floral wallpaper turning either blue or pink? I must look it up! (I love Agatha Christie! Have you read her autobiography? Please do, it's excellent.)
We have some blueberry plants in pots also and this year, they are producing quite nicely. Richard likes to watch them as they ripen. First, they turn a nice shade of pink, then- blue!
There, don't you just think that is beautiful? Why, they are good enough to eat! Ha! (And I took that last photo, by the way!)
Hey, let's get close to the flowers in our garden. I am closer to Earth than Richard, he has to bend a bit further down to get shots like these....so, I took these too!
Guess you can see that I took this photo of the rose after one of our thunderstorms! And all the flower photos aren't the best because it was overcast and well, because Richard didn't take them!
Recently, I was doing some necessary housework, and I put on a CD that my son made me for my birthday. (It is from years ago, he gave it to me in 2013!) There are 25 songs that he put on this CD and I love them all. Here is one of them....
"I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire". What a great song!
Hope you are all doing well these days, my friends! Richard and I have tried our best to get out and do our walks during this stormy month of May. It meant that sometimes we lugged around umbrellas with us and at times we were grateful that we had them with us! Even though we have had lots of rain, it truly has made everything lovely and green, not to mention the flowers!
I love hydrangeas too! Ours aren't blooming yet, but we see the buds.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed seeing all your flowers. I never heard of growing blueberries in pots, but it's working for you and yum!
I like your photos. I usually eat blueberries in my morning bowl of cereal. Glad the tornadoes did not hit your home.
DeleteWe have almost everything in pots, Mari! Our soil is almost all clay and hard to get things to grow properly. I dearly love hydrangeas. I went past a local Taco Bell that had gorgeous bushes last year with the giant mophead blue flowers but they had been cut back so only a few blossoms. I almost cried!
DeleteHey John! Looks like you left a comment in a reply to Mari's comment. No worries, I have done the same. LOL! I love blueberries on cereal!! And we really do have to watch out for tornadoes.
I hope you will not personally have to face and deal with any tornadoes! Your floral shots are gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Debra! I can't help but notice that Richard's shots are always better than mine but then, he is better at most things, even housework. So, I let him do a lot of that too! LOL!!
Delete"Tomatoes can pop up at any time during a severe thunderstorm." It was at that point I had a search for my glasses which are always giving me the slip. Wait! That can't be right I thought! Love the flower photos. I have deep blue hydrangea flowers every year in my garden, a spectacular large bush of around 20 grapefruit sized florets but I can't claim any credit for it. Luckily I prefer it to the pink kind but I have a big rhododendron growing right next to it which is maybe why as they alter the soil to their own liking I've heard. So it only grows an intense sky blue every summer without any maintenance from me at all. We have just had our sunniest, driest Spring in the UK since records began. A month of it but it's raining hard now.
ReplyDeleteYou know I know what you mean about reading "tomatoes" for "tornadoes"! HA HA! Even with my glasses on, I can still read something incorrectly, the type is so tiny these days! I really do love that pretty blue color of hydrangeas too, they look gorgeous next to a giant mansion or beside the smallest shack. If your month was so dry then you might be glad for the rain. It seems it varies from drought to floods; a nice in-between would be nice.
DeleteTornadoes are scary, and I am very sorry for anyone who suffers damage to their property or, even worse, injuries. I also think of the wildlife and wonder how it copes; where do birds hide, for instance?
ReplyDeleteThe flowers are all very beautiful!
Yes, there is an Agatha Christie story about one flower on a wallpaper turning blue, meant to make a rich, difficult lady go insane.
I knew you would remember the Agatha Christie story! "The Blue Geranium" is the one. I love her books! It is June now and we have to worry about hurricane season. And our skies are hazy from the Canadian wildfires! We are far from the ocean and from Canada!
DeleteI did just discover that June is Georgia Blueberry Month! I eat a lot of blueberries but never had grown my own. How nice yours are producing such amazing fruit. They are one of the the things known as a Super Fruit. but because they are so good. I think your flower pictures are wonderful and just as good as any your husband would have taken. Enjoy the month of June!
ReplyDeleteHope you enjoy June also!! Yes indeed, I looked it up and June is Georgia Blueberry Month! Georgia is called the Peach State but is should be the Blueberry State! We grow a lot of blueberries here now.
DeleteYour flowers are just gorgeous. The rain did bring May flowers!!
ReplyDeleteThanks! And we had us some rain, didn't we?
DeleteBeautiful Flowers. Tasty blueberries. Topped off with the Ink Spots. This is a feel good post. Thank you
ReplyDeleteI hope all my posts are feel good posts! Thank you!!
DeleteIt sounds like it's been quite a month. I hope June lets you dry out a little bit (but not too much).
ReplyDeleteExactly so, we hope for just the right balance of rain and sun!
DeleteFabulous photos today! So glad you can see these flowers and blueberries.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ad Man! I know you are a big fan of Richard's photos, so your comment makes me happy.
DeleteKay, you always show the most beautiful scenes and I love the flower pictures that you took. Hope you guys have a great summer. We've gotten rain, which was needed, but there was hail and wind. Some in the area had damage. Not us thankfully.
ReplyDeleteHello my fellow KAY!! So lovely to see your comment here! I left a comment on your blog about two memorable books for me. I love books but I rarely do posts about them. LOL! Take care in Texas! x
DeleteHey Gigi! Tell David hello from us, Kay & Richard. Whenever I see hurricane news from Hawaii, I always check on it, thinking of you and Kay who live on island of Oahu. Always thinking of my blogging buddies!
ReplyDeleteWhat gorgeous flower pictures! I was always baffled by hydrangeas when I was a child, I had no idea why they were either red, blue or both! I dont think blueberries grow here at all, but the number of them that we seem to eat, I think we'd need a whole plantation! LOL
ReplyDeleteWe didn't have blueberries like this in Georgia growing up. We were known as the Peach State! Now, we are either 3 or 4 in the country for blueberries! Nothing like picking them and having them fresh off the bush!
DeleteHello Kay, I'm so behind in posting and commenting so trying to play catch up today. We get tornados around here too, but this past May has been more severe thunderstorms and rain. Last year we had a drought so hopefully a better and wetter summer. Your flowers are so pretty, and your growing season is ahead of our up here. No blueberries until at least July around these parts but it is strawberry season so that's good! We have a beautiful day today and I plan to grab some sun and walks with the dog. Have a good week!
ReplyDeleteHey Yaya! I bet your strawberries are good. Ours are past it now. Our storms keep getting scarier. Seems like every other day. And hardly any butterflies! I want to throw a party when I see one. You have a good week too! x
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