two more flowers

These are from a 20-or-so-year-old pattern book I found in my stash. This book has been through at least half a dozen moves [g]. It amazes me that it had flower patterns of precisely the right size for my flower quilt, of flowers I haven't been able to find anywhere else.


If I'd designed this, I'd have made it flame-colored, which is my favorite shade of snapdragon, but I wasn't quite up to figuring out how to change the colors.


Not quite the scale of The Bleeding Heart that Ate New York, but still pretty [g].

Now I'm going to take a break from flowers (which were in turn taking a break from a hand-quilting project that's been going on for the better part of a year) to do the Joan Elliott Celtic Wheel of the Year pillow.

in under the wire before July

My garden is finally Doing Stuff, although compared to photos from previous years, not as much so far. I don't know what happened to my poppies -- I sowed seeds two different times and didn't get a single seedling -- or to my linaria, which this time last year was in full bloom and this year hasn't even quite begun to bud yet. But at least most of the perennials and some of the annuals are doing well.


Shasta daisies and candytuft are doing well in the front bed (the fairy rose is full of buds, but nothing's opened yet). There's one lonely dahlia, and my neighbor's roses and red lupine are doing well.


Salpiglossis just getting started in the front tub. I haven't grown salpiglossis in several years. I should grow it more often.


Mostly bachelor's buttons in this photo of the back garden, with columbines, campanulas, and marigolds.


And, of course, the bleeding heart that ate New York, along with hostas, pansies, and petunias, lobelia, and sweet alyssum in the tubs.