This week brings me two revisits of recent topics: dressing-room hooks, and flowers planted by someone else that I can enjoy.
The same store chain; a different set of hooks.
Just across the street
Photo Memory of the Week
Backyard Blog
2026 May 22: Here's the backyard this week:
- an iris up for what seems like just a few minutes (and technically in the front yard)
- the lilac making its own short showing
- the crabapple, also technically in the front yard
- the magnolia past its prime but still lovely
oh yes!
(couldn’t find how to italicize the yes)
Thanks for looking for us.
Judith – Thanks for enjoying them. 🙂
Ah, bougainvillea…. These show all red, but I’ve seen them covering walls and terraces in other tropical locations, where they mixed red and yellow and orange and white… Always spectacular.
I must see if my nursery can find me one I can grow indoors…
Jim T
Jim – 🙂 Yes, I saw hedges of many colours in Guatemala, also. Here, the city/county seems to plant just the red ones along the freeways, but a house around the corner from us has mingled red and purple. Lovely. Good luck with the nursery.