Things are looking perkier and perkier in the garden this week.
My mini roses are now in bloom, having survived the merciless destruction last summer that came from certain basketballers not noticing that there were
plants in my garden.
The lavender one is my favorite. I really want a lavender standard-sized rose, but I haven't yet found one that has a good, strong fragrance.
My full-sized roses are blooming like crazy.
I can't seem to get a good picture of this bed--I don't really know enough about photography. Any suggestions? How do I get a picture that shows how floriferous these roses are, but still looks interesting and . . . interesting?
My pinks are going gang-busters, too.
I want lots more of these. I only bought three, because that's all the cash I could bear to part with, but I think they'd look really pretty lining the driveway. What do you think?
I have some annual pinks there toward the bottom left, and the perennial ones are up in the top left. They'd look pretty coming all the way down, I think. Maybe I'll get more next spring.
The flowers aren't the only thing flowering around here. My peas are in bloom, and I even have a few pods. Yay! Just enough to add a little something to my stir-fry tomorrow.
My arugula is blooming too, but that's not good news. I had to pull a bunch of it out. But that just made room for the Swiss Chard that I'm putting in its place!
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roses -- wide-angle lens? maybe top-down view? maybe try to get the roses to make a diagonal line across the field? oooh, fish-eye lens. totally fish-eye lens. (not that i own one )
ok, here's what i would want to try. i would want to play with the depth of field to blur out the background, and i would play with taking the picture as a close-up for a particular rose or two and try to fill the fuzzy background with the rest of the roses. or have the roses in focus but everything else blurry (the roses are too far apart to all be in focus with a blurry background, i think -- but you could play with a progression...)
also, can you use the colors to give a sense of geometry? yellow in front with a diagonal line of red in the back? shoot from the other side so the stair railing leads the eye to the roses?Â
plants -- i have several beet seedlings for you, one texas star hibiscus for kicks, and expect to repot excess golden wax beans. am trying to decide what to do with a zucchini sprout since i really don't know where to grow it but would like the produce (not that i've ever successfully harvested more than a few fruits of any squash-type plant)
I can help you with the photos - IF you draw a chalk outline around the flower bed first!
Dad--would it help if I noticed a suspicious abundance of organic matter in the soil??
Udomiel--My garden is your garden. I have just the right corner for a zucchini plant, and I don't think sharing the produce will be a problem. (This is the south. Zucchini=kudzu.) The hibiscus is a hummingbird plant, right? That sounds grand!
I'm writing you an email. And I would like to know whether I left my garden/kitchen scissors in your kitchen.
:)