by JaimeB Haney | flowers, garden, garden tour, gardening, irises
Irises were never really the star of my garden’s show. That is until this year. I’d had a couple of varieties for most of my gardening life here at this house. The basic purple ones and white ones. The white ones were kinda special because they were old...
by JaimeB Haney | 2018, A day in the life, art, artwork, Expressionism, gardening, gardens, late summer, leaves, Nature, Paintings, Studio Gardens, work in progress, works on paper
How can time pass as quickly as it does? I really don’t know, but I find myself with a week of September already gone. The garden has a different feel now. It smells different, but I’m not sure how to explain the smell. It’s been really hot the last...
by JaimeB Haney | A day in the life, An artist's views, around my house, feeling melancholy, garden, gardening, life, painting, rambling
Well hello there September, I knew you were coming. I’ve been feeling it for a few days if not weeks. Something different in the air. I feel it as I wander through my gardens, watering and plucking out weeds. The ground is changing, it sounds different as I...
by JaimeB Haney | 2017, gardening, organization, tip
So I’m greedily scooping up happily selecting a couple new clematis plants, butterfly bushes and purple smoke tree from Aldi’s a couple weeks ago (major score!!) and I wonder where will I plant these? Who knows, and who cares at these prices! But with my...
by JaimeB Haney | 2017, abstract, Abstract Landscape, art, art studio, Expressionism, flowers, gardening, painting, plants, work in progress, Zen-like
If you’ve been reading my blog for very long at all you know that I have a koi pond. It’s a decent size for the space and has large colorful koi fish and I grow waterlilies in the warm months. While the waterlily is truly beautiful, there is something so...
by JaimeB Haney | 2016, dang, gardening, Greenhouse, in the greenhouse, mayhem, oops
Last Thursday I encountered a greenhouse disaster. Now I know the term disaster may seem a bit extreme, but there were casualties of the seedling kind. I’m lucky I made it out without a concussion! The Greenhouse Disaster… What happened you ask? My beloved...