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From Beautywood.com

Here's my catch all page. Anything healthy goes here...I love to garden, eat, learn, paint, write lyrics, listen to music and read.

Every year, I have a new color theme. Last year, I wanted to try out a lot of new plants, so I went with a Rainbow theme. Sure enough, I have yellow, red, and blue, white, lavendar, pink, orange and gold. I grew the zinnias from seed, and didn't know what colors I would see, but sure enough, they grew right into the color scheme wherever I planted the seedlings!

This year, 2008, I have Yellow, Orange, Pink and Light Pink Hibiscus with Coleus that are neon green, dark red and light red and neon vining plants that I will get the name of here shortly. With the many rain days we have had this spring season, these tropical hibiscus and all of my garden plants are doing very well. I am so pleased. I wish I could show it all here. Maybe I need another website just for my garden. :)

Let's start with some shots of my deck Garden of Eden. Growing in containers, there are Proven Winners; Intensia Neon Pink Phlox, Lemon Symphony Osteospermum, Snowstorm Giant Snowflake Sutera, Diamond Frost, Laguna Compact Blue with Eye Lobelia, Strawberry Drop Coleus, Cut and Come Again Zinnias. In my yard just beyond are Japanese White Lilac tree, White Lilac bush, Smoke Grace tree, Sparkleberry Winterberry bush and its mate, Southern Gentleman, Black Honey Locust tree and several Arbor Vitae trees. Don't forget the container grown Heavenly Blue Morning Glory at the very top of the page.

Plants you don't see are Honeysuckle Vine, Spearmint, Yellow Snapdragon Very Fragrant, and Single White Peonies. All that plus the oak hydrangeas, Henry Hudson and Apothecary rose bushes, the two Japanese Dogwood trees, a Goji Berry Bush, Yellow Daly Lilies, Purple Bearded Iris, and a Scotch Pine tree in my backyard, along with the several large evergreen and oak trees in my neighbors' yards, with so many layers of beauty, you might see why I call it the Garden of Eden.

There is also room for several more plantings, but I think I'll keep it open, clear and free for my collie to roam and run.