Tuesday, May 18, 2010

5/19 Outdoor Wednesday # 71

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We have had quite a bit of rain lately… and everything seems to be blooming! A walk into the backyard and the smells of confederate jasmine and gardenias….are everywhere! My hydrangeas are blooming as well…a beautiful blue!

Gardenias

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Confederate jasmine

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Hydrangeas

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78 comments:

  1. Wow, I can't believe your hydrangeas are already in bloom. They're gorgeous!

    Thanks for hosting Outdoor Wednesday.

    Jane

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  2. I can almost smell those gardenias & jasmine because your photos are so vivid & beautiful!
    Wish I had something Outdoorsy to share this week, but I don't :( I will just enjoy everyone's posts instead!

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  3. I adore gardenias! How wonderful they must smell. Sigh! We are too far north for them. Your confederate jasmine and the hydrangeas are gorgeous also!!

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  4. Just beautiful! I would love to have jasmine in my yard.

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  5. Your hydragenas are beautiful! Out here in Ca. where I live they are easy for me to grow. But once in a while they can be stubborn. But our jasmine and the gardenias grow like weeds at my house. Thanks for hosting I always have a good time seeing everyones gardens....Julian

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  6. Susan,
    Beautiful confederate jasmine and gardenias.
    I had both when I lived in Charleston, they were two of my favs along with tea olives. Thanks for sharing.
    Sandy

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  7. Susna, Gardenias!!!! I love them and their smell is intoxicating! YOur yard is a little piece of heaven. Beautiful!
    Yvonne

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  8. My husband's family home had a huge 10 foot gardenia outside their home. I am counting the days to when I can have a gardenia again. Only in pots where we are now.

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  9. Your hydragenas are so gorgeous.

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  10. The jasmine must smell so good! Thanks for hosting Outdoor Wednesday!

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  11. Those flowers are stunning! It is a talent to get so many profuse blooms--you must have it!

    Thank-you Susan for hosting this delightful party!

    love, kelee

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  12. Hi Susan,
    Your flowers are gorgeous, I can't believe how everything is blooming. Everytime we get some bloomage it rains .... pretty unusual for us. Your gardenias are huge, and just beautiful.
    Have a great day and thanks for hosting
    Maryrose

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  13. Your season is so much earlier than ours ~ I am just starting to see buds forming on my hydrangeas. Very beautiful photos!

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  14. You have GARDENIAS in your garden? Oh wow -- I am SO jealous -- they are among my favorites, and I can't grow them here outside, and inside they always get some sort of pest that does them in. They are gorgeous! And your hydrangeas -- mine are no where near blooming.

    Beautiful pictures, Susan!
    Cass

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  15. Your garden is beautiful! I love the smell of gardenias and jasmine. I have never tried to grow either; I think I may be too far north. I do have hydrangeas but mine are only just beginning to bloom.

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  16. These are all of my favorites too! Except mine are not blooming yet, almost though! They're beautiful!!

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  17. Gorgeous~ I can't believe your Hydrangea is already blooming! Thanks for hosting :-)

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  18. Don't you just love Spring Susan?! Your blooms are just beautiful. I love the smell of Jasmine!!

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  19. Oh Susan,

    Your garden is gorgeous! I absolutely love hydrangeas and yours are so full! That's my favorite color of them. I used to have a large yard and had 8 or 9 periwinkle blue hydrangea plants...I looked forward to them blooming every year.

    Thanks for hosting!

    Nancy

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  20. Oh NO! I just realized I linked the wrong post! I'm so embarrassed! Can you delete that or do I just re-submit the correct one? So sorry!

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  21. Hi Susan,
    Thanks for hosting Outdoor Wednesday and thanks for showing your blooms. Your hydrangea bush is gorgeous. Mine are just starting to bud. For some reason this spring seems to have more flowers blooming than previous years. I think it's because we had so much rain and it's a late spring too.

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  22. Beautiful blue Hydrangeas! Do you add aluminum sulfate to turn them blue or is your soil able to make them blue on its own?? Really lovely!

    Candy

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  23. Gardenias are one of my favorite flowers. I love their smell. When you take them inside, they make the whole house smell good. You have a lot of lovely flowers.

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  24. Hi Susan,
    Oh my gosh, your garden is beautiful and it must smell so heavenly! I love gardenias, those were my flower of choice for every formal school dance, wore them in my hair, how chic was I(I thought?!!). I don't know what I'm doing wrong with the hydrangeas in my deck pots, they get all leggy and not many blooms, yours are so gorgeous. Obviously you have a very green thumb!! Any pointers?
    Have a great week, and thanks for hosting us each week Susan!
    XO
    Heidi - Heart and Home

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  25. What beautiful, lush flowers. Mmm, I can just imagine the aromas. Thank you for hosting.

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  26. I bet that jasmine smells divine! Was in Orlando this past weekend and the magnolias and gardenias were in full swing. Love this time of year for the scented stuff!

    Tink *~*~*

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  27. I love this time of year when everyone posts their garden pictures. Even if I have the same plants I love to see them growing in somebody else's garden.

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  28. Absolutely BEAUTIFUL blossoms all! My hydrangea is struggling this year but I'm hopeful it will pull through.
    Hugs and blessings,

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  29. I could swear that I smelled the gardenias, as I gazed at your photos.

    I can't wait for mine to bloom!

    Lovely, lovely, lovely!

    Be sure to drop by the cottage and enter my giveaway. Click on the button in the sidebar for details. There are four more days to enter.

    Liz @ the Brambleberry Cottage

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  30. We have the same type of gardenias here and they smell divine! <3

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  31. Wow Susan! I'm totally jealous...you have my three fav flowers: gardenia, jasmine and blue hydrangeas...how'd you do it??? Although my jasmine vines are blooming, my gardenias and hydrangeas are still hiding :(
    -marie

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  32. Oh lovely photos wow. I love hydrangeas oh they are my favorite. Thanks for hosting! I'm new to your group. DE

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  33. Oooh! Your blue hydrangeas are beautiful!!!

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  34. Oh, I know it smells wonderful at your home! I just bought two jasmine yesterday! The blooms smell so much like gardenias! I rooted six last year, they are planted can't wait to see them bloom. Your flowers are beautiful! Thanks for the comment on FB. I thought oh, I need to link my outdoor Tea. lol Good to hear from you! I haven't heard from the Muse either. She sent me a few messages, weeks ago. Let me know if you hear from her.

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  35. Thanks for hosting Outdoor Wednesday again Susan-we love Wednesdays!

    Best wishes,
    Natasha, Stacey and Holly.

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  36. Those are beautiful blooms. I have few hydrangeas in my front garden and I miss their beautiful flowers. We are on our last month of autumn.

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  37. Thanks for hosting Susan.
    blessings

    barbara jean

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  38. Gorgeous blooms - they happen to be my favorites too!!! altho at present they are mostly 'relaxing" as we are in autumn now!!!
    Gena @ Thinking Aloud

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  39. Your flowers are beautiful, I would love to have jasmine in my yard. I can't believe you have hydrangea blooms already, it will be weeks before mine bloom.

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  40. wonderful blooms for this meme! happy Outdoor Wednesday!

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  41. jasmine flowers smells so good! these are lovely images of nature!

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  42. I love the purple hydrangeas you have in the background of the blue ones. My purple hasn't bloomed yet and it didn't bloom last year either.

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  43. So Beautiful! My gardenias and hydrangeas are just starting to bloom these last few days! I can just smell those big beautiful blooms of yours! Mmmm!

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  44. Hi Susan,

    My entry is a bit unorthodox, but it was a project that took 23 years to complete and culminated in a celebration outdoors.

    I hope you'll stop by to see why I am celebrating and enter my giveaway.

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  45. Your hydrangeas are so beautiful. I'm sure the aroma in your yard is breathtaking.

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  46. I have some of your flowers before, but didn't know their names. Learn something new today, thank you!

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  47. The aroma in your garden must be fabulous!

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  48. Love the fragrance of Gardenias and Confederate Jasmine. I love the color of your Hydrangeas.

    ~ Tracy

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  49. Is confederate Jasmine different then regular jasmine? I love the smell but had no idea there were different types. I grew up in NY and we had jasmine there and there was jasmine in Ky and Ca too but I never knew there were different kinds.
    Joyce

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  50. Your flowers are beautiful!!! We've gotten tons of rain the last few days & everything is looking sooo pretty in the yard. I've been wanting to plant Hydrangea's but I'm a little nervous. Are they difficult to grow?

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  51. This is my first visit to your lovely blog and my first time taking part in Outdoor Wednesday.
    I loved seeing your gorgeous hydrangeas. They are such a beautiful shade of blue.
    Thanks for hosting Outdoor Wedneaday.
    Best Wishes from England.
    Lindsay
    x

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  52. Yeah for Outdoor Wednesday! I just love it!

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  53. I love Gardenias. When we bought our first home, there was one out by the front door. I used to cut pieces and carry to my Mother. Sadly, I can't smell them anymore.
    We transplanted some Carolina Jasmine when we moved from Memphis. We built a special Faux Fence for it to climb. It hasn't bloomed yet.
    Mama Bear

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  54. Hi Susan, what huge blossoms you have ... the scent from them must be great.Thanks for being our host every week... hugs, Baba

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  55. Your garden not only looks beautiful, but I'm sure is smells beautiful, too. Thank you again for hosting this fun blog party, you're the BEST!
    Hugs, Cindy S

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  56. Beautiful! Your hydrangeas are just beautiful! I love the colors. They are one of my favorite plants!

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  57. Oh my, such gorgeous photos of 3 of my favorite flowers! Your hydrangeas are huge! Mine are so little, no blooms yet, but soon!

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  58. Hi, your gardenias are wonderful and hydrangeas have always been a favourite of mine! I've enjoyed your blog for a while now but have never joined in before. Today I'm feeling brave and thought I would give it a try. Thank you!

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  59. Thanks for hosting! I was a little late joining up! Nothing special, just a few simple pics from the yard!

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  60. Oh, I do hope my hydrangeas bloom this year...I've been waiting very patiently! Do they require a lot of water? Maybe that is what is wrong? Thanks so much for hosting Outdoor Wednesday!


    Jean

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  61. How delightful and lovely!
    Happy Outdoor Wednesday Susan.

    Regards.

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  62. Your Gardenias and Confederate Jasmine are beautiful and I can only imagine the fragrance!
    The Hydrangeas could be a lovely dried wreath someday! ;~}
    Be Blessed!

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  63. Your hydrangeas look beautiful! Ours havent bloomed out yet. My good referred me to post my yard on your site. Thanks!

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  64. Forgot to link my Outdoor Living rooms... ooops!

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  65. I love the blue hydrangeas! :)

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  66. I need you to come to my yard and make all my stuff look like yours! It looks healthy, but it is not blooming! Your is gorgeous.

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  67. Beautiful Susan! I can just smell the gardenias and jasmine. I'm still waiting for my hydrengeas. Yours are beautiful. I am hoping for blue I put the stuff in the soil to get them. Thanks so much for hosting Outdoor Wednesday, it's one of my favorites. To rejoice in the blessings of the outdoors...

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  68. That Hydrangeas hedge, it looks exactly like mine, that is before my new neighbour trimmed it bald. When I asked him why, he said he didn't want thieves hiding behind my hedge.

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  69. Absolutely gorgeous images! I just discovered this meme this morning (where the heck have I been???)... I'm gonna have to start participating in this one for sure!

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  70. I have been busy planting a hummingbird garden...lots of red this year for my little busy friends. Love the hydrangea wish I had more.

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  71. This is such an awesome chance for me to show you around Mississauga.. Thanks for creating this meme..

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  72. I just found your "Outdoor Wednesday" but I can't seem to find your link for the button, to post on my blog! (it does not show under your button?)
    Nice idea!
    Sandy

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  73. Your flower photos are beautiful. I especially love confederate jasmine!

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  74. I love hydrangeas, yours are beautiful.

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