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Cottage Garden Flowers: June in Bloom

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Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, Apricot Foxgloves, Planted to Match the Blush of Baby’s Cheek

 

This is the week of the foxglove, buttercup, peony, iris, pollinator-loving wildflowers, lavender, and the first rose bloom.  The soft, pillowy petals are beloved by all wildlife.  It rains, bathing fuzzy stems in shining dew.  We visit each bloom as it unfurls.  The flowers are helped by glistening insect friends and greet the clouded sun,  “Good morning!”  This is an especially magical time to study and write about the poetry of nature… and of the self.  Our lessons are taken into the garden with a cup of tea and an umbrella.

Sense all around your lovely being.  How do you feel?  What kind of messages are whispering to you?

balance in the dance

Happy Last Days of June!  Love, ~The Botanists at Rose Cottage, Amor Milagre

 

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Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, Plant drought-tolerant wildflowers for pollinators

 

With each season, our garden renovation design grows in fuller than the last.  We replaced lawns with perennial flowers and edible organic plant foods.  We made fun pathways to explore under arches of towering stems and sweet blooms.  The low buzzing hum increases, and new winged friends stay a while.

Scatter seeds and wait for your gorgeous surprise!  Life awaits…

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Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, Peonies

 

Let other flowers hold up earlier bloomers…they help as they grow…no prop sticks or twine needed!

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Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, Plant Flowering Trees, Kousa Dogwood

 

Our first sense of the new flowering trees’ beautiful blooms!  Stars!  (Kousa Dogwood)

 

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Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, David Austin English Rose

 

Sweet as June, an English Rose…heavenly scent…

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Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, Plant for Pollinators

 

Planting beds of flowering, fragrant thyme with many pollinator-loving flowers in between is a sustainable way to replace lawns, enjoy your garden, encourage wildlife, and always have healthy organic herbs for the kitchen!  July blooms are coming soon…but we’ll sit and hum with these first…

 

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