Thank you Beverly at "How Sweet the Sound" for hosting.
Welcome to my flower blog. This week I'm taking you on a garden tour. First stop; my rose garden! The more I garden, the more I realize roses are my favorite flowers.
“The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.” ~ Jacques Benigne Bossuel, originally uploaded by Abby Lanes.
Earlier this year, I added new bareroot roses, and this is the first "pink" bloom on the new bushes.
Next stop... the area women's club hosts a yearly garden tour... and this home had a beautiful waterlily coy pond that ran right underneath the driveway.
The tour had five gardens, and the perfect mix of garden styles for the tour. 
The cottage garden had this mullein verbascum album. It was quite frankly, the first time I had ever seen this flower. Thank you to my gardening friend Kate for the flower id. If you get a chance, visit her blog, it's packed full of gardening knowledge and beautiful flowers. http://www.katesmudges.com/ 
Finally, the last stop on our garden tour today, was taken at the flower fields in Carlsbad. There were so many ranunculas there, to focus on one seemed odd, but I thought it was fitting for our tour. 
I hope you enjoyed your pink garden tour. Stop back soon, and you'll get the rest of the garden tour, and I'll surprise you with giant honeysuckles climbing the walls of a Spanish Villa. Until then, have a lovely Memorial Day weekend.
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They're all so beautiful Abby, must have been a fun outing!!
Hi Abby,
As allways, beautiful pictures. I love the rose pic with the texture and the soft tones and also the verbascum. I like very much verbascums.
Good morning! I'm stopping by to say hello, and HPS!
Beautiful, oh such glory. Bright spot in my grey and rumbley morning here in SW Florida.
xJ
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That must have been a great tour, all of these beautiful gardens!
I love the photo of the pond, almost at water level, it's superb!
Happy Pink Saturday ~ I hope you have a great weekend ~ Susan
Beautiful Abby!
I love every moment you caught with your camera:)
Have a wonderful weekend!
Hugs,
kayellen
Abby, your photographs are so beautiful. I really like the Ranunculus photo. It would be great to grow them, but they don't over-winter here. The Mullein is gorgeous as is the pink rose. There's something so satisfying about growing roses. I love drying rose petals and keeping them around the house. Reminds me of the garden. Thanks for the shout-out. Have a great weekend.
What a beautiful garden tour! Gorgeous photos, Abby! Happy Pink Saturday!
What a l♥vely Pink Saturday blog entry. This is the one day of the week when I get to sit for a couple of hours and soak in my favorite color. Thanks for being a part of that day☺
Wishing you and yours a wonderful family weekend. I will be remembering my father who served in WWII, and praying for all of our military who are in harms' way.
Lovely flowers, Abby! I've been to the Carlsbad fields - they're incredible, aren't they? ::Jill
They are so pretty. I love your editing! :) What kind of camera do you use? Have a happy weekend!
this has been a wonderful tour-thanks for sharing!! happy pink week to you!
thank you so much for the tour, that was fun and I would love to see more, happy pink saturday, Char
Very pretty flowers! Happy Pink Saturday, and hope the week ahead is good to you!
Yeah, it's Pink Saturday's 1 Year Celebration!
Today I've got Part II of For a Princess (with Part I recapped) - and as it is centered around a celebration, it fits perfectly what with all of the little princesses in their pink tiaras; ) I hope you can come by - I know you'll enjoy it.
xJ
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I just loved the tour! What beautiful blooms you have!
Gorgeous!!!!!!
I just love the title of this post..
I love garden art. All your photo look great. Nice blog also.
Those waterlily was beautiful. I like it so much.
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I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I'm been looking for topics as interesting as this. Looking forward to your next post.
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I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I'm been looking for topics as interesting as this. Looking forward to your next post.
-fern-
I love the verbascums, the bright pink against the white is simply breathtaking.
This is one of the most interseting blogs on flowers. You can also have a look into:
http://hubpages.com/hub/want_to_see_the_vegetable_flowers
Those are very lovely flowers and the photos are so vibrant, fantastic shots. But water lilies always amaze me, they're just gorgeous.
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