It is pretty easy to learn. I use Photoshop Elements. It costs ~ $100. What you do is create a couple of layers.
Imagine the bottom layer as the original, and the second layer as BW. Then you outline the part of the photo you want in color, and cut…
Hello all. I'm a Zone 4 gardener in Minnesota. I also do some photography. Hopefully I can add to the work here. Here is one of my favorite shots, taken in July of 2005 in my front impatient garden.
Enjoy!
I have tried pollinating my own Daylily. Collecting seed is pretty basic. In the summer about two weeks after a bloom dies, the seed pod behind the bloom will start to dry out, and crack open. inside the seed pod, are little black seeds.
I live in…
Well I have several sources of water, 3 bird baths and our waterfall in our pond. Never had this problem before. I have always had hummers. Just wondering if the winter weather we had messed them up. Oh well maybe next year.
Clare, your Pinky Winky is beautiful - love the blooms and the pink coloring of the branches too. My paniculatas Pee Gee and Limelight are already blooming too, about a month ahead of schedule! Now I am wondering whether I should have done reshaping…
Diane, sorry for not making my message more clear - my reminder was about those shrubs that need to be scaled down and in my region (zones 5 & 6) the buds for the next season form on new growth in August so cutting the brunches after July would have…
Crazy rainstorm last night, ripped down half the ivy on the wall. Had to cut it down, so I figured what the heck I'll collect snails in my garden. Armed with chopsticks (they make it way easy to gather up tiny guys under plants if you are profficent…
Sheryl, that shouldn't be a problem, I have a seed feeder in close proximity and the humming birds seem happy enough to share. They just seem to perch on the tiny twigs where the big guys cant get to. Chech the surronding territory, perhaps someone…
What housework-What cooking-I am delegating so that I can go out in my gardens.Besides my gardens I am on my computer watching the lovely new photos come up on "latest activity" HELP I am soo hooked. Don't want to change. Don't want to give it up ei…