Echinacea

The Echinacea flower is one that has slipped my attention in our gardens until recently. It is an herb, or a plant that dies to the ground every year, and reproduces from its own seeds, which fall in the fall. This plant has a hearty green stem with long, skinny, hairy leaves and is not…

Hollyhocks

Today at the Lilies’ gardens we have an abundance of Hollyhocks. Our original plants came from a nursery, as most of our plants do, but these have been extremely fruitful plants, reproducing from seed all over the garden. Hollyhocks are tall slender plants with leaves similar to grape leaves, with different lobes or sections. The…

Jesus is Real

It is commonly said that “Jesus died to forgive your sin,” but why do I care? What does that mean today? In a society where Jesus increasingly seems irrelevant, what does it mean that Jesus took my sin? The Bible teaches us that death, sickness (slow death), poverty, and every kind of evil came into…

Healing Gardens

The water is babbling through the creek, Rhododendrons are in bloom, white, violet, deep purple. Bright orange Azaleas, sky blue Lobelia, Pink Therese Bugnet set against green Ferns and Lilies.  There are some Forget-Me Nots and Jacob’s Ladder.  Carnations, Oregon Grape, Columbine, Astilbe, Geum, Geranium and Sweet Woodruf sprawl across the ground intermingling with one-another. …

An Early Garden Update

Hi Friends, Well, I thought I would give a garden report here.  Spring came early for us this year – about the first two weeks of March.  It was lovely and warm, the snow was melting away on the paths, green grass was showing more each day and flower beds were showing their treasures as…

Believe Like a Child

A child doesn’t know “how” what he asks for will be given – he just asks, believes and receives. One big problem I see is the trying to figure out “how” these requests I make will happen. I need to “let” them happen. Luke 11:9, Mark 11:23,24, Luke 18:16,17

Love is Life

“Love, the opposite of hate, is life. Love engenders hope and life. How many times a day do you stimulate new action by your Love? Love is also a healing oil which soothes and calms and brings peace to the suffering heart. It is the direct antidote of hate.”-Lanyon