In the Garden

For someone who isn't all that fond of pink, I sure do have a lot of pink flowers. Thing is, they are beautiful. Soon my yellow daylilies and coreopsis will start blooming and my white coneflowers and shasta daisies. The hollyhocks are getting very tall and buds are nice and plump. If I remember correctly they are shades of soft pinks and yellows. The butterfly bush is filling out and when it starts blooming we will have a pop of deep purple. But I will miss my poppies and peonies. The scent of the peonies is absolutely heavenly but the intense heat is making them fade fast. Alas, I guess I'll just have to wait a year to see my flower friends again.

4 Days In the Garden...

Foxglove

Salvia

"Coral Reef" Oriental Poppy

Siloam Doodlebug Daylily(3rd year)

Threadleaf Coreopsis (2nd year)

"Raspberry Pixie" Daylily (2nd year)

Meadowsweet (1st year)

Garden Phlox

Heuchera (coral bells)

Hollyhocks (2nd year)

"Coral Reef" poppy

"Coral Reef" poppy (front) standard orange poppy (back)

I lied. I thought the next update would be thrilling but between the rain and then steamy hot weather, I finished very little of my outdoor projects over the holiday weekend. Today and tomorrow the wee tot and I will be going outside to get our raised bed up, filled and planted. Maybe the next garden entry will have the fruits of our labor until then, these photos are of the latest blooms and growth over the last four days(and, with the exception of the very first photo,are in chronological order). :o)

In the Garden

Not a lot going on in the garden. Most of the plants are getting bigger and bigger (as are the weeds!) from all the rain we have had over the past two months. When they finally bloom it will be spectacular for now I wait (rather impatiently). This weekend we are going to work on multiple small projects around the home. I need to finish painting the shutters, mulch and weed the flower beds, put up the raised bed for veggies and get that planted ASAP. All of those projects promise a pretty interesting garden post next week!

Have a very fun and safe Memorial Day weekend and
God Bless all the brave men and women in our armed forces that have given their lives in order for us to enjoy our freedoms.