Garden Update

Our garden is growing as if it's had too much rain!  Butterfly season has arrived, along with flowers that provide beautiful fragrance.  I can't keep up with the weeding, so we've hired some help!  Here are a few of what were blooming over the last three weeks.

A very bright Painted Daisy.

A small but beautiful Spiderwort, one of the Transcantias.

These are some of the huge bright pink 'napping' peonies, double blooms so they don't serve the bees like are white ones do, but very pretty.  Sadly, they are so large and heavy that they fall over and lie on the ground to take their 'nap'.  The lawnmower doesn't like it.

These royal blue Iris are just stunning, a garden highlight before our day lilies start blooming.

Can't leave out the white Iris, they'd feel left out.

A tiny pink wild Geranium.

And tiny pink blooms on a 'wild' rose bush, wild in the sense that we just ignore it and it keeps blooming.  Don't know where it came from.

And here's a mystery plant for you.  Does anyone know it?  Believe it or not, it's an Allium, known correctly as Allium siculum, but the common name Mediterranean Bells seems much nicer to me.  The blossoms face downwards, and the hornets obviously like to visit.

This is what the garden looks like as a whole, lots of green plants growing like mad.  In a month it will be day lilies up front, and a month after that it will be the 8 foot high false sunflowers along the back.

If you're interested in the veggie garden, here it is, or most of it.  Mostly a garlic crop, along with my row of enormous rhubarb plants in the back.  A few tomatoes on the left, but blight keeps wiping them out.