Picture heavy to keep track of what's growing and blooming.
Behind the garage, a small bed with purple veronica, echinacea and blue geranium on the left.
One of the tomato beds, fruits are forming.
A quick fire hydrangea that is blooming more prolifically than last year.
Another hydrangea, can't remember the variety, with its first year for blooms.
The viburnum recovering from a bug infestation in late spring.
The echinacea, black-eye susan and shasta daisy bed starting to flower.
A pot of black-eye susan vine, thunbergia is its botanical name, climbing up the fence by Ernie's yard.
The lovely delicate clematis that climbs up the clothes line pole.
A new hydrangea this year, another Strawberry Sundae, with snap dragons planted at the base.
The corner bed, called the weigela bed, with a new perennial salvia blooming.
Fringed bleeding heart in the hollyhock bed.
One hollyhock, extremely short.
The daylilies beside the cherry tree.
Annual lavatera, grown from seed.
A tall pale yellow hollyhock, I don't know where it came from. It's further down the bed and I don't recall planting this one at all.
Wild flowers creeping in from the field, I think these are wild phlox, also known as rocket.
My favourite plant of the year - goose-neck loosestrife. Doing well, I'm glad to say.
A view of the gingko bed, with loosestrife, campanula and cosmos doing well.
I put soaker hoses in five of the beds to cut down on the watering time. Even after two rains, the ground still looks parched. Usually the grass doesn't look this dry until August.
A daylily in the gingko bed, such beautiful colour and pattern.
A gaillardia that returned!
Another shot of the goose-neck loosestrife.
A butterfly bush that is getting a very slow start.
The deck planter with pink petunias. These are wave petunias, so dependable.
Another shot of the petunia planter with an ivy-leaf geranium in the hanging pot and a strawberry on the right.
