Garden Overview late July

The gingko bed, full of perennials, and behind it is the tomato bed

What I call the "weigela bed", now with Annabelle hydrangea, bee balm, and soon-to-pop balloon flowers

Another shot of the "weigela bed" including the Strawberry Sunday hydrangea in the foreground

Two dahlia blossoms and red hollyhocks

Red echinacea, white phlox, fluffy pink filipendula and pale yellow hollyhocks

Another shot of the weigela bed with the coral geranium in front

The tomato bed, in which the plants are so stunted, I don't know why. Perhaps it was the early heat that was followed by cold that stunted their growth. They are producing fruit, but there are not many branches

A shot of the gingko bed, with Tekla's white butt on the left

A novelty annual grown from seed: amaranth, also known as "love lies bleeding"

A favourite of mine: purple coneflower in a bed with shasta daisies and black eye susans about to bloom

A crab apple tree with jackmanii clematis beginning to bloom as it climbs up the trunk

A shot of the sidewalk bed in front: perennial geranium blooming its heart out, two daylilies, alyssum, and bobo hydrangea which survived snowbanks and falling trees this winter

A gorgeous combination of colours in petunias grown from seed

What's blooming

A bouquet of blossoms from the garden. Including the first dahlia to bloom, shasta daisies, pink yarrow, monarda (bee balm), pink salvia, goose-neck loose strife. The Queen Anne's lace at the top was picked from the roadside. Everything else has come from the garden. Can't wait to see the rest of the dahlias come into bloom. This dahlia is a mix of colours; pale yellow at the top with pink in the centre and golden coral at the bottom. Interesting.

And another addition, on the right is amaranth, a flower I have been waiting for. It looks like fuchsia dread locks. It is also known as love-lies-bleeding. And on the left is Japanese bottle brush, the only flower here that has a smell.