Just after mowing

I love the garden just after it is mown. The flower beds stand out much clearer and I can see all the baby shrubs that are dotted around the yard whereas before they are hidden by the grass growing up around them. Even my neighbour offered to trim the raspberry bushes in the yard next door so that my flowers would show up more; how lovely is that?

Long view towards the weigela bed and taking in the gingko bed; poppies in full bloom now

View of the side front garden; almost complete shade here because of the lovely birch, maple and oak trees

View of the end of the front garden with four hydrangea shrubs slowly growing to maturity

The bobo bed, just enlarged to take in a new peony as of yesterday

Garden update - mid June

Bouquet with fragrant white peony in centre stage

The hosta garden

Honeysuckle climbing over the fence

Poppies coming into bloom

Close up of the poppies

St Francis presiding over the weigela bed

Purple veronica in the gingko bed

Nemophila in the cut flower bed; these were winter sown

Firelight hydrangea full of blossoms about to pop

Pink Flower Time

The driveway planter with pink and purple wave petunias, this will be a mass of flowers in a short time

A pink lily picked up at Home Hardware just a few days ago, three blooms have opened, five more to come

A gorgeous two-toned iris in the driveway bed

A peony in its third year with a mass of blooms

The dappled willow that was planted three years ago is thriving despite the dry weather

What's blooming now

Here in central/northern Ontario, our summers are very short.  Little begins to bloom until the end of June and much of the garden looks bare. The temptation is to fill it all up with annuals, but then the perennials will struggle to get through.

Here in the bed beside the driveway, a peony blossomed today. And just behind is a gorgeous iris  with one bloom out and four more waiting to pop. I love the intricate flower of iris and these two-toned ones are simply beautiful.

The soft purple and blush pink is outstanding.

 

I think the day's  heat  is making  these peony flowers curl. We have gone from cool spring to full-on  summer and today is already 30 plus with a humidex of 37. (89 Fahrenheit to 96). And dry, there has been no rain for over a week. This seems to be typical Ontario summer, hot and dry.

Lupins flowering in the driveway bed. This bed gets full morning sun, from about 7 am to 1 or 2 in the afternoon.

Some irises that surprised me when they  bloomed.  I don't remember planting them here but I must have.

And some  lovely aliums in the bed on  the  east side of the house.

In a corner of a front bed, I have struggled with various plants and nothing seems to survive. So I put in a Gold Lace Juniper. I hope that it will get enough sun to do well here.  It gets about 6 hours of sun here. The plant makes me think of people who have got blonde highlights put in their hair. Highlights that are well done.

Pots on the back deck. Several begonias with lobelia and bacopa, a fuchsia and some coleus just taking hold.

A  pot  at  the bottom of the deck steps, with a grass in the centre, and  pink and purple flowers around, I've forgotten their names.

Meanwhile it is watering, watering and more watering.