Flowers - July 8, 2012

The flower beds, much like the garden are experience an invasion of weeds that I battle a little bit at time, crossing my fingers that I can keep them from taking over.  They are also suffering a little bit from the lack of rain, but most will survive without much trouble.

As always, here are some picture of my pretties!

The first lily of the year.  (More to come, probably in a post of their own because I love lilies so much!)

Morning glories . . . even one with a bee having a snack!

First Daylily!

Cone Flower (echinacea) buds.

Liattrice. 

Astilbe.

First Tango Asiatic Lily.

Fist Cancun Asiatic Lily.

The progression of Allium Flowers.

Galardia. 

Galardia . . . even after the petals are gone they look cool!

Hosta Flower.

Pictures of my Pretties - June 19, 2012

Flower beds are looking great!  Lots of pretty flowers starting to show themselves!  And as always, I love taking photos of them!  Enjoy the pretties that I am enjoying this week!  

My mom is coming to visit us on the weekend and I got my love for gardening (and most of my perennials) from her.  I am hoping the flower beds look nice for her to see them.

Pink Astilbe . . . I planted some new ones this year (no pics yet) but I think (hope) that one is white and one is red or darker pink.  (fingers crossed)

Pink yarrow, took a few years for me to decide if I really liked this one or not, but I think I do.  I think I want another one in a different colour now.

Evening primrose, there are LOTS of them and so nice and bright!

Alliums are coming alone nicely!

Apparently I missed the flowers on my Coral Bells . . . oh well, there's always next year!

My poor little Dianthus needs to find a new home before it is completely smoothered out!

The first lilies of the year were waiting for me when we got home from our camping weekend on Sunday!  

And then there was this one out yesterday!  Have a ever mentioned that I LOVE lilies?

Liattrice . . . white, I think.

Liattrice . . . purple I think.

Cancun Lilies . . . I can not believe how HUGE these lilies are, how much they have multiplied and how many buds are in each stalk!  Amazing that I just planted them in 2010!

Peonies.

Canna lilies in my patio planter.

Four O'clock flowers in my patio planter.

Flower Beds - May13 - 19

Again, there isn't much to say about the flower beds.  Everything is growing nicely, even the weeds!  Aside from a bit of weeding when I have the time, I have been busy taking photos of my pretties!  Enjoy!

Columbine

Hen and Chicks (yes, I am a little bit obsessed with these guys!)

Creeping Veronica

Lots of little violas!

Vinca Minor

Bachelor Buttons

Lily Of The Valley

Lamb's Ear

Giant Allium

Iris Buds

Yellow Iris