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 - June 10, 2012

Back Flower Beds

Side Flower Beds

Side Flower Beds

Sweet William

Planted these years ago and can't remember what they are called.

Bachelor Buttons

Liattrice

Look at all those bugs on the lilies!!  

Lupin

Columbine.

Astilbe. 

Rubekia.

Lamb's Ear.

Silver Mound.

Clematis.

Dianthus (new this year, from mom.)

Evening Primrose.

Morning Glories.

Persian Cornflower.

Sedum.

In The Flower Beds - End Of May 2012

Hen and Chicks are all doing extremely well this year!  And I love it!! :) 

Lots of iris blossoms this year too!  But I still have one stubborn iris that mom gave me about three years ago that won't bloom!

Hostas are as huge as ever!  Even though I take pieces off of them every spring, you can never tell, they are always as big or bigger than the year before!

Lots of white columbine scattered throughout the flower beds, but no yellow this year.  Time to start collecting seeds for next year!  Anyone have any they would like to share?

Bachelor buttons . . . cool buds, awesome flowers and the bees love them!

New lupins, from mom, the ones I had last year didn't come back this spring.

Coral Bells and Dianthus, also new this year, from mom!

Siberian Irises . . . I have had these for about five years, the white one bloomed for the first time last year and the blue one for the first time this year.  

Persian Corn Flower . . . with a little green bug!

And a peonie bud covered in ants.

Sweet William.