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.

This Weekend In the Flower Beds - May 5/6, 2012

There's not much I can say about the flower beds this week that isn't better shown in photos, so, here they are!

 

Back and Side Flower Beds

Grape Hyacinth

 Vinca Minor

     

 Tulips

 Hen and Chicks

                                Lots of Little Lilies                                         Bleeding Heart

Solomon's Seal

Dwarf Purple Iris

Ferns

Peonies