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.

The Vegetable Garden - June 10, 2012

The vegetable garden is continuing to come to life as the days pass.  Most of the seeds are at least starting to come up.  The only thing that hasn't come up yet is the potatoes and they were planted later than everything else.

Orange peppers, jalepeno peppers, roma tomatoes, beefsteak tomatoes and cherry tomatoes.

Carrots.

Onions.

Zucchini.

Cucumbers.

Kale.

Lettuce.

Swiss Chard

Early Friday evening, we got a huge downpour of rain.  I could tell from the house that a large portion of the garden was covered in water, so I took the camera to assess the damage.  At the time, I was worried for the tomato plants as some of them were in the middle of large puddles, but they seem to have all come out fine!

The garden after Friday's downpour.

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.