Blooms from my summer garden and a few of my favourite visitors
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| Cosmos and Yarrow |
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| Balloon Flower (Platycodon grandiflorus 'Fugi Blue') |
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| Bud of the Balloon Flower along with some Alyssum |
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| Daylily bloom, the last of the season. In spite of struggling with gall midge, this daylily still manages to wow me every year |
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| Daylily 'Strawberry Candy' |
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| Shirley Poppy |
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| Sweet Peas with a lovely fragrance |
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| Everlasting Sweet peas. I was a little disappointed to discover these didn't have any fragrance but they are pretty nonetheless. |
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| Oriental Lily 'Acapulco' The fragrance of this lily is amazingly potent |
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| Cerinthe Purple Bells for the hummingbirds |
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| Hydrangea macrophylla Nikko Blue This shrub is in the bed that will have to be dug up this fall to replace the rotten wood ties that collapsed recently. |
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| My gardening buddy enjoying the morning sunshine |
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| Steller's Jay enjoying the sun after too much rain, sitting on my patio fence |
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| la la la la la |
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| Chickadee busy with second batch of wee ones. |
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| This Downy woodpecker became a regular this summer, and even brought his or her young. In fact this may be the young, I can't tell. |
Great photos, mom! :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos. You certainly have a gift for gardening... and photography. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos!
ReplyDeleteI have some balloon flowers blooming too and they are one of my favorites! I didn't get around to planting any sweetpeas this year but I hope to next year...they smell so good!
Found your lovely blog on goodreads and now following. :)
Thank you!I can't resist growing sweet peas each year for the fragrance alone makes them worthwhile, even if I don't get many blooms.
ReplyDeleteYou have so many nice blooms. It has been so hot and dry we are just brown and crispy! Cannot wait to plant fall flowers..
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ReplyDeleteWow! Amazing photos! It just want's me to stare...the Balloon Flower is just so beautiful.I want to have a garden like this one, in the future...http://consideritdonemoving.com/moving-faq/