Nice looking garden Sharon. Here are somethings blooming in my garden.

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Sierra

Purple Wave Petunia:

Baby Veggies:

Part of the garden:

Sharon! I must have one of those orange Trolliuses! Where do I get one! Aaaaaaagh it's beautiful!

Sierra love the photo montage :0)

Kim what nice looking veggies! Eat that Bibb lettuce fast, mine just bolted this week :0(

Sharon...your photo of the orange trollius is now my wallpaper image. Hope you don't mind. It's gorgeous.
Sierra...very artistic. I could see that on a wall, framed!
Kim...wish I had the patience (and room) to grow veggies. They look great!

I have a few more pictures too. With the heat, everything is starting to bloom like crazy.
I love your picture Sierra.
Sharon, your dianthus is stunning. I'm going to have to look for that one.

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Osteospermum Lilac Spoon

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Another picture of Sarah

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Stella de Oro Daylily

Shelley

Wonderful gardening everyone!

Thanks gals!

Doris, NO I do not mind that you use my photo for your wallpaperÂ. IÂm rather honored actually. LOL

Gil, I believe I purchased ÂSuperbus from Botanus a couple of years ago, itÂs finally putting on a show this year.

Shelley those OsteospermumÂs are the coolest looking plants IÂve ever seen, every time I see them, reminds me of what aliens in Mars would grow ;)

Sierra, is that ever creative, love your photo montage too!

Sharon

Everytime someone shows a trolius picture, I want one even more. It was one of my no shows in the WSing efforts. How hardy are they? I might have to break down and buy a plant.

I just love this weekly thread! Lovely pics everybody!

The delphiniums are really looking good this year. Mainly because we haven't had a 100mph wind to knock them over yet!
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The flowers are so showy on Elegans hosta.

Venidium 'Orange Prince', planted by my own two little princes, just glows in the sunlight.
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I think this is Allium 'Christophii'

I adore these little pineapple lilies! They're just so darn cute!

Laurie

"I'm so happy with the delphiniums this year. Usually I'm fighting that green worm that eats every flower bud, but this year no sign of them at all. "

That's because they're all in MY garden eating MY delphiniums!! Want them back? I'll pay postage! LOL

You all have such beautiful gardens!! I am so enjoying the weekly 'visits' :)

Here are a couple of mine .................

more in my album below.

-Colleen

Here is a link that might be useful: Colleen's 2006 Garden Album

Lovely pictures everyone!! I always look forward to viewing the weekly thread of garden pictures:>)
Here are mine for this week:

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Dropmore Honeysuckle

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Asarina Climbing Mix

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White Martagon lily

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Hymalayan Potentilla 'Miss Willmott'

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Delphinium 'Blue Bird'

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Siberian Iris (unknown name)

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Pot of White Explorer Wave Petunias

All for this week. More next week

Cheers Al

Wonderful pictures, everyone! I love visiting your gardens! :) I've added more to my Webshots album. This week's pictures start on page 3. Just realized that i added them to the June album! Oh well - you all understand, don't you? LOL

Here is a link that might be useful: This week's pictures

Fabulous photos everyone! I haven't had much time to play here lately and I hope you don't mind if I cheat a bit. Most of these pics are from last week because with the hail we had last Friday, the garden is pretty messy this week...

Penstemon 'Cambridge Mix' wintersown last year:

Peonies were great last week. They just don't last long enough. This peony came with the property:

Peony 'Bowl of Beaty' grown from bare root last year:

Unknown Peony picked up from a Freecycler:

Unknown Peony - I call it 'Doris' :-)

Henry Kelsey strutting his stuff:

Morden Sunrise blooming in a pot waiting for a new home:

Trollius:

Nightshade:

Sweet William Mix (they weren't kidding...) wintersown last year:

Delphinium:

A sweet color combination - Golden Marguerite and Fleabane:

Susan

Susan, very, very nice.....I commented on this before, but I do love that sunflower birdbath!

Oh yes, whatÂs the name of that attractive Nightshade, is it a vine and do you collect seeds from it???? LOL

Sharon

Sharon - are you being a smarty pants?
I know the Nightshade has a bad reputation but it has worked for me to quickly fill a blank wall in an isolated space...
Plus, I like the cute and colorful little flowers and berries.

Thanks again for the compliment on the bird bath - I'm glad my hubby knows my taste.

Susan

Stunning pics everyone! Love that heliopsis prairie sunset! Just got the variety summer nights and I'm hoping it will be a good one. Love their long season of bloom. My martagon planted last year didn't even peak out its head so am hoping its still alive under there; I know they can be slow to emerg. Something to look forward to! Debbie.

Hi everyone--I've been lurking on this board for quite some time. I am new to gardening and new to Minnesota winters--brrr! I am in either 2b or 3a depending on whos map you prefer.

This board has been an invaluable resource for me as I started gardening here in my first home. This year my flower garden has really come together--I thought I'd share a few pics as a way to thank all the great people here who share their wisdom and experience---it has helped me get started.

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feverfew & clarkia elegans

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fig hollyhocks/malva/heliopsis

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silene armeria

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another view of my southern flower bed (the bare dirt is because I decided to make it bigger for next year)

Thanks for looking--Carolyn

Welcome Carolyn!! You've got such a wonderful garden there. I love the colour of those hollyhocks! Thanks so much for posting your pictures, and please keep them coming :^)

Laurie

Great photos Carolyn, glad to see you come out of lurkom land, hope you'll enjoy our company and have fun here at the FN forum ;)

Yes Susan, you know me, I'm always trying to be a smarty pants, but seriously, do you know the species name of your NIghtshade?
Oh yeah I forgot to mention this to you in my last post, guess where I'm moving my Fleabane next spring to? Love that combination!

Thanks Debbie, 'Summer Nights' is on my next years wish list too.

Sharon

North 53, I'm not sure if Trollius is hardy in zone 1, I know it sure is in zone 2, so I would give them a try.
Same here, I had no luck WS'ing Trollius, why not ask this question at our new Canadian Winter Sowing forum and see what others had for experience, that would be a good question to bring up there ;)

Here is a link that might be useful: Canadian Winter Sowing

Hey, Susan...great to see photos of your garden! (Hope you escaped the hail last evening!!) I like the dark pink peony (gee...wonder why), but I love the one that came with the property--just stunning! Great shot of the fleebane and marguerites!

This is the time of year my garden starts looking its messiest. But I enjoy "visiting" everyone else's yard!! Thanks for all the great pictures!!!

Carolyn - Thanks for sharing your beautiful hollyhocks.

Sharon - I have the Nightshade written down as Solanum dulcamara. I got it at the Calgary Hort plant swap a couple of years ago from the table classified as 'invasive'.

Doris - Thankfully we didn't get the hail this time. The storm that hit Calgary didn't get this far east but I was watching the dark clouds and saying a few prayers. I hope all was fine in your garden as well. 'Doris' is definitely one beauty of a peony - thanks again :-)

Any good plant combos that have happened in my garden this year are just dumb luck. I was just so overwhelmed last year trying to get all my trades, gifts, purchases and wintersowing in the ground that I feel like my entire garden is one big holding bed. There are lots of things to be moved this fall. For example, I wintersowed Nepeta parnassica that I got in a trade with a gal in the UK. It is over 5 feet tall and I fight with it everyday as it planted along the edge of a path : /

Susan

Sharon and North53, I w/s trollius 'Orange Princess' this winter and I had a few come up. They were late in germinating though, I think they didn't come up til May sometime. It re-seeds all through the grass around it, so I figured it should w/s well too.
If anybody's interested, I can save some of this seed when it ripens.

Laurie

Wow !! Fabulous photos..
Sharon that photo of your Trollius europaeus 'Superbus'
Thats is one great pic.. Thats dianthus ? I need some .. Please..
Shelly your Osteospermum Lilac Spoon what neat looking plant.. Love it..
Dropmore Honeysuckle I tried to grow it, it just didnt like where I put it.. Got to try it again..
Sweet William Oops ! I think I cut mine down too much.. Got one lonely bloom in a patch of green..
Carolyn your hollyhocks are blooming.. that is one plant I have trouble growing.. But I had my 1st winter survivor this year & its got buds..
Petunias don't even like me this year..But the bugs sure do & the hail(2Xs)..
But I do have a bud on my brugmansia if the hail doesn't get it.. Do leaves count ?
Here's my Asarina Red Dragon

Keep those great pics coming... Jan

Susan that Nightshade looks exactly to like a vine that I bought last year called 'American Bittersweet Vine'or at least that is what the greenhouse called it where I bought it.The flowers and leaves are the same. I am not sure if I am going to keep this one as it died back to the ground last winter, then when it came back this spring it came up all over the place and I am still pulling suckers from it as far as three or four feet away from where it is growing up a trellis. I just tried googling it and what came up for 'American Bittersweet' does not look at all like what I have growing. You sure can't trust labels!! Go figure!!

Cheers Al