Beautiful! Love the hibiscus - what a great color. Your hydrangea brought a smile to my face - I have a willow Nishiki Hakuro standard in a pot. It really has no business there, but I put it in a pot before I found out it is a water guzzler, and I LOVE it on the patio. So, I water it about four times a day, lol. However, it is top-heavy (desperately needs to be potted up a size - or four!) and obviously it dries out very quickly. So the darn thing blows over ALL the time! We have a special name for it - that "expletive" tree, lol, because it seems every time we look out the window it's fallen over. Amazing it's still alive. Once during a thunderstorm I ran out in the pouring rain and jumped into my car, which is parked right next to it. Suddenly I heard a crash, and there's the darn thing leaning against my driver's side window. I had to call my daughter on my cell phone to come out of the house and lift it off the car so I could go to work - she was not pleased, lol. Okay, I guess I'm chatty today too. Thank you for sharing your photos! :) Dee

Hi everyone, Thanks for commenting on the pics--I really appreciate it and I'm glad you enjoyed it. Aren't those zinnias great? They're virtually foolproof for summer color as long as they get occasional water (but like I said, I do head out of town a lot even in summer and they have to survive w/o automatic irrigatin). Let's see...since these pics do not show my Tree of Shame (which now has twenty one baskets it in), I can reply with what's hanging in the tree in pic #2. Thanks for asking...there are three pots of cascading vinca ('Mediterranean Apricot Broadeye' which I started from seeds from Park Seed Co...it cascades wonderfully), there's a pot with one of the "mule's ears" kalanchoes (Kalanchoe gastonis-bonnieri), a lantana (I stand firm as a fan of them, lol), a blue flowering puya (Puya berteroniana that I also grew from seed (what can I say? I'm cheap!)), and if you look closely, at the left, you can see some spaghetti-like stems dangling in the air...that pot is actually hung so high (16 feet) that you can't see it, but it's full of Rapunzel plant, Sarcostemma viminale which almost touches the ground now (I had to hang it by standing on a very tall ladder and I have to arc water up to its pot with the hose once a week), and finally, the dark bronze-purple plant does indeed look like purple hearts from this distance, but it's my new favorite ornamental sweet potato 'Sweet Caroline Bronze' which stays compact and makes great bronzey-burgundy leaves which emerge a golden chartreuse, AND it loves full sun. I know, I know...more than you wanted to know, but hey, you asked. :) Now, just don't make me list what's hanging in the Tree of Shame...that would take all day. :P Take care and thanks again for commenting, Grant Here is a link that might be useful: Mediterranean Apricot Broadeye from Park Seed

Looks like everyone has been busy lately! I know the feeling. I ran out last night to take a few pics to get on here this week! Some might be a bit blurry due to my bad timing! Did someone say something about a path? What's a path? I think I need to redo this one next year! It's my new bed out front, mostly annuals (primarily calendula, bachelor buttons, cosmos, and marigold) this year, but the perennials should bloom next year, so it'll change. And here's the back of that bed Some things in there: messed up sunflower random zinnia- this one is very red I'm not sure what this is sorry- seed mix ya know. It's the only one too darn it! Flax in the blvd bed- mixed up in allysum Various stuff from other beds My rose is beginning to rebloom Linaria is actually everywhere Calendula is everywhere too, but i really like this one My hosta is still trying to bloom My delphs are still blooming, although the wind really knock them down! And then the overgrown veggies- I expanded the garden this year but the tomatoes, zuchini, and cukes still take over!

Sierra that just plain hurts to have frost this early!We managed to stay above the frostline here last night but it sure was foggy this morning.I like the shocking colour combo of the morning glory and impatiens Marcia a few of mine flemish antique poppy echinacea- Prima Donna Orly asiatic lily the flowerbox on the deck is full and over flowing Peaches and cream snapdragon balcony planter a planter on the deck with Skizzy the cat planter in a the flowerbed a couple more glads caribbean carnival dahlia..the picture is being kind to it..it looks like ketchup and mustard mixed together to me...lol Seattle dahlia savona