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Nell, I love those datura. What's Buffy licking chops over?

Wow, Tom, look how nicely things have filled in! Your place looks awesome! Nell, Buffy is getting big! Your property is looking wonderful, too. I don't know if I remember how to post photos here, but I may try in the next day or two.

Here's a couple from the last few days.
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This first picture is a compilation of 4 pictures I overlapped and pasted together. It's a 180 view off my front porch.
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This is a long veiw along my front bed
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I have more pictures taken over the weekend on my flicker album (link below)

My perennial Poppies and peonies will be blooming in the next week, so I expect I will be taking more pictures!

Jenny P

Here is a link that might be useful: Garden 2009 album part 2

Since my garden is only a couple of months old, the plants aren't very big and bushy, so here's the plants on the porch and a small part of the garden.

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Ignore the temporary porch "furniture." Nice furniture will have to wait until we're finished inside the house.

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Oh your gardens are all so beautiful. My garden was pretty nice too....until this massive rainstorm and high winds visited. The storm is supposed to continue throughout the whole week so I don't think I will be posting any halfway pics. Everything is drenched, weighted down and blown over. ;*((
I guess I will just have to smile at the pictures all of you are posting. So keep them coming please.

This is the time of year when we southerners have to begin looking at our gardens through windows in our air conditioned houses. It's HOT out there! But there are so many things blooming.

This is part of my oldest bed. It's mostly daisies, day lilies, blackberry lilies, and hibiscus right now.

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Here are a few more of the day lilies.

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Blackberry lilies are one of my very favorites!

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Of course the hibiscus impresses everybody:

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So do my glads - they are about 6 feet tall!

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Cosmos are rampant; coneflowers are everywhere.

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So far it has been a GREAT growing season.

It's a real study in zonal differences when we all post in one thread. Mary Lu's gorgeous roses are in high gear, ours are ready to cut back for the August show. Many are finishing up a second flush of bloom. Some daylilies are coming into rebloom here while Mary Lu's await blossoms.

LindaKimy's tropicals are ablaze with color, Oakley's plants say hot weather is here, JennyPat blooms 2 months behind us. No wonder we get confused!

On the other hand, I don't frequent the Georgia Forum because they mostly garden around Atlanta, 250 miles north to south makes a big difference in practices.

Nell

I got too busy this morning to get any pictures taken before the sun popped out very bright so I will wait until evening to take any.

I am loving all the pictures. I am getting so I can almost tell you the zone or state when I see the pictures.

-token, I am soooooo sorry!! I didn't see you had a similar thread when I posted mine! I thought it was pics of a half-way bed. I would have held off on mine...
CMK

Wow, some really spectacular gardens! I am feeling grouchy as the rabbits this year are destroying my gardens! Was just out and they had taken a rather large bushy aster down to nothing! Ok, I know that is another thread....

I'll include a few photos, as my gardens aren't currently so wonderful.

My mock orange has been a blooming machine this year and now the asiatic lilies are starting their show.
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This clematis is also very showy this year.
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And I always love my sumac-tiger eyes. It has a delicate form and is right outside my kitchen window to enjoy. I just have to be alert to all the runners that want to put up new ones everywhere!
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I am a newbie to gardening, this is my first "real" year, so I have a lot to learn. All of this has been started from scratch, as our house is newly built and the land was completely bare except for a few existing evergreens on the back property line.
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I am also a newbie to uploading photos, sorry!
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CMK pictures are good no matter the name of the thread. :)

Beautiful ones in both for sure.

In our part of the country, 'best of spring' is often far removed from 'blooming at summer solstice' so the two threads are not necessarily identical for some of us. I don't think of June as a spring month, no matter what the calendar says.

I thought of Christin's thread as review of Spring and Tom's thread as preview of things to come.

Cali Cottage, you sure have a lot of pretties in a short time.

Wi Garden, what the rabbits didn't eat sure is pretty.

Nell

I don't think of June as a spring month, no matter what the calendar says.

It's almost to the point even April is suspect as a "spring" month down here. You get March and not much more, lol.

Love seeing all the pretties!

Cali, how in the world do your pics have such intense color in full sun? What's your trick?

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I'm so excited that people like my garden! I'm new to the forum, by the way. I honestly don't remember what time of day I took the pics, but the only thing that I did was point and shoot. I'm not talented with the camera. The flowers are south facing. The camera is a Canon powershot SD750 Digital Elph that we got a couple years ago. Its nothing super expensive or ultra fancy.

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I am in NYC all week with DH . Will have to post a pic when I get back. We are having over 100 every day there and no rain in over a week. None expected either. I am having someone water and take care. She said tonight all is very very dry. Hope it doesn't all die.

The warm weather is on the way up here to NYC> This has been the 5 or 6th wettest June on record for NYC. Very lush and cool in the park....but it is ending tomorrow...they are of course glad to get sun. funny how it all works out. c

PF has drifts! And neat edges! Love the blues and yellows!

Natal, why aren't your echinacea faded like mine, in the heat? It's time mine got haircuts, just as the Stargazer lilies have decided to bloom.

Nell

Nell, my first stargazer started peeling back today. I'll miss it since I'm heading out of town for a couple days tomorrow. I love those things. Beautiful and fragrant. Can't ask for much more.

My gardens have made the transition from the blues of the larkspur to the yellows of BESs/gallardias and daylilies This is several shots of my pond garden which is the spotlight for color. The woodland gardens are for the most part green with some hyderanges blooming.....

Lynne

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Ooooooo, pfmastin, I can't wait until my vitex is as big and gorgeous as yours! Can you tell me what those blonde grasses (or maybe carex) are? I love them!

And Lynne, things are looking very lush over your way. Could you tell me what those somewhat spiky yellow flowers are that are near the gazing ball in the last photo? I think I see them in the picture just before that, too, but can't figure out what they are.

I'm afraid spring is long past here, also.
Jim

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lovely thread...such pretty summer places...Natal I love your piece of ironwork in your garden..such whimsy.. I love not only flowers in the garden but whimsy pieces too. Did a local artist make that?

Lindakimy - those are kniphofia or torch lily. I wish they bloomed longer - they are done now.

I have just loved looking at all these gardens - so much inspiration .....

Lynne

I finally took a few pictures before the heat ruins everything.

The first two are both sides of the Humming Bird Bed outside the kitchen:

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So far the whole month of June has been August.

I so enjoy seeing all the different zones and of course envy those who are getting rain.

The front between the driveway and the grass path around the island bed.

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Street side
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