Lovely garden shots, Julia! Everything looks lush. How does your season compare to previous seasons so far?

Sherry

Beautiful garden shots, everything looks so perfect. How do you keep your perennials into such nice clumps? I plant coneflower in a clump, the next thing I know I've got a little bit here, a little bit there. I transplant them, but still doesn't seem to work right. Your plants look close together, I encourage that to discourage weeds, but ends up looking weedy for me. Yours looks like a magazine cover. Come fix my garden-PLEASE! I really want to come sit on your bench there.

Love Earth Music!

Thanks for the comments.

Sherry: We were off to a slow start with the daylilies but the other perennials/annuals really did great so far this season. The abundance of rain really helped since last year we were in that horrible drought and then the high temps didn't help. One mistake I made was planting foxglove last year. Never again as it looks horrible after it bloomed this spring. I think delphiniums would have been a better choice. The daylilies are now really starting to open up all over. Sometimes multiples and others only single.

Nancy: I too transplant off spring from the perennials to other areas. I have tons of purple coneflowers and coreopsis(Tickseed) yellow variety that I've been transplanting to other spots. the Cheyenne Spirit coneflowers are expanding fast as I've discovered several small offspring when weeding. I never realized how big the lychnis was going to get. I had to give it a haircut yesterday. I have been downsizing my daylilies and do more mix beds. Your more than welcome to come and sit on my bench :)

Julia

Beauties! I was considering Open Door but now I got a sdlg looking just like that :)

Loove the garden shots! I used to grow that silvery foliage one forgot the name but it's not for this climate..

Love the garden shots! I like how you have incorporated perennials and annuals with daylilies. As far as the individual blooms I really like Open Door and Earth Music.

Lori

We got the rain today that you are expecting. Several bouts - definitely needed. I hope it pumps up the flowers for the Columbus show on Sunday.

Your garden shots are so great. I can almost identify all the plants except for the yellow daisy plant that is close to the Echinacea........I find the UF Toby Versus Godzilla to be such a cutie............Maryl

Thank you for the comments. My direction is mixing other plants and reducing daylilies. i've made mistakes but learning. Took me over and hour last night to live/dead head all the daylilies.

Maryl: yellow plant is Rudbeckia Prairie Sun. Reseeds great here and I can buy it locally very cheap.

Julia

Thanks Julie. I haven't seen that variety of Rudbeckia with the green centers around here or I would have snatched it up. Rudbeckias aren't overly fond of our high heat combined with humidity, but I really like it and I see Bluestone carries it. I think I will give it a trial next year............An hour deadheading IS a lot. Sometimes you just have had enough of a certain plant and want to diversify a little. Why I have so many pots of different things that takes me forever to water............Maryl

Lovely garden shots. Great perennial mixes. And wonderful to have reseeders. I love Rudbeckias but have found many varieties are treated as annuals as they do not reseed or return. I have such a long growing season I don't mind growing some as annuals. It may not be great but I like the color on Oh Great One.

Kate

Love your garden shots, thanks for sharing!

Your garden is gorgeous! Thank you for sharing. I love coneflowers but seem to have the aster virus that affects them. I love how your perennials are all growing together. Beautiful! I really like the color of Earth Music and Toby vs Godzilla is a neat on with that name, especially. I'm coming with Nancy to see all the beauties.

kay

Lovely garden shots! All that work last year sure paid off!

Laura, Kate, Kay and Brad: Thanks for commenting. Last years garden redo bed was a challenge with the drought but this year, it is rewarding me.

Kay: I check my coneflowers all the time for aster virus ever since I read about it a couple of years ago. So far, all is fine.

Julia