Flower centerpiece for a ladies luncheon last week. From the garden.

The view from the back of our home. The wild Blackfoot Daisies are blooming everywhere now.

The peegee hydrangeas in front of my house, which I can see from my living and dining room windows.

Gorgeous flower pics! I'm rather envious of your sunny days - our Summer here in the UK has been very damp and cold, so not many opportunities for enjoying the garden :( I was able to take a few pics of our cottage garden when the sun broke through the cloud a couple of days ago.......

On my deck

The bathroom with orchids is superb! These rose bouquets are all from my garden.

The only live flowers I have outside are my hydrangeas which are now elderly and have gone from a gorgeous pink to a rather boring green. I have virtually no florals inside my house, so I'm sharing the daffodil motif from my silver tea set. The daff is my favorite flower, so this'll have to do. ;-)

One of my favorite flowers, Echinacea. I can see these from my desk. One of my favorite perks of these flowers is that the goldfinches love the seed heads in the fall. I usually have 3 or 4 there all afternoon.

This corner of our veggie garden is overrun with Queen Anne Lace. I know most people think they are weeds, but I love them. Always have some in my bouquets for the house.

Love everyone's flowers, no matter what the form.

blackberry lily

A couple of pots, asparagus fern and New Guinea Impatiens

Echinacea

Bama Belle daylily

Fairy Tale Pink (I think)

Ida's Magic

Oh, these flowers are gorgeous! And, Lynn, I'm moving in with you. That view! Priceless.

OKay, here are our water lilies in our fish pond.

I used to have a Daylily Nursery when I had my farm (along with a full time banking career), now I am just a gardener and am loving it.

Japanese Iris:

Lilium's up close:

Daylilies:

I could go on and on, but I'll stop here.

The gardens at our vacation home are full of perennials:

The flowers are all magnificent!

Here are a few of mine:

I have only potted flowers and two last gladiolus left until late summer:( so I will borrow Ida's idea.

Oh my goodness, such gorgeous flowers! I love gardening. Here are some pictures from my yard. The first is a pot on a chair with a sunshine face I found in a thrift shop. The purple flowers are called gomphrena.

Torenia and a succulent.

Ivy geranium and mandevilla vine

Some fancy begonia in a planter that hangs on the side of my garage.

My Limelight Hydrangeas.

Okay, I'll stop now. Just love seeing yours.

Are the orchids real in the orchid bathroom? They're gorgeous.

Beagles, the orchids are real. It is the perfect place for them. Some of them are always blooming. If you look closely, you'll see there are a few without flowers.

This is my Halloween/Thanksgiving/Christmas/Easter/Anytime cactus. I never know when it's going to bloom.

I had gone to an open house in a very old, late 1800s, home. The woman had died in her family home; her son was selling everything in the house.

The mother plant for this cactus was on top of an old refrigerator. The plant was huge; it covered the top of the fridge and draped more than half way down to the floor on one side near a window. It had not been watered in forever and was nearly completely dead.

I had picked up a plastic glass and was slowly pouring water into the hard, cracked soil. He snarled, "What are you doing?" I said this plant is nearly dead; if it doesn't get a good soaking and repotting it will be beyond saving.

He growled and grumbled and walked away.

When I was about ready to leave I asked if I could have a few cuttings from some of the 10,000,000 stems. He looked uncomfortable and grumbled some more. I offered to pay for them. Finally he said "You can take three of the little leaves."

Talk about a Scrooge. I took a handful and left. I'm sure he tossed the mother plant out with all the garbage and left-over items at the end of the day. He had a dumpster just waiting.

I soaked the stems I snagged over night, then separated them into two- and three-segment cuttings and stuck them in fresh potting soil, covered them loosely with plastic wrap, and waited for the magic to happen.

This was about six months later. It get's HUGE, although I don't have a perfect window for it. It loves summers hanging from the large maple tree. It suffers, but still blooms, through winters on my breakfast table.

It's sitting in a plastic bowl, on the stove top, LOL, because I had given it a shower in he sink and let the root ball have a good soaking. Then it had to and then drain.

Here's a few of my favorite outdoor flowers.

Y2K Miniature rose planted while living on the base here. It did not survive its second winter.

I love yellow roses!

A Yokohama tulip from the same garden.

I love peachy coral tulips!

Who could be sad when looking at a little viola?

I love purple-edged yellow violas!

A little wren house, on a 5' pole with a vine (?) growing up, around, over, and through it. I covered the metal pole with a 5" wide sleeve of chicken wire to give the vine a place to cling.

I love sweet little vines! And huge Clematis vines! And Morning Glory vines! And Thumbergia vines! And Moonflower vines! And Grape vines!

Marquee Moon daylily. It's fragrant!

I love fragrant yellow daylilies!

Irises, beaten down by a hard rain. Each bloom was bigger than my two hands together. Even on the ground they were beautiful.

And yes; I love yellow irises!

I guess you can tell I love "yellow!"

Here are a few blooms I have in August:

April and May are the best months for flowers, for me, as that is when most of my epiphyllum bloom.

I have to respectfully disagree, Lars. To my prairie land-locked eyes, your Epidendrum looks very special, and beautiful!

I'm so envious of everyone's beautiful flowers and gardens. And I love your daffodil tea service IdaClaire! I have managed to get a few pretty blooms on my hydrangeas.

Hmm, definitely need to plant more flowers next year. These are all so beautiful. Never seen such a variety of daylilies.

I have coleus in the front planter boxes, so not really flowers.

Will jump in here. I have so enjoyed checking these threads everyday. We are retired and live in an old home. The day I toured the house and walked the yard the first thing I said was the side yard was a perfect place for a garden room. So 16 years ago we started. Probably the last 6-7 years we have just maintained as we retired the rototiller! No more new gardens.

The 1st 3 pictures were taken in the garden room.

These are the pots leading into the patio overlooking the garden room

A round bed on the other side of the house.

In the distance is the daylily bed on the street side. This spring we dug all 51 daylilies up and split them out. That is why that bed is not as full as it usually is.

Mary_lu, I followed the planning and planting of your gorgeous garden many years ago back on the antique rose forum of gardenweb. What a treat to see it today!! Thank you for posting.

Mary_lu,

All I can say is WOW! Beautiful gardens!

Mary_lu -- wowza. I know how much work it is to maintain a garden like that and make it so beautiful. I bow down to you!

Yellow Bird Magnolia in my back garden.