I'm guessing the first is some type of evening primrose. The second one is Malva moschata. If you don't deadhead it, every one of those seeds will germinate in your garden, in your grass, in the cracks in your walkway... :-( It's pretty when it's in bloom, but I don't find the flowers last long enough to keep it in my garden. I'm tearing all mine out and replacing them, next year, with the annual Lavatera. You may be right about the third one; it might also be a campanula.

Today I went to a couple of nurseries and the plant sale in Ft. Worth. I was looking at some plants and it dawned on me that it was Jolana's plant in the contest so I wrote the name down. Gosh this is such a wonderful prize. I don't know which one to pick. Decisions...Decisions!

OH! Stage_rat-- what timing for this post of yours!! I wish you had been at the Midwest Native Plant Conference in southern Ohio this weekend! You would have learned so much about exactly that (how native plants nurture our wildlife so much more effectively than non-native species)! I have not yet read Douglas w. Tallamy's book, Bringing Nature Home, but am going to pick up a copy ASAP. Here is part of the synopsis from Amazon: "There is an unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife ― native insects cannot, or will not, eat alien plants. When native plants disappear, the insects disappear, impoverishing the food source for birds and other animals. In many parts of the world, habitat destruction has been so extensive that local wildlife is in crisis and may be headed toward extinction. "Bringing Nature Home has sparked a national conversation about the link between healthy local ecosystems and human well-being, and the new paperback edition ― with an expanded resource section and updated photos ― will help broaden the movement. By acting on Douglas Tallamy's practical recommendations, everyone can make a difference." You must read this article explaining in detail why cardinals that are eating Amur honeysuckle berries (a food source that is dismayingly widespread now) are not as healthy as the mates they attract think: http://redandthepeanut.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-northern-cardinal-eating-red.html And be sure to follow the link embedded in THIS article to another from the website of the National Wildlife Assn. regarding non-native plants being ecological traps for birds (and, therefore, affecting all wildlife since EVERYTHING is connected to everything else in the Web of Life! And then take a good long look at the plants in your yard to see what you may need to remove and think what you may replace them with!! Another good book with lists of native replacements for horticultural nightmares sold so widely is author Sara Stein's Planting Noah's Garden. It has been out for some time, but has very useful information!

She purchased her side tables from Target online a few years ago. They were originally sage green, but we spray painted them aqua to work better with her bedroom furniture at the house she's been renting with 3 of her sorority sisters these past few years. Here's a better pic of them. They actually ended up holding her tv there. I'm going to redo the hardware in oil rubbed bronze.