Hi All!

I'm back for my Second Garden Bloom Day! Lots of things blooming right now, as well as tons of weeds trying to get a toehold. We're going to ignore the weeds right now, and concentrate on the flowers. So here's to selective photo editing LOL

First we have the "vegetable" garden close to the house - cherry tomatoes, basil and mint are pictured, but there are rosemary, thyme and chives as well.  The impatiens add color to a very shady yard. For years, that was the only color near the house. Mom's never been too good about growing vegetables, something about not spending time outside in July and August. Too hot to water or weed. Yep, she's a wimp.

Also near the house are some oak leaf hydrangeas that came from Granny's farm in middle Georgia, and grow like weeds. You'll notice that a lot around our farm - self suffieciency among the plants is a good thing. There is also some Nandina - who knew that they bloomed? Not big bold blooms like the Oak Leaf, but they are a nice precursor to the berries.

There are also some happy volunteers - oxalis that is starting to colonize, a yellow butterfly weed that found a home in the shade and keeps coming back, and petunias that must have reseeded from a pot I had by the walkway last year.

The sun garden needs a lot of trimming and weeding, but again, we like hardy plants that can take a little neglect and still bloom.

Pink Bee balm, a huge colony of dark orange butterfly weed, some mutant purple coneflower that have super healthy foliage, but green and stunted petals, and one lone allium that stands tall behind a blue hydrangea that only blooms about every other year.

And of course we have daylilies - a variegated hybrid, a pale lemon yellow hybrid, some stella d'or rebloomers and to round out the sun loving flowers that thrive on neglect - a small colony of gooseneck plants.

Lastly, there is an area that is naturalizing with "ditch" lilies, campian and queen annes lace, some dark red honeysuckle and a black knight butterfly bush.

That's it for June...it's much more that I would have guessed. So happy to have a Bloom Day post to make me walk around and notice all the pretty flowers. This isn't the year to get a lot of work done, or add to the gardens, but the work in years past is still bearing fruit.

Puppy hugs!
Montgomery

PS Thanks for the lovely comments last month - there were a lovely welcome to the garden blogging community - ya'll are nice people!