My little sideyard rosebud is just about to open!!
We have peaches!
I bought this beauty yesterday along with the Mona Lisa lilies... her name is Rosa and she's a Double Knockout Rose!! :)
And believe it or not, with absolutely no covering or support over the harsh Michigan winter, we have...
... two hibiscus coming up!! WOOHOO!!
Yes, that's this baby's name: Eenie Allegro. Isn't it cute? I didn't think it was going to bloom this year.
I think Strutter's Ball has been the most prolific bloomer this year.
With You Are My Sunshine in a close second.
My sweet little Siloam Reds are doing beautifully too.
This reblooming lupine was a nice surprise. :)
These are the Las Vegas irises, which are finished blooming, of course, but look at the drying-out foliage. It looks almost variegated.
The peaches are getting to be almost peach-sized!
And look at my poor bleeding hearts! They're drying up and wilting, too. :(
The hostas are still pretty.
Look at the shoots on my Twist and Twirl! Its leaves are fading a little bit, but it's been uncommonly sunny lately, so maybe that's why.
Elphie is hilarious.
And here's Ginger, also up to no good. She enticed Nikki into giving her a spoonful of what was left of Nikki's mint chocolate chip ice cream. What a spoiled brat!
And now outside. Here's my latest Red Rum, all dewy from today's rain.
These Wave Petunias are OUT OF CONTROL.
Look! They're climbing a tree!!
And who knew my little lupine was going to make a comeback? I certainly didn't. I would have pruned it down if I'd known.
Look at that little thing. So cute.
Little Italy, with a branch of Russian sage in the foreground.
Siloam Reds.
I took this picture to show how tall the dahlias are getting. They're just to the right of the lilies, and right behind the lysimachia. (You can also see how tall the glads are getting, on the right.)
As requested, here's the entire lily garden, but as I said, they're not all in bloom at the same time. Wouldn't it be great if they were??
Strutter's Ball is fantastic. I love it!
Get a load of that color! Mmm!
YAMS! You Are My Sunshine is one of my faves now.
And get a load of these peaches!!
There are so many of them.
This one's probably the biggest of the group, but they're all pretty good size!
This is my new winter hardy hibiscus, Luna Pink Swirl. Unfortunately, she's the same color as the grass.
Here's my little rosebush, Comte de Chambord.
I couldn't get it to focus right, but isn't it cute?
Dan wreaked all this destruction the other day with his new hedge clippers. :)
My purty hostas. I just love the little lavender bells.
So nice!
Look at this wee small cat, dozing off! :)
I can't believe Ginger laid down on the desk. She hasn't ever been one to do that. Number Three was, certainly, but she would have been on the keyboard, obscuring my view of Mack Taylor and his New York crew.
The portulaca is finally starting to fill in the window box.
Merlin's Magic didn't seem to like the conditions on my porch, unfortunately. :( But Twist & Twirl is thriving just like it did last year!
Petunias just love it at our house!
Bordeaux and the tuberous begonias, all going nuts.
Here's Vince again, along with my first lilies (other than Stella) to bloom!
The Wave Petunia looks like it's trying to stand up.
The mystery of the strange seedling has been resolved! It was a CALLA LILY!! Yay! Isn't it purty? I just love the leaves. I might even go through with digging up the bulbs and overwintering them inside to keep them coming back. And that's saying something.
Lysimachia Alexander is thriving. It looks so much bigger and fuller and better than last year.
And these babies also opened up! They ran a close second to the orange ones. I just love how soft the pink is.
Look at them with that excellent Telstar Picotee dianthus at their feet. That's the only dianthus that's still consistently blooming. It's just fantastic.
And look at my babies! My little Stellas, all in a row!
Oh, they're fabulous!
Look at those sweet little faces!
And we have a bud coming up on either You Are My Sunshine or Strutter's Ball. I think it's YAMS. (Haha, yams.)
And I'm pretty sure this one is my Siloam Double Classic... which has me so excited!! I can't wait to see my new little double lily! I've never had one before. In fact, I don't think I've ever even seen one in person.
Sorry about the dizzying tilted pictures in this post. In the foreground is all the buds on my only unblooming Stella, and beyond that is all the buds on Happy Returns, which is Stella's cousin.
Speaking of tilted, here's another one of the Stellas.
This is my baptisia. It looks like it's growing peapods!
Astilbe Deutchland looks ready to wait it out until next year.
This is the Secret Sideyard Rose.
And last but not least, we have some fruit!
Aren't they adorable?
