Trop continued

I'm really happy I got these Seaside Daisies! They're so precious!

Firebreather from today... another one opened. :)

Princesse Caroline de Monaco is sooo close to opening! (Before the Storm doesn't even have any buds yet! Wah!)

I was so happy to see the Sarah Bernhardt peony coming back up this year!

Three blooms on Tiny Hope!

My Wave Petunia isn't letting down the rest of them. They're all going crazy!

I like this view of Bordeaux, too. :)

And lastly, this picture actually shows how tall my nemesia is/are. :)

Lilies and irises and cats... oh my!

Say hello to Firebreather! Isn't he breathtaking? I was this close to renaming him Incorrigible Tease, and then yesterday morning when I left the house at six I saw he had opened. When I came home, there were two blooms!

Isn't it gorgeous?

And there are more buds! (He tried to lay down today, so I had to put a stick in the ground and use a hair clip to attach it, but he seems much better now.)

Look at all the buds on Trop Jaloux! And they're starting to look purple at the top, so it should be blooming in the next few days.

My first Las Vegas also opened today!

These are all the Las Vegas buds on the other side of the porch. Can you believe my camera focused correctly?

This picture is now the background on my computer. Isn't Bordeaux amazing? It was spilling over a few days ago, but it didn't have this many flowers.

My Ultra Rose petunias are adjusting happily to life in the porch box.

As are my Margarita Strawberry portulaca. I can't wait until they spread out and fill up the container!

The Wave Petunia is also flourishing.

Each of my Shasta Daisies has a flower now. :)

Yet more petunias... they made me so happy last year that I kind of went crazy this year. :)

Sarah is sending up another little shoot from the ground.

Everybody's blooming! There are even a few blossoms on the Seaside Daisy.

MY FIRST LILY OF THE SEASON!! Tiny Hope finally opened!

I really like the combination of the two nemesias.

The Raspberry Blast is also looking beautiful.

Dahlia, dahling!

I guess it just tired Ginger out too much to watch me out there in the garden. Poor thing.

Eeek!

Goin' to the chapel...

My best friend K got married this weekend, and I got to drive out to her side of the state and be her bridesmaid! Yay!

K is at the bottom right, with her sister sitting between us.

Talk about GOOD TASTE... we carried white tulips! K's bouquet was the pink tulips with lily of the valley.

Doesn't she look purty?

All the bridesmaid dresses, just waiting for us.

K and me!

Kind of an afterthought -- taken in the parking lot after the reception while I still had someone to take the picture. K's mom had a brilliant idea and bought some artificial flowers that matched our dresses so we could put them in our hair.

That's all I have from the wedding... everybody's going to exchange pictures soon, so hopefully I'll have more for you.

These two flats (petunias and portulaca) are going into the 36" window boxes I bought today for the sides of the porch, which we're going to put up tomorrow. :)

I like the portulaca!

My two nemesias, looking happy and perky.

The begonia on the left is a replacement for the one I broke. It looks much better.

My Bordeaux petunia is trying to spill over the edges, on its way to conquering the world!

These highlighter dahlias are very profusely blooming.

This Sarah Bernhardt peony is growing quickly. :)

"Blue moon, you saw me standing alone, without a dream in my heart..." Anyway, that's the name of this adorable viola: Blue Moon.

Look at all the Las Vegas buds!

Firebreather is about to burst!

I love the pink of this columbine.

Just take a gander at all those buds on the gaillardia!

The Seaside Daisy is also starting to bloom.

I absolutely love this lupine/false bluebonnet. ;)

Both Shasta Daisies are also starting to open up.

I really really think these are lilies coming up, but I don't remember which one I planted here. I'm so glad I didn't pull them up first thing!

This Jacob's Ladder is called Stairway to Heaven. :)

Again with the anonymous lilies! I'm thinking the daylily on the left is Red Rum.

So many beautiful blooms on the creeping phlox!

I can't believe my luck. Apparently I picked the PERFECT spot for bleeding hearts. They're so happy!

All the whites are in the back, for some reason. But I still spied them!

More whites opening up!

As you have probably figured out, I'm very obsessed with them.

And lastly, Tiny Hope looks like it's just about to open up.

BONUS! I just found K's sister's pictures on Facebook. Here are some extras.

Rehearsal. I'm all the way on the left.

At the hair salon.

In the bride's room at the church. (Chowing down on veggies and dip, as well as cheese and crackers.)

Waiting our turn for portraits after the ceremony.

The Crusader Club! :)

My favorite... the entire wedding party. :)