My garden TODAY. Well, earlier today anyway.

[Lex]

Purple Coneflower and Coreopsis and Lambsear in bloom


Lavender up front, Red Hot Pokers, More yellow Coreopsis


Amarylis and yellow pansies


Spiderwort

[seemunkee]

1. Very Nice

Reminds me of my mom's garden

[MuseRider]

2. My coneflowers

just started to fully open up yesterday and I am so excited. This is their third year so they should be really good this summer.

Your garden is beautiful. I have been wanting to plant some Red Hot Pokers but have not done so yet. Yours are lovely. Your Lambs Ear is nice as well.

Thanks, I love garden pictures.

[Lex]

4. It helps to see flowers on a hot day, I think.

And I love coneflowers! They say "sleep, creep, leap" for each year, so you're right, your coneflowers should be great this year.

This is about the 5th year for most of the flowers in the picture.

And the lavender plant I got several years ago from a friend who just didn't want it anymore. It was "in the way" in her yard. ???

The Red Hot Pokers have been fuss-free and I recommend giving them a try. They remind me of my grandmother because she had some in her garden.

[MuseRider]

29. Thanks, I will give them

a try. Lavendar is beautiful. Isn't it invasive or is it easy to control? My Lemon(horse)Mint is beginning to take over and I may have to do something about it next year although I love it a lot.

[Lex]

31. The lavender isn't invasive. Or at least mine isn't. It grows each year

but not a lot.

Yes, mint of almost any kind can really take over fast. A friend of mine plants her mint in the garden--but keeps it in a plastic container to keep it from spreading everywhere.

I have oregano in the front garden that is really getting way too big--too much of it spreading too fast.

Thyme is nice and non-invasive, and we have sage that comes back every year--oh, and this year I even had some basil plants that re-seeded themselves. That hadn't ever happened before so I was thrilled to see the teeny-tiny baby basil plants pop up earlier this spring.

[MuseRider]

32. That is great!

Basil is not only tasty but a very pretty plant. Little purple flowers IIRC. I can't wait to get moved out to the farm where we are going to try to grow most of our food, well at least vegetables. I will plant lots of flowers too but I will be a canning fool once we get started.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Breathtaking.....

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Lovely!

[stellanoir]

6. nice job

with the echinachea, lamb's ear, and lavender in bloom, you're clearly south of me. I'm running way behind with a cold spring and a plethora of verbena and cleome volunteers to weed out.

Still have a few sunflowers to plant. Usually do that by May first. Mea Culpa.

[Lex]

10. Central NC. Zone 7.

I love sunflowers and I just didn't get any seeds into the ground this year. :sigh:

[stellanoir]

12. I planted white ones

that was a first !!! can't wait.

[prole_for_peace]

7. love your garden.

there are too many around here that are so structured and rigid looking. i like yours; relaxed and kind of wild. that's why wildflowers are so pretty. they are just THERE

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Everything just looks magnificent!

This must be where you spend your time when not on DU! So many wonderful flowers....


:yourock:

[Lex]

9. Well, really, I have to say they mostly do their own thing.

I just stand back and watch them explode in blooms! Maybe prop some up or deadhead them when needed.

My SO and I were going for a sort of cottage garden look since we didn't want just two little boring patches of green in the front yard. Our house is in an older neighborhood and the front yards are smallish--but sidewalks throughout.

So this time of year the perennials in the front garden go BOOM!

[barb162]

11. I had pink coreopsis before the bunnies ate it to the ground. I also

have to cage the coneflowers. I take it you have no bunnies around you or something?

PS it all looks very nice

[Lex]

15. For some reason, the bunnies keep to the back yard

and earlier in the spring they ate every one of my lettuce plants down to the nub! Argggh.

We also have a raccoon family (mom and 2 babies) that come out at night and try to tip over the garbage can! And we are NOT in the 'burb--we are an urban neighborhood.

I got a picture of my backyard bunny--early spring pic:

[Left Is Write]

13. It's gorgeous, and it reminds me it's time to go weed my flower beds.

[Rowdyboy]

14. Gorgeous! I have lots of cleome, yarrow, glads, lilies,

purple coneflower-and a 6 foot gardenia thats blooming its fiil head off!

I love gardens!

[Lex]

16. Oh! I love cleome! I haven't had much success with it yet but

I think I just haven't found the right place for it.

Does yours reseed itself easily from year to year?

[Rowdyboy]

19. I had success last year for the first time....

Started seed and actually had it reseed and bloom the same year (damn, I love the south). Anyway, this year it came back BIG TIME and I have it in several areas. Trust me, it can be done. Fertile soil, lots of sun and no mulch.

Good luck!

[peekaloo]

17. Beautiful. Thank you for helping me to identify Spiderwort.

[roguevalley]

18. Ahhhhhhhh. Thank you. So very, very pretty.

[yardwork]

20. Now WHERE have I seen these photos before??!

lol!

[Lex]

24. Hiya yardwork!

:hug:

[yardwork]

26. Hiya sweetie!

:evilgrin:

[DemoTex]

21. Beautiful, Lex. Absolutely beautiful!

I have similar plantings here in my gardens at my Transylvania, NC, mountain house. I am really into the dusty pastels. My big deer-fenced vegetable garden, with its border of sun flowers, Daisey's, and zinnias is up. Big problem is that with Sunday's 8" of rain from TS Arlene, I cannot weed or fertilize. But we are looking at cool, dry weather in the western mountains of NC for the next few days. Can't wait!

Mac

[NoSheep]

22. Thank you Lex. That is a lovely sight!

[Blue Diadem]

23. Beautiful Garden!

Our Coreopsis is in full bloom now, the coneflowers have just formed buds.

I never knew what spiderwort looked like. It's beautiful..I love the color. Does that plant flower once per season or does it flower more?

Your garden is gorgeous!

[Lex]

25. The spiderwort is a perennial and will come back on its own.

It's in the lily family, I think.

The one in the picture is from a hunk that my mom gave me. She just put the shovel in the ground and chopped off a section (including roots) and put it in a bag and I planted it--I've moved it twice since then. It gets a little bigger each year that it comes back.

[Blue Diadem]

28. Ahhhh..I thought it might be in the lily family..I have several

and the leaves look very similar. I will have to look around for some to add to my garden.

[RobbinsdaleDem]

27. Your flowers are beautiful!

I live in Minnesota, so most of my flowers are just starting to bloom. Some of my peonies and daylillies have bloomed, purple coneflowers have not. I hope my coneflowers are as gorgeous as yours.

[Lex]

30. One of the best things about coneflowers is that in the fall

when there are just seedheads left, the goldfinches around here LOVE them. They land on the seedheads and have a feast.

I'm hoping to get a picture of that this fall.

Good luck on your coneflowers this year. I have some peonies but they don't last long here in this sweltering heat. Just a few weeks of bloom and then it gets too hot.