July rain!

Dahlias!

July rain brings... August flowers? Less August wildfires? I'm happy to see decent rain today, odds are we won't get much more all summer. I've been doing a lot of planting, and weeding, and watering, so I need to do some update posts - but here are rainy flowers for today!

Droopy delphiniums

Bee balm and salvia

Alliums

First gladiola to bloom

Second gladiola

My favorite fuchsias

Day lilly

More allium and agastache

Hydrangea paniculata

In bloom this week: May 23, 2017

The weather seems to have gone from early spring to mid-summer in just a few days. Three days in a row over 80 degrees, a little cool down expected tomorrow and then back over 80. I still have seedlings to plant, did some tonight, hoping to get the rest in tomorrow. My garden loves the weather, something new is blooming every time I go outside.

In the rose garden:

Rose and chives

Rose and catmint

Dutch iris

Aquilegia

Chives

Bearded iris

Creeping bellflower

Bearded iris

Allium

Allium and catmint

Clematis by the mailbox

Flower garden next to the house - this area will eventually be shaded out by the maple tree that I planted this spring, but the flowers are still happy for now:

Lupine

Delphinium

Bearded iris

Bearded iris

Bearded iris

Aquilegia

Nearby, new clematis and rose to climb up the shed:

Sunny hillside and meadow:

Douglas meadowfoam and white meadowfoam

Camassia

California poppy

Lupine

Aquilegia

Thrift

Sedum

Coming soon - my first peonies and a new rhodie!

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - May 2017

Irises

The heavy rain started before I could shut down at work yesterday, so no bloom pictures from May 15th. We'll have to settle for the 16th. Thanks to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for hosting the mid-month roundup of what's in bloom around the world.

Most roses aren't blooming yet, but plenty of other plants in my rose garden are covering for them:

Allium

Bearded irises

Chives

Aquilegia

Catmint

Rose blooming on the other side of the driveway

Around the rest of the yard, the aquilegia seem to be a theme:

Wisteria

Aquilegia in retaining wall bed

Hardy kiwi

Strawberries, yumm

Lupine

Aquilegia holding it's own against the raspberries

Oops, this aquilegia was supposed to be red

Aquilegia

Thrift

New clematis

Inside, I can never get a good picture of my African violets:

What's next? Many more irises, delphiniums, lupine, roses and annuals in hanging baskets: