It’s here!! If my garden were a tv channel, this would be prime time during sweeps week. The best of the best of the best out back for our viewing pleasure during breakfast. Except for this one bountiful basket, it’s out front. That one is compliments of the Elk Grove Garden Club’s raffle in May. It already looked good then, and now it’s outstanding and also out standing on my front porch.
Moving to the back yard, well, I hardly know where to begin. I know! The dahlia garden. It has its first blooms. No, the one in pink isn’t a flower, it’s me. The dahlia garden will be bursting with blooms soon. For now its bursting with buds.
The trellis with the hat is always one of my favorite spots. Today it screams abundance.
A few weeks ago, it also screamed abundance, only with day lilies and Asiatic lilies.
In theory, I refuse to grow this phlox, it’s sooooo invasive. In reality, I let a few grow every year. I just can’t help myself.
Goldenrod. Invasive! Not so. Buy the clump forming varieties and they stay where they belong. The tall pink cleome behind them, they don’t stay where they belong. But they are so easy to pull out as you walk along and so eye-catching that they are one of the few invasives that get to stay.
And last, one of my favorite parts of the garden…any part that has a plant I got from someone else. The one on the left has been passed along from Dawn to Lorraine to me. The one on the right is simply named Bill and Dorothy.
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