More Flowers...

Well, the wildflower border and shade garden aren't the only places that are in bloom...

With the bloom of the lilies, we finally made it out of the "colorless wilderness" that is the few weeks between spring and summer blooms.

Yes, I am aware that taking a photo in this high sunlight condition is terrible;
it's all I have...and editing cannot fix this mess. I tried!

I need to pull out some of the bulbs
in the fall and mix up the colors a
bit more so we're not all pink on one
side and all yellow/red and peach on
the other.














Unfortunately the lilies are pretty short-lived, but thankfully the gladiolus take over quickly.





However, the issue I have with these beauties (aside from the same issue mentioned with the lilies that I need to get in there, pull out the bulbs, label which color they are and re-plant not in groups by color, which is how they've accidentally ended up) is that they do not like to stand up straight!
Somehow I lost all of the little stakes I did have, plus they weren't super tall anyway.

 

So, above is my best attempt at staking these
unruly things!

In addition to the gladiolas, the calle lilies come out too! They are the coolest shapes and I also ended up with peach and yellow colored ones (above) that I don't remember ever having before!

The balloon flowers in bloom:

And my five-o-clocks are in bloom!

This one was a seedling my friend had already started. But I planted a few seeds in pots and one of them has come up on the back deck!



















I also had fun taking photos of my roses one night when the sky was so cool!

Cameras just cannot capture (well, REAL ones probably can!) the gorgeous, robust coloring of these roses! Especially at dusk!

This is the closest I could get with my little camera.

But now they've stayed pretty unspectacular :-/
Just when they do start to get some flowers, it rains hard. They have not "burst" like they did that first bloom.

Very sad.

They probably are overdue for a pruning again, though.

And these are the easy roses! Sometimes, I think I could actually do "real" roses...they are SO pretty after all!

Then husband reminds me that they are quite finicky.
[sigh]
Maybe someday.


'Cause here's the truth!