It is phlox blooming time in my garden. The smell is great


My valentine's Day sale miniature roses aren't so miniature but I sure love moving them around the patio so I can enjoy them. They have been terrific bloomers.




The hydrengea have also been looking good. I'll have to get a snap of them.

Jewell

Your Phlox is fabulous!!!! Love those colors together, looks like a painting.

I love phlox paniculata, or any kind actually. Wish mine were as lush as yours. Maybe it just takes time

I think if does about three years or more. Here's some of my garden tonight. The Phlox is nothing like Jewell's



I just weeded this all out today. Boy was it hot!



Hydrangea 'Quick Fire' going through its color changes, was all White.


NOid lilies


This is Mack resting for the day.

Oberon46 said:I love phlox paniculata, or any kind actually. Wish mine were as lush as yours. Maybe it just takes time

I started with a mixed pack from Costco. They took several years to make a show, some were even lost to be found a year or two later. Now I am wondering where they all came from as I randomly moved expanding roots from pathways this last winter and spring. Phlox have become one of the flowering perennials that I anticipate.

springcolor said:I think if does about three years or more. Here's some of my garden tonight. The Phlox is nothing like Jewell's



I just weeded this all out today. Boy was it hot!

• Late Panicle Hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata Quick Fire®)
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Hydrangea 'Quick Fire' going through its color changes, was all White.


NOid lilies


This is Mack resting for the day.

. Love the lilies, but Mack is unsurpassed

Thanks Jewell. He is getting old, bad hips and lumps and bumps.
A few more

Hydrangea NOID



Echies



A few heucherella 'copper cascade' and 'cracked ice'

mmm, gorgeous

Oh yes. All favorite flowers.

A few from today.



A daylily seedling. Bought a few seeds off the lily auction.

I see you sneak around in the late (or very early) hours also. Dark background. You can get some wonderful pictures in that light.

Yes, it was late about 9:30 when I stopped taking pictures. The sun has been so bright these few days it's hard to get a good picture.

More July photos. I should be picking berries and dead heading but am feeling very lazy.

Lots of berries this year. Thinned the raspberries, but can't believe I planted more blueberries


Lots of phlox blooming still. It is nice to see them with the calendula and hydrangea. Elephant garlic flowers are scattered about.


Have a few oranges and yellows too.


Now I wonder what will be blooming besides the hostas at the end of July for the neighborhood garden walk?

kosk0025 said:Finally a successful Asclepias. Year 2 plant!! I think the reason that these are not common in Pacific NW (well, at least not in Willamette Valley gardens), is that they are BY FAR, a slug's favorite food. I have started many from seed x 2 years. I plant them out when they are large. But by the morning, they have been eaten to nothing. And although we do not have Monarch butterflies in the Pacific NW (Milkweeds, asclepias are their sole food source I believe), they attract many butterflies.



Another, much taller variety.

Friends have been seeing Monarch butterflies in their garden, south of Olympia. Very strange. Glad there might be food sources for larva in some flower garden since they aren't native here. Love, love, love your gardens!

I have tons of blueberry also, taste so good on yogurt in the morning. Great shots!!! All that Phlox must smell fantastic.

Lilies are in there prime in my garden.


Never keep the names on these just enjoy the flowers.



Like this container today, minus the hose.


Few more lilies.



Clems and a balloon flower. Rain did a number on the flowers but we sure needed the moisture.

At least you have clematis. I have one that is supposed to live here but while the vines are okay and an interesting yellowish color no flowers. Bummer.

My lilies are taking off. None of the biggies yet just the short fellows.

A few Brugmansias---

Duane,
Those are gorgeous. I lost mine a few years ago. Your place must smell wonderful in the evening.

I thought it would be too cold to grow them there. I just adore them; in form and color.

A question?? I have what are coronaria of some sort. I read they are biennial. Is that so? I hate to lose them as they are the first to really do anything in my garden. Well, surviving a winter and regrowing.