Viewing post #631789 by chalyse

the poppies are wicked pretty! I've tried them here but they just don't settle in for me. What's your secret? I feel about June the same way -- it is my last chance to really enjoy gardening and to begin bracing myself for the intense heat to come. I find I am sort of welcoming it this year, as the gardening has needed more tending with all beds currently filled full with perennials. But, I know when the heat begins, and it's too hot to do anything other than run outside at 5 am and tip-toe around watering (not the wake the neighbors), I will begin to miss it all very much. Until end of September, that is, when there will be the mad dash to clean it all up for winter.

Here are some blooms from around the yard:

Fuchsia in my deep shade garden, dianthus and sea thrift in the back yard, and double daylilies hanging out together


My main "Blast Furnace Garden" (note the happy cactus...), some more fuchsia, and a full view of the deep shade garden - my only hope for July-Sept blooms since it stays about 20 degrees cooler


Would love to see what else is growing in people's gardens - I hope many others will have blooms to keep us sated during the dry spells this summer!