I finally have my pictures downloaded from Longwood Gardens, but I have to edit them and organize. I took over 200 pictures, so I have some work to do LOL.  I’ll do a couple of posts because it was just such an amazing place. Absolutely well worth the admission cost and the drive to get there. I wish we could have spent two days there.

Back home to my little garden patch, which seems piddly in comparison.

My favorite Allium – the Star of Persia (Allium cristophii)

They are light and airy, not to mention huge!

My inlaws gave me a gift certificate to John Scheepers for my birthday and I am getting more of these! 😀

My “climbing” rose.

Need to mix up some more neem oil to keep the buggies from chewing on it. It smells great by the front door, but not really what I’m going for. I think I will move this one and the matching one on the other side of the door to the back and put clematis here.

Campanula alba:

It almost looks like it is floating. Just one flower stalk so far, but this will bloom a couple of times during the season.

My container plant is looking great now!

I have it in partial sun and it seems to like that a lot. That also helps keep it from drying out too much since it is a container and they need more frequent waterings than the rest of the garden.

The back corner garden:

Again, I wish this was closer to the house. It’s a nice full sun area for my roses, though.  Speaking of – here is Enchanted Evening:

I know you are singing right now…

I spied a toad friend in this garden bed:

I kind of freaked him out when I leaned in to take a picture, but living is good for him in this garden, so he won’t be leaving any time soon.

Shade garden with spiderwort:

I didn’t plant that. It just came by on its own.

Astilbe that is not quite ready for prime time, but close:

Jacob’s Ladder (Polemonium):

I had planted one plant, which died, but it gave me 3 offspring.  You can see one of my heuchera behind that, which I think is called Spellbound.

Long time readers know that I’m not a big fan of hostas and there were some here when we moved in. I gave away some and just pulled others out, but left this one:

It’s quite large and my shade bed was so empty that I left it. It’s future in this spot is uncertain, but moving it won’t happen this year if I decide it needs to be somewhere else.

Flanking the hosta on each side are the Ladies Mantles:

The are just putting up flower stalks. The flowers are kind of a yellow foamy-looking flower. It’s mostly for foliage, though.

And lastly is the final iris. This was a very late bloomer – yes, I went there.

Night ruler. This looks almost black in person, especially in the sun.  I have 3 more iris rhizomes on order and one is supposed to be even blacker than this one. I will do my darndest to keep the bunnies away from those!

Have a great weekend!