Back to another Friday already. Seems like winter crawls by and then summer flies past before you know it! And happy first day of summer, by the way.

It’s rose time around here. Fair Bianca is the bush that sends out the most flowers in a season. It blooms pretty much from now until fall, although the flushes are smaller later.

We had heavy rains yesterday and you can see how the mullein and foxgloves got beaten down behind the rose bush. Wah!

Othello is another of my David Austin roses. It didn’t bloom too much the last couple of years, but I have been feeding it in the fall and spring with special rose food and it seems to be paying off. More blooms this year and bigger:

Some Enchanted Evening:

These blooms are lovely:

Very fragrant as well.

My new bird feeder garden bed is coming along:

Lots of baby plants and a mixture of pollinator friendly annuals and perennials. The birds are having a great time with the new feeders, too. There was a baby downy woodpecker being fed suet by the parent, which was so cute!

My new bee house that was a birthday gift.

You can just see some climbing vines starting to reach up. I’m hoping the flowering vine will attract somebody to the house.

I’m glad I got a picture of this peony before the rain. It has been flattened, but here is its memory 😀

The shade garden is getting more lush. I’m really pleased with the progress this year.

The heuchera have been blooming for weeks now. I’m surprised at how long the blooms are going.

And the astilbes are just starting. My white ones always come early before all the others:

This year I finally put something in my cement planters out front:

Many garden centers have these premade arrangements that you just drop into a pot and call it a day. That’s what I got. I just put a couple of bricks in the bottom to raise the level and dropped the pots right in.

And for someone who says she doesn’t like petunias that much, I sure have a lot of them.

Big campanual alba blooms:

Leaning just a bit. They are very tall and could use some kind of staking or caging, I think.

Since it is pollinator week, I’m ending with a pollinator picture! This is one of the only foxgloves left standing because it is leaning on the pole the umbrella is hanging on:

And it had a visitor:

Hooray for the bees!