Garden Tour : Part 2

So here's some more shots of my garden.


White lillies
Have to admit, I think this is a gorgeous photo.



Bee Balm (one of my favorites)



White Coneflowers
I actually like them better than the purple I think.



Purple coneflowers (bit blurry, sorry)
Got a bit too close with the lens...

Peach Daylilly
Unusual color, I thought.

Purple Gayfeather (a.k.a. Liatris) and Paper Lace (behind)
The Paper Lace blew in from who knows where but I just let it go cause it's actually kinda pretty.

Daylillies again - aren't they a striking color?

Black-Eyed Susans (another fave)

Reminds me of the Preakness Stakes.



Yet another pic of Bee Balm
Hummingbirds love these!

Light pink (though you cannot tell) Balloon Flowers
(would have been better without the TAG in the middle, duh.)



An overhead view of one of my garden beds

(from my top deck)
It's a bit wild.

And here's a friend of the garden.
I do believe she is the mom of the babies from earlier this spring.
I love birds.

The new front porch, built entirely by the hubby...
His talents are endless.

I do have some more pictures yet to come, so there will no doubt be a Part 3 at some point.

Garden Tour - Part 1

Thought I would share some photos of our backyard. I have some more on the way, but seeing as how I am behind the times and do not have a digital camera (yet!), I have to wait for mine the old fashioned way... but thanks to snapfish , they are at least posted online.

So here goes:


This is our backyard patio - we have a little fire pit and a barrel water feature.
It is adjacent to our lower deck. The hubby made everything, as usual.

On one side of our lower deck is the newly crafted (thanks to the exceptionally talented hubby) outdoor bar. It even has a sink. It can double nicely as a potting bench. Rock on!

Another view of the "cantina"...
Margaritas anyone?

My columbine from a bit earlier this year. It is very much a spring flower.
I like them very much and have several colors.

My old fashioned climbing rose bush in a very vivid scarlet hue.

Mini daises and yellow yarrow. You wouldn't think so, but those daisies stink to the high heavens! Yuk. And they spread like a wildfire. Pretty cute though.

This hosta always does really well. What a great color!

The basket of petunias on my upper deck on the picnic table, courtesy of my mother-in-law.



On the upper deck, a flower box of petunias.

Two types of Coleus and a Geranium.
The coleus are some of my favorites. I get them every year for my deck and they just get HUGE. The leaves are so striking and different.

Dianthus are also called 'pinks' by old-timers.

One of my Clematis vines. They get these awesomely large blossoms on them. There were many more flowers but I didn't take the pictures in time. My bad.

My magenta Clematis vine. So pretty!

Ok, so that's all for now.
Next time: Daylillies, coneflowers, bee balm, and a brand new front porch. (I like to keep the hubby busy...)

Later :)