With the rainfall we got here in Iowa in May and June, my flower and vegie gardens are going bananas! I'm already harvesting vegetables that I usually have to wait until later in July to harvest and I have flowers that are blooming better than they have in years.
Some of the early blooms in our yard include:
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| Peach Iris (they were in my mother's flower garden) |
I divided and moved the Peach Iris two summers ago and this summer was the first bloom since relocating them.
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| Grape Hyacinth |
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| Flowering Almond |
Some of the summer blooms came a bit earlier this year and some of them are really taking off this year better than ever before. The mounds of Salvia are huge this year.
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| Purple Salvia |
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| Pink Salvia |
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| Peonies |
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| Knock Out Rose |
I'm afraid that after this knock rose bloomed and I took this photo, it went into a death spiral. :( That's the second one I've lost, the first to the harsh winter of 2013. I'm not quite ready to dig it up yet.
We have a garden I call the "triangle garden" because its sits in the corner of our backyard. It's my experimental garden where I plants things and see how they do. I also like to add interest by placing a huge container pot on one side of the garden to help elevate the color in the garden bed. This year I filled it with wave petunias and verbena and they really took off.
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| Container full of Verbena and Wave Petunias |
We have a garden I call the "triangle garden" because its sits in the corner of our backyard. It's my experimental garden where I plants things and see how they do. I also like to add interest by placing a huge container pot on one side of the garden to help elevate the color in the garden bed. This year I filled it with wave petunias and verbena and they really took off.
I added a couple new pieces of "art" to this garden bed this year. The first being a piece of driftwood that had been in my brother's yard for years that he got from Lake Rathbun and the second is a bicycle that wheel spokes turn in the wind that I found on Mother's Day at a farm/nursery south of where I live called Howell's Tree Farm. As soon as I saw it, I knew it was coming home with me and the price was reasonable too!
I also have lot of flowers growing in this garden that haven't done as well in previous years. The Columbine really took off and as spread twice as much as last year and the clump of balloon flowers in that garden doubled.
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| Columbine |
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| Balloon Flower |
There's also the new aster plant that I planted last year that has come back and thrived this year.
I love lilies of all kinds and have several varieties. These Asiatic lilies in the triangle bed are SO gorgeous when they bloom.
I'll share more photos of our garden beds later.......the husband and I are heading on a long awaited overnight road trip tomorrow and I have last minute packing and stuff to do......
Thanks for stopping by!
I added a couple new pieces of "art" to this garden bed this year. The first being a piece of driftwood that had been in my brother's yard for years that he got from Lake Rathbun and the second is a bicycle that wheel spokes turn in the wind that I found on Mother's Day at a farm/nursery south of where I live called Howell's Tree Farm. As soon as I saw it, I knew it was coming home with me and the price was reasonable too!
