July in the garden

We don't have voles and chipmunks here, JoAnn, but we have gophers. We have so many, in fact, that 16 cats can't keep up with them. Lately, my silly cats have been chasing the poor lizards instead of going after the gophers. Luckily, the lizards seem to be quicker or smarter than the cats. I see the occasional lizard without a tail, but I never see any dead ones.

"Its always something"

This picture of Lilies and berries was taken on July 1st. The berries are on my Amelanchier shrubs, commonly known as Serviceberry. I planted 6 of these shrubs because I had read that the birds love them. Last year when the shrubs produced berries in abundance for the first time, the birds completely ignored them. The same thing this year, so knowing that these berries do make good pies and jelly, I picked enough for a great pie. I was going to be away for 3 days over the holiday last weekend, so I told a neighbor to pick all the berries she wanted. No point in them going to waste. I came home Monday evening to find the shrubs to be completely bare. The neighbor said she found it impossible to fight off the birds for the berries, so she left them have them. Go figure!

The lilies looked great.
Nice story.

These are holyhocks in my perenial garden.



"Stay Happy and Keep Gardening!"

I waithe 2 seasons to see the mature bloom on this misstagged DL
It was tagged Starling but didnt match the pix on B&D lilies.
I went to a spider lily group and had quite a large collection of spider images and when my "starling" bloomed today I found a match.
I googled the title and there were many images including one from B&D lilies. Now I know the DL' is a spider named Red Thrill

Here are my bunnies. They participate with the plants in the way they see fit. LOL

Karin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Way cool bunnies !

Neighbor had a patio put in and gifted me these flagstones from their old walk.
I'll be moving as many as I can to the paths in my garden
DD and I will plan what to do with the rest. Maybe continue the bluestones around the deck and hot tub where the grass wont grow.

That's one nice gift. The cash value on it would seem to be over $1,000.

They make fantastic paths!

Here is the photoshop created plan.
As it is now the walk ends at the black barrier.Then the small back yard begins, I am over the spot so much with garden cart I also needed to widen the flagg path thats there now. the grass wont grow there so my idea was to bring the stone beyond the barrier and run it along the deck and hot tub.

This is the piece work I did this morning.
I needed to widen the end of the walk so cart tires wouldnt rut the garden.
The biggest pieces are part of a walk that goes from the driveway past the deck and into the back yard. They were laid from stone we brought from DD's old house where she and SIL put in a patio to sweeten the house sale.
My estimate of most of the stones was they were about 150=200 pounds each.

It's looking good.

This is as far as I got with the 2 flaggstones this AM. Just too heavy.
Yes its gray and cloudy.
Wish it would give us a good soaking rain instead of these teasers.

two collages from todays blooms

the other one

I am enjoying this thread very much. Love everyone's pix! This is a view down the bed at the end of our garage.

Gorgeous

Garden Treasure and Satisfaction Lilies are opening

Stunning. I love the color harmony!

Finally the plan is catching up with last years mindless plantings

That's true for many of us.

Back home after three weeks of vacation with my Mom and brother, hubby did so-so with watering, missed most of my daylilies and new co-op lillies but I do have a couple lilies blooming. Thanks to pirl's enabling, I have this gorgeous Salmon Star.

and this is Gold Band

Sue: ...and when are we going to see photo's of this trip ? LOL

I am still editing the over 1300 pictures I took! When I am done, I may post them in the Photos Forum and add links here and there. I already have the Ireland ones done, we were only there one day so it didn't take that long to edit at least. I am still tired and on Iceland time (we were there the last 3 days before flying home) though so it may be a while just to feel normal again and back into my routine. ^_^

These are pictures of the Westside garden I started last year.
NOID lilies and muther-hunker ligularias

Satisfaction and agastache Blue Fortune also annual poppies
Shoot wrong pix.

Lets try again
yeaaa

A long view

ge1836- I love your trellis' behind your plantings in the westside garden. Nice backdrop, or do you have something growing up them. Either way they are really nice looking!

I am loving everyone's pictures, especially the lilies. Do the really tall ones need support to keep them from falling over. I have 8 narrow beds for planting. That allows me to care for most of my plantings from my scooter without getting my DH involved. The very tall lilies, if they fell over, would likely get mowed off, so I try to plant things that can easily be kept well within the the edges of the beds.

This tiny flower is a favorite. At 3/4 to an inch in diameter, the camera is the best way to appreciate it's detail. Potentilla 'Monarch's Velvet'

I planted clematis ( AlbinaPlena) and (Kiri te Kanawa)from the co-op on the trellises.
I have grave doubts they will grow or amount to anything they were so small and one is dead.
I will scout for some others that are true blue in the spring.
The tall lilies there are soooo tall it makes the composition look wierd. When clems are mature and cover the trellises it will look more in balance.I figure about 3 years.

All the photos are great and the sweet smell of enabling success is always a winner! Great shot, Sue.

Love those trellises, too, ge1836/Jo Ann.

The trellises are from Smith Hawkin.
If I lived in Calif and could get to their store I would take advantage of the "going out of business sale" going on now.
GF told me about it.
Its cash and carry at the store only, no online purchases.
Maybe California DGers on this forum should go.

Did I post the pallet of flagstones my neighbor gave me?
Well DD is home today and rareing to place them.
I just couldnt stop her, she's an animal.
Love that child.

Datura

lilies, shasta daisy, blackeyed susans

new arbor - needs to be stained.

Your gardens are beautiful.
What variety of astilbe is that tall white one.?