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| Silverado Iris planted in front of the double pink Knockout roses. |
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| Red Knockouts starting to open |
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| Moonlit Water iris getting prettier every year. |
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| Unknown white, love it mixed in with other colors. |
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| Golden yellow iris, which I lost the name |
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| Row of double pink Knockouts have really opened up today. |
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| Spin-off iris along with double pink Clementine Columbine. I started this from seed last year and it returned on it's own this year. |
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| My hubby gave this to me today as an early Christmas present. This is Cinco De Mayo. It's a floribunda that is a chocolate or rust red with a hint of lavender and is suppose to smell really good. I planted it over by the yellow Graham Thomas English rose. |
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| The front yard got pretty neglected during our extreme drought, so now that it has been cooler, I've been in the mood to try and make a flower bed around the rocks that previously had pampas grass growing around them. I started with this large clump of Mystic Spires salvia. The heat didn't bother this plant. |
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| I transplanted a few of the zinnia's that were a pretty pinkish red and also purple. I'm hoping that they will go to seed and come back next summer the same color. |
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| In this bed I also transplanted some lambs ear, coneflowers, alyssum, Frankly Scarlet daylily, which is a maroon red and 3 different iris. There is a shady spot along the underside of the rock, here I transplanted some pink flowered wood sorrel/oxalis. |
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| I just transplanted, so everything looks a little wilted. |
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| I transplanted another kind of salvia (Blue Bedder) in front of this red knockout. |
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| This is the crepe myrtle that I tried to cut down last spring, but it came back with a vengeance and looked beautiful this past summer. Now it has gorgeous reddish golden leaves. |
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| Zinnia patch that came back from seed from the summer ones. |
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| I transplanted this rose at the beginning of summer. It struggled along and now has it's first bloom. It is one that was here when we bought the house and I didn't like where the previous owner had it planted. I think it might be a John F Kennedy rose. |
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| A sunflower that has come back from seed. |
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| Newly planted shrub bought for me by my sister as a gift. It's a dwarf holly. I love the berries on it. |
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| Quilt I'm making for my granddaughter. Lots of flower fabric. I call it my flower garden bow-tie quilt. |
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| Sunflower - I think it needs some water. |
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| Graham Thomas David Austin rose. This has to be, to me, the most beautiful color of yellow I've ever seen. |
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| Red Knockout rose |
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| This zinnia is huge in size and is such a beautiful color of pink. It measures 5" across. |
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| Cantaloupe is still progressing. (Hale's Best Jumbo) |
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| This is not a gardening photo, of course, but this is what I'm working on until this unrelenting heat subsides. I started this quilt in 1983 when my children were little, so I didn't get to work on it much at that time. The 100+ temps send me into house by 9:30 a.m. |
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| Close up of hand stitching. |
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| Paper Butterfly Daylily. This gets to be around 24" tall with 6" blooms and is a rebloomer. In my previous yard I had this planted with Southern Wood fern behind it and heuchera "Caramel" (coral bells) in front of it. Later in the season I will move this over by the shade garden and do the same with it as before. |
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| This is Northfield Daylily. It is 36" tall with 5" blooms and also a rebloomer. Warrior Prince is in the background. |
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| Purple fountain grass along side of Red Knockout |
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| Southern Wood fern along with caladium and Electric Lime coleus |
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| Evolution Salvia with lambs ear |
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| Red Volunteer daylily. Again my camera doesn't capture the beauty of this red. I think it is my favorite of the red daylilies. It gets around 30" tall with 7" blooms. |
