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The thread "Show Us your Spring 2012 Cottage Garden and Chat (#3)" in Cottage Gardening forum

Yes, it is summer. Supposed to be very hot for the next two days.

Janice,
What a nice shot of your garden in the 2nd picture, just beautiful! I guess I'll go out and see what looks good. The sun is out after raining here for days!!!!

Thanks, Spring.

We've had plenty of rain here too, for a change, so things are doing ok on their own without watering.

Janice I am admiring those tall lillies...I have some new for me "Silk Road" and they are less than 2 feet tall but one has a bloom and it is beautiful...Another has 4 getting ready to bloom. I'm sure looking forward to next year. As soon as I set these out we went back into winter weather after a very warm March...I'm just thankful they made it...Now we are very very dry and am watering enough to keep things going...I hope! BTW what is the name of that lily?

Lovely butterfly and lilies.

Boy SILK ROAD may be only 2 feet tall now but just wait. They like to grow really tall. I think mine are seven feet but the first year they were only about 3 feet tall.

Thanks, Veronica and Rita!

Veronica, it is Silk Road. But only planted last year. That is why it is so short.

Some of mine are 7-8 feet tall. They build up steam every year, like Rita said.

O Wow! I will really have to stake them as it is so windy here...The fragrance is awesome..I am bending over way down to sniff under the bloom...

Janice, that first photo is a stunner! I totally missed the butterfly before I opened it up.


A little added color in my garden...





Here he's actually looking in my kitchen window...trying to judge if I'm watching for him to head for my double impatiens.

Thank you.
Wow,Chelle!!
He is amazing!!!!

Are peacocks for free?

Now that is a spot of color.

irisarian said:Are peacocks for free?

Nope, but there are days when I'd like to give him away! Yesterday he made a (not!) nice big torn up space under the trimmed evergreen to take a dust bath, right in the middle of the baby hostas. From there, he could probably stretch just a bit to nibble on the impatiens.

And happy peacocks scream.

"Ree-Ahh", "Ree-Ahh", "Reeee-Ahhh"!


He likes the acoustics from the top of the bird feeder too, the scream hits that wall of trees along the drive and amplifies the sound.

He is beautiful,and LOUD...I love it...HIM...someone asked about the farmers and crop Insurance,The only farmers that usually buy crop ins. are the ones using the banks money,so they require it..Crops looking PITIFUL...Sounds like its not a wide spread drought,but we are in it...

Humidity levels are not horrible here,Temps YES...We are being blessed with lower than normal humidity... Still hotter than Haiti

I hear 'ya Tamara. Drought here too, and temp is 92°. We've only had 0.9" of rain this month. This is not all that unusual for us, but it's normally later, like August, when plants are more established. It's hard to keep annuals moist enough now.

Karen

I thought peacocks screamed ' help, help'. Sorry about the drought areas.

pictures today-

Gorgeous, Rita!!

What are the names of those great Daylilies?

Early Alibi, Carnival In Mexico and Fancy Face. I am afraid I have a LOT of daylilies.