Hi Elaine, Your pictures, as usual, are beautiful, the garden is really coming into its own. My garden has been the pits this year. The nasty winter killed everything to the roots and things have been so slow coming back. I am still finding things that should have been up and blooming for months just popping up now in late July. The begonias actually made a great comeback, I was so surprised, but then the deer wiped them out, the sprays do not seem to work anymore. I have some young ones in pots that I will baby through next winter and see what happens. I had protected a few small broms but all the big ones in the trees froze.
The hummingbirds always appreciate my old stand by the Bouvardia ternifolia, it never fails to perform and never cares how cold it gets. It does best for me in a container up on the deck in the full sun and wind.
This water lily, Perry's Fire Opal, had not bloomed in two years. I was about to toss it when it decided to flower this week. The color is a bit paler than it should be but maybe it is the first flower of the season thing.
