Sunday Blooms

Walking around my garden is my morning ritual (well, after coffee of course).

Here is what I have blooming this Sunday.

Gorgeous orange zinnia above and a Queen Anne's lace flower below (my favorite wildflower)

Loads of daylilies from palest yellow to burnt orange and dusty mauve.

Here are just three of the 8+ varieties I have planted.

Glads, lilies, crepe myrtle, coneflowers, Russian sage...

Heaven for the goldfinches! I hear their songs throughout the garden.

Three of the 6 varieties of butterfly bush I have planted.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

~Walt Whitman

Garden Friends and Flowers

Are you sick of my garden photos yet?

Good because it's only just begun.

I walk the garden several times a day and always manage to find something new.

This morning I found this baby bunny in my veggie garden.



Got this awesome gnome over the weekend at the new Home Goods store.

He fits right in!

Love this false indigo. I bought it half dead last year so this was the first time I got to see it looking so beautiful. There were a ton of little bugs on it.

Another blue flower on the Jacob's ladder.

After lunch I saw this damsel fly on the scotch broom.

Or maybe it's a baby dragonfly?

It was really small.

My first coreopsis to bloom.

Spiderwort with a bee hiding behind it.

You can see his leg full of pollen.

Bee collecting pollen from my meadow rue.

Red Valerian just starting to bloom.

Also called Jupiter's beard (I like that name better).

Silly Pumpkin Pie likes to be carried through the garden when it's rainy.

Hard to hold a camera and a cat.

I guess he has me well trained!

What's Blooming Wednesday

"Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blooming in my garden this week...

Rock Cress "Spring Charm"

Bluebells

Iceland Poppy

Dogwood

Azalea

Narcissus

To see pictures of my kitty Pumpkin in the garden this morning, hop on over the The Red Cat Society blog.