Porch Planter

I love begonias! Received a hanging basket full for Mother's Day, but didn't have a spot I could hang them. So I put them in this planter with some bright lamium, which is a perennial. I need to remember to put it in the ground in the fall.

Veggie Garden

Finished planting the veggie garden last weekend. Look at how the seeds are popping up!  The tomatoes I planted may have gotten a bit of frost damage, I will have to keep an eye on them.

Are you wondering what the cups are? A friend planted the sees and labeled the cups - I want to keep track of what varieties they are!

Handy tool

I have been wanting one of these multi-purpose garden carts (This one is a Worx)  for a while, so when we spotted one at the local Fleet Farm, I was pretty excited! We used it to haul rocks - the arms with the netting really work well.  

Hosta Garden

The setting sun enticed me to take a few photos of the hosta garden. The ferns, hostas, astibles, meadow rue, and ligularia are growing like crazy with all the rain we've had.

Look at the size of those ferns next to the rain barrel! A couple of weeks ago, I was thinking that maybe they didn't make it through the winter!

Pond Plantings

This area is on the southwest side of the pond. Soapwort is blooming along the rocks and there are some blooms on the perennial geraniums. 

These blooming shrubs are chokecherries. They are natives and have a suckering habit, so eventually, this area will be filled with chokecherry shrubs. I found an old hollow log in the back woods and had to add it to the area. It will make a good spot for the chipmunks to hang out!

Doesn't this old log add a lot of character?

Alliums

These alliums are blooming in the rose garden.

Front Garden

 

This year, I decided to add pink flowers to this garden. They are small now and I really need to pull the flowers off the petunias so the plants can get established. But it has been raining since mid-morning, so no gardening today.