Blooming in the Backyard.

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I haven't shared any blooming in the backyard yet this year. Still trying to get everything planted, held me up.

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Our porch stairs is always shade, so the Pansies are happy here as our temps warm up.

THRIFTING TIP: I'm purchasing pie pans, cake pans for saucers. Plastic new saucers are now over $2.00 for plastic and clay as high as $7.00. So thrifting is the way to go, usually a $1.00 or less each if purchased in a bunch. And they will last longer.

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Missing from my pots this year are Lime Green sweet potato vines. They just were not available? I use purchased Impatiens, a Geranium to mix with my seeded flowers from the greenhouse.

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Nasturtiums are different this year, two different kinds of seed.

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My trellis rose exploded early this week...this is actual color and not retouched.

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I actually fertilized these roses early and one more time in May. And, it paid off, they are gorgeous. Actual unretouched COLOR! PHEW!!!!

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Backside of the Nasturtiums from the Veggie garden side...great for attracting pollinators.

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We had some serious winds early this week, I put up this temporary trellis around my newly transplanted greenhouse starts. Zinnias, Sunflowers, Cosmos? not sure what else. I'll remove the netting soon, and use some ties to the fence.

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Birdbath planter is a little bit of everything. Same with the long planter, not even sure what is all in there.

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I think this may be hot peppers, not sure, one pot I planted and didn't write down the contents, and honestly it looks like weeds, but was a ring of plants around the outside so we will see what it is? 

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Here is the Tulip/Iris plot I cleaned out planted last year and removed so MANY Day Lilies. This year I've added 2 Foxgloves, 

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Aren't they gorgeous?

and added some transplanted Baby Tears, two grown from roots Phlox,

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 2 BellFlowers in between the Iris and a 

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below Gaillardia ---I purchased another Fox Glove and Gaillardia for here, 

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and that will make this plot quite full.  

The center trellis is a lavender Clematis, which is done for the moment. We should get another bloom.

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Below: Back on the Northwest side, a large pot of Dahlias. I have Dahlias grown from bulbs in all my large pots. Some saved from last year, and two new bags.

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greenhouse grown Marigolds, Sweet Williams Hubby picked out and one purchased Petunia. The Dahlias are going to explode in a few days.

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On the North bed, we haveColumbine done blooming  next to my Rhubarb.

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Our Iris were magnificent, but short lived, heat and too much rain. Some blossoms never opened, just rotted curled up. Staking them was a project.

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My cool sheltered shed garden holds first year home grown perrenials...this is the second year for these Delphiniums, I will try and transplant in Fall. In the background you can see the fence. When we had the roof and gutters done we diverted an overhead gutter to that bed and the bushes have quadrupled in size in two years.

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This Delphinium is huge this year, and really bushed out, hopefully I can split the roots up. We will see. This was a tiny root I purchased in a box of three. this is the only one that made it.  The rest of the backyard isn't photo ready, but soon.

Side Yard and front is next! 

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