Take A Walk Through My Garden.

Please enjoy my flowers

as I take another walk through my garden.

I have lots and lots of BlackEyed Susans

in my yard.

The majority look like these.

But I've found two plants out of the hundred or so

that have this darker center.

I really like this one,

so I'll be saving the seeds.

And I planted none of these Black-Eyed Susans.

They're all volunteers.

If they happen to come up somewhere

I don't want them,

I just move 'em to somewhere else.

This is my passion flower.

A bit of caution to those who might

be thinking of planting one of these.

It is a vine so you need something

for it to climb up on.

And once you plant one,

they'll be coming up

EVERYWHERE,

like a weed.

You can dig these up,

breaking the underground root

and pot them.

They go into shock and droop very sadly

but if give them enough water,

they'll pull through

and you can transplant them.

I orginally planted my passion flower

on the fence between F-t-F and me,

knowing full well about its extremely invasive proclivities,

because I can be a bitch that way.

Heh.

And after doing a bit of research

(OK. I googled passion flower.),

I found out that passion flower

has some medicinal purposes.

Hmmm.

Perhaps a calming passion flower

tea seems to be in order.

Here's a little sunflower.

More sunflowers.

And these are all volunteers.

Again, if you don't like where your

volunteers are volunteering,

then just move them when they're babies.

This is my daisy which I was hesitant

to plant from seeds since I read

on the back of the seed packet

that it takes 365 days to bloom.

I planted the seeds anyway

and I'm glad I did,

because this little clump comes up in early spring

every year and I am rewarded with blooms all summer long.

Black Eyed Susans and Purple Coneflower.

When I was out weeding yesterday,

I found bunches of coneflower seedlings

in my rose bed,

so I'm gradually moving them over to another flower bed.

The coneflower is a perennial

and will come back every year.

It also self-seeds, so I have coneflowers

coming up everywhere.

Enjoy my roses:

This is one of my lantanas, another perennial.

And this is my silky mimosa blossom.

And it smells divine.

More roses.

My lilies.

Blue larkspur

and Baby's Breath, or Gypsophila,

another perennial.

More lilies.

More roses:

Black Eyed Susans and blue larkspur.

I love my Lace Cap Hydrangeas.

Another Lantana.

And zinnias

which are annuals

and which also self-seed everywhere in my garden.

Poppy.

Funny thing about the poppies -

I don't even remember planting them.

But that's the fun part of gardening -

there's always something new coming up;

there's always a surprise.

A garden is never "finished."

It's always growing and changing and evolving.

It's a living, breathing thing.

And it makes me happy.