East Front Yard

It feels like summer around here.  We've had highs in the 90s, and the flowers everywhere are several weeks ahead of usual.  The first of the daylilies are blooming, and there are lots of buds waiting for their turn.  We got some much needed rain last night, and the high for today is supposed to be in the lower 80s.  Yesterday, I took photos of the east front bed to make a new post.

As usual, I like to take a photo from the porch.  The Joe Pye weed is getting taller than I thought it would, since I had cut it back earlier in the season.

We'll go along the sidewalk, then around the flower bed.

 The volunteer annual salvias are in full bloom, as is this lavender, which I waited too long to cut for drying.

I had lots of volunteer love lies bleeding come up, and gave a number of them away.  Let their blooming begin!

I need to be thinning the reblooming irises.  The amsonia is crowded.

I am enjoying the two meadow rue plants in this bed.  The two across the sidewalk are not blooming yet.

Larry put some plates around that I think he is forgetting to put water in for the snakes.

I think this is fleabane.

There was a graduation party down the street, and I tried my best to avoid getting the cars in the photos.  The verbena bonariensis have seeded themselves around nicely.  I gave some to some coworkers.  One of them told me he wondered what that tall spindly weird plant was, but when it started blooming, he decided he liked it.  The insects sure like it!
   

The phlox pilosa 'Eco Happy Traveler' is about finished blooming.  Rabbits have eaten the ones in the bed across the sidewalk down.

The pink dwarf type monarda will be blooming soon.

We're almost to the south end of the bed.

I like this foxglove.  I'm thinking it may be a native one.  I couldn't find it online, though.

This yarrow is either a red kind or 'Paprika'.

The name of this clematis is not coming to my brain right now.  It's been in this spot a number of years, and performs well.  That's pink primrose below.  I keep pulling it out of areas I don't want it.

These coneflowers are one of my favorite plants.  The big orange poppies that were in front of them left their seedheads.

The pineleaf penstemon and veronica clash in the photo, but they get along fine in the garden.

I think I cut back the helenium, 'Mardi Gras' but they are still blooming early.

I am excited for 'Wally' daylily to bloom.  It's one of my favorites.

 When I got this cenataurea macrocephala, it was called a perennial bachelor button.  I sure was surprised when I saw the blooms look like this the first time.  After a bit, yellow "fluff" came out of the tops, and I decided that was a pretty cool plant to have.  It seems to be declining, because these are the only blooms this year.

I've been noticing dead leaves on  some of the daylilies lately.  I pulled some off of one of the plants by the curb today.  The yellow foxgloves are ready to be deadheaded.  It may bloom again.

The red hot pokers are blooming well this year.

I have one more plant in mind to put in this basket planter.   I really liked the bloomers I had in it last year, until it dried out between waterings, and some of the plants didn't make it.   Hopefully, these will survive winter here.

I am so very tickled that this delphinium is back for a fourth or fifth season!  In the past, I couldn't get any to survive a winter.

Can you see the clematis in the background?

The rattlesnake master is ready to bloom.

The kiss me over the garden gates are just beginning to bloom.  I shared a number of these seedlings this spring, too.

I love swamp milkweed blooms!  Well, I love all milkweed blooms.

I move Heidi's leash from place to place so she can have different views while we are outside.  I wish I didn't have to attach her to it, but she leaves the yard whenever she gets a chance.

That's hibiscus on the lower left.

And this is what we see now that we have gone around the east bed.  I am so enjoying this area!

I really surprised myself today.  I get sidetracked easily, and I ended up cleaning up clutter here and there in the house instead of gardening, which is what I had planned on doing.  Maybe now, I will enjoy my gardening even more, since the house will be somewhat under control.

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