Look at the buds on that!

This is that strange oddity that I posted last month. Will be interesting to see if all the buds bloom - I stopped counting at 45 and rounded it off to 50.

Perfect Preference

What a perfect flower! We don't see too many of these with no bug bites.

Smelly thing

It smells bad and it attracts flies. It's stands a little over 4' tall and the bloom (if it can be called that) from top to bottom is 21". Only Kelly would need one of these.

Strange lily

OK you have to look closely at this one. Notice the lily 'stalk' is wide and thin - like those licorice strips you pull apart - over 4" wide. And it's got TONS of buds - will probably fall over under its own weight when it blooms. Weirdly deformed! (This is lily Red Hot.)

First Frost

hosta 'First Frost'

This is without a doubt my new favourite hosta - great colours and shape... and it grows fast. Hard to get a picture that doesn't have spinners from the maple trees - they've been coming down all week.

Purple carpet

The aubrieta in Kelly's garden is always the first to colour up. We've had overcast skies for a few days now - sun tomorrow will open a bunch of blooms.

Looking Glass

'Looking Glass' is such an awesome brunnera - shimmery!

Monkshood Starting to Bloom

Dahlia 'Preference'

It's a little ragged but I wanted you to see the colour.  There's another bud that should open by the weekend so hopefully that won't be so chewed up.

Becky on a Good Day

She's almost lost among the fescue and coral bells in Kelly's garden.  Hot here today!  Sprinkler this evening.

Black and Blue

So dark in bud but so bright in bloom... I love these little guys.

And Another One...

Sunny Bamaco - this one is really soft and feminine.
Nice surprise to find this and Tom Pouce both opened today!

New Double?

Le Reve looking double.

Bugs are my Friends

Well, maybe not my friends but I have a much better relationship with them than before I started gardening.  I found this guy hanging on a stake in Kelly's garden and he posed nicely for me to take his picture.