Peek-a-boo

Look who I found making it's way thought the Salvia …Dianthus 'Chomley Ferran'

Poppies , poppies , poppies ….

Poppies everywhere, I crushed and sprinkled last years seed heads all over the bare soil , that was the lawn  till last summer. And how wonderful to have they are  ...

And the  …bees 

In the garden this morning...

I got out early to check out the shade garden's watering needs, not too bad , even the Rodgersia looks content. Thankfully things have really filled in , that helps so much in these hot days.  

Miss Wilmot looks her best backlit.

Out with the...

Out with the bronze Fennel , or at least some, in with the Verbena bonariensis seedlings I dug out of the gravel path. Nice swap over, only one hole to dig.

Back in the shade...

I've finally deadhead the terrible running Eurphorbia on my dry slope , pulled SOME of the  "ugly grass" as my mother calls it. It will we  back the neighboring house is a mass of weeds and "ugly grass" …back to my book !

A happy grouping...

It's taken quite a few years of trying this and trying that , but I like this years planting. In the past I've had trouble with floppy thugs , spilling over the neighboring plants : Artemisia , Nepeta , both have had to move …not good neighbors

 Teurium hircanicum 'paradise delight' on the right have been no trouble , such a nice neat clump  , bendy purple flower spikes going in all directions. It's even self seeded , but not too many!
Eryngium 'Miss Willmot's ghost' , one of the first things I planted.  Then we have Achillea ptarmica' the pearl' planted from seed last year ,  now a much heftier clump. lychnis coronaria 'occulta' also from seed . And poppies many poppies 

And when the poppies are finished . I see Aster laterflorus' prince ' taking the reins .

June in Bloom...

I found one photo that had just about everything that is blooming at the moment in what was the front lawn : Jolly mounds of  candy tuft that self seeds like crazy at the bottom. Next  on the right a pink Veronica , brought from my mother's garden . Above and all around Lavender poppies , again self seeding freely everywhere, everywhere . Taking center stage , Yet another selfseeder , this one a biannual Salvia Turkestanica , one of the first things I planted . At the far left is the  good old native Achillea millefolium .
It didn't take much coaxing to get the plants migrating into the bare, grass free soil !
Thank you Carol for hosting and for many more June blooms May Dreams Gardens.

Peach lace

My first lily of the year …. Peach Lace' .  Not very tall , only about a foot. Last  year she was a no show, so I am very thrilled with this one bloom !

Rumex sanginueus

I have found a happy trio of edging and ground cover for a shady corner . After  swapping the Black mondo grass for Carex oshimenis .  The one Rumex I planted was now half a dozen .  And a small pot of Creeping Charley has happily spread itself in all directions . 

Beautiful rain...