Violets, Bishops & Iced Tea

Temps still in the 90’s today

So here’s a few shady pictures for ya….

Violets and bishops weed in the shade of a white birch

Another clematis I forgot the name of that’s growing on the trellis on the shady side of my house. I really need to write down the name of the plants in a note book or something!

here’s another shot of my beard’s tongue

A self sown seedling of my white bleeding heart


My K-Mart climbing rose is still hanging on. It’s 15 years old now. I call it this because this is another one I don’t remember the name of……

Okay, I had to throw a few sunny ones in here too!

This is flowers from a Red Japanese Mustard I planted in the garden four years ago. I still to this day find stray seedlings in the strangest places. This one is in my hosta bed, 15 feet away from the garden!

Tick Seed Coreopsis with a tiny wasp

Okay, I’m sorry, but here’s another shot of my beard’s tongue in the sun. It’s really blooming now and I just love this plant!

Japanese Tree Lilac read to pop!

Really huge panicals on this one.

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Today was my first day off since spring began that it wasn’t raining, storming or just too cold~

so dispite the heat, I spent the day getting dirty and filling my planters with veggies, strawberries, herbs & flowers….

Of course by the time I finished it was time to start dinner so I didn’t get any pictures of the finished projects!

I will post them by the weekend…..

So to hold ya’ll til then,

here’s a glass of cold tea on a shady porch…..

there’s my strawberries I planted today in the back. The green tray is lettuce I started early that got out of control because I couldn’t get out to plant it, so we are just going to feed it to the house bunns. And my poor Aloe hates coming outside for the summer at first. It always turns brown until it gets used to the bright sunlight. Little pots are new starts of Swedish Ivy and plain ivy.