The June Garden

This is the third picture in my garden series where I am taking a picture, once a month to record the changes. It also will help me in seeing what plants I need to buy for color for a particular month. I have new additions to the garden, a water fountain added by the apartment complex for me, a bench that is being slowly mossed that I found in a junk yard, and I rearranged the layout to allow people more access into the garden after discovering a woman walking through the flowers to check out the bench. 

The main flower blooming is the orange "ditch lily" or "roadside lily".

Planted astilbe, starting to bloom.

Seedlings of Zinnias coming up.

Primrose has begun to bloom.

Marigolds doing better on the west side of the garden, noticing more that the east side is considerably more shaded.

Weed, weed, and weed again is the motto for this month along with watering.

 May when the Blue Flag lilies were blooming, you can't see them very well because the color blue recedes into the landscape from a distance which is how I enjoy my garden for the most part. I need something to help the pop out more...maybe something yellow blooming. 

My backyard monthly review

After working on my backyard for 4 years I think I am finally beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel. It's still a ongoing battle with poison ivy, wild grapevine and Japanese pachysandra, however the battles are a little less each year, but living next to the woods probably means they will never go away completely. Anyway...I am going to try and remember to take a picture on the same day of each month so I can really compare the changes in my garden.

April 18th

 May 18

Well, the first thing you really notice is the color changes. The bright azalea colors are gone replaced with a green palette. As I sit here looking at this I have 2 thoughts...
1. Going from spring to summer is like the day after you remove your Christmas decorations. The house looks bland compared to all the sparkly decorations, same here void of all the pretty spring colors. It looks so boring.
2. I wonder if this is why I don't use the color green very much, I think I OD on it here in the mountains....I mean, it's just everywhere!!

You can't see my Blue Flag Iris very well from this distance since the color blue recedes into the background. But they look very pretty when you are ground level looking at them.