the crape myrtle is blooming. rose heritage is blooming yet again.

july arrangement... hold the presses! this product appears to be working for my garden!!!! and, it has lasted through several downpours, and is made entirely of herbs and eggs (nothing poisonous.)

daylily bermuda coral - the new deer spray appears to be working, despite drenching rains! the arisaema is so exquisite and tropical looking, i just had to show it again.

i'm not sure which oriental lily hybrid this is, but it is really pretty. clethra ruby spice is blooming now.

dogs posing... paws posing...
alliums in a row.

black eyed susans volunteering in the garden... pura vida, my fav passion flower, poses on the deck...
these blooms on hydrangea limelight are too tall for the deer to eat.

another rainy day, another flooded basement, another day where bored humans humiliate bored dogs by lining them up in a row for pictures... and some of us have just had too much of the spaniel puppy visiting again and need a wee nap!

the best things are happening on the deck, where brugmansia pink beauty is still blooming! brugmansia cypress gardens has clusters of hanging flowers...

passion flowers on the deck today... brugmansia cypress gardens beginning to bloom on the deck
so far, the deer spray appears to be working, and this after 2" of rain last night!

the square garden this morning from our 2nd floor... and an arisaema flower this evening.

my husband got home earlier than i did today and caught these deer lounging in our yard. there were two males and a female. when i got home i let my brave poodle out, and he chased them away. this doe is under the bald cypress near the cercis forest pansy. "hey, babe, i'm gonna try to score a latte from these nice people to go with these exotic hostas. i just love gf's garden!"
my neighbor bought me a deer repellent spray that she says works for now. i'll try it tomorrow. and, no, we didn't serve lattes to the deer.

the morning of our trip, i snapped this tiger swallowtail on the ellen's blue butterfly bush in the main garden.

scheherazade, an indestructible lily.... this one is 7 feet tall, growing near my espaliered dwarf apple tree. this arisaema is near the street in the woodland garden, and its odd, drooping leaflets stop traffic. the green bloom is not too impressive.
i'm traveling this weekend, so the next new post will likely be on monday.

Lily White Henryi Lily Silk Road
Phlox, Salvia, Black Eyed Susans, Saxifrage, Crocosmia and Hydrangia in a vase

dog day afternoon...

i took this in broad daylight, and it really doesn't do it justice. this daylily is bright purple with a green-yellow center. it's of of the prettiest i have (from my brother, of course.)

luna with crocosmia lucifer i showed this daylily singly before, but want to show the whole plant, as it's impressively prolific this year.
red daylily

brugmansia pink beauty is just opening. at night it has an intoxicating, tropical scent. stokesia aster, 3" across

i like day lillies in the pink-purple color range, and my brother, a day lily breeder, has obligingly given me a multitude of them.

this is part of a weaving i made today out of rice paper, chiyogami paper, birch bark and grass. the weaving is too large for the scanner bed. i figure the grass will get brown over time.

tuck and luna. tuck is visiting for a week. ok, tree lovers, here is my japanese stewartia,
and a detail of same.
here are some of the trees i bought yesterday, when my sister, brother and our mates went to broken arrow nursery in hamden, ct. below is magnolia leonard messel.
katsura tree. why did i buy this? i've scarcely the room. ok, tree addiction.
birch royal frost, which has burgundy leaves. it's hard to see in a picture.