clematis roguchi puts on an elegant display...
black-eyed susans volunteer cheer in my garden...
roguchi's less staid clematis cousins tumble and shout over the fence
the lantana and herbs on the deck with laundry basket in the foreground
i think echinacea are prettier before they completely open...
passion flower blooming on the deck
wind garden, with grasses and liriope
rose 'dainty bess' making a recovery after relocation
champagne currants ready for picking
the silky buds of japanese stewartia:
clematis viticella roguchi bud, reddened by the setting sun:
delicate color emerging on hydrangeas:
i didn't know the across-the-street neighbors had guests!
maa, maa! wait up! (sorry, i'll get better at action photog, but this was too cute to not post!)
to brighten up this post, here is campanula 'elizabeth,' lit by afternoon sun, beautiful but invasive. i use aluminum cladding buried underground to contain her.
clematis viticella venosa violacea. 
i have three other viticellas, purpurea plena, roguchi and minuet, which is really spectacular. pictures to follow.
and here he is swimming and smiling at joe joe, my poodle, like he's been doing it for years!
tussling over a stick. eventually luna the whippet stole the stick, and the boys chased her. (note attractive duckweed on poodle tail)
as you can imagine, everyone got soaked, even mom and me!
magnolia sieboldii colossus continues to bloom and bloom and bloom with pristine pendulant, beery-smelling flowers.
perennial snapdragons love the hot weather.
nothing stops rose 'heritage!'
these campanula flowers wilted rapidly in the heat.
the heat won't kill this opportunistic grass sprouting from a brick!
variegated bishop weed happily flowering...
this happy pairing is a rose reverted to rootstock and kalmia 'pinwheel.' pinwheel's flowers are brown today, but the rose continues to flourish.
i'll have pictures of the clematis, just flowering, over the weekend!
opening bud - i bet you could drink out of it - if you used two hands!
and, this is all happening by the garden gate, where the neighbors can see!
when i planted the sciadopitys 10 years ago, it was a foot tall, now it tops 5 feet (the fence is 4 feet.) and the deutzia lovingly embraces it from the other side of the fence.
this photo shows the deutzia's true color, unlike the photo at top, which makes it look more purple than it is.
luna, the whippet, does not like to swim, but she goes in chest deep and splashes around to get wet...
joe joe, our poodle, loves to retrieve...
and then gives us all a shower when he gets out of the water.
species roses are blooming so heavily that our woods smell of them throughout. the rose below is about 15 feet tall.
