Thank you for all your kind words about Burton. I’m happy to say he seems to be back to 100%, so that’s a big sigh of relief!

June is here and with it, all the beautiful early summer flowers.

My clematis are doing amazing. They started out one at a time, and then all of a sudden, just exploded!

This makes me so happy as I was never able to grow them at the townhouse.

You all know how much I love my Lupin. I have two colours – a nice mid-range purple, and a gorgeous dark blurple.

They’ve just done amazing this year. I’ve got some Lupin seeds planted in containers, and I’m hoping I can get some other colours (the seeds were a mix including pink, yellow, white and purple).

The poppies are just popping all over the place.

The dianthans are just getting started. They will bloom on an off all season long.

These little pretties are new for me… sort of. Both were planted last year, but didn’t bloom until this year. They are Widows Tears or Spiderwort. They have a foliage similar to daylilies, but have these small little clusters of flowers. And the buds are tear-shaped.

I figured my bearded irises would be done by now, but there’s still a couple hanging on.

And my native iris has bloomed and is just amazing!

Including this beautiful new one that I planted last fall. It’s called Edith Wolford.

Each of these flowers only lasts a day, but there are lots that bloom in succession giving several days of beautiful flowers.

The Columbine are still blooming. My plants are all still pretty small, so the Columbine display should just get better and better each year. (I added several new bare roots one this year too, which probably won’t flower until next year).

I showed you the beautiful fuscia on the left, and mentioned that I’d bought two for the front porch. Well the second one (on the right) hadn’t flowered when I bought it. And I discovered a couple weeks later that they weren’t the same! I went back to the garden centre to see if I could get another pink/white one so I had a matching pair on the front porch (I’d move the purple one somewhere else), but sadly they were sold out. I keep checking every time I go by, but so far they haven’t come back in so the purple one will have to do for now.

I let Dave choose the hanging baskets for the back porch.

And he chose these two different petunias. Obviously, he’s really into contrast!