As you can see, it’s full-on daylily time here. And that isn’t even all of them. There are several more to come. I think I said it before, but if I could only have one type of flower in my garden, it would be daylilies. Because the possibilities are just endless with them!

And check out this beautiful mutant. It’s on the Purple D’Oro plant. Not only is it a lighter shade… but it’s got too many petals! Apparently this happens time to time with day lilies, but this is the first time I’ve ever seen it in my garden. It’s the only one on that plant too – all the rest have been normal.

Of course, I can have more than one flower in my garden so it’s not just daylilies. It’s also roses!

Quicksilver – the second of the climbing roses I bought for the arbour – has finally bloomed. At first, I wasn’t too impressed – the buds are a little on the raggedy side. But it slowly opened into a beautiful mauvey pink mass of petals.

It’s certainly going to be able to hold its own with Eden, it’s climbing mate on the other side of the arbour. She’s turned out to be a quite prolific bloomer, which I absolutely love!

The Honeysuckle on the catio has started to bloom. I was a little worried about this one. It got hit by a nasty aphid attack in spring, and all the buds it had in late May just died off. But this later batch seem to be doing much better. The yellow one I bought for dress form isn’t blooming, but it has started to put on some good new growth. I was getting worried about it too.

And I wanted to share how wel my little shade garden has come along.

Can you believe how much it’s grown in just a month?

And I’m normally not a big fan of Impatiens. I only planted them here to fill in a few of the empty spaces, and because I knew they’d do well in the shade. But boy do they ever pop!

And it’s a similar story with the front walkway garden, though it’s had a few more weeks to develop.

And if you want to go back even further…

Check out the catio at this time LAST year, and how it looks now.

It just shows you, it doesn’t really take long for a garden to get established.