Happy Birthday to me!

Beautiful potting bench from my parents with some of the many plants I
got from Joe!

Peony and oriental poppy

Rose

Rose and clematis

Blanket flower and geum

Salvia

Spiderwort (2 different kinds) and iris

Wow!!!
Peony and salvia

Buttercups (a type of evening primrose, I think)

Amsonia "Blue Ice"

Too much purple

I was looking around last night and realized that, except for the
Oriental poppies, everything in bloom right now is purple.
In another few weeks, I'll be complaining that there is too much yellow.
Below: Nepeta, chives, iris

Salvia, peony, allium, St. John's Wort bush

Peony, baptisia, Oriental poppy (I use both the common and Latin names
when speaking of plants)

Rose

To say that this rose smells amazing isn't doing it justice. I wish I
could bottle it and send it out - it's that wonderful.

Before

Worked on the wasteland that was the space between the sidewalk and the road. It's been an eyesore for years. The soil is really, really bad there.

After

Amended the soil, added lots of new lilies. Carted 5 wheelbarrows full of bad soil up a hill to the backyard. Ouch.

Iris

False indigo and oriental poppies

Oriental poppy

False indigo and oriental poppies

Azalea and iris

In full bloom

Allium and confused salvia

And we found a whole family of snakes next to the house. Ew.

Heaven