Gardening, anyone?

Wada's memory magnolia

Flaviarose,  Such a beautiful tree and such a lovely property.  More pictures please.

This thread is so calming.  There is so much wrong in the world, this is one place where I can see things grow and thrive because of love and attention.  Thank you all.

another magnolia photo from last year

hanging basket with petunias

my trees hum. I live 2 doors down from a honey farm!! Guess what I have, tons of bees. Love the pics, keep them coming.

I feel like I see fewer bees too.  But then in the fall they are totally swarming my sedums, so perhaps they just visit other plants the rest of the summer. 

Beautiful pictures flaviarose.  I do a lot of containers and I think I might want to do multicolor this year.  I have tons of purple in my front yard and some fuchsia/pink so I've always kept to those colors but I just kind of want to go all out wild color this year.  

My cherry tree a couple of weeks ago. I feel like the photo does not capture it's beauty. Not sure if it's the camera or the photographer!

Jackbirdie its so funny you say that because that's kind of what I was thinking too.  Since cancer I want to be my "wild child" (thank you Kenny Chesney for putting it into words), full of life, full of color, warmer, fiery, not just coloring inside the lines.  That's how I want my gardens to look.  Not to insult my pretty purples and pinks, but I do just want to add the yellow and orange to warm it up.  

Hummers love my coral bells, fuchsias, clematis, calibrachoa, and foxglove.  They even liked my sunflowers, perhaps because I had some that had the reddish coloring in them. 

Japanese maple with lilacs

Lilac

Beautiful pics ladies!

We are continuing to have rounds of rain here which is making my yard happy. I hope to have some new blooms to show you soon!

Made me laugh out loud. 

Charger, perfect flower! ;o)

I love the following flowers that are now in bloom throughout the property.

*sweet blue violets*

*sweet white violets*

Teka- lovely, lovely flowers. I loved the naturalized colonies, especially the columbine. And I also love the Jack in the pulpit!

I shared this on the daily exercise thread and thought many of you may like this as week, (except Jazzy, sorry for the repeat).

Each night this week, BBC has a 8pm hour long programme that highlights Chelsea Flower Show. Last night they talked about Breakthrough Breast Cancer garden. The Silver Gilt Medal was won because it was so beautiful, amazing and clever. The garden is based around a DNA double helix shape represented by a beautiful stone pathway, crossed by a ribbon of soft pink planting. There are water pools that ripple up and down every 10 minutes to represent the shocking statistics of women diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK. A sculpture by Rick Kirby, is designed to symbolize the courage and dignity of all those fighting the disease and representing women who will be helped by the charity. Designer Ruth Willmott claims this garden has particular meaning to her. She lost her late sister-in-law Angela to breast cancer (triple negative) in 2014 aged 49 years. Angela was an incredibly positive person throughout her life and Ruth wanted something positive to come from her death, so that others may benefit in the future. What a lovely memorial to Angela.

LilacBlue- Thank you for so thoughtfully describing this garden. I found both what you said and the photo very moving. Eyes welled up a bit. That is something I would truly have loved to have seen in person. Classy.