in summer clothes

simple pleasure

summer fantasy

Physostegia virginiana (Obedient Plant or False Dragonhead)

"Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." ~ Henry James (1843 - 1916)

to see a flower

Inspired by Christopher Brosius, whose scents I have been wearing while working in the garden (to see a flower, under the arbor). Like gardening x two.

susan

Sue's green-eyed susan

like water lilies on a pond

This is the most beautiful hydrangea in my garden - hydrangea macrophylla Jogasaki, a double-flowered lacecap from Japan. According to the Almost Eden website: The individual double blooms which surround the sterile inner blooms have been described by some as "miniature pink water lilies floating atop a pond". She didn't bloom at all last year but this year, she is glorious. Walking by, I tell her "thank you for blooming in my garden". She needs to be moved (very gently) to a site where she has room - maybe this fall ...