Starting in front with the urn planter, the hummingbird and a flag
A two-sided Welcome planter on the porch
John and Pinky helped us clean up the cul de sac
yesterday morning.
Coming around the corner of lower Laurel Ridge, you might think
you were on the High Line in NYC if you consider the plants
in the meadow on the hillside.
The meadow just below our home
Campion (pink), yarrow (white), Sweet William (red) and Bird's Foot Trefoil (yellow)
make patterns up close.
Campion (front), Black-eyed Susans, Common Mullein
Queen Anne's Lace or Wild Carrot (ready to bloom, tall center)
Shasta Daisies and Yarrow fill the hillside in clumps.
Queen Anne's Lace blooming
Foxglove still in bloom
Lupines going to seed
Coreopsis
and Black-eyed Susan blooms look like summer sunshine.
And the bees and bugs are still busy even though it's close to sunset.
Back in the front of the house my camera
battery begins to fail.
Down to the patio, from the north side
The Helianthus blooms while the woodpecker awaits a little hand to make it peck.
We ate dinner on the deck.
We should have come down here to the patio.
The fairy garden is just like Lily left it--
with flower offerings.
Bop fixed the broken fairy wings--again!
This fairy awaits you for tea.
Welcome to all fairy-lovers!
I've given the broken, concrete stepping stones I made with Alice
from her large hosta leaves a new life
as fairy patios!
I watched a hummingbird try to get nectar from this table the other day.
Blanket flower truly blankets its spot in the garden.
Hollyhocks fill the corner.
The hydrangea is lush this year.
The Lavender is struggling but the Nepeta or Cat Mint is gigantic--
and filled with bees all day.
Since you can't come sit on my bench in the garden tonight,
I'm glad you could take this tour of a 4th of July garden with me.
I especially love the fairy patios and the memories of making them. How did you get the hillside to bloom? Did you cast wildflower seeds?
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