June Is Bustin' Out All Over

I couldn't help stopping to take a photo as I backed out of the garage early one morning this week. The sun was shining between our houses and highlighting the birch and the fuzzy "Ogon' Spirea and the Weigela about to blossom.  The colors and textures and shapes of the green border in front are at their peak.

Three days later the Weigela has blossomed fully

The variety of pink shades and the variegated leaves are stunning.

But purple seems to be the predominant color in the rest of the plantings:

Old-fashioned bearded Iris

'Miss Kim' Lilac

Baptisia or False Indigo

Another bed of purple Iris

The deepest purple is the Siberian Iris 

between the two houses and in "the micro-climate"

they create for early--and late--blooms.

The yellow Iris glow

in the morning sunshine.

The Poppies will bloom next in

shocking watermelon pink!

From this morning's comics:

That's me!