A Companion is a Fine Thing

Stella D'Oro daylily and Walker's Low Catmint make fine companions.

A companion is a fine thing. Everyone needs a good companion. Even your garden plants!

Solomon's Song and the June Garden

This David Austin Rose has a scent as lovely as its flower.

A love poem found in The Song of Solomon (in the Bible) along with some photos from the June garden:

Larkspur is a favorite reseeding annual. 

"Arise my love, my beautiful one, and come away, 

Tanacetum parthenium has multitudes of tiny daisies.

A Kansas Country Garden: Held Hostage

A welcome visitor on the Verbena bonariensis

The weather is balmy and pleasant. The garden is thriving, but so are the weeds. I'm on summer break with the luxury of a little extra time. There's plenty to do in the garden (and you know I love working in the garden), but I'm not spending much time there. The curse of the hungry mosquitoes is holding me hostage.

A Kansas Country Garden: May Comes to an Enchanting End

An old-fashioned, rather wild rose blooms once a year and has a lovely scent.

Please don't eat my roses, Buddy!

Is there another month as lovely as May? In my garden it is a time of pinks and purples in abundance. The sweet, delicate scent of roses waifs through the garden.

A Kansas Country Garden - First Week of June

This allium (possibly allium atropurpueum) is always blooming on June 13. Many of the garden flowers are very early this year and I anticipated that these allium would be as well. For several weeks already they have boasted green spheres which have only blushed to purple in the last week. It appears that they will again be blooming on June 13. 

June 13 is significant because it is the birthday of our second son. I only made the connection between these flowers and his birthday because at one of his birthday parties all the blooms were plucked by a herd of little boys who proceeded to pelt each other with them! That was the end of the flowers that year. 

Despite the shenanigans of young boys, these allium have done well over the years and multiplied. I have placed them throughout the garden. Graceful globes nodding the the breeze give a lovely look to the garden.

I am always happy to see our guineas in the flower garden. They take care of most of our insect problems.This is Hank.

Cleome, or Spider Flower is one of my favorites. It is known as a reseeding annual, but seldom reseeds in my garden. I purchased these as bedding plants. They should grow quite tall, but have begun blooming at 12 inches.

This lovely Rose of Sharon shrub was a gift from my mother-in-law, This is its best year so far.

Blackeyed Susan bloom along with larkspur(finishing up their bloom) and several wild flowers.

Good planning probably wouldn't have placed a pink hollyhock next to an orange daylily, but I rather like the combination.

The garden at dawn. If you look closely at the left side of the photo you can see our guinea, Hank, busy on bug patrol.

The Elderberry Bush has a lacy bloom.

Feverfew, Tanacetum parthenium, has a long bloom time.

Still looking for those bugs. Please don't eat the butterflies or bees, Hank and Edna!

Sedum with a brilliant bloom

Old fashioned Hollyhocks are always welcome in my garden.

Sweetpeas climb on the arbor over the patio.

The lilies finished up this week. See you next year!ww

Off they go in search of more bugs. Or maybe they'll stop to enjoy their reflections in the glass at the front door. Have fun, Hank and Edna! To read more about our guineas, check out these links: It's a bird! It's a pain! or Parenting Problems