What’s Blooming

Last week in the gar­den we had:

Daisies every­where. The pas­ture is cov­ered with them.

On the west side of the house we have the slen­der deutzia in bloom at the back of the herb bed.

And sea pinks sur­round­ing the inceeas­ingly tall lily stalks.

My peonies are almost ready to bloom. Actu­ally this pic­ture is form sev­eral days ago and the first two blooms have appeared. (And imme­di­ately been cut and tak­ing into the house!)

Last week­end we cleaned up a few more beds. This is the one next to the garage. On the east side of the house it gets a lot of shade and stays fairly moist. So I have hostas, irises, and a cou­ple of grasses in it. Also a bunch of stuff that I put in three years ago and am to lazy to go dig through the files to fig­ure out what it is.

My irises are oddly pale this year. The cat is a stan­dard issue gin­ger barn cat. So the color of the photo isn’t off by much.