Lee Ann and daughter Lea have developed a couple of nice flower gardens -- in addition to the vegetable gardens in raised beds -- on the property in the years since we have been in Raleigh.
Each year, the colors seem to get better and better, giving us an extra focal point when gazing from our comfy perches on the back deck.
This post is about the results of this year's floral gardens; I'm not even going to both with captions. I would need Lee Ann next to me identifying at least a third of these, and she's not here right now. Some of these were taken June 25; the others a month later on July 22.
I will say that among the blooms here are petite roses, black-eyed-susan, coleus, impatiens, caladium, hibiscus, gladiolus, pansy and dahlia. I learned this year that there are impatiens that like sunlight; I'd always thought impatiens were a shade flower. At the very bottom, there are shots of the two gardens where you'll find most of these blooms.
The ladies also have some pots on the deck that are displaying some pretty flowers, one of which, a personal favorite of mine, is the sun-splashed coleus seen the second photo below. This photo was taken June 25; it's larger and more striking today.
Funny story about the caladium. Lee Ann and Lea planted bulbs for those two summers ago, but they didn't come up. Well, at least not in the garden where they were planted. We saw these very caladium in a neighbor's property, not more than 20 yards from where the ladies had planted them in the garden seen in the penultimate photo in this post. And the spot they came up in the neighbor's property was not a well-maintained area; it's essentially ignored.
Well ... the caladium came up -- and more of them -- this year, and yes, IN our garden where they were planted two summers ago. We have been trying to theorize what happened ever since. If you're not familiar with caladium, they are the big-leaf variegated blooms below (pictures 14 through 18 below).
Enjoy.
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