Yard Update

Flower Report - We have so many flowers blooming in our yard!! I love all the different colors and shapes. Don't be too impressed about all the names I seem to know. I keep the tags that come with the plants so I can learn them. I lost last year's tags so there are several that I don't know.

Columbine - I have several red and yellow plants. I want blue but haven't found looked for it yet. I saw purple and yellow/pink at the store today, but was on a different mission so I didn't stop.

English Daisies and a groundcover I don't know. The daisies bloom this bright pink color and slowly fade to white. I love how these two are growing together.
Mountain Daisies - these grow low to the ground and the underside of the petals are pink

Another groundcover - Ice Plant - this one is a succulent and some of our plants didn't survive the winter.

I don't remember the name of these either, but I love the color!

Another no-namer that is sometimes eaten by deer.

Pots on deck - alyssum and violas.

Also on the deck is one of my favorite annuals - Portulaca - a delicacy for the deer, the blooms are all different colors.

On our side yard we plant a bag of wildflowers you can buy in any garden center, so it is a surprise to see what grows - I think these are Orange Wallflowers, which I know because we had a yellow wallflower last year but it didn't survive.

Orange Globeflower

I have a whole bed of Sunflowers - I am excited! I planted a variety and can't wait to see what blooms.

Lupine - somehow my purple ones are the only ones that survived the winter.

Salvia and Alyssum - growing in our side yard

Osteopermum Bronze (so says the tag, I would just call them a type of daisies) - these are new additions to our yard.

Coreopsis - returning well from last year.

Thrift

And now the Garden Report -

The tomatoes (cherry and early girl) are looking okay - not much growth, but that isn't surprising with all the rain. The cherry plant I have growing in a pot on the deck looks better that the ones in the yard, probably because it dries out more.

All the rain is drowning my green, yellow, and red peppers and zucchini plant. I think I'll have to replace a couple, but I'm going to wait until the end of the month when the weather should dry out some.

On the deck I am also growing strawberries, onions, and herbs. The onions look great. The herbs - basil, rosemary, thyme, cilantro, and oregano - are also doing pretty good. And some critter is eating my strawberries. :( I decided to grow them on the deck so the deer wouldn't eat them. I just hope it isn't a skunk.