Wednesday 23 July 2008

Back Yard Summer

While I've been posting about England, my back yard has been blooming!

Clockwise from top left: Purple Coneflower (echinacea purpurea); Lady's Mantle leaves with jewels of rain (and a fly); vivid blue Delphinium; Day Lily (hemerocallis); red Blanket Flower (gaillardia) with a bee laden with pollen; sweet blue Forget-me-nots; green tomatoes, soon to be juicy and red I hope; pink and white Impatiens or Busy Lizzie; and in the centre the blue sky of summer (if you enlarge the image there's a tiny bee flying across the sky.... or maybe it's a 747 very high up.... you decide).

21 comments:

  1. Me thinks its a dragonfly wanting to get in your summer collage.
    You have some gorgeous flowers blooming in your garden. Thanks for sharing.

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  2. Dennis thinks everything is looking really good! Broiling here, lots of wilt and deer damage, nice to see a brilliant garden.

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  3. Your back yard must be stunning!

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  4. Spectacular arrangement of flowers!

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  5. I would go for the bee; I don't see any white line behind the flying "thing"!

    With flowers lie this in your garden, you should definteley take the time to watch!

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  6. Beautiful and colourful, ex-S. I'm envious. I'm growing a lovely crop of weeds though. That's weedS, Suldog.. with an S. ;)

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  7. Beautiful post! I love the sky in the middle, too!

    And, I don't know when I'll be finished with my current project... We'll see where I'm at in a month! LOL. :0

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  8. What a nice collage of flowers wish i had such a green thumb.

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  9. Your backyard is wonderful indeed.

    Love your collage, esp. the sky shot in the middle. Great job!

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  10. You sure it's not a 747?? Just askin' ... ;)

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  11. Hi there!

    TY for commenting on my Fav. Thing post.
    I'm attempting to set up a blog friends postcard exchange.
    If you are interested & I love Canada, please leave me another comment with your email address & I'll get back to you re exchanging addy's!
    Please don't feel I'm pressuring you - this is a one to one thing.

    Best wishes
    Blue

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  12. I think it's a dragonfly too! Or a skydiver. Lovely photos. My tomatoes are still green too (here in good old quebec - maybe we should move down south, they've probably been eating tomatoes all winter! LOL)

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  13. do you sell your lovely photos? think about it!!

    m.e.

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  14. methinks the speck in the middle picture is a wasp....

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  15. Did you get to Devon ?
    I hate humid weather and in July and August it is usually dull and miserable as well. May is our month for good weather.
    I was taught in school that Canada has a long winter and a short summer - no other seasons. Probably wide of the mark but these things stick in your mind.

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  16. Thanks for coming by to visit. Your flowers are just gorgeous and I love how you made the photo grid with them. The horses are so darn cute!

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  17. That's no bee, it's a mossy!

    Beautiful flowers. It is so nice to see insects in gardens, especially as bees are now getting rare. I bet you don't use chemicals.

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