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Eliza Waters 
Your garden is beautiful, Eliza. I love the background of the trees in the last image.
Thank you, Vicki. After 35 years here, the plantings have matured quite a bit.
It looks like a wonderful place! 😊
Thank you, we really enjoy the view from the deck during our meals. I love summer!
Such a lovely garden. Is that Crocosmia in the first pic? What a stunner!
Thank you! Yes, it is C. ‘Lucifer’ which does very well if the voles stay away from them. I’m thinking of buying the yellow version, but I really don’t need more yellow in there… the gardener’s dilemma!
It is a silent sunday Eliza, but it speaks so beautifully. Thank you 🤗❤️🙏
Thanks, Mark 🙂
Brilliant red and so summery. Eliza. 🌺
Thank you, Flavia. It’s like fireworks out there!
I have always enjoyed seeing the flowers in your garden 🙂
Thank you, Anne. This perennial bed is entering its peak, a joyful explosion!
Hi Eliza. Just wow!! We’ve just arrived back at Le Shack after four months away and it doesn’t look like that!! As you’ll see in my next blog!
MJ
Thanks, MJ. I imagine that in 4 four months, things have become more than a bit wild!
Beautiful
Merci!
Avec plaisir
So bright and colourful
Thank you, Karina!
Your garden looks all filled out.
It really is a bit cramscaped, but less weeding that way. 🙂
That’s how I like to garden.
What a beautiful and perfect place to spend your days and thank you for including a close up of a new favorite!🙂
Thank you, the crocosmia this year are making quite a statement and the hummers approve!
Your garden looks glorious Eliza and a haven for pollinators too 💚🦋🐝 xxx
Thank you, Xenia. Lots of happy campers out there! 🙂
What a delight, Eliza, so pretty!😊
Thank you, Belinda! 🙂
What a lovely mix! Do I see some white coneflowers? Are they native or a cultivar?
Thank you, they are a cultivar called ‘White Swan.’
Thanks! They’re especially beautiful.
Thank you, they perform just as well as the pinks, too.
So very pretty! What are they?
Thanks, Laurie! Croscosmia ‘Lucifer’ in the first photo and mostly coneflower and globe thistle in the second and third.
How beautiful! But something tells me this isn’t a “silent” garden — I imagine pollinators are busy fluttering from one of these blooms to the next!
Thank you, Debbie. I guess I am the silent one, appreciating it all. 🙂
WHAT??? You don’t talk to your plants and flowers?? Oh, my, the neighbors must think I’m crazy, but my plants love being talked to!
I do talk to my bees, etc. quite readily on a daily basis, and on occasion, tell the flowers how gorgeous they are! 😉
Excellent! We all enjoy a good compliment!
👍🏼 💕
Oh, these photos are so pretty, Eliza! What a wonderful summer garden you have!
Thank you, Tina, much appreciated!
It’s looking great, Eliza!
Thank you, Sandy!
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️😍🤗
Thanks, Susan!
Love my Lucifer 🙂
I love its dramatic color and so do the hummers!
Yes that and the blooms on my crazy Trumpet vine are visited often as are all of my Salvia.
Thank you for sharing your floral bounty, Eliza. I hope your hummingbirds are visiting those bright red Crocosmia (which I learned from a fellow blogger above).
My pleasure, Tanja. Yes, the hummers really love this flower. Yesterday I was standing nearby and a female hovered close by eyeing me, then decided she could trust me and perched for a rest while we just checked each other out. A lovely moment!
A magical moment!
I love your garden. 😊
Thank you, Pepper! I have a few others, but this is the one that gets most of my attention and puts on a good show most of the summer. Probably a correlation there, lol!
That also explains why flowers like that don’t just pop up in my flowerbeds too! I have to put in some work. 😉
I’m afraid so! 😀
I guess I better get to work. See ya!
The Crocosmia and Echinacea are lovely, Eliza. I can’t grow either in my garden it seems, at least not longer than one (short) season. I hope you’re enjoying a pleasant (not hot!) Sunday admiring your garden.
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Thank you, Kris. I love my garden around this time with so much in bloom. Today is humid and rainy (welcome moisture), but the next three days will be hot and humid, then back to delicious 70s/low 80s for three days. Yo-yo weather seems to be the norm these days. At least we have AC for the tough ones.
Looks like paradise – the crocosmia is brilliant, I’ll have to tell the hummingbord lover in my household.
Thank you, Tom. A great, easy plant to grow. I think they prefer full sun, but my three patches grow in part shade, so there is a range they tolerate and still bloom, (though they get floppier out of the direct sun and require staking).
My yard is shady, but it might be worth trying.
Divine beauty 💕🌈🍀
Thank you, Karen! 💖
Ahh, a big sigh. Always so lovely to see your garden Eliza. Beautiful!
Thank you, Cathy. I rarely feature the whole garden, or any of the others in my yard. It’s hard to show the whole without losing definition. Just blurry dots of colour!
Do your neighbors sometimes stop by to gaze on all these bright flowers?
While this garden is in the backyard out of sight, there are gardens near the road where we do get a few lookers, either walking or slowly driving by. When the bleeding hearts are in bloom, they are quite popular.
Even though your photo is silent the red colour screams!
It surely does 🙂 Thanks, Maria!
I have a favorite dress, lipstick and a sweater in this color. I guess, I love it.
Bet it looks great on you, too. 🙂