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Eliza Waters 
Such an exquisite garden. I’m quite envious of all that beauty.
Thank you, Monika. Overall, it’s been a good garden year. 👏🏼
What a glorious display. Those tomatoes look delectable.
(makes me wish I still had a balcony garden full of herbs and vegetables, but the weather in the last 18months made sustaining a balcony garden prohibitive. All my crops failed in the Spring of 2024 & 2025). Part of it is the wild windy weather).
Thank you, Vicki. Extremes in the weather can be challenging for a gardener. 😣
Thank you so much for sharing this! It makes me so happy to see. Your garden is beautiful. I love gardens that have different plants in season throughout the spring/summer/fall. It looks like you planned it that way.
Thank you, Maria. I aim to have something in bloom from March through October. Gotta keep fresh flowers on the table always (and some veggie in season for dinner)! 👍🏼 🌸
I see that in your photos. I love updates from your garden.
Thank you, Maria. I’m pretty remiss in posting about the garden and its process. I don’t often think of it!
Your garden is in full, glorious bloom, Eliza! Thanks for the tour.
Thank you, Audrey! 🙂
How do you ‘create’ all that delightful color Eliza, it goes on forever. But I’ve never seen those great big plump green bunch of flowers before 🤣❤️🙏
🙂 Aside from flowers, I grow peas, green beans, cucumbers, zucchini, carrots, onion, garlic, herbs, potatoes and tomatoes. Nothing like fresh veggies straight from the garden. 👍🏼
Self sufficient indeed kind lady. And they taste soooo different. Good on you 🤗❤️🙏
Wonderful! Your Echinaceas are so lovely, and the Cleome are huge! Is no.7 a verbascum? I haven’t seen any swallowtails this year. Is it a good year for butterflies in your garden? Happy summer Eliza!
Thank you, Cathy! #7 is Angelonia. I only bought one, a special hybrid I fell for, and couldn’t resist. While there have been butterflies, I would say the numbers are still below what ‘used to be’ normal. If I were to guess, I think a combination of climate change and invasive plants displacing host plants is to blame.
A fabulous garden Eliza. I love the way you are surrounded by trees. Your echinaceas are doing well, I love the shot with the swallowtail butterfly.
Thank you, Liz. We call those surrounding trees ‘the green wall’ … the ultimate privacy fence. 😀
You have a gorgeous garden Eliza
Merci, Sheree!
A delightful garden. Wonderful way to spend summer time.
Thank you, Rupali. While I have others, this is where I spend most of my time.
So lovely Eliza 💐🙏💖
Thank you, Val! 🙏🏼
A nice full garden.
Thank you, it gets a bit more packed the farther in you go. 😉
What a wonderful garden! Everything is so abundant. I love the masses of flowers, especially the cleome.
Thank you, Julie! A pollinator’s heaven and my delight. 🐝 🌸 💚
Perfectly planted Eliza all up against each other saving more soil and less weeds. Right there you have created a pollinators pathway thank you very much we all need to fight evil forces in our own way.
Thank you, Eunice. My peaceable kingdom!
Amen a place we all need to have even if it 30 pots of beauties on a porch. ❤
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The expression ‘high summer’ came to mind while looking at your photos. If I were you, I’d be on a natural high, looking at all that beauty.
Thank you, Linda. My favorite place to be at my favorite time of year. 🙂
I love your garden! The coneflowers are my favorite.
Thank you, Kymber!
Magnificent! It looks like Monet’s garden! ✨👌✨
Thank you!
You’re welcome 😊
You have such a beautiful garden (Suzanne)
Merci, Suzanne! 🙏🏼
Such an impressive garden, Eliza. Thanks for letting us enjoy the results of your hard work through your beautiful photos. 👏
Thank you, Pepper, a pleasure to share. 💕
Such a bright and cheerful, and peaceful garden. It must take a lot of work and you are rewarded with a great place for meandering. Love the butterfly in #8. 🦋
Thank you, Barbara! It is my happy place, esp. with pollinators as company. 🙂 🌸
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Thank you, Susan!
What a wonderful garden you have, Eliza. Beauty! I bet it is your happy place…
Thanks, Dale. Definitely it is, my heart is at rest here. 💕
I can well understand it.
Such a wonderful place for the pollinators Eliza, absolutely stunning! 🧡 xxx
Thank you, Xenia! My favorite place to be in summer. 🙂
Beautiful as always, Eliza. It must be wonderful to just wander your property.
Thanks much, I DO love where I live!
What a sumptuous summer garden and a lovely collection of photos.
Thank you, Carol!
Beautiful, Eliza! Everything looks healthy and well-tended. I wish I could say the same of mine.
Thank you, Kris. The biggest advantage is the drip hoses I put in every spring. They tide us over during the dry spells.
What a visual treat, a beautiful tour 😊
Thank you, Belinda!
Wowsah, Eliza! What a visual feast. Noticed the black-eyed Susans. Mine have pretty much stopped blooming. The foliage still looks good. Have had those plants forever and a day. Should I get replacements?
Thanks, Laurie. Would you know if they are the July-blooming, fuzzy-leaved ones or the ones with big heart-shaped leaves that bloom in August? The former thrive in disturbed, somewhat poor soil, tending to be self-sowing annuals. The latter are more perennial, spreading laterally. Both require full sun. I suggest digging them up, refreshing the soil with leaf mold or hummus/compost, adding a dash of lime to bring the pH to neutral, then replanting. That might do the trick.
Mine are the August bloomers. I will follow your advice next spring. Many thanks!
A colourful and abundant summer garden, Eliza. Thanks for taking us through. 🌸
Thanks for coming along, Flavia! 🙂
I love your garden, Eliza. Thank you for sharing these photos.
Thank you, Alys. ‘Behind the scenes’ of my vases. 😉
Nice!
What a stunning place to ‘meander’! Well done on the garden, Eliza.
Thank you, Tina! 🙂
So much variety and so much color…wonderful places to enjoy.
Thank you, Alice!
I think that could justifiably be called a ‘riot of colour’. 😀
Kind of makes up for all those dull months of winter, eh? 😉
So much beauty! Thanks for sharing. My compliments to the gardener. 🙂
🙂 🙏🏼 Thank you, Rebecca!
Oh my heavens Eliza! Your garden is positively gorgeous. I really enjoyed every photo, the close-ups and the landscape, at the height of the summer in your backyard paradise. Having the woods as background really makes the vista such a dreamy place. I smiled at the cheerful black-eyed Susans, loved the stately coneflowers. The design is enchanting with meandering and billowing plants of many heights and colors, so much fullness. And your tomato photo looks like a postcard, so lovely. Truly a work of art and much appreciated.
Thank you very much, Jet!
what am I doing wrong .. I can’t access all the pictures!!!! wah!!!
Not sure… have you tried going to elizawaters.com instead of the WP Reader?
A tiger swallowtail was meandering through along with you. What a beautifully planned garden! And lovely images of it.
Thank you, Tom. The swallowtail was a nice surprise, perfect timing. 🙂
Beautiful, your garden is such a show at this time of year, it really explodes into a peak of color and form!
Thank you, Frank. It really does. For a week to 10 days, it is maxed out all at once. 🙂 btw, I pulled up your site to show my BIL your garden, particularly the one by the road, to show him what he could do along his. It was a fun look back. 🙂