It's starting to feel like summer here in my central Ohio, zone 6b garden. The weather has been fairly mild, enough so that I've been able to comfortably turn the AC off for several days at a time, but that's about to change as we're set to have a 9-day stretch of 90+ temps starting tomorrow with no rain in sight. I'm not looking forward to it.
But for now the garden is doing great, let's take a look.
The 'Alaska' Shasta daisies are the stars of the front border right now. And they look fantastic with these salvia farinacea.
I'm thrilled I was able to overwinter this L.A. Dreaming hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Lindsey Ann’) in the garage. Although I don't love this year's color as much as I did the deep blue last year.
I have four seed dahlias grown from seed last year that came back despite overwintering in the ground. I'm glad they did because they've been blooming for weeks and this bee also seems pleased.
These bellflowers are one of the earlier flowers I ever planted and they just keep going.
This is also my second year of having milkweed in my garden and my first year seeing it bloom. This common milkweed is pretty and has an interesting scent. Shown with foxglove beardtongue (penstemon digitalis).
This is my largest lavender patch. It's wild and unruly, but I love it and so do the bees.
I really love volunteer flowers, especially when they're as pretty as these snapdragons.
These dianthus are also volunteers that returned in this pot.
That's it for this month in my garden, but visit May Dreams Gardens to see what is blooming elsewhere.
