Flower Power.

7-3-25 VERMONT: The flowers are coming thick and fast. Something new every day, but I am not overwhelmed, I am steadfastly reporting it all. 

We had dinner at Cloudland with cousin John and at Casa Brava with Shari and Dave.

We got rain today 0.25 inches in three dumps with sunshine in between.

Lily and Danna arrive tonight with guests.

I planted with help from Hiliary and Matt, two bee balm, Monarda didy ‘Grape Gumball’, three speedwell, Veronica spicata ‘Blue Skywalker’, and two lobelia, Lobelia Siphilitica ‘Great Blue’. They all went on the pond bank.

New blooms: summer sweet, catalpa, daylily, delphinium, daisy, filipendula, mallow, astilbe, ox eye, hosta. 

Maltese Cross is a little gem of bright red.

Daylilies start at the beginning of July and finish at the end of the month.

Ox Eye has aphids on the stem. I'm waiting for Ladybugs to come and eat them.

Filipendula are growing in two beds, these are the first to open. They may be too invasive.

Daisies on the edge of the lower pond. These are the ones you buy, not the wild ones that have been open for a while.

The catalpa tree with white flowers.