Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, June 2007

And a wonderful BLOOM DAY it is! All of my plants are so happy right now. That may be short lived, as it is becoming very warm very quickly. I am looking forward to visiting other blogs & see what they have in bloom. You can come on this Bloom Day garden tour with me by visiting: Carol @ MayDreamsGardens -> http://www.maydreamsgardens.blogspot.com/

My grandma's "shamrocks" (oxalis)

I enjoy the simple beauty of this Rock Rose's bloom

This butterfly weed must love where it's planted! It set seed before I could harvest them.

I wonder if I'll have baby butterfly weeds everywhere?? See the trumpet vine behind the butterfly weed? That is one plant I wouldn't replant. It is so invasive that I can hardly keep up with it.

This is my newly acquired Esmerelda plant. Everything I buy these days

is usually good for attracting either birds, butterflies, bees or hummingbirds.

I am told that Esmerelda means "Hope" in Spanish.

Lily of the Nile with the palest blue blooms. Behind it is a new Wax Myrtle.

Wheelbarrow full of Lantana. Hands down, this plant makes the neighborhood
butterflies the happiest of all the plants in my garden!

Bees love this!

My old dependable coneflower. I don't know why, but this is one of

my favorite flowers. Maybe it's because a dear gardening friend passed

it along to me when I was a new gardener?

The ever happy coreopsis...

I called this the happiest plant in my garden on my old blog.

It still is, but I can tell that the heat is taking it's toll.