Garden

[Lilysmom]

It is a hazy morning...colour is emerging slowly in this cool wet early summer.  Looks like it will be a very good year for hydrangeas.  Lots of buds waiting for today's sunshine.

Astilbe and succulents to the left.

Ivory Silks just about done for the season

View of big evergreen bank from the swing.

Evergreen bank continued.

Evergreen bank, another perspective.

Blue spruce

Hydrangea to the left of the stairs,Satomi dogwood, hydrangea and fathergilla to the right

Weeping mulberryto the right, hostas and Bloodgood red maple to the left

Hosta, astilbe and wild ferns

Gold mop cypress

Hostas, ligularia, hydrangea, juniper to the right, Japanese forest grass on left

Looking up at the stone deck

Stone deck overlooking lake

Japanese forest grass,  Alberta spruce, juniper

Stairs to bank garden toward the lake

Stairs

Snakeroot, astilbe, hydrangea behind stone deck 

Lilies of the valley, day lilies

Shady section of rock garden, ferns, hostas, corkscrew grass, huchera, Brunnera, painted Japanese fern, variegated Brunnera, astilbe

Japanese forest grass, peegee hydrangea

Blue spruce globe, euonymous, hosta

Nuthatch in birch trees

The name of the orange flower escapes me...anyone?

Butter cream daisies, bottlebrush grass, spent Allium

Poor quality photo taken through screen of upper deck overlooking the gardens.  Black butterfly with white stripe on Ivory Silks.  Known as the Admiral butterfly.

Fillipendula surrounded by pulmonaria

[abbalulu]

@Lilysmom Thank you for the beautiful garden pictures. It all looks so peaceful and serene-a place to wander or to sit and ponder. I love your use of the statues throughout. It reminds me of a local Japanese garden that we love to visit. You have a great talent! I noticed that your house is a creamy soft yellow color which is the same as ours.

[Sadiesadie]

@Lilysmom: Oh My Goodness, that's beautiful. Where do you live?

I live in the desert and even though I love it and appreciate our desert vegetation and colors, this blows me away. 

Absolutely gorgeous. Sigh

[LizzieInSRQ]

Ab-so-lut-ley stunning landscapes!

[JustJazzmom]

Calm and serene! Great pics @Lilysmom!

[Lilysmom]

@abbalulu, the colour of my siding is called vintage cream.  I love the soft buttery yellow.  Reminds me of summer in the deep winter!  LM

[Lilysmom]

@Sadiesadie, I live in Nova Scotia on Canada's east coast.  We have a climate very similar to Maine.  My brother lives in the interior of British Columbia.  He gets very desert like conditions so I kind of get what you mean.  Far less precipitation than here in the coast.  LM

[Lilysmom]

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@JustJazzmom wrote:

Calm and serene! Great pics @Lilysmom!

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@JustJazzmom, do you know what that orange flower is?  Reminds me of marigolds but taller.  LM

[JustJazzmom]

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@Lilysmom wrote:

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@JustJazzmom wrote:

Calm and serene! Great pics @Lilysmom!

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@JustJazzmom, do you know what that orange flower is?  Reminds me of marigolds but taller.  LM

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It's a member of the daisy family so I am guessing Coreopsis? It could be some sort of daisy too but not Gerbera as yours are too tall. Maybe not Coreopsis as those get about 18" - 2' max.

[Gerdane]

Hi Lilysmom! Your garden is absolutely beautiful!  Thank you for sharing it with us.  The orange flower looks like coreopsis to me.