Lots of Color

Summer is speeding along.  It's the middle of July already!  The weeds in the garden are finally semi under control.  The flower beds....not so much.  But I've got pictures of them anyway, if nothing else, to shame me into cleaning them up!

The clematis finally decided to join the party and bloom this year.

The Invincibelle hydrangea has just about taken over this end of the flower bed.

It's kind of hard to see but I think the Diamond Frost Euphorbia is my favorite new filler for pots!

The Impatiens really like it in this strawberry pot.

The new patio pots are filling in.

The take over of the Purple Cone Flowers is just about complete!

While their orange cousins seem to be fighting the weeds trying to take over this flower bed.

This is were I put all the extra plants I had this year.  As you can tell, I still have no mulch!

I do have to whine about one little thing.  I usually buy a mixture of tomatoes for the garden.  This year, I decided to just buy one variety of tomato.  I chose the Celebrity variety because it always does well in our garden.  I bought 12 plants.  Look closely at the picture below.

The plant marker clearly says Celebrity and shows round tomatoes, but those are Roma tomatoes.  All 12 plants are Roma tomatoes!  Looks like I'll be making lots of juice this year.