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Above (from left to right): hostas, wild strawberry and lysimachia, separated by the brick path we laid last fall, then catmint and wormwood, sedum peeking up from the back.
Above (front to back): 'Little Henry' sweetspire, honeysuckle bush? (right front side), 'sweet kate' spiderwort/white carnation/'Sunny Border Blue' Speedwells, autumn joy sedum, salvia/catmint/wormwood, one towering giant allium in the back.
Above: giant allium
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There are some little views from around inside my house that make me especially happy.
Everything in the photo above was less than $1.
Above: Chair from the Furniture Lounge. Picture frames from Target, on clearance for about $1-3 each. Prints from a children's book about Alaska for less than $1 at a yard sale. Racoon pillow from someone's garage sale for 25 cents.
Above: Wall art mural by my mother, from robynsgate.blogspot.com. White-frames prints from a vintage children's book of nursery rhymes for 25 cents. Frames from Target on clearance for $1-3 each. The art in the center frame is a drawing by my mother in the 1970s.
Above: Fabulous vintage baby clothes for 25 cents each!
It feels like just a couple days ago that our garden was bare and more mulch than green and now it's bursting with late spring/early summer color. Just in less than 3 months, our garden has exploded! And there is so much more to come.
Some flowers have already came and went, and won't bloom again until next year. Tall purple tulips that I planted last fall, what I think might be a non-fruit-bearing quince bush, and a purple clematis vine.
Right now, the peonies are in bloom. I've got vases of red and pink all throughout the house. The heuchera (coral bells) are huge and happy, some in bloom, some not, the 'Sweet Kate' spiderwort just started blooming, the salvia and catmint are big and flowering purple huge and covered in bees already, the yarrow is big and just getting color, and the giant purple allium bulb is THIS CLOSE to bursting open.
We still have some monarda/bee balm, sedum, hydrangea, speedwells, euphorbia, russian sage, sea lavender, smaller alliums, coreopsis, lavender, coneflower, vervain, cobald, milkweed, yellow and green wizard black eyed susans, more salvia, honeysuckle, day lilies, and baby's breath to look forward to.