Wow! Hot... Hot and dry. Can't remember the last time we had real rain - the kind that comes down, cool and soft, for hours and hours until every blade and leaf and bloom is fully saturated and dripping...

Peru Lily in 'parrot colors' of red and green and yellow

Asters are making the bees very happy now

Hydrangea - Pretty in Pink

"A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature."

Jeff Cox, American garden writer

Deep red daylily

a common daylily found all over Georgia

Lady in Red Lacecap hydrangea


"In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth."

(John Milton, English poet (born 12/9/1608)

Gardenia - White Gem - wonderful fragrance!

...Thick as the humming bees, that hunt the golden dew; In summer's heat on tops of lilies feed, And creep within their bells, to suck the balmy seed... (from Aeneid)

Virgil, Roman poet

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