Flowers and flower gardens.

Saved these beautiful peonies from an old farm house being torn down by my dad’s old neighborhood years ago. Sweet Mrs. Knautz had the most beautiful peonies in her yard, and now they live in memory of her!!

Peonies in the backyard. 

That’s some good stuff IQ, and BMR! IQ wins Pic of the Day so far! 😀

I’m loving all the rain and so are the flowers!!! My Siberian irises are full bloom!

Flowering two years in a row?

 

Most of what appears to be weeds in part of the vegetable garden is bee balm. I have thousands of plants all throughout the yard that I will either dig up or pull. They spread like wildfire. I’m glad to have extra plants here and kind of move them into different places. You know that those are some of my favorite. Here all the white really turned into pink and purple/white. It attracts many great things bees, hummingbird moths, hummingbirds, and all kinds of butterflies. Within the next couple weeks before another surgery while I will not be able to move around much I want to get a lot of these maybe 1000 or so put into some good homes. 

Roses have started to pop!

1st Poppy to Pop.

Wifes flowers are really going strong this year. I love the jumbo irises. 

My Peonies are just ready to open.
Edit: opened more the next day. 

Flowers coming along nicely.  Mixed some flowers in with tomatoes and peppers. 

Irises are in full bloom. I’m sooo glad I planted a perennial garden the sweet Williams and perennial blue flax are so pretty!

Zmaniac, you could try some cotton balls soaked with ammonia, and just place on top of the dirt. I had to evict a skunk humanely from under a front stoop of an apartment complex, soaked a rag & stuffed it down the hole.  I guess that smelled worse than him/her they left!

Iris are starting.