FINE WEATHER

 Woke early Wednesday to the sound of wind flapping curtains.   So, off to the garden under blue skies where the new hollyhock surprised me.

I had remembered it would be orange when I put it in two years ago,  I found the tag the other day and it said it would be pale peach with a ruby center,

Here it is fulfilling that promise

This shot just to show how it

fills this whole corner.

Catmint, Coreopsis and Daisies

 pink Astilbe and Echinacea are up and at 'em
with purple Sage beneath

Stella d'ora Lilly doing what she does
so well in clumps at each corner

Lots of white Astilbe

Several pots of Easter Lilly
ready to pop

Goatsbeard
a perennial bush for shade

Wild strawberries all over the back plot

Joe Pye Weed in pots at top for dyeing, at the bottom a blue Hydrangia that has never bloomed and needs to be moved to a sunnier spot 

I just planted three geraniums rescued from a local supermarket and hope they're red. I'm in urgent need of red, though soon the blood red hollyhock will bloom, and the Malva with it's outrageously pink show-stopper flowers!

Everything in it's time

Meanwhile, here comes the rain again!