Late August......

 Late summer days are nice and hot....mornings cool....hint of fall. But , shhhhhh, don't tell anyone. Don't want people getting frantic. Thanksgiving ( Canadian, of course), just around the corner, Halloween, pumpkin pies, Remembrance day, and then Chrissstttmmmaaas.....ssssh. Don't tell anyone.  But the Hibiscus are blooming, like they always do at the end of summer. And this year, are completely fabulouss. If they were fashion models , I think they would strut down the runway...

                Pale Pink Hibiscus.....huge, moon faces peering out from railings.

                    Pink Hibiscus. Falling everywhere. Falling over, into the doorway.

 Peace roses ( at least, I think they are Peace Roses), blooming later than usual. Huge. Fragrant.

And last of the sweet peas, growing pea pods as we speak, even though this group  is picked every day. Coming to an end. Never long enough....... but it is almost fall ( ssshhhhhh, we won't tell anyone).

Hot days

 Peace roses on one of the hottest days. This hot spell has made them bloom again, and again.

They  are huge this year...big as dinner plates, some of them.....

 Back porch in early morning sun. Have had to pull lots of scraggly vines from some of the pots.  The begonias are beautiful, the fuschias are great, but messy. Next year, just begonias........

 Japanese Anenome. I have one plant, that never seems to spread, even though it's supposed to be invasive. Just stands straight up and blooms.

And then there's Cordelia. Her favourite thing to do on these hot days is to sleep under the bench and drink out of the pitcher. She has the right idea....

In the heat of the day.....

 ......there be skads of sweet peas looking out on this world.

And Begonias looking in through the glass door, wanting air conditioning........

Pastel Sunset

Couldn't resist the sunset tonight. Dashed outside....its already fading by now, but was able to catch the painted clouds. Wonderful hot day. Worthy of a sunset like this. It's as if raspberry sherbert was let loose, somehow.........

Blooming Stuff...

 Blooms from today......................Coral Pink Roses...............tons of them....

 Pots..............stuffed with flowers...................overstuffed....

                                          Stuffed some more........................

                                                          Sweet Peas. My favourite.

                                      Porch. Creeping Jenny. Creeping everywhere.............

                                           Nasturtums. Wildly falling every which way.

             Pathways of Creeping Jenny, which has stayed blooming longer than usual.

 Begonias stuffed into pots........

                                           Fuschias trickling out of pots.

                                       Plant stand with Begonias, fuschias, sweet peas.

                    Imogene is the purple leaf plant behind the  smaller pot. Loves shade.

 And  still more begonias stuffed like stuffing into pots...

                                                 And Sweat Peas. again. and again....

                                                          Marshmallow Fuschia.

                                                         Looking down from porch.

                       And again.....sweet peas. This time growing with the Curry Plants.

 Hanging baskets in the greenhouse.

                                                          Rhodochiton .....looking up.

                                  Blue and more blue. Love this basket stuffer.

Sweet Peas in a Mass

              Sweet Peas from today. A mass of them. The scent is heady, strong, sweet.....

 I grow them in the front and back yards all in a mass. These are Knee Hi Sweet Peas, because they stay short and in a mass, instead of growing up on vines.  They like sun, lots of it, and a protected spot, and lots of water to keep them happy but not waterlogged.

 It looks like a wild mess, but that's the best part. You can also grow them in nice big  containers, if you wish, for something tidier. I like the mess of flowers. When people walk by, they always comment on the scent.

Some of the sweet peas in the grouping are the Vine Sweet Peas, adn I stuff them into the ground to grow up on rose bushes, or sunflowers.

Others I put into hanging baskets, and they grow up on the chains. But I love the mass of sweet peas in the ground.  They tend to be stronger and able to produce more blooms. Make sure you pick them daily, to encourage more flowers.

In the Pink, yellow and Blue....

            Sweet Peas and Lavender....lots and lots of lavender, drying on the piano today

                                  More sweet peas....they are finaly starting to bloom.

 This is where Grey Cat sleeps during the day. Underneath the cranesbill by the lavender.

 Dragon's blood.............

 And more sweet peas...........

 And more dragon's blood.............

 Purple lilies. Love this colour. Starting to bloom at last. They are a little late. but here.

 Verbascum. One of the tallest plants in the garden. Considered to be a weed to some. I know them as Perennial  Sunflowers.

Blue Sky and yellow Verbascum.......

WILD SUNSET JULY 18 2012

 Incredible sky tonight. Didn't last long. Ran up to the hill to get a few shots. Must be from all the smoke coming in from Siberia . Makes the sky look as if it has been painted with  the latest funky colours.

                                    Mountain range in pink...............washed in cotton candy.

                                                              Beautiful first look.

                                Wider angle. Clouds just swathed with shimmering colour.

                         Even wider angle....as far as the eye can see, and even farther.........
                                 Worth the toddle up the hill. Worth waiting for.....