The irises are amazing this year. The stalks are long and the blooms...well, as you can see, the blooms are lovely.
Viburnum plicatum plicatum. My favorite shrub to hate. This year, definitely a favorite year. The thing looked like we'd had a heavy snow fall. Some years, there're about three blooms total. Epic fail. lol. Years like this make me want to plant another one.
Up close view of the funky flowers on the viburnum. Cool, huh?
My baby lilac. My goal is to have this plant grow tall enough that I can smell lilac blooms through the kitchen window. At the moment, though, it's only about three feet tall. And the flowers are so heavy that they droop. Poor little guy!
Up close view of the droopy flowers. This cultivar is double-flowered which is why they're so heavy, I guess. They're also very fragrant. I wasn't sure they would be as fragrance seems to be the first characteristic to disappear when breeders start messing with flower structure.
South gate to the backyard lined with soapwort. Kinda cool, I think. Especially since I only planted 5 small soapwort plants originally. They are the epitome of the word 'self-seeding'. At the moment, it works for me. If they start coming up everywhere, I might not be so sangfroid about it.
Close up of the soapwort blossoms. Each one is less than a half inch across, but what they lack in size, they make up for in number!
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