Lena’s Garden in Summer

Beauty in the hot time of the year

Today we ’re revisiting Lena White ’s North Carolina garden .

I submitted photos of my spring favorites(Spring in Lena ’s Garden),and summer has take lots of heat to North Carolina as well as many other part of the country . Even so , there ’s been oodles of early sunrise gardening and lots of color and joy , for which I am most grateful .

My ‘ turtle ’ undertaking among the snapdragons(Antirrhinummajus , annual ) and salvias(Salviahybrids ) . He is constitute with succulents .

My shed with fence in beds

‘ White New Dawn ’ rose(Rosa‘White New Dawn ’ , Zones 5–10 ) on thearbor

Another view of the mandrel

Raised bedfor veg

Daylily(Hemerocallishybrid , Zones 4–9 ) and phlox(Phloxpaniculata , Zones 4–8 ) . day lily are brilliant , and since each flower only survive one day , they deserve to be visualize and celebrate .

Another persuasion of the shed

This birdbath was made with an upside - down terra - cotta batch , an old tabular array ramification , and a porcelain bowl .

Stargazer lily(Lilium‘Stargazer ’ , Zones 4–9 ) has an amazing mellifluous - smack fragrance .

A beautiful quite a little of caladiums(Caladium , geographical zone 9–11 or as a legal tender incandescent lamp ) , each with unlike patterns and colors . A few coleus(Solenostemonscutellarioides , Zones 10–11 or as an annual ) add to the variety of color .

Just one day ’s harvest home from the raised vegetable beds .

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