Your gardens are beautiful; I especially love the balsam!

Nice! You're lucky, I don't see any damage caused by japanese beetles. :)

Thanks! I've hardly had any Japanese beetles this year. I only collected about 2 dozen. Although, some of the canna leaves have been chewed up by them. Each year seems to be different.

Beautiful! What are the purple flowers in the last picture?

Thanks everyone. The purple flowers are balsam. Everything, except crocosmia and elephant ear were WS this year. The garden has three "arms" and each arm has different WS plants, Jewels of Opar, Blackberry Lily, Tithonia, Agastache, African Daisies, Amaranth, Stock, Shrimp plant, different Celosia and others I can't remember.

The Tithonia in the picture really attracts the butterflies!