Wow! Everything is doing wonderfully well, Rita. Love the terrace with the plants. What is the whispy foilaged roundish plant near the top terrace in a few pics? I always loved Sweet Isabella, and Man of sorrows is a favorite too.
kay

Thanks, Kay. That is Agastache (hummingbird mint) which is just not blooming yet. Once it starts it keeps gong until frost.

Those clumps on the terraces are just bursting with blooms. I love the closeups of Sweet Isabella and Man of Sorrows. Both are stunning daylilies. I know you've been saying you have the veggie crazies. But now that I see those tomato plants decorating the front, I know at a very deep level that it's true. :)

Debra

What is the reddish one in picture #6? It is awesome!!

Debra, I had the tomato plants there along in front of the porch last year also. They must love it there as they grew like crazy last year also. I just really didn't have anywhere else, had that spot empty and stuck them there. Since it worked so well, I did it again this year and I am sure I will be putting tomatoes there again next year.

The section along around the porch is new because of this years veggie crazies. I have already started some brocoli seeds and will plant brocoli raab and letture there also.

And my veggie garden I put in near the terraces is new this spring. I would enlarge that for sure but there is no room to do so.

All this is because I tried to cut back. I used to have a nice sized veggie garden in the mid backyard but I turned that into a daylily garden. I am very pleased with the way it looks up there now but just was not able to do without more veggie areas.

Edward, we cross posted. That is BARNEY, a favorite of mine.

Rita, I got Barney this summer and it has 2 scapes coming up. I will post pictures when it blooms.

Edward

You should love it. I think it is fabulous.

RITA: Your terrace gardens are gorgeous.. The daylilies look gorgeous, there and I love that SWEET ISABELLA, its a real beauty.you just have little gardens every where and they look nice, too.LOts of little green tomatoes,I ssee. The bean pots looks good,(from that distance). do they have any beans on them yet?I am anxious to see what the yard long beans look like.Have never seen any before.I have just never seen tomatoes that grow so big they look like little trees. very nice..

jean

Thanks, Jean. The terraces are a favorite garden of mine. I guess because they are so near my back door that I want them to look extra nice as I see them all the time.

Sweet Isabella is sure a pretty daylily. At least I think so.

And yes, lots and lots of green tomatoes, I want some to get ripe already! Bean pots growing but no beans. Not even any flowers on the yard longs yet so I guess I have to have patience.

Wow Rita. You must be nearing peak with all those blooms.
Nice garden pics. What about your bed along the driveway? Is that in full bloom too?

Julia

Not quite but almost. Will be doing more garden shots in the next few days to post to show how everything is blooming. In one way it is good as it looks nice now. But, and that is the rub, there will not be bloom later in the season like there normally is. The earlier of my late bloomers have scapes already! Yikes. Too, too early for scapes on late bloomers.

Darn it! My agastache makes a huge bushy thing. It never looked like that all wispy and pretty.
kay

Kay, there all different types of Agastache. Maybe you have a different kind from mine. I get all my Agastaches from High Country Gardens. They are fussy plants and you do need the right location for them. But the hummingbirds love them and the flowers are so pretty. Plus they just keep on blooming till frost.

There you go, taunting me with a beautiful photo of Sweet Isabella. It looks great with the photo of Man of Sorrows.

You've put so much work into all those beds, and it's really paying off. So how many tomato plants do you have?

I think Sweet Isabella is so pretty! And it looks so nice this year.

I have to fess up about how many tomato plants I bought this year? On no. I got totally carried away with myself. You will be shocked but it is 50 plants. One died before anything could come of it and I yanked it out. That leaves the rest still here :-)) I have them on pots, in back of daylily beds, in newly created gardenbeds and old beds where I also had them last year. I went tomato bonkers.

And I am not sure if you are referring to the daylily gardens or the tomato beds when you said I put in the work and it shows. But thank you either way.

GOODNESS RITA: YOu plan to eat a lot of tomatoes, dont you.I like tomatoe sandwiches,(more tomatoe then bread).Your plants are very pretty and green. very healthy looking plants (or little trees) :)

jean

Your hard work really paid off. Nice job Rita

Very nice! Terraces look great, with the blooming daylilies and buds on them. I too noticed and loved daylily in picture no.6, and it's Barney, so pretty! Love Sweet Isabella and Man of Sorrows too.
Tomatoes by the porch look like bushes! How convenient you won't have to go far :) I have a question though. Somebody told me not to plant tomatoes in the same spot, so every year I try to find diff. spots for my (usually) 2 tomato plants, and it's hard. So it must not be true judging by your experience?

Stunning all of your daylilies are putting on a great show and your veggie garden is coming along very nicely, won't be long before you'll be enjoying those tomatoes.
Linda

I always enjoy the tours through your yard...it feels like I'm right there. I get a kick out of how you garden because you are so much like me. You utilize every space.
I used to grow lots of veggies here too, mostly in big planters on the deck. But my dear dad who is 89 is still gardening so I get fresh veggies from him. It is sad this year though because he lost all his tomato plants when he couldn't get over there to water them (he lives with my brother now) and the garden is at his old place. All the other plants survived the drought but the tomatoes didn't make it. I get my green thumb and my love of gardening from him. Everytime I see a tomato plant I think of all the years Dad kept us full of yummy veggies. I love your daylilies too....all very pretty.

Celeste

Thank you everyone.

Nat, I had a veggie garden here upstairs for at least 16 years and always planted the tomatoes in the same spot. I don't see any reason not too. Most of us hardly have the room to plant them in a different spot each year.

Jean, many of the tomato plants are cherry or grape types sop it is not as much as you might think.

Linda, I see two of the baby Sungold Tomatoes getting ripe so I can't wait.

Celeste, that is a real shame about your dads tomato plants. I know my mom gardened well into her old age and like me, she loved tomatoes.