Wendy, Your flowers look so pretty! I went on a spree the other day too and posted a long thread on here. It's just hard to put the camera away when everything is blooming good and looking so pretty. Your petunias look great. Seems like mine look good and then slowly start dying back. I've just about decided petunias aren't for me! BTW...could your mystery plant be a butterfly bush? April

Wow, your flowers are gorgeous! I see you are in zone 6 NJ, same as me. We have had this horrible withering heat for the past few days, most of my perennials and roses are sulking, yours look great, how do you do it? Also, the evil evil deer have been eating a lot of my roses (always happens when its dry), so that doesn't help either. And it looks like you have no JBs (they completely destroy all my Abe Darby flowers). I love your Portmerion - that's one I have been thinking of trying. Anyway, congratulations on keeping everything looking so beautiful!

Hi Wendy,

I think your mystery perennial is Purple Loosestrife "Morden Pink" I love mine and so do the bees, it's not invasive as some of the other loosestrifes are. I love your WS2000.

Eric

Beautiful flowers.lOve the Petunias and your roses are gorgeous.Very healthy looking.Could that mystery plant be leatris.I use to have some in my front yard,but got rid of them and put roses in.Those hanging baskets are gorgeous..

Jean

Thank you all so much. :)

April, it's definitely not a butterfly bush. I've got 2 of those, and they are a lot "woodier" than the mystery plant.

Frances, I water all my potted plants 2-3 times a day in this heat, and fertilize lightly at least once a week. I'm having a field day with the Japanese Beetles this year, believe me. When I make my rounds I always have a soapy dish in tow AND a spray bottle. Sorry to hear you're fighting with the deer. They ARE evil, as are rabbits.

Eric and Jean thanks so much for the possible IDs on my mystery plant. I'll look into it, especially since I'm planning on adding more - I like it a whole lot.

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Wendy

Oh-oooh. BINGO, Eric, it IS Purple Loosestrife "Morden Pink". When I did a search, all the sites that came up told me that it was more or less an invasive waterway weed. Great! So I guess there's no point of trying to find another one somewhere, lol. I do love that plant though. It hasn't been invasive in my yard at all. I've had it for at least 6 years, and it's just stunning. Perhaps I'll ask my MIL to show me how she managed to bring me a clump. Perhaps I can divide it somehow and plant it in the other location where I wanted to put some more of it.

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Wendy

Wendy, your Abe Darby is wonderful and whatever the structure near it is, I'd like to see that. I love your perennials even though you Northern folks can grow delphs and I can't! Poermeirion looks beautiful, lovely photos.

Carla

Thank you very much, Carla. There really is no "structure" behind Abe. There's our neighbor's fence (which is honestly falling apart), and I placed 3 plastic arbors in that bed, nothing special. 2 of the arbors are 7'X 2' (rounded on the top), and the middle one is a little trellis thingy, which I squeezed in between. I'll try and take a picture of the whole thingy.

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Wendy

What it looked like today is absolutely wonderful. Thank you for the tour of your beautiful garden paradise.