"WOW' is right! What a wonderful collection of plants and flowers and all of them so bushy and healthy. Gives us all inspiration to try them. Thank you!!!! I scrolled through more than once and enjoyed seeing all your photos of things in bloom very much.

BTW, it's no big deal, but you can turn the photos upright by clicking the 'edit' feature under the photo on photobucket and then look for 'rotate', or something like that.

You must have scads of hummingbirds, butterflies and bees flocking to your garden!

Oops, here's the missing photo of the perfume balls. Not sure what happened there.

On the edit in photobucket, suggestion, I tried fixing them there, but it errored out, said try later. Still weird because they had already been rotated before I uploaded them.

The Gaillardia are in two different 'no mow' zones, one in the back, one in the front. They are also known to the DH as the 'chigger zones' but it's a small price considering how fun it is to have them and watch all the pollinators.

What I don't have a lot of this year are hummers, not sure why but no one else seems to have a lot either. Hopefully we'll be ready for fall migration.