Happy June! I hope you all had a good long weekend!

Gardening is one of my favorite things to do in the summer. I spend so much time poking around the gardens outside, seeing what’s growing, admiring how things grow together and interplay. Every summer, I try to give you a little peak at how my gardens are growing this year. So here’s my first installment of the Lane family garden 2022. There’s still work to do, but you don’t fully appreciate the work and growth without the ’before’ pictures.

The west side garden. This bed gets full sun. I love zinnias as fillers of this garden in between the peonies and other annuals. I’ve added a few more perennials this year. The lime green stonecrop in the front of the beds is an annual, and I planted white supertunias in between each one this year. The clematis on the trellis is in its second or third year, and looks super full and gorgeous.

I added in five of the ornamental onions in the back of this picture above. Annual salvia is the purple flower creeping up in the photo. And a cone flower and brown eyed susans were both added as perennials for this garden this year.

This west side bed never looks like much until mid-way through the season when it’s bursting with color.

In the backyard, I loved having supertunias in this year last year with gladiolus…

The ‘mini’ oakleaf hydrangea, though, are starting to take over!

The pots lining our deck are some of my most favorite things to plant each year.

The planters that Nathan built to hold the bistro lights are filled with angelonia and moss roses this year:

And the garden path…about half of the plants here are perennials and the other half are annuals…

Every year, I plant a lantana here, and every year at the end of the season when it’s massive, I say I wish I had taken a picture of it when it was small. So here’s the picture of it when it’s small!

I have one hanging basket in our yard…

And around front, a few more potted plants, and another garden bed that I keep more traditional…

I always fret about posting a picture on here that isn’t perfect. But at the end of the season, I regret not sharing with you the progress! It’s amazing how much everything changes through the season. And even though it doesn’t all look perfect at the exact same time, there’s beauty in it.

I’m taking off with my little family for a long weekend away, so I won’t be back until next Tuesday!