The June garden is my favorite, I think. Everything looks the very best. The bugs haven’t started to really come out quite yet, and things don’t look terribly overgrown. It’s just simply my favorite time of year in the garden.

I use lots of containers on our patio to bring color up close to our house. Our west side garden is my full sun, cottage garden. Over the years, it’s become a combination of annuals and perennials. Our garden path in the backyard is primarily a sun garden as well and a combination of annuals and perennials. I’m dreaming up how I want to landscape the east side of our house, that will be primarily a shade garden, now that all of the bushes I hated over there have been removed and we finished installing an egress window in the basement. Lots of dreaming and sketching, and of course finding inspiration from other fellow gardeners. 🙂

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I forgot May pictures of the garden path and the rest of the backyard….but June is looking pretty…

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I forgot a May picture of my front container, too.

I’m still working on finishing up mulching, and bracing for the onslaught of “what’s wrong with this plant?” That comes in July and August every year. But for now, I’m enjoying all of the color!