Wordless Wednesday: Before the current heat wave it was still springtime...

Paeonia tenuifolia. 

Unknown Syringa. 

Iberis sermpervirens. 

Clematis montana var. rubens superba.

Vaccinium ovatum.

Unknown Iris.

Dicentra.

Dutch Iris. 

Clematis 'Josephine'.

The confused Christmas Cactus. 

Rosa 'Golden Showers'.

Wordless Wednesday: Sunny Times in the Back Garden

Impatiens tinctoria with Fuchsia 'Autumnale'.

Mona the Cat under her hammock shade canopy. 

Tradescantia pallida 'Purpurea'. Yes, we can grow it in the ground. 

Adiantum peruvianum. 

Some of my pole apples (Malus). 

Begonia boliviensis.

Clematis heracleifolia. 

Acquired as Graptopetalum paraguayense. 

Coleus and Begonia in planters. I grew the Begonia plants from seed I bought last fall on sale. 

Wordless Wednesday: My Garden Mythology as Seen by Examining My Roots (Home, on the Sandy River, and in the Gorge)

Achillea 'Moonshine'. 

Sicilian Honey Garlic, (Allium siculum aka Nectaroscordum).

Lamb's Ears (Stachys byzantina) and an Armeria.  

Dutch Iris, Iris x hollandica.

Miniature Climbing Rose, (Rosa 'Clove Love and Kisses'). 

Columbine, (Aquilegia 'McKana's Giant'.) 

Clematis 'Mrs. N. Thompson'. 

Growing up beside streams and rivers in the PNW this is how I learned to arrange rocks. Funny I still do this in my garden. (Note the fly fishing going on in the background. Fish are to my family as plants are to me.)

Great landscaping at the Bonneville Fish Hatchery in the Columbia River Gorge. (I think those white flowers are Queen Anne's Lace, Daucus carota.)

Salal (Gaultheria shallon) with a delicate white bloom—such a great native plant. 

Native rose growing along the Columbia River. 

Native Sedum. 

Oregon Iris, (Iris tenax) in front of the Multnomah Falls Lodge.

Green Walls—PNW style. 

My favorite little native Mimulus still clings to the wall at Multnomah Falls. This year the population looks a bit larger.  

Had to zoom into the falls to get a closer look at the exposed roots of this tree or shrub. 

Wordless Wednesday: Blooms are arriving earlier this year.

Welsh Poppy (Meconopsis cambrica).

Rosa rugosa.

A Dianthus with a little friend visiting. 

Unknown Iris. 

Clematis 'Josephine'.

Clematis 'Lincoln Star'.

Wordless Wednesday: Kissing the Sky, the Earth, and all the Flora

Columnar Apple. 

Lunaria annua.  

Acer japonica 'Villa Taranto'. 

Anemone nemorosa 'Green Fingers'.

Clematis alpina 'Stolwijk Gold'. 

Dodecatheon poeticum.  

Unfurling fern seen during a walk.  

A canopy of Japanese maple trees. 

Primula veris.

Dicentra 'Hearts Desire'.