T Stands for My Garden Hasn't Looked this Nice in Years

 Hi everyone. Happy new week to you.

I'm back into my gardens for T this week.  My garden has been blooming beautifully for the last couple of weeks. The bees are busy collecting pollen and making honey. The weather has (for the most part)  been gorgeous with low humidity since June. 

I don't know if the weather is what my plants are loving, or if it has anything to do with the extra time I've put into gardening. When it's too hot, I tend to ignore them, but with this weather, the gardens are calling me. I haven't done any baking or even taken many morning walks because I've been getting my exercise in my yard.

I have a lot of photos to share this week, but not a lot of writing so hopefully you'll stick with my post.

Flowers are blooming.

My climbing rose is loaded with blooms this year, and the bees, both the honeybees and wild ones, love them. When I walk by the bush, it is humming.

The bees are also loving getting drinks from my bird bath which is right next to the climbing rose.

Delphiniums are blooming. 

The annuals in my deck pots are full of color.

This is the first time in the 4 years I've had my lavender plants that they are blooming.

These next couple of photos are a week old, and right now my Astilbe are just starting to fade.

I caught an ant on this next photo.

Does anyone know what this next flower is? I've had these for years, and I can't remember. 

The Coreopsis are just coming out. 

Wild blackberries are starting to form along my driveway. My husband wanted to cut down the canes, and hopefully he heard me say no.

Lilies and

beebalm, as well as

bell flowers are blooming.

 So are  those Astilbe and some yarrow.

Giant phlox,

Yarrow  and then hostas up close are just coming into bloom.

This is my husband's turtle statue, which was his great find last year.

And the wild milkweed I left to grow is blooming and attracting insects too.

And I even caught my honeybees in flight, well a little bit.

And the big green eyes on this dragonfly.

And I even have a healthy harvest of grapes coming along.

If only my veggies were growing leaps and bounds like the flowers. (They are growing, just not as fast as I wish they were.)

Now we could just use a day of rain as it is fairly dry and being on a well, I don't do a lot of watering, except my potted plants. And the humidity is on the rise, but it's July so I'm not surprised.

And after a morning in the sun working in the yard, something cool to drink is my link to this week's T day party over at Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog.

I've shown you my jug and my feet in the hammock before, but it's a typical afternoon for me, especially after a morning in the garden.

Have a great T day, week ahead, and thanks for making it this far through my post.