Visiting The Jungle

 Hi everyone. Happy new week.

I have a garden post this morning. And no, I didn't really visit an actual jungle. 

With all the wet weather, humidity and me fertilizing every now and again, my gardens are a jungle.  I do have a lot of flowers blooming., veggies growing, and lots of wildflowers (or what many people consider weeds).

Can you actually pick out the tomato and pepper plants? I grow them off the side of my back deck which is an area I keep "natural".

My potted basil, my favorite summer smell.

The last of my lettuce. It has warmed up, my plants bolted, and so I pulled all the plants.

And my roses are slightly passed peak but still looking amazing.

My delphinium looks great, but sadly some of them have broken in the rain.

My perennial garden (my oldest garden) is very overgrown right now. I did some weeding, but then with the way the weather is, it has just exploded with growth.

 I need some dry cooler days to do a lot more weeding. It has some nice blooms though.

I have a small maintained yard with gardens, but since my land is over 5 acres, I have some wooded areas and some small wild meadow type areas. Some of you might think my unkempt areas look messy, but I like providing lots of habitat for whatever wildlife I can, including my bees.

Right now the milkweed is blooming or just about getting ready to bloom.

And you can see in the above photo I have massive numbers of ferns. In some ways they have become very invasive. If only they'd just stay out of my actual gardens, I might like them better.

And lastly, how about a few other various flowers?

Can you tell I love puttering around my yard?