Spring into Summer Flowers

Love, love, love these Red Hot Pokers. Only wish they stayed in bloom longer.

We were back at the Gopher Hill house this weekend to do some yard work, and look what was voluntarily blooming! Some of these beauties I had forgotten about. These orange pansies are REALLY orange. The photo doesn't quite capture their intense color. I love these!

This Calla Lily is in an area of the backyard lovingly called The Donation Station. It's when landscaping customers of ours had plants or shrubs they wanted to get rid of, and those plants 'mysteriously' ended up in our backyard. You know, one man's sick plant is another man's Donation Station treasure. Isn't that the saying?

This Japenese Maple is really getting out of hand, and desperately needs pruning, but doesn't it look beautiful above the tiny blue flowers of this ground cover? Sigh.

Here's a little wider shot of the area. Just disregard the garbage cans in the background. At best, I'm an amateur photographer just keepin' it real.