An Explosion of Color

Flowers, Prayer Garrden, Reflections

Suddenly our prayer garden is busting with color.

I suspect the hot days we are having have something to do with it.

Pink and red rose bushes. Sorry I can’t give their formal names. My husband rescued these from a nursery he was working at a few years back. They had been left to die.

Evening primrose. Again, I’m not sure of the variety because a lady who my husband worked for when he was doing landscaping dug some up and gave them to him. I do know that they are a variety that blossom during the day and now that the deer are no longer eating them they are very prolific.

Roses in the foreground backed by lavender, and Asiatic Lilies in the distant background.

These Asiatic Lilies were planted 8 or 10 years ago. Each year they would send up green shoots, then form a bud, but before they even got a chance to open a deer would come along and bite the top off, so we had never seen them flower until this year.

The fence that my husband put up last year, which encloses our entire property, is a deer deterrent. The deer can certainly jump the 4-foot fence but mostly they don’t. We don’t have nearly as much deer damage as we used to.

Another Asiatic Lily that we have never seen flower before.

I had to add at least one new plant this year. This Foxglove was my choice.

My husband came home yesterday and told me that we need to add a white flowering perennial to the prayer garden.

He says we need to go shop for it today. Who am I to argue? 🙂

Thanks for visiting.

20 thoughts on “An Explosion of Color”

  2. How lovely your garden is! Adding white will be fun. I love your lilies. The deer enjoy nibbling in my gardens as well. Grrrrr!
    Happy Tuesday!

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  3. What a glorious garden. Everything looks so happy . Its wonderful all the hard work of the fence is paying off so beautifully. White clematis may be hard to find this time of year. They seem to sell out early. Which type of phlox did you get? The low growing mounding variety or the taller ones ( similar to the wild phlox that grew by the creek) . Either will be lovely.

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      2. I tried growing them years ago but like so many other things they became deer candy. If they get out of control, I’ll dig and transplant some along the fence. 🙂

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  5. I remember your post about your husband working on that fence – I think you showed us photos at the end, so good things came from all that hard work. No more deer and beautiful flowers – what a beautiful garden Ruth. I think all the sunshine helped, but all the rainwater as well. I hope the two storms we are getting early Sunday morning are the end of a very hot and stormy week. Tuesday and Wednesday will hopefully be “normal” Summer storms, if anything is “normal” anymore with our weather. I’ve never seen it rain as hard as it did her Thursday.

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      1. Yes, I thought of you on Thursday and hoped any small plants you had did not float away or have root rot. We never got the expected storms overnight (thankfully), but now severe weather Tuesday and early Wednesday per Accuweather. I am ready for Fall!

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  6. I LOVE this! Thank you so much for sharing.

    We have never seen our tulips because the deer eat them first. 😥 We are carefully spraying our begonias, hibiscus, coleus, and others with Deer Away; so far so good.

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    1. You are very welcome, Kathy. I remember the first year we had the farm I planted tulip bulbs in the fall. I was so excited when the blossomed in the spring then the next day when we arrived the tops had all been eaten off and only a bunch of stems remained. I wanted to cry. I’m glad you are having some success with deer away.

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