More summer flowers are beginning to appear in the yard.

The large flowering gardenia beside the garage was in place when I moved here and seems to flower well each year.

The Frostproof Gardenia that I planted in 2014 is also doing very well.

The flowers are beautiful each summer. But they only stay white for a very short time before turning yellow. Don't know if this is normal or not, but it happens each summer.

The Joe Pye Weed is returning for another season. I should see some flowers from this plant soon.

I did some research regarding the Eleanor Tabor Indian Hawthorn and why it hasn't seemed to be happy in any of the three locations where I planted it. Apparently, this plant needs full sun all day long. I'll have to look into relocating it once again later this year.

I'm also going to have to look into what's up with the Happy Returns Daylilies to figure out why they aren't blooming.

The Husker Red Beardtongues seem to be finished for the season.

But I do have a few late arriving white flowers, which is nice.

Husker Red Beardtongue flowers.

The Mexican Pony Tails Feather Grass plants look like "feathers" this year, and seem to be doing well.

This was nice to see !

I have Gladiolus flowers !

A friend of mine gave me a bunch of then-unknown bulbs a few years ago. I had them in another location in the yard which didn't work. So I moved them out front last year.

The additional sunlight was quite beneficial.

It looks like I've got some white and some pink flowers.

And it looks like I've got a few more on deck.

The Vitex Shoal Creek is starting to turn blue with blooms, and should look nice very soon.

Today's project was to plant a bearded iris that was given to me by a friend who was dividing hers.

Since I only have three bulbs, I decided to plant them in a small open spot next to the pear tree.

I arranged the three bulbs in a triangle and grabbed a few handfuls of red mulch.

This spot will work well for a small amount of bulbs.

We'll see what happens next spring.