I Like Thursday # 144 ~ My Secret Backyard Garden

 

Welcome to my secret garden. 

I am a day late posting for

I Like Thursday @ Not Afraid of Color 

In truth, I feel like I am a day late for many things.

Since it is summer here, I do not mind.

I have been spending I lot of time outside in my garden.

I am still planting annuals in my summer window boxes.

Here is the view from my big backyard swing.

That big hanging yellow pot under the new gazebo roof is a pansy!

I have never had a pansy pot create such a golden halo of blooms.

The pansies have lasted much longer than usual, perhaps due to the unevenness of our weather.  It has been hot, cool, breezy, storm and everything in between.

We have put the windowboxes of pansies around the deck where they will not be in the hot sun all day and they are continuing to bloom.

These photos were taken almost a week ago.

Today is a cloudy day and the first pink roses are scattering petals

but there are still many buds waiting to open!

The pink climbing roses we planted four years ago on either side of our new gate have grown over the top on both sides.

This photo Posted Here is what our new gate looked like in 2019.

The hard topped gazebo is our new addition to our secret garden this year.

This is the man who did all the work to create this lovely backyard for us.

Yes, he built the entire gazebo by himself.  I offered to help.

Mr Scrapatch is very much a do it himselfer.

I supplied coffee and nourishment and occasionally helpful comments.

I do help with making our garden grow and bloom.

My beautiful salmon colored America Climbing Rose is blooming. 

I am very happy to see this.

This bush was over the top of the trellis the last two years but had an extreme amount of winter kill this year. There was so much deadwood that I had to cut it back to the ground to find the few green shoots that remained

The bush is small but healthy and green and growing.

I am so happy to share this with you today.

May you have a beautiful and happy weekend, my friends!

I will be celebrating my man with my boys 

and playing in my garden.