It has been a while since I have posted here. I worked on the pond and back yard most of the time this year and its getting cold so I have more free time now.

New Photos of plants in bloom

Here are some new plants and new blooms of old plants.

Green Envy Coneflower

Jade Coneflower

Black and Blue Salvia

Pink Double Delight Coneflower

Two different Coreopsis

Red Bee Balm

Big Sky Summer Sky Coneflower

Raspberry Wine Bee Balm

Purple Coneflower

Big Sky Solar Flare Coneflower

Stokes Aster

Lithodora

Wildlife

Here are a few of the animals I have been able to attract to my city of Pittsburgh garden. Some of the pictures are not taken by me but are here to just show the animals that I have seen in my yard.

Humming Bird

Cardinal

House Sparrow

 Goldfinch

Chipping Sparrow

Sparrow

Robbin

Pine Warbler

This bunny was in my back yard area today

In Bloom

Here are some of the flowers in bloom now.

 Coconut Lime Coneflower

Daylilies

 Easter Lilly

 Blue Stokes Aster

 Orange Daylilies

 Yellow Daylilies

 More yellow Daylilies

 Green Envy Coneflower

 Green Wizard Coneflower

 Crazy Daisy

 Back yard wild flower area

 Black Eye Susan

 Summer Sky Coneflower

Purple Loosestrife

Moved some Pineapple Mint, Daylilies,  Iris, Datura, Black Eyed Susan, and Spirea along the wall to the entrance of the church parking lot. Tomorrow I will move some more Pineapple Mint, some Bishops Weed, Bachelors Button, and some Sunrise Coreopsis. I also have some lambs ear and a few other small plants I might try to fit in to make the space between my house and the church parking lot look nice. Right now its just over grown Holly and messed up Pine Trees that have been pruned and trimmed to look like crap. There is also a lot of Poison Ivy Virginia Creeper and Weeds. Fran Etta and a young eagle scout gardener from the church have done such a nice job with the landscaping I enjoy looking out each day to see whats new and get inspiration to make improvements to my own yard and the area between the church parking lot and my house. Here are some pictures of what the area has gone through since I bought my place and some of the plants that are going in now.

This was in April of 2009 when I first bought the place this is even after I did a bunch of cleaning up.

2010

2010

2011

2012

 April 2013

April 2013

 Today

Today

Today

Pineapple Mint

Daylilies

Gold Flame Spirea