Would love to see pictures of everyone’s mid-summer gardens. It’s close to the peak of the season and gardens tend to be beautiful right now. Share what yours looks like!
Looks great, and welcome! From what I’m seeing, with all the firs and giant Rhodies in the background, I’m thinking you live in PNW? Would even narrow that to the Puget Sound area?? Anyway a robust looking garden. Will share pics of mine later. 
Welcome! Are you growing some food or it’s just decorative?
Don’t forget to check out both our ongoing vegetables garden thread and also the non edible gardens thread!
Don’t get me started.
Mostly tomatoes and peppers, but also beans, pluots, a few grapes and figs on the way. I dug up some potatoes today, but I don’t seem to give them enough respect.
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Your hosta looks good! I’ve the same one, the one next to your chive but smaller.
I have quite a few hostas, mainly in pots. They used to get badly damaged by slugs but not in the last few years. I don’t claim to be fully organic in the garden but I use chemicals very, very sparingly. And, on the other side of that coin, the pons have frogs and we are visited by a hedgehog - both of which eat slugs. I think it must be that they are keeping things in balance.
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You’re right about the location, Lambchop! Yes. The Puget Sound, Washington State. Have you or do you live in the area? We’ve had a wetter than normal and coolish summer so far, but I like it that way. Looking forward to seeing your pictures.
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Yes @Fuzzyweed, this is my adopted state for the past 30 years - live near the Tacoma Narrows. Nice to see another poster from these parts. Will share the garden pics tomorrow. Things are coming on nicely, although a bit late.
I don’t think you’re disrespecting your potatoes @shrinkrap; your climate may be on the hot side for them…
Thanks for your understanding. 
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Growing some lisianthus for the first time this year. They sure are pretty. I have purple, white and a purple-tipped white that are in bloom; I also planted some that were labeled yellow and, incredibly, red.
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Lovely flowers!
My poor garden has not been doing well this year, so no pictures from me. The only things that continue to do somewhat well are my tomatoes (surprisingly) and the citrus plants that are in pots. Even some of the scallions that I repotted started suffering early summer because of the excessive heat and also the insane amount of critters this year (primarily squirrels, and the occasional neighborhood rat that finds its way into my yard). I spent a lot of time last fall setting up new in-ground planting areas, and I think that did me in. Critters were intent on digging up almost every single thing I planted, even the scallions! Now I have a better sense of what to grow where and to get the protection out earlier.
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These are Hyacinth Beans, blooming a little late because of our cool and wet spring. They’re grown as ornamentals here, are but are native to sub-Saharan Africa and cultivated for food there.
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This is the year I ditched dahlias because I got tired of fighting the earwigs, discovered lisianthus, and finally figured out how to fill in a troubling strip of garden that had resisted prettification for a couple years in a row (I’m a newbie gardener so just learning how all of this works.)
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