Amazing Pictures Bill, the quality of all your plants is incredible. You can really tell how much hard work you put into your beautiful home and garden. I wish my plants were that green and healthy, you really seem to be in a whole other league of growing!!
I like to keep them watered and lush. There are some onions and carrots, it's clear I'm no expert carrot gardener but they're fun to have none the less. There are some irises blooming and a few rose blooms starting again. They haven't bloomed in awhile, they weren't watered enough and the bugs really got to them. Clearly I was not paying equal attention to all plants 
Not nearly as many flowers in the garden as usual right now. You can see the iris bed, different types in there, I also gave them a good watering as they really needed it, I would like to get a sea of colors in there. Living in a Butterfly preserve makes for a lot of caterpillars on everything, the trick is getting them to do their thing somewhere else on a less important crop. Brocolli has been one of the ultimate sacrificial bait plants, kind of as I intended, the yields were so low that we really didn't get enough to eat. We had enough to mix into one salad off 6 plants. Alright, enough writing, here is 46 pictures. Enjoy! 
Thank you for bothering to post. Funnily enough, I was out buying a few plants for my mixed border today - summer's a difficult time for colour after the spring flush isn't it? My strategy on creating our garden from scratch is to buy a few plants every month from crazy Janni (smart lad, perfect English and a horticultural degree from Berlin) which are in flower. Theory being that next year I'll have interest every month! (Today it was Lollipop flowers - don't know the Latin name - and some very cheap Gladdies, a few beautiful Salvia plus a Prickly Pear for my new rock garden). Many of my roses are also like yours, just coming into a second bloom - although I should own up to being so fed up with a couple of really manky looking hybrids that, despite it being 35 degrees, I dug them up today, stuck them in pots and pruned them with a vengeance. Felt like Laurance Olivier in 'Marathon Man' as I wielded the secateurs, mumbling at them "Is it safe? IS IT SAFE?" 
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Thanks! I am glad to hear that!Just lovely sir.
That brightened my day.
Yeah I love it, we got quite a bit of it. I'm trying to get my Irises to put out some bloomsAgapanthus brought a smile with it
I'd forgotten about that plant !!
Tortoise always brings a smile
Hey Mr.Teddy Thank you for the kind words and information about how you do things! I am glad that you and your Wife have enjoyed seeing my photos and catHey,Relaxed, just checked into your journal and made my way here. Lovely.
Good to see some lovely tomatoes too. My veg patch is full of 'em, all green and promising. Looking forward to some ripe ones with our basil, which grows like crazy here. Anyway, I'm wittering on and need to be up at dawn-ish to pop the dope out into the sun. Just wanted to say
PS The Wife loves Fang. (He does seem rather, errrr, Relaxed). Pip Pip! Mr. Teddy.
. May all things be well in the garden my friend! 
