This was just a small section of the Garden's detritus.

This is only half the gourds that had been found before I left.

The mums were donated the first year we set up the garden. They weren't this big. They weren't even this big last year. The sedum in between was donated this year by a Garden neighbor.

One of the geranium blooms

Crossandra. I can never remember the name of this. I had to look at an old Facebook comment from Heidi Tietz-DeSilva at Peterson and Tietz' in Waterloo.

This is a penta, I think. Sometimes the problem with taking a really close picture is trying to identify it a lot later!

One of the pansies in our Michael pot. It didn't like the really dry, really hot weather while we were on vacation in August.

Spiderwort from the north side of the house.

Another spiderwort. This is next to the white one for a nice contrast.

The spiderwort are near a yellow-leaf bleeding heart, which is next to the old-fashioned bleeding heart.

I threw in a coleus that needed some shade just to add some contrast to the greens.

Side profile of one of our columbine

An almost head on shot of the columbine.

A yellow and orange columbine

The stella de 'oro daylily that came with the house. We've moved it about three times and they have done well every single time!

Firefighter rose. It has a wonderful fragrance.

One of my south-side-of-the-house rose.

My pink south-of-the-house rose. Another one with a beautiful fragrance.

We had some extra pepper plants that we put on the south side of the house in between the perennials. This is the bell pepper.

One of the other pepper plants in between two Mock orange. I think this one is the Anaheim. They were all about a foot taller less than a month after this picture was taken.

The Anaheim.

This is the Jalapeno pepper plant. This one also shot up over a foot taller less than a month later.

The basket of flowers included zinnias, marigolds and a black-eyed susan vine. The marigolds dried out early and the other two fried in the hot spell a couple of weeks after this photo was snapped.

Sigrid rose bush, Sven and Ole's sister. It put out really small flowers, but it held it's own against the Japanese beetles.

One of the zinnias from the basket

The other zinnia in the basket.

Vinca vine, some petunias, the hardy geraniums along with some annuals. The dusty miller in the background is from last year. We will see if they come back next year, too.

the small petunias

I love osteospermum. I need to work more of this annual into my gardens.

A close up of a petunia. It is just asking those birds and bees to come in and have a sip.

The purple one.

The yellow daylily and the red gaillardia make a nice contrast.

A nice red yarrow. This one is only about 18" high.

My blue bellflower plant has one portion that blooms white.

Yellow yarrow and the bellflower. You can see the pink phlox peeking over in the middle of the screen.

The Shasta daisies were beautiful this year.

The pink phlox is apparently not as tasty to the rabbits as my white ones. Of course, it may be because this one has other plants around it keeping the cute, furry, bottomless-stomach rodents away.

yellow yarrow

I'm pretty sure I planted red bee balm on the hill. It was mostly white this year.

My miniature chinese rose was loaded this year.

The monarda up close and personalThe bumblebees love the monarda

Butterfly bush flowersOne of my lilies

One of my lilies

Black knight butterfly bush

Sven's flowers were beautiful. And tasty to the Japanese beetles.

Purple coneflower

Endless Summer Hydrangea

A lace top hydrangea