As every perennial gardener knows, your garden is never really complete. You always tweek it – moving something here or there, digging a plant up, putting in new beds. As those beds continue to expand.

So it is in my garden. I’ve expanded our main garden (just a bit!) as well as removed some ground cover I wasn’t fond of in order to put in more flowers. And here are some of them. Please forgive me if I can’t remember their names.

This is a penstamin. I have some Husker’s Red that is nice, but I’ve fallen in love with this one.

Yellow iris with a variegated leaf. So beautiful.

I almost had to say I didn’t know what this was called, but I ran over to my parent’s today and saw it in their yard and remembered – it’s a gas plant or burning bush (not the true bush kind). Scientific name: dictamnus. In the summer, it has a sticky, lemony-smelling, flammable substance on the leaves. Yes, it will flame up, though I’ve never tried it. Might have to.

Globe flower, aka trollius. One of my favorites in the shade garden. Too bad it doesn’t bloom longer.

I’m not a good photographer. I was aiming for the bush in the back – a Miss Kim dwarf Korean lilac. Smells like heaven. And special to us, because we planted it 13 years ago, soon after our own Miss Kim came home from Korea.

I think my dad and husband planted some stuff one day when I wasn’t home, cause I don’t remember planting this and I have no idea what it is. It’s pretty, though.

I think this may be a Japanese bottlebrush plant. But don’t quote me on that.

Well, obviously, you’ve seen this before, but no June pictures would be complete without my yellow peony. Still madly in love with it.

What’s blooming in your yard?