I am LOVING the way the lobster house looks in June!
All those pink and purple flowers out front make me smile. Living in a house with lobsters crawling over it… It just seems so normal now.
Check out the dinner plate dahlias. Aren’t they pretty?
I have never grown dahlias before so I might need your help come fall when {I think} I’m supposed to dig them up and do something with them.
I wish I had room to plant more flowers!!
I’d dig up the whole backyard if the HH would let me. But then Lucy wouldn’t have anywhere to run around and well, that’s the whole reason we had a fence installed so that’s not going to happen.
The peonies are up next. It won’t be much longer now. I have zero plans to cut any peony flowers this year but maybe next year I’ll get a bouquet or two.
I started the peonies from roots last fall and I paid about $9 for each root. If I were to buy them as plants the size they are now, they would be $60 each!!
Can you believe it? The same row of peony roots I planted for $160 would be worth $960 + tax as potted plants! Crazy.
The French bush beans are up and looking good.
And so are the pole beans.
The radish seeds I planted two {?} weeks ago are up and ready to be thinned.
The zucchini, basil and pumpkin seeds I planted are also doing great as are the three tomato plants next to the trellises on the side yard.
The sugar snap peas I planted in my large pot next to the barn have flowers on them and my black krim tomato plant is really, really happy alongside them.
All in all, the front garden and the vegetables are loving the warmer days we’ve been having here in Maine lately.
Does anyone know what these lovely pink flowers are called?
I spotted them in a nearby yard and now I need to find a spot to put at least one plant. I just need to know what they’re called so I can pop by the nursery and grab one.
It’s finally summer at the Lobster House… And I’m loving it!
I hope you have a great day,
~Mavis
Silke says
Hi Mavis,
the plant must be a dotted/spotted bellflower(campanula punctata).
Best wishes Silke
Mavis Butterfield says
Thank you Silke!!! I am going to see if they have it at our local nursery. 🙂
Nancy Settel says
Oh Mavis the Lobster House is looking amazing and the flowers are beautiful. I have always done at each of our houses and pink, lavender and blue (hydranas). I have never done the alium (the big purple globe type flower you have) and oh my in those big clumps look amazing. I have loved seeing it come together.
Christa H. says
My dahlias are blooming too and I just cut some yesterday and made bouquets placed next to my kitchen sinks. Your yard looks great!
Yes- you will need to dig them up late fall, clean up and store the bulbs in a frost free dark place in something like peat to maintain some moisture.
Here in NC I leave mine in the ground and they always pop back up.
Meg C says
I can’t believe your dahlias are blooming already! They’re beautiful!
Did you grow them from bare tubers, or did you purchase them already started? I live in Northeast Ohio and my dahlias are only about ankle/mid-shin high right now. My dahlia “show” will be in late July – October. They are so worth the effort re: wintering them!
Your yard/garden is gorgeous! Thank you for sharing it with us!