Yeah! Pictures.
Those irises are really gorgeous, Cat Whisperer!
Here you go then 
We live in a Victorian terrace in south London. When these were built, space was (and still is) at a premium, as in most big cities. Subsequently, all that was provided in the way of a front garden was a patch about 3 * 8 feet. Many people have chosen to concrete or pave over this space, but we decided to soften it up by creating a couple of tiny beds using original Victorian edging tiles.
This year we’ve stuffed them full of hot and deliberately clashing colours to try and brighten up dull and damp old London.
The aliums have come up particularly well and are attracting a lot of bees.
Love the colour of those Irises. They remind me of the Wimbledon Tennis Club colours… only 12 days to go 'til I have to break out the Pimms and the Strawberries & Cream!
Very nice, Robdog. 
The great thing about plants and flowers is that it is really hard to get them to look bad - plants are so pretty, that they just look great together!
I need some aliums - those are so cool.
I have some new irises blooming in another bed - I’ll have to get a picture of them tomorrow. This is the first time they’re blooming, and they’re yellow! I love those purple irises, too - they’re just as rich a purple as you can get.
My A. konjac has begun sending up sprouts too (they are later this year for some reason).
I am looking forward to the mildly stinky blooms which attract pollinating flies. From a previous spring:
Freakshow!
My pots kept inside have been up for about a month; the ones planted next to the wall outside haven’t been up a week. I’m in North Little Rock, AR and the temps are in the nineties.
More irises (the yellow ones this time) - yellow with purple lines;
another view.
This is what happens to cedars in Calgary. The winter chinooks tend to dry out cedars, which they don’t tolerate well.
I checked this morning, and there are not one but three grotesque, pale pink-purple spotted fleshy conical growths emerging from the soil in the Amorphophallus bed, like so many corpse fingers reaching for the sky. Three flower spikes on the way! This is going to create one heck of a buzz (literally).
And Clematis “Jackmannii” is in flower.
Nice irises ya got there, Cat Whisperer.
I hate you.
What zone are you in, and how old are the plants?
My brand spanking new Emily Carr rose is blooming! I love roses - I could have many, many more in my yard.
I love all these pictures! Thanks for sharing. Makes me want to plant flowers in the gardens instead of just veggies. I think I have my hands full with my African violets, though.
I have half a dozen decent sized butternut squashes, three pumpkins, and gobs of zuchhini. No cucumbers or green beans yet. The onions are doing their best against the cat who seems to loved snuggling up to them. The lettuce has finally gone to seed, but I will plant more in the fall.
Thinned out the lettuce patch yesterday and we has a BIG salad for dinner. Also completely weeded the thing yesterday. The bok choy and spinach are ready to come out and land in the freezer, think I’ll plant beets, turnips, and more carrots in their place. The brussel spouts have finally come up, both types of squash, the cucumbers, the kohrabi, the beans, and the dill are all making an appearance and growing. It looks like one of my Beaver Dam pepper plants survived after all. Either that, or I have Zombie Peppers.
Still waiting for the bachelor buttons and purple alyssum to bloom so I can weed those beds - until I know which bits are the wanted plants and which aren’t I’m reluctant to do that. I’m also supposed to have some lavender but I’m not sure I can identify those yet, either.
My misplaced tulips and daffodils are dying back, thinking of moving their bulbs soon back to where they belong.
Seriously thinking of yanking out the damn ugly floribunda rose bushes. I love roses, but these aren’t so wonderful, they throw out thorny octopus arms across the sidewalk, and really, I’m tired of these.
A few pictures from my allotment. It’s messy, and needs weeding, but this year I’m finally actually picking things, not just planting them and watching the slugs scarf the lot. Hooray!
It goes up to the wall of near waist-high grass at the back, though I’m hopefully going to be expanding into that bit too soon, seeing as my neighbour appears to have given up. I’m just waiting for the council to decide.
I’ve got to get my netting on my plants, too - the strawberries and saskatoons are making berries, and the birds and squirrels will happily eat all of them.
I planted a couple of Amorphophallus konjac tubers maybe 6-7 years ago and now have a fair-sized clump. They’re up against the garage wall so it’s a somewhat protected spot here in zone 6a.
One of the revolting fleshy growths has begun to sprout leaves, so just how many flowers I can expect this year is still up in the air. I’m hoping for a pestilential bouquet buzzing with flies.
Thanks! I have to wait four years, dammit.
I had Dracunculus vulgaris blooming for a while, and while the odor was not pleasant, rather like a faint smell of dead rat, not many flies visited it to pollinate, certainly not a swarm.
Eating bok choy tonight! Yummy!
They did well this year, I’ll be freezing a lot of stuff this week.
How did you prepare it? Mrs. Plant (v.3.0) likes it in stir fry.
I madecurried pork with soba noodles instead of filo shells. Mrs. Plant (v.3.0) describes it as “White Person Curry”. One must add more garlic and Sriracha sauce.