Great pictures! I am also excited about my 3 flower meadows. Two of them are perennial, let's see how they do in the coming years. Since I will only mow them in spring, theoretically the annual varieties can also self-seed.
My roses are now going all out again and showing a beautiful second bloom. We still have raspberries, the tomatoes are now significantly fewer. Our pears are ripe. I also created a new bed in the side front garden. I had space there between the 2 newly planted trees. There is also the old stump of the cherry tree, so with the bed I can visually make the stump disappear. In the bed I planted things that didn’t thrive elsewhere in the garden, were too abundant, or got overgrown. Red smoke bush, stonecrop, various phlox, coneflower, and a perennial sunflower. And then came 3 smaller shrub roses in red, pink, and rose, single-flowered, more like wild roses, as well as a goldenrod, asters, and hardy chrysanthemums. So there should always be something blooming from May to October.
I am completely satisfied with my garden. Everything is growing and thriving wonderfully. We have plenty of fruit and vegetables and a real paradise for insects and hedgehogs. We live in the city and from the front you would never think that we have such a large and beautiful garden. I also receive "praise" from passersby and neighbors for my front garden from time to time. It is laid out rather wildly, so wild and mixed with serviceberry, globe amaranth, various roses, hydrangeas, perennials. There is always something blooming from mid-March to November and these areas change from week to week, they never look the same. The side front garden has a flowering hedge, 3 trees, and now also the bed as well as a small flower meadow and roses and vines under the pear tree, a rose is winding its way up the pear. Ah, it is wonderful, I never want to live without a garden again .