Colorful Garden Chat Picture Thread

In the back part, columbines have sneaked in and are disrupting my planting concept a bit:

They are really big and dominate the bed quite a lot. But who could be angry at such delicate beauties?

Especially this one looks like Delft porcelain:

When they have finished blooming, I will cut them back completely so that the other plants, which were actually intended to be there, get the space that was meant for them.

Furthermore, the foliage of the early bloomers is still there because they arrived so late. Now it’s pretty cramped in the bed and my well-thought-out flowering plan has been somewhat sabotaged by the columbines and the cold spring...

What kind of stone did you use to build the counter outside? Or is it cast concrete?

Counter? Do you mean the shelf next to the bread oven?

It is simply built with bricks, with window lintels on top and a granite slab on top of that.

Here, larger:


The plaster still needs to be "finished nicely" and it hasn't been painted yet.

Everything is slowly blooming here. Early bloomers are late, the rest quite normal. However, my columbines are pretty much done. Peonies have been blooming for a few days. They don't last long. I think it's almost too warm for them.

I like your columbine.

St. John's wort has spread in my prairie garden

Strawberries are so mediocre
Potatoes are growing insanely
I have lice in masses
Hopefully the ladybug larvae will come soon

Potatoes also produce shoots for me. I have killed the aphids on the roses with poison - I don't do that with vegetables. That's why the dill is alive this year :-(

The columbines appeared like that. Our gardener says they will go away if they don't get space. I rather have the impression that they are definitely fighting for the space...