It's a fun park kinda day.

Happy thirtieth day of summer to all who celebrate. Ubiquitous, but still beautiful: the black-eyed Susan (rubeckia). This is part of my pollinator garden, mixing and mingling with coneflowers and bee balm and milkweed. 🌱 #flower #flowers #garden #gardens #gardeninspiration

Happy twenty-ninth day of summer to all who celebrate. I don't just have flower gardens in my yard. This is a shade garden of hostas, heuchera, astilbe, and azaleas. 🌱 More thoughts in next post/replt #garden #gardens #gardeninspiration #gardening #gardenlife

Happy twenty-eighth day of summer to all who celebrate. My garden isn't just flowers. I also have a vineyard, orchard, and berry gardens. The blackberries have just started to ripen and they are 😋. There's some dessert making in my future. 🌱 #gardens #garden #blackberry #fruit #homegarden

My new #BeyondtheGates podcast episode is posted. There's #DaytimeEmmys talk and, of course, my thoughts on this week's #BTG action LINKS ⬇️ SPOTIFY: danjkroll.com/blog/1lvy AMAZON: danjkroll.com/blog/mqgy IHEART: danjkroll.com/blog/97jt APPLE MUSIC: danjkroll.com/blog/0xy0

Happy twenty-seventh day of summer to all who celebrate. This is "Princess Charlene de Monaco" rose. Not only is she gorgeous to look at, but she also has a very strong fragrance. The blooms are full and she is a repeat bloomer. 🌱 #flower #flowers #rose #gardens #garden

Happy twenty-sixth day of summer to all who celebrate. It's a smokey, hazy day today, so I just ventured outside to snap a quick photo of my English rose garden. The featured photo is "Strawberry Hill," another David Austin variety. 🌱 #flower #flowers #rose #gardens #gardeninspiration

Happy twenty-fifth day of summer to all who celebrate. Today's photo is a bit of a mystery. A local garden center gifted me a just about dead hibiscus because they know of my success in bringing neglected plants back to life. I have no idea what variety it is, but it's gorgeous. 🌱 #gardens #flowers

Happy twenty-fourth day of summer to all who celebrate. On this Bastille Day, it's a trip to Paris with the "Eiffel Tower" rose. I has a very strong, perfumy fragrance. As a bonus, there's also a photo of my by the real Tour Eiffel. #paris #flowers #rose

They seemed linked because I bet when Sweetheart returns it will get red hot! 🤭

My latest (and new )#BeyondtheGates podcast is posted. This week I talk about Tomas' hilariously failed proposal, schadenfreude, Hayley's slow-acting bosom poison, Naomi finally revealing her secret, the DMV's newest bartender and more. Links in next post. #BTG #gatekeepers

Happy twenty-second day of summer to all who celebrate. Or maybe "hap-bee." This is "Kelsey Annie Joy," one of the dahlias in my garden. The bees, like Buzzy in the first photo, are kept very busy. 🌱 #flower #flowers #garden #dahlia #flowergarden

Happy twenty-first day of summer to all who celebrate. I was out being nosy and taking pics of a crane (second photo) and I noticed that the daylilies looked really nice. So here they are. (1/2) 🌱 #flowers #flower #gardens #garden #lily

Happy twentieth day of summer to all who celebrate. I am getting a little magical with today's photo. This is the "Abracadabra" rose. It's one of the most interesting blooms of all of my roses. 🌱🌹 #rose #flower #flowers #garden #flowergarden

Happy nineteenth day of summer to all who celebrate. Sunny summertime days are best enjoyed poolside, and this "Hawaiian Punch" hibiscus definitely understood the assignment. 🌱 #pool #flower #flowers #hibiscus #flowerphotography

This little dragonfly adjacent friend landed on my arm (I was the passenger) while at a stoplight and then rode the windshield wiper to our lunch destination. I sure hope that's good luck.

Happy eighteenth day of summer to all who celebrate. It's back to the rose garden today for a look at "Molineux," another David Austin varietal. Named after the football stadium of the Wolverhampton Wanderers, it has a light musk scent and a beautiful butter color. 🌱 #flowers #flower #rose #garden

Happy sixteenth day of summer to all who celebrate. This is the "Pepita Pink" dahlia, a new addition to my garden this year. It doesn't look exactly like the picture from th4 seller, but it's still very pretty. 🌱 #flowers #flower #garden #dahlia #gardeninspiration

Happy sixteenth day of summer to all who celebrate . If you want to have flowers, you need pollinators. These coneflowers (or echinecea) are part of a larger pollinator garden with bee-friendly plants and milkweed for the Monarch butterflies. 🌱 #summer #flowers #flower #garden #gardeninspiration

Happy fifteenth day of summer to all who celebrate. Most of my azaleas and rhododendron have long since bloomed, this one ways waits until July to be the last one to flower. It predates me living here and could actually predate ME (possibly planted in the 1950s or earlier) 🌱 #flowers #rhododendron

Check out my latest #BeyondtheGates podcast episode. It's free. Links are below ⬇️ #BTG #gatekeepers SPOTIFY: danjkroll.com/blog/wgn3 AMAZON: danjkroll.com/blog/diyi IHEART: danjkroll.com/blog/dl1u APPLE MUSIC: danjkroll.com/blog/k2r4

Happy thirteenth day of summer to all who celebrate. Someone page Meredith Grey STAT so she can check out the beautiful blooms on my "Seattle" dahlia. The cheery yellow is just was the doctor ordered to get through a heatwave. 🌱 #dahlia #flower #flowers #summerflowers

Happy twelfth day of summer to all who celebrate. Today's a three-for-one kind day. These are photos of my "Rembrandt" dahlia. Yes, the purple and white are from the same plant. Fun, right? There are also red/orange/yellow versions as well. Perhaps the Plant Fairy will deliver them. 🌱 #flowers

Happy eleventh day of summer to all who celebrate. These are "Ballerina" zinnias that I grew from seeds this year. By day they greet me when I go to the pool. By night they scare the fox when it runs through the yard. I like a good multipurpose flower 😆 🌱 #summer #flower #flowers #flowerphotography

Happy tenth day of summer to all who celebrate. A little something different today. This is one of my daylilies, "Stephanie Returns." She sits an watches the pool all day like a naughty little minx. I've focused on varieties that rebloom so that the color and flowers last until the fall. 🌱 #flowers

@kat4obama.bsky.social it appears that a "Kelvin Floodlight" survived the winter... and is thriving. There was no protection of any kind and the winter was fairly brutal. Nature is so fun. Lol

Happy ninth day of summer to all who celebrate. I beg your pardon, but I did promise you a rose garden. This is "Desdemona," another David Austin rose. It's has a strong rose fragrance and is a prolific bloomer. And yes, it is named after the Shakespeare heroine, not the font. 🌱 🌹

Happy eighth day of summer to all who celebrate. My dahlias are starting to bloom, so here's another fave. This is "Arabian Night." The darkish red is such a beautiful shade. 🌱 More in nxt pst #summer #summerdays #flower #flowers #flowerphotography #flowergarden #bloomscrolling #flowerporn #dahlia

Happy seventh day of summer to all who celebrate. I'm back in the rose garden today to take a photo of Poseidon. This is a rose that was forcefully suggested by someone and I am glad I caved. 🌱 More in next post/reply. #flowers #roses #summer #KrollManor

Happy fifth day of summer to all who celebrate. I'm still in the rose garden today -- I have enough varieties of roses to post one per day and not duplicate! This is "Honey Bee Lovely." 🌱 🌹 #flowers #roses #rosegarden #Bloomscrolling #KrollManor