my yard and garden: leaning on the summer solstice

a week away from one of my favorite stretches of the year: father's day, the summer solstice, and both my kids' birthdays...lots of great reasons to cut flowers from the yard.

from top to bottom L to R:
dill; hydrangea; moonbeam coreopsis; purple coneflower; cabbage leaf or great leaf coneflower (check out the Liberated Gardener for a nice post on this wonderful perennial).