Mulch and new things

I've been putting in lots of annuals, and gift plants. I put a smilax beside the front porch. I should be able to train it up the side and over the top of the porch. I have also put in ginger lilies, more helleborus, hollyhocks, iris, kniphofia, purple oxalis, and zinnias. I put caladiums in the planters near the pond, but also in the ground behind the pond.


My iris are really beautiful, but I have found that I have some dark purple ones that are rather short, and can't be seen where they are. I will need to move them.

The roses here are an older climbing Bourbon rose Zephirine Drouhin. They did not bloom last year, but are putting on quite a fragrant show this year.

The small plant we got at a plant/yard sale. The lady called it a Mexican violet. I can't find that name anywhere, for anything resembling this plant. I'll watch it grow and try to figure out what it is. I just hope I have it planted in a good spot.