More pictures

Mystery flower #1
This is a bachelor button that I didn't plant. I love them though so it was welcome in my garden.

Gladiolus close up. They are so beautiful. It got really cold a couple nights ago so I cut them all and put them in a tall vase with some of my delphiniums. It made a very striking arrangement.

Mystery flower #2 I'm not sure what this is and it's definitely not something I planted. It is very pretty though.

I have never seen nastursums like these. The yellow with red streaks is very pretty!

I planted Forget-me-nots--Alaska's state flower--but this is the only one that I saw actually flower.
I planted this yellow rose for my mom. She loves yellow roses. She wanted to come up to visit this year but didn't make it. Maybe next year.
These are the dark red lilies that I thought would be a different color. I don't know what happened to the other colors. They looked very pretty from the road next to my white fence.
One of my delphiniums. I really loved the white one but it didn't last long enough to get a picture.

My garden

I really didn't work very hard to make my garden beautiful this year. I spent nearly all of my time studying so I am really shocked at how pretty it ended up being. I took some pictures last week and then some more this afternoon. Some of the flowers are a bit of a mystery to me since I don't think I planted them. I guess I forgot to take pictures of my tulips that came up. They were very pretty. I also planted a white rose, a yellow rose, two ground cover roses in variegated pink and a wine. I also planted several gladiolus bulbs, poppy, sunflower, and nasturtium seeds. I planted 3 lilies last year which came back up this year but I planted three different colors: dark red, white, and a pale pink. I had three lilies coming up where I planted them about 3 to 4 feet apart but all of them were dark red. So I'm confused as to how that happened. At least they are still pretty and the dark red was stricking against my white rail fence.

This is a very sad day....

I just realized that my miniature rose that I've had for 3 years is dead. When I got my new job 3 years ago September by husband walked in the door and just sat this beautiful potted white rose on my desk and left without saying a word. I was on the phone with a customer so I couldn't say anything. He knows that I just love white flowers.. Last summer it really took off. It really bushed out and bloomed a bunch. It had 13 blooms at once and it kept blooming constantly though to winter.

Then it got spider mites really bad. I worked at getting rid of them but it never really came back strong. A couple of weeks ago I noticed some of the stems had died and turned black so I trimmed them back.... and then I started noticing the leaves were dying and falling off. Now I see it's got rot on the bottom and the green stems on the top are withering.

That really sucks. They don't even have anything good in the stores now either. I'll have to wait until spring :O(