Midwest green leaves

I got back to Illinois on a really hot day and it was truly only eighty degrees. Just more impressively warm than the East Coast.

Are there anymore cannas up? Well, no. I think I probably haven't got a gift for growing them. The dahlias seem fine, although some of them are very much nibbled; I believe rabbits rather than slugs. Maybe one particular kind of dahlia is truly tasty?

The Stone asian lilies are blooming, upright and showy. The fragrant white ones are lovely too, this year. Trumpets are beginning to bloom along the ramp, pretty early for them; they are accompanied by brilliant asians that are leaning but haven't yet opened, and it seems like the asians should have had a few weeks before the trumpets.

At least, the beds all have graceful leaves so that the lilies aren't just standing up looking phallic.