First off , a bouquet of flowers that are all blue and violet . Stokesia , Asters , Scabiosa . I think that this saturday I would snap what was in prime today , and then brand it . suspicious , I thought I would have more than this , but I have realized something – August is probably the one month of the twelvemonth when there really is n’t much in bloom in my garden . At least , anything that is horticulturally interesting . Still , there was enough to photograph and to post . desire everyone else mail on their garden web log enjoy it too . Clerodendron ugandense , I love to produce with child bathtub of various Clerodendron species for belated summer color , but this species is less show , but every bit pretty since it had true blue flowers , and who does n’t wish that ! Tender , I take cutting near freeze to winter over in the greenhouse . China Asters were my mom ’s favorite bloom , and she would grow rowing of them when I was a youngster . have n’t seen them much since then , and I have ascertain out why . They are very thought-provoking to grow , prone to virus ’ and wilt . Still , I tried this yr , and had great luck . Although I have no grim purple ones . Odd , I know , but this choice and rarified bush was one of the most expensive plants I had ever purchased . Aralia elata variegata . It ’s bloom heads are huge , and buzzing with bees . The leaf is stunningly variegated . Acis autumnalis , , the autumn Plectrophenax nivalis flower in the enkindle alpine layer along the greenhouse . This midget bulb blooms in August and September and is no taller than a foot tal . I am afflict by Crocosmia , and surprisingly they have been quite hardy for me , here in my Zone 5 garden . From South Africa , the corm pass around slowly , and the industrial plant are starting to form gracious , strong clumps . A lily-livered Swallowtail Butterfly on a Stokesia in the Gold and Blue Gravel Garden . Belamcanda ‘ Halo Yellow ’ , the Dwarf Blackberry Lily , first yr planting that I buy atPlant Delights . A scandalmongering Crocosmia with a lost ticket , still , nice . A bloodless Agapanthus from South Africa , is much more floriferous than any of my other motley , mostly violet flowered single . I divided it this year , and now have four large tubs . The Rudy Throated Hummingbirds be intimate it . I think it is good to say that we have the largest and old Gardenia shrub in New England . Perhaps 30 years former , and 8 pes in diameter , it was crop to a great extent this year so that we could move it back into the nursery . Still , every Aug , I foot stacks of blossom , 27 today !
Another Plant enthrall joy , a double Panthera tigris lily . I know , a little white trash , but it ’s a computer memory thang . OK , everyone has been posting their Verbena bonariensis shots , so here is mine . I wish they would self source here , but we are too cold in the winter . So I have to arise them the old fashioned way every year….from cum set forth betimes in the greenhouse . Oreganum and other red , Lady Jane Grey and silver plants in my 1950 ’s themed ( color - palette - wise ) hanging basket .
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