Specialty Gardening: By special request (part 2), 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
I don't mind too mch not having blooms all winter, there is usually something for each season, absence makes the heart grow fonder doesn't it? And in colder climates we can grow many plants that can't be grown in warmer climates. Those plants must wear themselves out Dale!

A longer shot of the poppies, this is the bed with species Dahlias, they grow soon after so when the poppies die back the area is covered, I have lilies and Delphiniums there too as well as a few other things. Geranium versicolor you can just see, next to it there are some self setting wild looking Corydalis which I have not identified. It is very pretty purple-red, has very delicate ferny foliage and fills in the gaps perfectly, all unplanned, it dies back later and self seeds. Rose Just Joey by the pergola.