Specialty Gardening: Cottage look for a shady area?, 1 by EllaTiarella

EllaTiarella wrote:
Mertensia virginica. Flower bud is starting to show the blue and pink colors. White violets have invaded the area. If you look on the far left, you can see a pair of soft burgundy leaves , upright, probably one or two inches tall, which is a Mertensia seedling. A week or two ago, when Mertensia first appeared, they are soft brownish-red, like rounded nubs poking up from the soil, easy to miss.