...and the columbines hiding behind the lupines.
Summer... share your pic's
I thought this was a liatris but its Echium russicum. I wintersowed this in 2007 and must have forgotten that I planted this.
Rose
Oh, I'm so envious of those lupines!
Siberian irises
Here is a sweet peas. I've been waiting to see this bloom.
red bee balm
ice plant draping over hot sidewalk
Found this poppy tonight. I think it has something strange going on. I do not recall buying seeds like this.
beehive I just love all of your plants. I've been trying for 2 years to get poke primrose to grow, but it doesn't. I love small plants that just have a big hello in the garden.
Janet
wow. it's pretty. collect seeds and grow them again next year!
delphi
daylily
Pat Austin rose
I thought the jathropha was completely dead. All stalks and no leaves. Brought them outside and they started flowering.
Wow, i have never seen a Pat Austin with that few petals! It's usually such a big fluffy full double.
Beahive, your plants are all so pretty! I especially love those bicolored sweet peas.
This is a common daylily I got the original from my Grandma ages ago.
Well, whatever you did to the poppy I like it! Collect the seeds and maybe it will happen again.
I just love these "show us" threads. A good preview for use midwest/eastern gardeners to see whats still coming in. I won't have sweet peas for a while yet but I can't wait. thanks for all the snaps.
I finally have something to show!
Hydrangea macrophylla 'Blue Wave'.
I am not being a tease by showing only one bloom. I just planted two and that's all she's putting out so far! But I can't wait to be dazzled next spring.
Papaver alpinum. I have only one. I definitely want to get more because I love the delicate foliage, as well as the Tropical Lifesaver blooms.
Amsonia 'Blue Ice'. Its first year. I have a bit of an obsession with true blue (not purple) blooms.
Clematis 'Bees Jubilee'
Geranium 'Rozanne' just opened up yesterday. I planted several last fall, and I understand I can enjoy profuse, continual blooms from now until the first frost.
Here is another pic of the Impressionist rose. It is scrumptious! Can't wait until it grows up the trellis and has more blooms.
Kardinal Wyszynski Clematis (second year) is doing greta. Big bloooms!
The Nicole rose is perfect in my book!
oops posted the wrong pic.. Nicole..don't think a cloudy sunrise compares!
I'm with you, Peony8 - I like the true blue too. Have you tried plumbago (the tropical variety)? It's pricey as an annual, but puts on a great show of blue blooms.
I added spiderwort to my garden this spring. I bought it for the spikey-chartreuse foliage and was delighted with the brilliant blue blooms. Unfortunately, the bloom opens in the morning, when the bed it shady, and fades by afternoon, when the sun hits it.
Jacobs Coat rose
Golden Celebration rose. This is a fantastic looking rose with a wonderful scent!
Gorgeous roses, BeaHive!
LeawoodGardener, thank you for the plumbago tip. I just created a new English cottage garden, and the plants are tiny, so there's lots of space for annuals to fill in the gaps.
The "Golden Celebration" rose is similar to a David Austin rambling rose I planted on my fence - "Crown Princess Margareta" (named for the granddaughter of Queen Victoria - Crown Princess Margareta of Sweden)- it's just winding down from the first flood of blooms. I love the apricot-yellow blooms. They have a fresh, fruity fragrance and draw a lot of comments from the dog walkers and joggers who pass my garden.
Crown Princess Margareta is on my wish list, love those colors too.
Bea, is that Joseph's Coat or Jacob's Robe rose?
Bea~ LOL - I just looked at the David Austin site - "Golden Celebration" is one of their varieties - no wonder it looks similar. I am truly impressed with David Austin roses - I have, in my many years of gardening, tried various roses and always ended up thinking they were too much work to suit my gardening style. At one point, in the 1970's, I had a bed of 25 hybrid tea roses. I always end up with black spot, yellow leaf, etc. and ultimately lost the rose bush. I read about David Austin roses and decided to try one (two actually - same variety) - I could not be more impressed with their performance. This is the second year they have been in my garden and I'm looking for places to plant more.
Sue.. I am going to have to look at the tag later. I try to go from memory and I alsways get these two confused. Raining now byt will check the bush soon as it stops. May be tomorrow according to our forcast.. Let you know.
Leawood. I love the Austins also. Some have done well here others not. But I keep trying cuz I love them.
LeawoodGardener, are you growing your Austin Golden Celebration as a climbing rose on your fence or as a pillar? I thought that Princes M and Golden Celebration would look nice together on a trellis or arbor. I am in zone 6, so I am not certain if they will be tall enough and cane hardy enough for an arbor. I love warm pastel colors -pink, peach, yellow, apricot.
My Austin Wildeve is doing very well. It has new canes that are eye level (about 5 feet). The blooms hold up well in the rain, but the older branches get weighed down. Mine is thee years old. This picture shows a progression of blooms after a week of rain.
GardenQuilts, my "Crown Princess Margareta" is on a fence. Here in zone 5b, it performed beautifully - not a cane was damaged in our cold winter weather (I do not use any protection). I don't have the "Golden Celebration", but I'll bet it would do as well and the two together on an arbor would be beautiful - the canes are certainly long enough to cover your arbor.
Callas are so interesting
I think this might be my coreopsis Lavender Gem, which I thought hadn't made it. Couldn't tell what it was until the first bloom opened
Some kind of coneflower and visitor
From across the creek
