Echinacea and Coreopsis, Lilies in bud.
'Bowles Black' violas grown from seed, with rose campion coming into bloom.
A different view of the rock where 'Bowles Black' violas grow. That's a seedling dogwood upper right. The little resin stone that says 'Patience' is to remind me to try to be as patient as that rock which finally has moss and ferns.
Spiderwort, nicotiana, larkspur, poppies.
Corn poppies and larkspur
Corn poppies, larkspur and spiderwort.
Clockwise from lower left: Spiderwort, corn Poppy, Verbena on a Stick, California poppy, Larkspur, Nicotiana
Verbena bonariensis, sweet william and california poppies
First snapdragons to bloom.
The crape myrtles in these beds are an old cultivar, "Lilacina"
A wider view to include orange roses on the right
Thugs: swamp iris grows in a bog with two kinds of mint, contained by mowing.
Oakleaf hydrangeas are coming into bloom. The closest one is a baby, this is its third year.
Magenta:: Spirea japonica bulmalda, magenta Pentas and Rose de Rescht. Dying foliage of hyacinths takes forever. That Hollyhock is in its third year.
Mystery Gaillardia. I didn't plant it, but here it is in the Sunset Bed.
