Hot Lips Salvia play an important part in the herb garden. The plant is a perennial but rarely makes it through a cold winter. The show this plant puts out is worth the extra expense from year to year.
White Echinacea holds its strong head and flower for weeks. It is a charmer and appears to light up at dusk.
Our brightly colored geraniums are on their second set of flowering stems. The fertilizer has given them new life, after laying dormant in the garage over winter. It is thrilling to be successful at keeping these alive for more than a couple of years!
Pincushion is another perennial and it thrives from season to season. It is perfect for cutting and bringing indoors!
Black Eyed Susan take up a large space in the garden. This is the very first flower and I found it this evening. There are hundreds to follow. This is not the last you'll see of these!
I like to dry Black Eyed Susan and use them in dried arrangements or wreaths.
Flowers are my expected pleasure of summer! What are your expected pleasures of summer?
9 comments:
Flower, your gardens and flowers are beautiful and inspire me to be a bit more adventurous!I have never seen white Echinacea before but will now seek it out for next years' gardens.
Your woods and gardens are so lovely. I really do appreciate the summer flowers in the Northwest.
I've been catching up on your blog...so many good things! Congratulations on your newest family member! Really want to hear about your wedding experience and your trip. And, I love that you love the doors in Santa Fe...that is one of my favorite things about it, too!
How magnicifent are your flowers!!
I like the fact that you have different varieties throughout the season. Never a dull moment in our gardens, and certainly not in yours.
It's hard to answer your last question on summer as we have summer all year long. No winter, no autumn and no spring..it's hot and humid with showers towards the end year, other than that, it's summer holidays all the way! Love the flowers...but that Echinacea is my fav! It's a great immune booster and I take them in pil form whenever I am down with the flu.Happy week ahead :)
Sooo lovely... That White Echinacea is so elegant! Just love a wander in your garden, Julene! Oh, you were wondering about the kale in our veggie patch. Oddly you can't get kale here, so we get seeds on trips home (don't tell! ;o) We tried the Burpee Organic "Red Winter" kale, and we just love it. It's a more flatter-leaf variety than the usual curlier type. But same good, bitter taste. I just love summer here--it is the best time! Happy Days ((HUGS))
Flower,
What a lovely blog. I love to garden also. Your pictures are works of art.
I just love love love those flowers
I am not good at growing them...so I love to look at yours (o:
I wanat a start of the pinecushion flower...is that the name?
Love the pictures....oh, do you have deer on the farm? If you do, how do you keep them from eating everything?
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