Plant gallery #1: What's hot - and cool - in my borders #nofilters
From the hottest colours to the coolest tones. Just a sample of the flowers in my border, from the pics I have in my phone today (some are from last season - their first after being planted.) Let me know which gets your attention...
Echinacea 'Hot Lava'
Dahlia 'Andries' Orange' (Semi-cactus style)
Crocosmia 'Lucifer' (these used to be called montbretia)
Osteospermum 'Twilight'
Angelica Gigas
Salvia 'Rose Rhapsody'
Anemone japonica 'September Charm'
Hesperantha coccinea 'Mollie Gould' (used to be Schizostylus)
Hesperantha coccinea 'Professor Barnard' (used to be Schizostylus)
Knautia macedonica 'Mars Midget'
Rosa 'Nostalgia' (Planted in memory of my late mum.)
Lavatera 'Barnsley Baby'
Lysimachia ephemerum
Hydrangea 'Annabelle'
Now that's what I'm talking about!! ^_^
#Petalporn! haha
Oh look, you replied to my comment! -starts looking at the flowers again- <3
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Beautiful flowers and pictures, you're so talented !!! xxx
Hmm, I think you may be biased - but that's cool with me : ) xxx
Beautiful photos
Thank you - the flowers did all the work! haha
I love them all but hot lava is an eye-catcher and I love gigas, too!
Me too - it's colours are almost unbelievable. When it first flowered, I couldn't quite believe it was natural! (Sadly, only one of the six I put in has survived winter here in the UK.)
I thank you for sharing it with me! I can't believe the things I'm seeing on steemit and it just has me addicted to my phone LOL
that sage :O, mine's just purple. Bonus points for putting in all the variety names and latin. beautiful garden
Thank you - I'll do a proper look around the garden as we get things sorted. The 'befores' and 'afters' shock us everytime we discover a shot of how bad it was when moved in. And that sage? Yeah she's a beaut' - but quite a short flowering period. I'm going to see - once the plants are a bit more established if a brutal dead-heading after they've flowered prompts another flush!
Beautiful. I just posted flowers from our garden. They make me smile. Beautiful.
Thanks
Love that dahlia! But they're all lovely... That rose is gorgeous - never seen one like it! My mum used to grow roses too... :)
Ah thank you. It's a stunner isn't it? And that rose... I don't deserve it to do as well as it is, I've dug it up and moved it 4 times! And each time it keeps coming back and flowering. I can't bare to leave it anywhere... (and we kept moving with work.) Hopefully settled for a little bit now. Long enough for it - and us - to put down roots!
It's a tough one - and wants to go along with you! :D And maybe even enjoyed the changes... (Haha!) But now it might feel at home and like you say, want to put down permanent roots...