Wordless Wednesday
I love growing clematis. I think I’ve got seven or eight different vines! Not only do most of them flower prolifically at least twice a year, but when the flowers die off they produce attractive seed heads too.
Obviously this photo above is of a clematis seed head. Isn’t it kind of cute? It’s a bit like a broom or a brush isn’t it?
Do you grow clematis in your garden or on your patio?
I’m showing off my royal roses and flowers this Sunday. One of my sites has a prince and another a royal purple flower.
This rose is called Baronne Prevost and it’s an antique rose with a lovely damask rose scent. I love old roses with their quartered sections. This rose just looks full with many petals but when it first forms the petals are divided into four sections and it’s just lovely.
I think I can almost say that the Baronne is growing into a short tree as it’s holding at about eight feet tall and each year it’s main branches get thicker and thicker. That’s a tree or a large shrub, right?
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This weeks theme is Rows
What other tropical leafy plant has more rows in it’s colorful leaves than a Canna Tropicana? None that I can think of!
I love this plant. It’s foliage is so vibrant that it’s a pleasure to grow in the garden. You can brighten up a patio or an empty space in your garden bed with one of these lovely plants.
It’s flowers are just as showy. None of my cannas have begun to bloom yet this year. They are being very slow for some reason. I’m sure they’ll bloom soon though.
Wordless Wednesday
This is a Romantica Rose – Yves Piget. I thought the petals beginning to wilt and dry up on top looked kind of cool. Obviously this rose is on it’s last legs but it’s still very pretty with it’s raspberry colored petal tips.
I don’t know why, but this kind of reminds me of a desert. What do you think?
My white phlox is just beautiful this year. The flowers are perfect.
Did you know that Phlox David has a light scent too? We grow this right beside our patio – it’s lovely to look at and when we catch a little of it’s faint scent it’s nice too.
Do you grow phlox? It’s an easy plant to grow.
The black eyed susans grow right beside the phlox and it makes a lovely pairing when both plants are in bloom.
The phlox’ blooms will die off soon, but the black eyed susans will keep blooming pretty much until it starts to cool.
I’ve tried to pick a large variety of plants that bloom for either a long time, or rebloom several times through the season. I also have a lot of plants that bloom just in spring, just in summer and just in the fall so there’s always flowers around.
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