Monday, June 30, 2008

Flowers in my garden






















I love the perennial beds I have been creating around our yard over the past three years. I love how organic their growth is in pattern and colour. It feels good to liven the visual that is our garden with spots of colour and bursts of stems reaching in all directions. I was purposely looking for a garden that was not well-tailored or groomed. That's good good because what I have now got reminds me of what my hair looks like first thing in the morning: wild, flying in all directions, crazy curly, you know what I mean.

The flowers that I know the names of are:
Coneflower - although this yellow, orange and red beauty still has petals up in this shot
Red rose
Hollyhocks - the deep, deep purple are my FAVOURITE!! I don't really like the softer purple/pinkish hollyhocks but I don't HATE them either.
Daisy
Clematis
Yellow Rose - miniature
Lavender

There are then two other flowers, or is it three, that I do not know the names of. I am happy to be enlightened if someone wants to tell me.

I am excitedly waiting for the blooming of the black-eyed Susans, echinacea, lillies and flox.

2 comments:

Suna Kendall said...

I really like those dark purple hollyhocks. I don't think I have ever seen that color before.

Stephanie said...

stunning! I'm so impressed with your green thumb, Sam!