Flowers and fruit around town to feed the senses
Pink yarrow (Achillea millefolium) |
It's July and the living is easy (but the gardening in the heat and humidity, not too easy.)
I'm sharing with you some pictures taken from client gardens and elsewhere.
I hope you're enjoying summer 2014 wherever you are!
Maltese Cross (Lychnis chalcedonica) |
Blue spiderwort (Tradescantia spp.) |
Sedum spurium (Dragon's Blood stonecrop) flowers |
Lanceleaf coreopsis/tickseed (Coreopsis lanceolata) |
Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) blooms |
Asclepias tuberosa (butterfly weed) blooms with a hungry visitor |
Amelanchier alnifolia (Saskatoon berry) fruit. Many were still left on this shrub, even after I helped myself! |
Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) blooms |
Pollinator heaven! Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) and common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) |
Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower) |
Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower) at the Riverdale Farm in Toronto |
Lathyrus latifolius (perennial sweetpea) |
Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) at the Riverdale Farm in Toronto |
Echinacea "Solar Flare" Big Sky coneflower hybrid |
Perennial sweetpea (Lathyrus latifolius) |
Filipendula rubra (Queen of the prairie) at the Alexander Muir Memorial Gardens |
Queen of the prairie (Filipendula rubra) at the Alexander Muir Memorial Gardens |
White Trumpet Lily (Lilium regale) at the Alexander Muir Memorial Gardens |
Joe Pye Weed (Eutrochium maculatum) at the Alexander Muir Memorial Gardens |
English lavender (Lavandula angustifolia "Hidcote") at the Alexander Muir Memorial Gardens |
Astilbe x arendsii "Bridal Veil" at the Alexander Muir Memorial Gardens |
Pink Hollyhock (Alcea rosea) in a Swansea garden |
White Hollyhock (Alcea rosea) |
Alcea rosea (Pink Hollyhock) |
Gloriosa daisy (Rudbeckia hirta) in a Swansea garden |
Hydrangea macrophylla (Bigleaf hydrangea / hortensia) |
Phlox paniculata "Franz Schubert" ("Franz Schubert" Summer Phlox) |
"Franz Schubert" Summer Phlox (Phlox paniculata "Franz Schubert") |
Summer Phlox (Phlox paniculata) and Ox eye (Heliopsis helianthoides) summer combination |
Dahlia "Mystic Enchantment" |
"Sunny Wind" tropical hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa sinensis "Sunny Wind") |
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