I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date! So much going on in the garden but you'll excuse me for missing GBBD by two days due to wedding anniversary #29.
Without further ado...
Ajuga 'Chocolate Chips', cute as the name
Iceland poppy 'Champagne Bubbles', great coral color
Texas sage blooming in the kitchen garden along with Redbor Kale
Pea blossoms promise sweet, tasty peas in a pod
Echium 'Red Feathers' with spikes of pinkish-red flowers
Echium 'Red Feathers' with handsome spikes of reddish-pink flowers
Window Box with succulents, gomphrena and portulaca
Windowbox succulents paired with Gomphrena 'Fireworks' and rock rose
Honeysuckle 'Mandarin'
Mystery allium, can't remember what I planted, can anyone ID?
Salvia 'Purple Sensation' overhead view, spot the bee
'Crazytunia' trial plant from Viva! Plants, each bloom is a little different
It's easy to forget about foliage in this time of rampant flowering. I thought I'd stroll the garden and find great examples of fresh foliage still unfettered by four-lined plant bugs and meandering leaf miners.
Angelica gigas has wine-color veins and sharp serration
The slightly twisty blades of Allium tanguticum
A delicate heart-shaped leaf of Cercis canadensis 'Northern Strain' redbud
One of two uninvited Verbascul bombicyferum, mulleins allowed in garden
Like fluttery curled wings on Dwarf Ginkgo 'Jade Butterfly'
Soft fuzzy lambs ears, Stachys byzantina 'Helen Von Stein'
Blue green spears of Helictotrichon Blue Oat Grass 'Sapphire'