Hibiscus ‘Tie Dye’
Hibiscus ‘Tie Dye’ growing nearby in the gardens is also looking great today!
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Hibiscus ‘Midnight Marvel’
Hibiscus ‘Midnight Marvel’ is looking particularly fine in the garden on this early July day…nothing like a hardy mallow to welcome summer!
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Echinacea ‘Julia’
One more fab favorite from the garden today…Echinacea ‘Julia’. This wonderful coneflower is very compact and shows and grows well in the garden.
Echinacea ‘Fatal Attraction’
The coneflowers are looking so good in the garden now, I wish you could all see them. Here’s Echinacea ‘Fatal Attraction’…great black-purple stems, a compact habit, and just an all around great plant.
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Physostegia ‘Pink Manners’
Here’s our clump of Pink Manners obedient plant in the garden today. Physostegia ‘Pink Manners’ is a Darrell Probst introduction, and one of only two tightly clumping obedient plants on the market. Physostegia grows equally well in boggy soils or in fairly dry parts of the garden. Midsummer flowers are always welcomed!
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Ophiopogon umbraticola
One of the most incredible of the evergreen mondo grasses is the far too little-known Ophiopogon umbraticola. Here it is in flower now for us. It makes an incredible tight clump, grows a maximum of 6″ tall, and is the most winter hardy of all the ophiopogon species in cultivation.
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Manfreda maculosa
We’ve been enjoying the flowers on the amazing Texas native Manfreda maculosa over the last few weeks. Residing in our full sun rock garden, Manfreda maculosa is first cousin to both agaves and tuberoses as you can see with the amazing flowers that appear atop the 2′ tall stalk.
Perovskia – Russian Sage
Perovskia ‘Filigran’ is certainly one of the stars of the summer garden…as seen in our gardens this week. Here is a plant that grows as well for us as it does in the mile high city of Denver. Full sun and decent drainage and you’ll be rewarded with this type of performance all summer. I
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Rant of the Day
I’m in the midst of writing, measuring and researching plant descriptions for the fall Plant Delights Nursery catalog and keep coming across on-line references to Penstemon schmidel. The only problem is that this is not, nor has ever been the the name of a Penstemon species. Kasimar Schmidel is the 18th century botanical physician that
Back patio garden
Here’s a photo of our back patio garden this week from Anita’s office window. You can see the Lychnis ‘Orange Sherbet’ in the back right corner by the deck.