I have some flowers to flaunt for Fertilizer Friday! So let's get busy!
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| This Primrose is still green and flowering in my garden. That should give you some idea just how cool our summer has been. |
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| Liatris in the back garden is flowering, although the one in the front is done. |
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| Echinacea 'After Midnight' is flowering, love those dark stems! |
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| Coreopsis 'Red Shift' has just started flowering. This is a tall, sturdy perennial Coreopsis. |
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| The outer edges of the petals are actually much more yellow than the picture. As the fall weather cools, the flower should shift to all red. |
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| My Lobelia cardinalis looks good with the dark foliage of Chocolate Joe-Pye Weed behind it. |
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| Red is such a difficult color to capture, it always looks so bright. I know there are tricks, someday I'll haul out my camera manual and really learn how to use all my camera's features. |
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| I bought this dark-leaved Angelica back in the spring at one of the spring sales. Now it's flowering. |
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| Like the Lobelia, it also has the dark Joe-Pye leaves behind it. |
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| Another species Echinacea in the sunny perennial bed. It is the only one there, so it gets kind of lost. Next year there will be lots more (at least, that's the current plan). |
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| The single Rudbeckia in the same bed has just started flowering. |
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| I'm wondering if I should just start thinking of this as a fall flower. |
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| Panicum virgatum 'Rotstrahlbusch' is sending up seedheads. Soon the foliage should start to redden. |
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| Snowberry/Symphoricapos albus sports a few of the white berries that give it its common name. |
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| The flowers on this whitish Stokesia laevis 'Mary Gregory' never open any further than this. I'm kind of disappointed in it, I may shovel-prune it. |
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| One of the Dahlias I got at a plant swap this spring is showing off pretty peach-colored flowers. |
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| Love this Dahlia too, it's called 'Arabian Night.' |
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| A long-time favorite, from the very first year I started gardening, my Stargazer lilies are looking and smelling pretty glorious. |
Well, that's pretty much it for now. Although we have had some pretty hot days in the 80s lately, and warm nights, I do think the garden is winding down.
As I posted previously, I am already thinking about next year!
