… that Julie over at the Human Flower Project chose one of my images to add to her tribute to the late poet Jon Anderson.
If you like flowers, you’ll love her website.
Oh yeah. Heavy frost last night. The banana tree is mush. It will be a dahlia-packing weekend this weekend.
Filed under Annuals, Other blogs,websites, Phenology by on Oct 29th, 2007. 2 Comments. 
In the 30s here last night. Â It looks and feels like fall outside, and everything looks (as jug band musicians say) ragged but right on the scanner.
Whites, including Sorbaria (reblooming again this year), Eryngium yuccafolium, Eupatorium purpureum ‘Joe White’, Artemisia, Miscanthus.
Dahlia, Solidago.
Aconitum, Ligularia, Physostegia, Achillea, Lantana, Chelone, Verbena bonariensis.
Ditto above with some wild Eupatorium thrown in.
Filed under Annuals, Art, Bloom day scans, Perennials, Phenology by on Sep 16th, 2007. 7 Comments.
Hastily prepared August scans. But this time of the year, it’s not hard to pull together four scanner-beds worth.
Albutilon, Veronicastrum, Hibiscus, bloodleaf:
Eupatoriums, coneflowers, goldenrod. I have no clue what the yellow flowers are. The grow on 6-foot plants that a neighbor gave me.
Liatris, hosta, butterfly bush, dahlia, lantana, viola, Persicaria (‘Firetail’ I think), Telekia?
Phlox, perlargoniums, spirea, fuscia, dahlias:
Filed under Annuals, Art, Bloom day scans, Perennials by on Aug 15th, 2007. 12 Comments.
Surfeit might be a little strong. Let’s just say there’s purple everywhere I look this time of year. Click images for larger view.
Coneflowers, of course.
In the front gardens, purple clematis amongst the goatsbeard and wild grape, and hosta flowers. (They’re not just for foliage, you know.)
Hibiscus moscheutos in the wet garden, dahlia in patio pot.
And the wetland is just loaded with Joe-Pyeweed. (I’m sure I’ll get around to my tribute to Eupatorium in the next week or so.)
Filed under Annuals, Perennials by on Aug 13th, 2007. 5 Comments.
I’m actually early to the party this time. With rain headed our way, I thought it good to go ahead and do this month’s scans. Click images for larger view. Apologies for lazy nomenclature and mis-IDs.
Update [7/15/2007]: As Layanee and Carol both pointed out, there’s a big article on scanning in the latest Horticulture (which has been sitting in my huge stack of unread gardening magazines). It’s by Ken Druse, so you know it’s gotta be good. (Print’s not dead. Sign up for a free issue of Horticulture.)
Monarda, Asian lily, sedum, spiraea, lychnis, Rosa ‘Cuisse de Nymphe’, allium, daucus, stachys (the other one), Scotch thistle.
Astrantia, viola, sorbaria (about to pop), verbascum, sedum, that weed that looks like fried eggs, digitalis, Verbena bonariensis, Verbena hastata, coneflower, teasel, rock garden campanula?, wild composite (aster?).
Digitalis, Asian lily, allium, astilbe, monarda, sorbaria (popped), astrantia.
Filed under Annuals, Art, Biennials, Bloom day scans, Perennials by on Jul 14th, 2007. 22 Comments.
