Serious Black clematis getting close!

Guernsey Cream clematis bloom

Baptisia Solar Flare

Baptisia Pink Lemonade

Love it all, Mike ,Teri and Rose! 😍

A few more blooming

Larry, do you know the name of that two color (yellow & bronze) iris?

It looks like a historic one that I've seen up here.

Thanks! Sunny

Lupine

Sweet William blooms

Sunny, very likely 'Sans Souci' (without worry); the now widespread early iris, "the iris which lost its name" (to Iris 'Honorabile').

SunnyinMichigan
I'm not sure what the names are as they were here when i bought the house 41 years ago.

Peony 'Sorbet' 24W21 10yo

SunnyBorders said: Sunny, very likely 'Sans Souci' (without worry); the now widespread early iris, "the iris which lost its name" (to Iris 'Honorabile').

Thank you Charlie! I have seen this in town around the oldest homes (late eighteen hundreds, early 19 hundreds) blooming quite faithfully every year. Appropriate for the name 'Sans Souci'!

A few Gladiolus.


This Gardenia is packed with blooms! It smells SOOOO good!


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purpleinopp said: Salvia farinacea is back from last year! YAY! 2 little spires aren't much but way better than the otherwise nothing that would be right there due to the brown-pants plant prices I saw last week.

This is coming along well!

Love the glads! I only just got a bunch of bulbs into the ground!

Fun! Did you get specific ones or a mystery assortment?

Lol, someone gave me a mystery box of about three dozen...a bit small but they look healthy. I also had a handful of reds I'd lifted because I was digging something else out awhile back. I love glads but they can be tricky in our summer heat.

That sounds like fun! They are a quick one-and-done here, then ignored until inflorescences start to show again the next spring.

Sunny, as you indicate, Sans Souci is very widespread. I think I even know how some of it got spread.

Mine came from the Timmins area, which is about 450 miles north of here; from my wife's grandmother's cottage garden on Barbers Bay. Her husband and herself were Americans, who moved up to Timmins, in 1915, to be involved in the then new gold mining industry. Grandma Dodge was an avid gardener who had the cottage built and personally established and maintained its garden. Even when I knew her, she brought garden plants up from the States, legally or not.

Beautiful glads, Tiffany. I don't have much luck with most glads, though I had a pretty one called 'Boone' which returned for several years before petering out.
These pictures are probably from 10 years ago.

Little yellow blooms on sedum ground cover

Penstemon

Speedwell

Daisy

Goatsbeard

Munchkin hydrangea



Blue Kazoo spirea

Serious Black clematis

Sapphire Indigo clematis



Lilac tree

Scott, Boone petered out for me too but then appeared many years later for a season I found Boone flowers were over faster than peonies. Too bad because I love the color and flower.

Charlie, Grandma Dodge sounds like a lot of fun!

Tiff, the scent from that gardenia must be incredible.

Lovely vista, Frank!

Rose, incredible variety. It must be so much fun to walk the yard everyday and see what is happening!

Thank you, Scott You're right, yours was a pretty one too!

It IS, Loretta!