Honeysuckle makes the hummers happy

White Nancy

Lamium makes a great pot filler.

gardengus said:

Honeysuckle makes the hummers happy

Cinda, do you know the name of your pink honeysuckle cultivar? It's just lovely and has little of the yellow so typically seen on the pink varieties I've seen.

another photo with a bit more yellow
It is called gold flame , but you are right not much yellow

gardengus said:
another photo with a bit more yellow
It is called gold flame , but you are right not much yellow

Thank you, Cinda. I have been looking at Gold Flame of late, contemplating some for our cabin rural property. Honeysuckle is too aggressive for my small city plot. We stayed at a B&B in Corbridge, England (were visting Hadrian's Wall, as my husband was a world history teacher) on our 1980 6-week driving tour of the UK. Mr. Matthews, the B&B proprietor was inordinately proud of the ginormous pink honeysuckle just outside the diningroom window when I complimented it. It was pure-D pink with no yellow at all that was discernable from our seated position. It covered the entire end of the rather large garden/yard.

Sounds beautiful , did it smell as good?

todays bloom
hardy geranium (Biokovo)

this one fills a pot nicely and makes a good ground-cover.

It had a mild scent, but not as overpowering as I had anticipated when we walked out there to check it out.

Spiderworts blooming



I like the neon pink one but it has to stay in a pot because it spreads like a weed. the other three behave them selves.

coryopsis


veronica

Campanula
clustered bellflower

milkweed
butterfly weed

summer went too fast
some fall bloomers

bluebeard


sedum
these are in the same bed and look good together

39 degrees this morning not much more garden blooming time


toadlilies






my zinger tea hibiscus



tall asters


Mexican sage

BEAUTIFUL garden tour, Cinda. thanks for sharing.

still no frost freeze , so there are still some blooms


a late coneflower


several zinnia



and the pineapple sage , always a late bloomer

Cinda, that was a very beautiful visual tour of your garden at different times of the year. I may come back to this forum post every day just to soak up the beauty. Wow! It takes me back to when I had some of those things in my garden. I can smell the scents of the flowers and feel the sunshine on my back. What a gift to give this site! You are amazing!

Thank you
I am looking forward to spring
right now we have 22 with a couple inches of fresh snow.

Come On Spring !!!!