I just couldn’t bear it! After perusing the catalogues and seeing all the great looking flowers i thought to myself “my flowers look just as great as those”! So, please, indulge me as I post pictures of my work in the garden. I go for color. I like to plan color schemes. Pinks and blues and whites and shades in between. I hope you enjoy these as much as I do!

‘Heritage’, below and left, is a David Austin English Rose and boy, is it fragrant! smells like it’s been dipped in rose oil and peaches!

“Crystal Palace” lobelia is perfect to mix with alyssum around walkways.

“Reine Victoria” bourbon rose

“Bourbons were the roses of Victorian England. They produce exquisite, large, full old rose blooms of many colors set upon strong, vigorous growing bushes. Bourbons are also favored with wonderful, heady fragrances. One great advantage of the Bourbons is that they are repeat flowering, profusely blooming in the spring, followed by intermittent repeat blooms of high quality into the fall.” (copied from the HeirloomRoses.com website)

The photo of the full bloom, below right, is from the HeirloomRoses.com website and is what my rose (pictured with lavender) will look like in full bloom. The combination of the pink and blue pairing is just stunning! I can’t wait for my rose to be fully open! open! mine at far right!

I have some friends who think that sweet alyssum is just a weed. not! It can get weedy looking after a couple of seasons BUT when it is paired with other plants it can sure look like lace! there are so many colors available now and it grows so fast. You just can’t kill it! I love it! The daisies are “english daisies” (of course!) -bellis perennis, and the lavender is spanish lavender-Lavendula Stoechas (actually, not my favorite. i love french lavender-Lavandula dentata the best. (from the websites i learn it’s a culinary lavender, not fragrant like english lavender)...fyi

Unfortunately i do not know the name of the miniature rose at right. I bought it at home depot. That’s one of the problems with buying plants at local garden shops that don’t grow them. They are either named incorrectly or do not have a name labeled at all. That may not matter to most people but i like to know these things.

Those are little “australian native violets” or just “australian violets” - Viola Hederacea in the background and also below around the rock. Their little heads are popping up all over! they fill in really well if you have an ugly spot or just to under-plant your rose.

OOhh!!

AAhhh!

Indulge Me!

The rose at left is “iceberg”, very popular for commercial landscapes because it is so hardy and heat resistant and it produces a mass of blooms, below!

My “Arabella” clematis, below, has bloomed! so blue! Beautiful!

“Blue Eyes” lobelia

Photographs just do not do this hydrangea justice! the bright fushia pink against the lime green is so beautiful! unfortunately i do not remember the name of this cultivar.

Even ordinary ol’ alyssum can be beautiful when paired with some ‘Blue eyes’ lobelia.