Allium albopilosum
(ornamental onion, a ball of stars)
Allium schubertii
(an explosion of stars!)
Aquilegia (columbine)
with foxglove buds
Astrantia major ‘Shaggy’
(masterwort)
Berberis ‘Helmond Pillar’ and tulips
(barberry in a columnar bronze form
Billardia longiflora
with deep cobalt berries!
Brugmansia and Canna
at Joy Creek Nursery
Canna ‘Pretoria’
at Joy Creek
Carex ‘Evergold’
(ornamental grass)
Cerinthe major purpurascens
(my favourite annual)
Cerinthe major purpurascens
(honeywort)
Cestrum
(a lovely shrub)
Clerodendrum trichotomum
(blue fruits against pink calyces...wow!)
Cosmos ‘Seashells’
(Another favourite annual)
Cosmos and Lilies
(Cosmos has feathery, textural foliage)
Cotoneaster
has many wonderful forms
Creeping Thyme
on the Long Beach beach approach
Dahlia frog
(tree frogs are like small jewels)
Dahlia, Sweet peas, Lilies
in my old Seattle garden
Darmera peltata
has striking pink flowers in early spring
Decaisnea fargesii
(blue bean shrub)
Decaisnea flowers
are followed by blue beans
English Delphiniums
at Joy Creek Nursery
Dicentra spectabilis
(bleeding heart)
Digitalis
foxglove
Eryngium maritimum
(sea holly)
Eryngium
possibly yuccifolium
Erysimum 'Bowles' Mauve'
has almost year-round flowers
Euphorbia characias wulfenii
offers a blast of springtime chartreuse
Foeniculum vulgare ‘Purpureum
(bronze fennel, lacy and licorice)
Fuchsia and Chelone
(pink turtlehead blooms in fall)
Gaura lindheimeri ‘Whirling Butterflies’
(a tall perennial with delicate white flowers)
Gunnera manicata
also known as dinosaur food
Helianthemum ‘Wisley Pink’
on the beach approach
Hellebore
(a winter beauty)
Hemerocallis ‘Ice Carnival’
(daylily)
Hostas and Astilbe
in a damp shady spot
Hydrangea quadricolor
(leaves of white, grey, cream and yellow)
Iris
(a dark bearded one)
Iris pseudoacorus ‘Variegata’
by my streambed
Iris
(Pacific coast hybrids)
Knautia macedonica and Lychnis
scabiosa and rose campion
Lavatera 'Barnsley'
(shrubby, with non-stop pink and white flowers)
Leycesteria formosa (Himalayan honeysuckle)
(the berries taste like burnt sugar)
Lilium orientale
(with astounding fragrance)
Lilium 'Purple Waters'
in my Seattle garden
Lilium ‘Golden Spendour’
with a frog jewel
Linaria purpurea
(lovely, airy toadflax...and a bee)
Melianthus major ‘Antenow’s Blue’
with oriental lilies
Narcissi
(one of many...my favourite flower)
Nectroscordum siculum
also known as Allium bulgaricum
Ophiopogon planiscaspus nigrescens
(black mondo grass)
Papaver orientalis
with a bee
Persicaria bistorta ‘Superba’
by my pond
Pulsatilla vulgaris
(pasque flower)
Rosa ‘Ghislane de Feligonde’
(many small flowers of apricot and peach)
Rosa 'Graham Thomas'
and a perfect little fat frog
Rosa 'Graham Thomas'
and Asiatic lilies
Rosa 'Kathryn Morley'
(a fragrant David Austin rose)
Rosa Roxburghii
(the fern leaf rose)
Salvia leucantha and Coreopsis
in autumn
Salvia elegans
(pineapple sage blooms into late fall)
Salvia leucantha 'Emerald'
blooms into late fall
Salvia uliginosa
(bog sage, a late bloomer)
Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’
is lovely in all its seasonal changes
Thalictrum 'Hewitt's Double'
(meadow rue)
Tulips, fringed
with delicate crystalline petal edges
Plants: Flowers, leaves, buds, bark, and berries; Colours complementary and sharply contrasting; bees and frogs and drops of dew....Enjoy this tour of the plants in my life.
