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Your round up from cruising the garden this weekend …
Geranium
Tradescantia
Closer
Another bulb I’ll have to check my records on. An allium? Scilla peruviana.
Less fuzzy shot of firecracker flower, or as Chad reminded me, Dichelostemma ida-maia
Peonies on their way down. (They’re all the way down after today’s rains.)
Two entries in name that plant today.
This annual popped up near where I was hoping some cerinthe I grew in a container last year might be seeding around. Now that it’s flowering, even I know it’s not cerinthe. Name that plant.
This iconic WPA poster is so iconic, I can’t pin a name on the plant. Is it modeled after a real plant, or just an abstraction>
Cotinus outside the ‘garden level’ door to Plant Sciences (Tower Rd. side).
Closer
Minns, looking good in early summer.
More image dumping …
The dreaded bishop’s weed. But I think Piet Oudolf said you can’t have too many umbels in the garden.
A sporty dianthus I got from David Mitchell at the May Plant Sale.
Peonies, before they took their annual dive.
Tradescantia.
Another mystery bulb I need to look up.
Closer
Nice garden spot off Tower Rd.
Pix from two weeks ago. Tonight is catch up night.
Alliums
Closer
Lupine
Bearded iris in Minns Garden.
Mystery bulb. Will have to go back to last year’s orders and figure out what it is.
Bearded iris in Minns Garden.
