This plant is more than 6 feet tall. Moving in closer …
Digitalis ferruginea
Category: Biennials
Biennial plants I grow.
Early July bloom day scans
I know, bloom day isn’t until Tuesday. But I had some time on my hands last night to work on these and time tonight to post them. Sorry to jump the gun. Holler if you want IDs. There are some weird things in there.
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Whitish:
Pinkish:
Purplish:
Warmish:
Solstice pix
Finally getting around to posting the rest of the pictures from last weekend. Below is the front garden with the borrowed scenery from the wetland and ridge. One of my favorite scenes, despite the ‘bad haircut’ look from having just weed-whacked.
Ladybug in Japanese lilac.
Scotch thistle bud.
Phlomis further along. Am really starting to like this plant.
And some more foxglove pix…
It’s not exactly Digitalistan
This isn’t as impressive as Hank’s Digitalistan. But this little patch of self-sown foxglove makes me smile.
Some closer looks …
This one is a little soft and shaky. Will try again tomorrow.
Clipped verbascum
Six weeks ago, Kim (aka blackswampgirl) over at A Study in Contrasts was curious what would happen to the verbascum that I topped for one of my June bloom day scans.
It didn’t take Tracy DiSabato-Aust to predict this one: It threw out some side flower stalks from just below the cut, bloomed later and stayed shorter.
The image below also shows off one of the other features I like about this verbascum. After a good rain, the petals scatter like confetti and collect on the lower leaves.
And of course, I can’t shoot a verbascum without shooting the honeybees:
And this one with another pollinator:
