From Sunday’s walkaround …
Weekend pix: Tuberous begonias
Category: Annuals
Annual plants I grow.
Bluegrass Lane Open Houses July 25 and 26
Come visit the flower research and demonstration area at the Department of Horticulture’s Bluegrass Lane Research facility, featuring more than 1,000 varieties of perennial and annual flowers — many new or just coming onto the market.
Everyone is welcome from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on July 25 and 26. Bluegrass Lane is located off Warren Rd. near the Robert Trent Jones golf course northeast of campus. (See map.)
For more information, contact Melissa Kitchen: mjb239@cornell.edu
For a preview, visit the Bluegrass Lane Annual Flower Trials website.
More cerinthe
Like Nectaroscordum, this annual packs a lot of colors in a small space. I’ve grown it a couple times in the past. I think I’ll have to move it up into the ‘grow every year’ category.
Plants I should have put together
When I saw these shots from scattered spots around the garden on the thumbnails page, I wished that I’d put them all together in one place in the garden, too. The whites and purples work well together.
Verbascum. (Don’t know the species, but it’s seeding around nicely.)
Closer view
Cerinthe major
Purple-flowered tradescantia
White-flowered tradescantia
Purple-spotted foxglove
Another view.
A shrub whose name escapes me.
The verbascum I opened with, along with some Verbena hastata coming on. If the Verbena speeds up and/or the verbascum slows down, could be a nice pairing.
Ensembles
Coleus
Astilboides tabularis, tradescantia, Oenothera tetragona.
Whiskey barrel water garden.
