An older PhotoShopped image I did a couple years ago. I lost the Nigella, but I still have the image.
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‘Princess Di’ rose
This is one of my latest PhotoShopped images. The poor rose is one that was given to Elly when we lived in Cortland as a gift from a mother she helped deliver. I abused it there, moved it here, and have continued to abuse it. Wherever I put it, it always gets smothered by neighboring perennials, and it’s never gotten more than a foot high nor had more than a couple stems. But every now and then, I’ll notice it’s struggled to put out a flower or two, and they’re really nice.
‘Mt. Fuji’ morning glory
I tried a new morning glory cultivar this year, ‘Mt. Fuji’. At first I thought the foliage was diseased, but it’s just got an interesting mottling to it. I put them in a container and they’re climbing a trellis Marc made on the east side of the house next to the driveway.
Canna flowers
I generally grow cannas for their foliage, but the flowers on these are pretty nice too. They’re in containers this year (including a big, heavy concrete/hypertufa one I made last year to resist blowing over), but plan to put most of them in a bed next to the water garden next year where they should stay nice and wet without watering them every day or so.
Blue-bottle and auger ‘flower’ with Scotch thistle
Vignette with blue-bottle and ship-building auger ‘flower’ and Scotch thistle (Onopordum acanthium), the greyish plants in the foreground. The Scotch thistle is only supposed to be hardy to Zone 6, but three plants I grew from seed a few years ago have seeded themselve around pretty well. But that’s OK, I love them.
