June WOW!!!!…..Just about everything is flowering their hearts out now….Shasta ’Becky’… ‘Twilight’, ‘Sundown’, ‘Sunrise’, ‘Harvest Moon’, ‘Kim’s Knee High’ all the Echinaceas….Coreopsis……Most of the Rudbeckias (Maxima, ‘Goldstrum’, ‘Indian Summer’…..Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’……Verbenas…..Gerber Daisy…..Mexican Petunias…..Almost all the Salvias……There ain’t nothing like June in a flower garden in the South. Sometimes I just want to go to town and grab the first person I see and say “Hey, you gotta see this, have I got something to show you, I know you’re going to like it, trust me”……Its like you have this overwhelming, compelling urge to share something so beautiful with somebody, anybody, heck EVERYBODY…..That wonderful feeling of wanting to share the sights, smells and sounds of a garden is one of the best things about piddling around with flowers and feeding wild birds. There’s something to be said about being alone and having quiet, reflective time in your garden but there’s something to be said for sharing it with your loved ones and friends too…………..
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- Center Border – Echinacea ‘Harvest Moon’ & ‘Kim’s Knee High’, Shasta Daisy ‘Becky’ and ‘Coronation Gold’ Achillea
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- Center Border – Echinacea ‘Harvest Moon’ & ‘Kim’s Knee High’, Shasta Daisy ‘Becky’ and ‘Coronation Gold’ Achillea
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- Echinacea purpurea ‘Kim’s Knee High’ Strong Bloomer & Dwarf Size
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- ‘Kim’s Knee High’ Coneflowers’ Cones are nicely reflexed
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- Clean Golden Cones on ‘Kim’s Knee High’
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- Echinaceas purpurea ‘Harvest Moon’ Saul Bros. Nursery Introduction
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- Leucanthemum superbum ‘Becky’ (Shasta Daisy)
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- Echinacea cultivars in the black pot & ‘Becky’ Shasta Daisies in background
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- Buddleia davidii ‘Purple Emperor’ (Butterfly Bush) 4 to 5 feet tall
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- Shasta Daisy ‘Becky’
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- ‘Magic Fountains’ Delphiniums Dwarf Version of Classic Delphiniums
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- ‘Blue Fortune’ Agastache A real Butterfly and Bee magnet
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- Center Border Flower drifts with coneflowers, daises, yarrow and bee balm.
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- Center Border Flower Drifts
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- Center Border Looking Northeast
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- Euphorbia characias ssp. wulfenii Early Spring Flower Bracts Wands are cut off in June and you’re left with a nice foliage plant the rest of the year.
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- Monarda ‘Jacob Cline’ with Lobelia ‘Queen Victoria’
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- From left to right Echinacea ‘Kim’s Knee High’, Rudbeckia ‘Goldstrum’, Echinacea purpurea & Rudbeckia ‘Herbstonne’ in corner.
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- Echinacea purpurea in foreground & Rudbeckia ‘Herbstonne’ in corner against the fence
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- Echinacea purpurea ‘Magnus’
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- Coneflower ‘Magnus’
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- More ‘Magnus’
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- Conies
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- Echinacea ‘Magnus’
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- Linda doing something & me watching Linda do it…:-)
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- Echinacea ‘Sundown’
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- Rudbeckia ‘Indian Summer’
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- Gerber Daisies in a Window Box
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- Bronze Fennel
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- Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ Backed by ‘Becky’ Shasta Daisies
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- Coreopsis ‘Creme Brule’ Long lasting blooms, drought tolerant
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- ‘Becky’ Daisy
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- Beautiful Bright California Poppies, reseed where they will, they’re almost always nice wherever they show up.
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- Veronica ‘Sunny Border Blue’
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- Northeast Corner of the front border.
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- Rudbeckia maxima Tall, Tall & Tall
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- Spreading petunias…….
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- Metal Cone Planters
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- Linda’s $2 half hanging pots.
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- No bad brickwork for a the first time and looks like the last time too…..:-)
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- The next owner of our garden is going to have some BIG SHOES to fill…..:-)
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- Ruellia brittoniana (Mexican Petunia) Plant it, Grow it BUT CORAL IT….:-)
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- Artemisia ‘Powis Castle’
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- Linda, The Most Beautiful Flower In Our Garden
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- 3 English Series Butterfly bushes ‘Blue Adonis’, ‘Purple Emperor’ & ‘Peacock’
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- Echinacea purpurea ‘Kim’s Knee High’ surrounded by ‘Coronation Gold’ Yarrow and ‘Becky’ Daisies
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- Drifts of 5 to 7 plants are the best way to display ‘White Swan’s or any coneflowers really.
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- In the evening, ‘White Swan’ coneflowers just jump out at you they’re so bright at dusk.
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- Echinacea purpurea ‘White Swan’ Comes true from seed so volunteers are no problem.
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- My most beautiful flower, Linda
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- Rudbeckia maxima (Cabbage Coneflower) Nice airty stems with long brown cones and bright yellow pedals. American Gold Finches love’em
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- Bird caught in flight & More American Gold Finches
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- Echinacea ‘Harvest Moon’, ‘Kim’s Knee Hight’ & Shasta Daisy “Becky’
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- American Gold Finches on their through Alabama, some stay, most migrate
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- Zebra Grass in pot with Monarda (bee balm) in background
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- Euphorbia characias ssp. wulfenii After removing stems with “old” bracts…..Now a nice evergreen plant
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- Euphorbia characias ssp. wulfenii Nice spring bloom of yellow bracts and nice foliage year round.
