Hydrangea

This flowering bush is doing well this year but has only produced two blossoms.

Hydrangea

This snow ball bush does well every year in the green garden.

Ferns

These ferns do very well in the green garden every year.

Rattle Snake Master

 This grows perennially in the wildflower garden. The

name refers to the legendary positive result of applying a paste of the boiled

roots to your rattle snake bite.

 

Horse Mint

Much to my surprise this is a monarda (citrioda). Also
lemon beebalm. When the leaves are rubbed there is a lemon scent.

Yellow Coneflower

-Ratibida pinnata. These grow all summer in the wildflower garden.

 

Purple Monarda

There are two huge wildflower "rooms " full of this flower.

 

 

Double Daylily

 - The wonder of gardening is highlighted when you go out

and find a beautiful flower that surprisingly comes from nowhere such as

this deep orange colored daylily that showed up in the wildflower garden.

 

Daylily

Another subtle color for today's daylily.

 

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Purple Loosestrife

 Lythrum  salicaria. This has done very well on the berm

for years with no indication of invasive activity.

 

Shasta Daisy

 It seems I can only get them to do well from seed. I bought 

some plants and not one came back. These were from seed last year and 

have come back nicely. 

 

Field Coreopsis

Field Coreopsis in the wildflower gardens.

 

 

Ratibida

 Ratibida columnifera -Prairie coneflower. This is also called Mexican Hat.

I like the feathery leaves as much as the flower. 

Scarlet Flax

 Linaceae - Linum rubrum These loud red flowers grow in the wildflower

garden and the seeds hail from Texas.

Lily

 I obtained this lily last year. It has really flourished.

 

 

Daylily

 It is peak time for Daylilies. This year they are growing like gangbusters. Daylily

is the non-scientific name of a species of the genus Hemerocalis and as I have 

said before is not a true lily (Lilium). In case you would like to start collecting

daylilies it should not be a problem. There are over 60,000 registered cultivars.

 

Monarda

Monarda - Also Bee Balm   The short break was occasioned by a brief

hospitalization. Your Constant Gardener lives reality gardening - nothing

artificial about it.