Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think;
Enjoy yourself, while you’re still in the pink!
In the language of flowers the sweet pea means delicate or blissful pleasure.
Tag: purple
Verbena bonariensis
Airy and graceful, Verbena bonariensis is a great flower to attract butterflies to the garden.
Passiflora (Passion Flower)
The Passion flowers are really enjoying all the warm, sunny weather we have been having recently. They are such exquisite works of art!
Purple Flowers
I love cutting flowers from the garden to bring into the house. I recently bought this cute little basket and bottles recently and decided to go with a purple colour theme of this arrangement, which includes Thalictrum, scabious, lavender, poppy, fennel, allium.
Thalictrum delavayi
Thalictrum delavayi is just starting to flower and caught my eye today, along with the spider’s web suspended between the buds. Thalictrum, commonly known as Meadow rue, is such a delicate looking plant, with leaves like maidenhair fern, but it not only survives on our heavy clay soil, but positively thrives! It flowers all summer long and when foliage dies back, I cut it right down to the ground. It regrows the following Spring – with possibly a new seedling or two nearby.
Lavendula (Lavender)
The lavender is at its peak right now. One of my favourite flowers and loved by the bees as well! It is easy to grow in a sunny border or container. I always like to dry some of the flowers for winter flower arrangements indoors. Just tie together some of the flower spikes and hang upside down until dry.
Onopordum acanthium (Giant Scotch Thistle)
This Giant Scotch Thistle stands majestically in the border at around nine feet tall and has just started to flower, which the bees will go made for! It is a biennial flower which will self seed readily. When I see the seedlings pop up I move them to where I want them to flower, usually at the back of a border where they are not going to attack passers-by (the leaves are very prickly!)
Clematis Dr Ruppel
The clematis Dr Ruppel is looking stunning in my garden at the moment and has so many flowers on it. It is a strong climber with large striped flowers and the centre is very attractive. It’s got its head in the sun and roots in the shade so is very happy.
Campanula
Campanula is a very popular spring flowering rockery plant and I love the way it seeds itself into nooks and crannies in the garden wall.
Cotinus coggyria ‘Royal Purple’
This is Cotinus coggyria ‘Royal Purple’ and I love it when the sun shines through the new leaves. A great shrub which is so easy to grow as well as gorgeous.
