The evening primrose has been so pretty:
Blanket flower has been a great performer for the past couple weeks:
It seems fairly dense. I may dig it up in the spring and divide it. I have a couple little spots of sweet william in front of this that didn't bloom this year but will next year. Now that I know how tall sweet william is, I need to move it so it doesn't completely block out this blanket flower next year. I'm going to give a clump away to one of my coworkers.
Speaking of sweet william, it's all starting to brown and go to seed. I've got to spend a day eventually collecting all the seeds to winter sow.
The burgundy asiatic lilies have opened up:
The shasta daisies and black-eyed susans are just getting going:
I love how big these daisies are. I should take a picture with my hand in the shot for scale.
This little grasshopper has taken up residency:
The sempervivium in the rock garden are sending out chicks. The tall red one here is getting ready to flower:
Threadleaf coreopsis (aka Tickseed):
Stella d'oro daylily. I have two lines of this, one in the front yard, one in the back. I like how light yellow this is:
And a new daylily (can't remember the cultivar name) that I planted last year. I bought it at Ollalie Daylily Gardens and I'm going to have so many other new daylilies this year!
Lastly, delphinium that I started from seed two years ago:
It is so blue/violet. The petals are edged with a purple that makes the flowers look more iridescent.
I winter sowed these seeds and planted them in the spring of 2014. Last summer, I did have one little stalk that bloomed a bit. This year, I'd say there are about eight flowering stalks. I can't wait to see what these are like next year. They did require a diligent amount of protection/spraying to keep the woodchucks off this spring.
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