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Saturday, October 23, 2021

Purple Coneflower | Echinacea

Great for Attracting Butterflies June - July

Echinacea (ek-i-nay-she-ah). A genus or native perennials of the Asteraceae (Aster Family) Attracts butterflies all summer long - A favorite flower of the Monarch butterfly. - Easy sowing, germinating and growing - Heat tolerant.

References.

Picton, Paul, and Helen Picton. The Plant Lover's Guide to Asters. , 2015. Print.

Oudolf, Piet, Henk Gerritsen, and Noël Kingsbury. Planting the Natural Garden. , 2019. Internet resource

Problems with your Rudbeckia or Echinecea?

https://bygl.osu.edu/index.php/node/1845

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Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Nectarine

The nectarine tree is always one of the first trees to bloom.

I know we will have a frost after the first bloom but there are always fruit. Was this busy bee thrilled to have fresh nectar?

Bee and Nectarine Buds

Family | Rosaceae

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Roulette Minature Rose

I love this precious little pink rose. It has seen many homes and produced many offspring.

Either an early miniature or a relative of the old R. chinensis minima, this little rose has been found across Central and South Texas. The very double, one inch wide rosy-pink blossoms are produced constantly on a petite bush that responds well to pruning. A slow starter in the spring, "Pink Buttons" makes a fine little border or pot plant by mid-summer and continues to look good through the fall.

Highway 290 Pink Buttons or Rosa chinensis minima is usually covered with very double, tiny pink 'button' blooms through out the growing season. The beautiful one-inch blooms have a decided lilac purple cast to them, turning darker as they age. The petite bush has been found by Texas Rose growers in both south and central Texas. It blooms later in the spring and all through the fall. Its diminutive size makes it a perfect candidate for a pot or small garden border. There is another miniature pink rose very similar to this called Little Pinkie.

Rosa chinensis semperflorens and Old Blush

Illustration Frierich Justin Bertuch (1747-1822)

Rosa chinensis,1795

Family | Rosaceae

Sunday, March 21, 2021

Pink Your Garden

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One of Pantone's colors of the year for 2016 is pink (rose quartz). Pink represents compassion, nurturing, love and hope. I wanted to use photographs I haven't used on my blog but still find lovely. I hope you enjoy.

The combination with the silver of dusty miller accentuates the cheerful qualities that pink brings to a garden planting.

Albert Henry Munsell (1858 – 1918) was an American painter, teacher of art, and the inventor of the Munsell color system. Through his research and the development of his system we can better undertstand color.

Josef Albers (1888 – 1976) took Munsell's theory further when he taught about the interaction of colors.

Doesn't Pink look good with white/gray/silver?

Purplecone Flower

Peony

A new Lupine series from HM Clause in France is compact and floriforous. Lupines prefer warm, sunny days and cool nights. Try planting in masses for the best visual impact. A memorable sight for any garden lover, these beautiful plants grow into well-established clumps, with several stems rising up out of a single base. The author, Tasha Tudor, loved lupines so this could be a plant considered for a Children's themed garden, with a special Secret Garden storybook area.

Lupine, Pink Bicolor

‘Florida Sun' rose coleus Plectranthus scutellarioides ‘Florida Sun rose' Solenostemon scutellarioides

Evening primrose, Oenothera speciosa

Calibrachoa mini famous double pink vein sel

Calibrachoa mini famous double pink vein
EIt is a herbaceous perennial wildflower.
Originally native to the grasslands of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, northeastern
New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Color, pink

Hyden Photography

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Thursday, September 1, 2011

Family | Crassulaceae (Stonecrop)

Sedum

Doesn't it look great next to the burgundy Oxalis?

Autumn Joy Sedum, Flower color: Pink to red, Crassulaceae Family (stonecrops), Xeriscape Plant.

In my garden this is a perennial. My neighbor gave me a cutting and I have planted it in an old copper boiler. This year I tried adding curly purple basil for contrast and behind the boiler I have Mexican Sage which has gray foliage with a lilac shaded spiky flower and the height to rise above the boiler and sedum. The Mexican Sage has yet to flower and that may be due to our drought but I am anxious to see these autumn flowering plants work together.