Mid summer bouquet
July 8, 2010
Mid summer brings a burst a colorful perennials and annuals: purple liatris (gay feather), pink echinacea (coneflower), purple and white scabiosa (pincushion flower), solidago (goldenrod), pink clary sage, phlox, rudbeckia ‘Indian Summer’, blue delphinium, poppy seed pods, variegated grass, and hosta leaves.
33 Barefoot Lane 
August 20, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Specatular colors!!
July 29, 2010 at 1:31 am
Oh, your bouquets are always gorgeous!
July 9, 2010 at 1:12 pm
I gotta ask – do you plant goldenrod in your garden or just pick from the road ditch? Is there a ‘garden’ variety? I pick lots of road ditch goldenrod to use as dye for yarn. I think it gets a bad rap – it’s rather pretty.
July 9, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Teresa,
I do grow it in my garden, I think the variety is ‘Peter Pan’, but I can’t remember for absolute sure. I have been known to cut a few stems growing wild, too. Goldenrod has a bad rep because it happens to bloom at the same time as rag weed, so is mistaken as causing allergies while rag weed is the real culprit. That is so interesting that you use it for dying yarn – I learned something new today!
July 9, 2010 at 4:17 am
I love this one. 🙂