Daylilies

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See this cute little plant to the left of the portulaca?
At about 3″ tall, this may be the world’s shortest daylily. :)
I had ordered several daylilies a few weeks ago from Gilbert Wild, and since they cut them off before shipping, what I received were very healthy root clumps with just a bit of foliage. I planted this one and surprisingly, it had a bloom right away! (It’s a little taller now.) :)

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Pow Wow Coneflowers

I bought three small plants of Pow Wow Wild Berry Echinacea early this spring, and they have done so well and I like them so much that I went back and bought ten more! These new coneflowers are much shorter (20″-24″ tall) and have more branching and more flowers than other echinacea. The flowers are very intense in color, and the plants are strong and compact, no staking required, even on a slope. I really like them. The first three I bought are planted in the slope bed, and I also got 5 more of the Wild Berry and 5 ‘Pow Wow White’ which I planted in the gazebo bed. The newest ones were tiny little plants I planted on July 1st (yes, in this heat) and they have already put out lots of new growth and flowers and buds (photo at left). I think I’ll be collecting seeds from these this fall so I can spread them around even more next spring.

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Echinacea purpurea ‘PowWow Wild Berry’ closeup

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A wider view showing coneflowers in flower bed

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Flowers and foliage

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Hardy Hibiscus

This one gets about 3 feet tall, flowers as big as dinner plates. I have it in the slope bed above the gazebo. Easy to grow, gorgeous right now.

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Hibiscus moscheutos ‘Luna Blush’

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Summer Blooms

Just random shots from around the garden. Click photos to view larger versions.

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Shasta Daisies in back porch bed

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Chinese Forget-Me-Nots & Rudbeckia at bridge

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Gladiolus

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Stargazer Lilies and Monarda ‘Raspberry Wine’

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Border Dahlias

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Volunteer Sunflower at edge of Secret Garden

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_{Bidens and Ageratum, Rudbeckia and Zinnia ‘Profusion Knee-High Red’, Bee Balm in front of purple butterfly bush}

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_{Mixed container (Sunpatiens, Alternanthera ‘Grenadine’, Euphorbia ‘Diamond Frost’), Coneflowers, Torenia ‘Purple Moon’}

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_{Zinnia ‘Swizzle Cherry and Ivory’, Collarette Dahlias: ‘Goldalia Scarlet’ and ‘Mary Eveline’}

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_{Strawflowers, Supertunia® Vista Silverberry, Caladiums in a container in the secret garden}

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_{Portulaca oleracea, Anise Hyssop, Astrantia}

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