Agastaches! Salvia! Crocosmia! If you're a hummingbird, this is your month.
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| Salvia 'Black and Blue' |
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| A nightmare color combination of Agastache 'Ava', roses, and Stachys 'Helen Von Stein' |
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| Echinops ritro ruthenicus |
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| Eucomis comosa 'Sparkling Burgandy' |
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| Agastache 'Blue Blazes' |
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| Agastache 'Golden Jubilee' and Sedum 'Matrona' |
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| NOID crocosmia |
And grasses!
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| Stipa teniussima |
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| Pennisetum 'Redhead' and Pennisetum macrourum 'White Lancer' |
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| Bouteloua gracilis 'Blonde Ambition' |
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You're right, it's humming bird buffet time out there! Alison and I saw 'Blonde Ambition' at a nursery we visited this weekend and talked about how good yours looked!
ReplyDeleteIt's so funny, Scott and I were nursery shopping this weekend talking about you and Alison and Alison's Hypericum. Twinsies!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure your hummingbirds are in heaven, Heather. What sun conditions is that Eucomis in? Mine has nice foliage but no sign of any bloom and I'm wondering if it's a matter of too little sun exposure in its current placement :( .
ReplyDeleteI was so jealous of your 'Ava' yesterday...yours is so happy and mine just died for some reason this winter :-( I was super envious of how much happier your grasses are than mine...they are huge! I swear your whole garden is a month ahead of mine!
ReplyDeleteAll those deep blues and purples look so good with your house color in the background. And I love your NOID crocosmia backed by that dark canna leaf (or is that a red banana?) Still waiting for my salvia Black and Blue to open...
ReplyDeleteI love that crocosmia too! And you're right, it's Canna 'Wyoming.'
ReplyDeleteI guess that's the upside of living in a neighborhood with no street trees. :p That's such a bummer about your Ava! You want a cutting this fall?
ReplyDeleteIt's in full south-facing sun. It has very good drainage and I don't remember to water it very often. I've heard it can take three years to bloom sometimes, but once it finally does it will do so reliably from then on.
ReplyDeleteLove that Blonde Ambition! Mine was new in the ground last fall, and is still looking kind of thin. No sign of it flowering yet. Same with my Salvia Black and Blue. Ah well. Yours is fabulous!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. I just love your agastache. I'm inspired to put it on my wish list (I used to have it but it disappeared and I've forgotten about it until now).
ReplyDeleteThis might be a double post, but just wanted to applaud the full sun effects on the agastaches and grasses -- so upright! And also the 'Blonde Ambition' grass looks like the photo in the HCG catalogue -- which mine never did. I bet every hummer in the neighborhood hangs out in your garden.
ReplyDeleteThe goofy thing is that I bought half of my Bouteloua from Wind Dancer and they look terrific, while the other half are from High Country Gardens and look miserable. Go figure!
ReplyDeleteIsn't that funny how we don't even realize something has gone missing? Yet another reason I have to keep a blog to remember anything in my garden. :)
ReplyDeleteLove the Pennisetum and Bouteloua. The Eucomis is also very cool, though not something we would grow in these parts.
ReplyDeleteI have blue house envy - it all looks so good against the house! I love all your grasses, and the Blonde Ambition is spectacular! Nice!
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU for saying our house is blue! It looks blue to me but everyone else seems to see it as gray. I'm starting to think I'm colorblind. :)
ReplyDeleteI bought one of those eyebrow. Grasses from ' wind dancer' as well. I'd forgotten About it till I noticed those blooms the other day!
ReplyDeleteI like that you've gone for a riot of color , so have I ...
It's not a very interesting grass until it blooms but when it does . . . It's so good. Riots of color are for winners!
ReplyDeleteMy envy knows no bounds. I cannot grow salvia Black & Blue to save my life -- every year I plant a new one and get a flower spike, just one, and lots of bushy foliage. My agastache was lovely but did not come back from winter. And my Lucifer crocosmia are vivd red and nice, but only 3 or 4 came up from about 20 I planted. grrr. So here I am along with the hummingbirds, admiring all of yours --- and they look great!
ReplyDeleteDon't you just love Black and Blue Salvia? If I couldn't have that in my containers I wouldn't bother planting and the hummingbirds wouldn't bother with me
ReplyDeleteI bought mine for $2 at a clearance sale and I swear it was the best $2 I've ever spent. It's so, so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteIs it the snow that dooms the salvias and agastaches? I've been so thankful for them--they require so little care and they make me look like I know what I'm doing! :)
ReplyDeleteI think everyone in Portland has the same Eucomis. It's kind of funny how these trends spread.
ReplyDeleteNaah - you're not colorblind - your house is the perfect blue. I bet when you looked at the paint chip it seemed quite gray, but on that large of a scale it definitely becomes blue. It's an optical phenomenon called metamerism. You managed to pull off something very difficult for most people - as evident when you see all of the failed blue houses around town. Trust me - I set architectural colors for a living. Well done! You hit the head of the nail with your hammer (pun intended).
ReplyDeleteSo much to drool over here, and several things that have eluded my ministrations, like 'Black & Blue'. Oh, well...I'll just enjoy yours.
ReplyDeleteI swear I thought I bought 'black and blue' because I saw it in your garden! I bought it for $1 at Viscaya. If they have it again this year it might be worth the money to try again. :)
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