After Mid-day.

Bloom Day 2016.
It's been a while since I've posted as social media seems to take all the spare time these days. I'm somewhat nostalgic writing this blog post as writing them used to consume quite a bit of spare time, nevertheless I always enjoyed completing a post and interacting with other bloggers.
As always the 15th of the month means Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, a meme created by Carol at May Dream Gardens where fellow gardeners display their blooms every month.
Also I have a question, what photo editing software are any of you using as Picasa is gone? I wasn't able to edit any of these photos.

Echinacea purperea

It was nice to see a few Monarch butterflies and bees as I was out taking shots this late afternoon.

Eutochium maculatum - Gateway Joe Pye Weed

A few wide angle shots.

Above looking west from middle of property front entrance.

Rudebeckia, Echinacea, and Miscanthus 'Morning Light" entrance garden.

Looking East from the driveway. Amsonia , Etrochium, Baptisia, and Panicum Dallas Blues.

This would be a short list of things blooming today but I must move on. So happy bloom day.

Fine Foliage

Mighty fine! That's my usual words when I stub my toe or mash my finger. No this review is not of my vocabulary but the show of foliage texture in the garden. The day after Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, Pam at Digging hosts a foliage followup meme. This month along with the grand show of flowers we see an equal showing by foliage texture. Above we see Rhus thyphina 'Bailtiger', Tiger Eyes Sumac intertwined with the spring blooms. Also in the background Cedrus atlantica, Blue Atlas Cedar.

Helichrysum italicum, Ornamental curry contrasts with Iris siberica 'caesars brothers' seed heads and foilage, along with the before mentioned Cedrus.

 Nearby the Foeniculum vulgare, Bronze Fennel provides some foreground texure.

Triple play of Ascelpias incarnata, swamp milkweed, Rhus, and Panicum virgatum 'Dallas Blues'

Baptisia australis,False Blue Indigo, contrasting with Amsonia hubrichtii and Limun perenne.

 Dalea purpurea, purple prairie clover with Nasella tenuisima, Mexican feather grass.

In closure Lysimachia nummularia 'Aurea', Golden Pennywort with Festuca, Blue Fesce, Perilla frutescens var. crispa

Wildflower Wednesday May 2012

 The third Wednesday of the month brings us the Wildflower Wednesday meme. Gail at Clay and Limestone shares this day on her blogsite. Go there and share you natives with others who strive to bring more natives into our gardens.

 Callirhoe alcaeoides - Pale Poppy Mallow. I scavenged these beauties above in  a vacant industrial lot next to my work, a former Kansas prairie. Initially they were just a small rosette such as the photo below.

 Rhus typhina 'Bailtiger'-Tiger Eyes Sumac. This variety was originally found as a mutation in a cultivated nursery from R. typhina ‘Laciniata’. Although not native to Kansas this variety grows under the same growing conditions as the native varieties seen throughout our native areas. This plant was added to my hell strip last fall.

 Rumex crispus  L-Curly Dock. Ok, most people would classify it as a weed. (especially one of my neighbors), its the tall plant in the back ground. I wrestling with this one because it really likes this fertile area and has reached 5'. My original reasoning was to use the maroon seed heads as winter interest against the tawny foliage of the tall switchgrass.One probably would have done the trick, but like a glutton I dug three. ha. Found in the same lot.

Future gladness. Present gladness. Delphinium carolinianum  Walt.  subsp. virescens  (Nutt. ) Brooks-Prairie Larkspur. I wrote a blog post about this one last spring. Recovery and Recovery II. And yes I will try to recover some seed. Can't wait for this one to flower. And last but not least....the Milkweed!

Ascelpias incarnta-Swamp Milkweed