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.

Passionate Purple

I had planned to head out to the garden to piddle, but instead I sat down to import images from my camera. Wow, I opened the first image of Dalea purpera. An outstanding landscape form from a native Kansas plant. Check these images out and go get some!

Dalea purperea-Purple Praire Clover with Nasella tenuissima and Perovskia atriplicifolia

 Petals appear from the bottom first.

 With Achillea millefolium 'Terra Cotta'

 Grouped with Nasella tenuissama

Natives gone wild?

Awash in GBBD 6 of 12

How can you not love Rudbeckia hirta and that bright sunny color. Lost the tag on this one.

As close as you can get to a black flower. Alcea from a big box.

Light pink and gray, one of my favorite color combos. Alcea rosea 'summer carnival' and Artemisia 'powis castle'.

Newly planted this past fall via bare root plants, Dalea purpurea-Purple Prairie Clover.

 Dalea purpurea, Perovskia atriplicifolia 'Little Spires'-Russian Sage 'Little Spires', Stipa tenuissima-Mexican Feather Grass, and Alchillea millifolium 'Terra Cotta' in the background.

Profiles:

And I leave you with the late great giant mullien-Verbascum thapsus.

Happy Garden Bloggers Bloom Day! As always follow fellow bloom busters from everywhere @ May Dream Gardens.

Yes, that's right! It's a weed. And cowboys used to use it, if you know what I mean.