There are masses of some very pretty purple and white flowers blooming in the garden right now. I think the deeper purples really highlight the pure whites they are in flower with. A lovely colour combination!
Salvias have fast become one of my favourite plants in our sub-tropical garden. They are colourful, fragrant, long-flowering, hardy and bees love them! I have quite a few different varieties growing now. This particular one, grown from a cutting, was given to me by a friend. It's thriving in the garden, covered in a mass of flowers. Whenever I see it, I think of my lovely gardening friend.
Wild Iris
A row of these strappy plants stops soil, from our driveway garden bed, washing into the rocky path we've made along one of our side boundary fences. Every single one of these plants came from the division of a clump I have in another part of the garden. They are incredibly hardy and readily self seed so you need to be sure you want them in your garden before you plant them! Wild Iris is sometimes called Butterfly Grass. Their masses of white and lilac flowers, fluttering about on the tops of their longs stems, do remind me of butterflies.
I remember this old-fashioned shrub from the gardens of my childhood. It's so pretty when in bloom; covered in flowers that fade from a deep purple all the way to white. It has a sweet fragrance too. Rather nondescript when not in flower, it's stunning when covered in a profusion of purples and white.
What colours are you noticing in your garden right now?
Meg
What colours are you noticing in your garden right now?
Meg
You have different shades of purple and white flowers. They are all beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI have purple, magenta, red and dark pink flowers in the front yard now. :)
Your front yard sounds pretty and colourful, Nil. Meg☺
DeleteI have quite a few salvias in my garden too, they do so well in our hot, dry summer. There isn't a lot flowering in my gardens at the moment, some things have just finished flowering and others, like my roses, haven't started.
ReplyDeleteDalvias really are so hardy! Perfect for our Summers that can get so hot! Your roses must be beautiful when they bloom, Jan.
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Things are just starting to die off right now here :( Beautiful flowers. I love the white irises with the white smaller flowering plants. And the old-fashioned shrub...never seen anything like it! so pretty and flowery. Andrea
ReplyDeleteHi Andrea. The smaller flowering plants in the photo with the iris are seaside daisies. They are a lovely ground cover. Meg🌼
DeleteVery pretty Meg, purple is my favourite colour, we picked up some salvias from Freecycle last week not sure what colour they will be.
ReplyDeleteYou will get some lovely colour when your salvias bloom, Marlene. They come in a wide range of hues. Meg☺
DeleteI think purple, blues and white are my favorite garden colours Meg. Yours are so pretty. I'm reminded to collect the wild iris plants that a friend has for me. I've got a mish-mash of colours here, all from cuttings and gifts from friends.
ReplyDeleteLots of plants in my garden began as cuttings too, Sally. It's lovely to get and to share plants. Meg🌼
DeleteYour Butterfly Grass we call Fortnight Lily. They are very popular here in dry California for the reasons you mention, and are used a lot in parking strips and commercial installations. I had one on the far side my swimming pool (when I had one) where it was hard to get irrigation, and used to soak it only once or twice a summer. Their flowers are awfully pretty for such an unfussy plant!
ReplyDeleteThey are as tough as old boots, aren't they! Meg🏵
DeleteMy mum has the same plants growing in her garden and they look lovely. I'm very challenged when it comes to gardening (everything dies or a cane toad jumps out at me and I'm done). You are inspiring me to try planting a few pots though, I might be able to manage them I hope! xx Susan
ReplyDeleteI suggest petunias for pots, Susan, because they are so colourful and easy care flowers. Meg☺
DeleteAll your purples and whites look lovely Meg. We call that iris Council Iris, because as someone else said, they're planted along meridian strips and in parks. My garden is mostly hot colours.... the keyhole bed I started in winter is now flowering, and they're mostly orange and yellow, and nasturtiums self-sow everywhere since the flood. They make a good ground cover, so for now I just leave them be.
ReplyDeleteYour keyhole bed sounds pretty, Nanette. I have got my eye out for some nasturiums as I am keen to plant some in my garden. Meg☺
DeleteI'm not a lover of Iris, but your wild Iris has me interested. I must be changing my taste in plants because I have already this week purchased a second grass for the garden. Lovely pretty flowers in your garden.
ReplyDeleteI think our taste in plants can change over time, Marlene. For a long while, I wasn't interested in succulents but now I am a tad obsessed with them. Sometimes, it's the qualities of the plants, like drought tolerance, that help to change one's mind. Meg☺
DeleteGosh, they are pretty. Summer is finished here in my corner of England but I still have masses of cosmos and gladioli. My evergreen/gold shrubs are looking really pretty too. They add a very welcome hint of colour through the drab winter months.
ReplyDeleteI love cosmos, Cherie. It's one of my favourite Summer flowers. So pretty! Meg🌸
DeleteI have a variety of colours, Meg. Lots of pink and mauve and I just love the dark red of my Oklahoma rose. We used to have Yesterday Today and Tomorrow. Not sure what happened to it but it looked lovely.
ReplyDeleteYour rose sounds just gorgeous, Chel. I have only one surviving rose bush, Duchesse de Brabant, and it's in bloom now too. Meg 🌹
DeleteWhat a gorgeous garden you have!!! We have two purple flowers blooming. I have no clue what they are, but they're lovely all the same. Next year when my daughter's in school full-time, I have big plans to basically massacre my entire yard and rip out all the weeds and overgrowth and half-dead cactus that have been sitting there since we moved in (my daughter was, um, not the kind of child you could trust to stay close by while outside, and I didn't trust that she wouldn't run off to the nearby highway). I'm very much looking forward to being able to beautify my green spaces. :)
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you have big plans for your garden, Stephanie. It can be so exciting to start again in a garden and plant what you love. Meg☺
DeleteSo pretty...we have a new budgie and he's purple...poor thing has had about 6 name changes in 3 weeks...hard to decide on what suited him. Have a great weekend.
ReplyDeleteYour new budgie sounds very pretty, Kathy. I wonder what name you'll settle on?? Meg☺
DeleteYour purple and white flowers are beautiful! One of my friends gave me a wild iris/fortnight lily plant, but it died in our summer heat! My garden is rather lacking in flowers, right now - I have the blue salvia I planted in the front, doing their best to flower and some pink oleander in the back garden. That's about it.
ReplyDeleteYour Summers must be really hot, Bless. We get scorchers here and the wild iris have done well so I was surprised tp read your plant didn't survive. Meg ☺
DeleteI love salvias too, they are so tough and hardy and come in such beautiful colors!
ReplyDeleteYour garden is looking lovely. I tend to lean towards the purples too.
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I don't think I could ever have too many salvias, Emma. I just love how hardy they are and the colours and bees and butterflies they bring in to the garden. Meg Xx
DeleteBlue flowers, and their close cousins, purple flowers, are my favourite colour! I have yesterday, today and tomorrow growing in my garden to, and I love it. It’s such a hardy plant too.
ReplyDeleteBlue flowers are my absolute favourites soo, Cheryl. The cornflowers have been gorgeous this year thought the rain has finished them off now. I have lobelia in pots, amongst some petunias, and I love their deep blue too. MegXx
DeleteHi Meg, Those are such lovely flowers. I used to grow the wild irises, too. Your salvia is gorgeous. Right now I have sunflowers, squash blossoms, and zinnias in bloom.The citrus are starting to turn orange, as the nights become colder.
ReplyDeleteYour garden sounds lovely, with such pretty flowers and food growing too. I love seeing the first blush of orange on our mandarins as they begin to ripen. It's exciting to think of the fruit to come. Meg:)
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