Lookin good Vera! I wanna move to Zone 5b or 6. I am so far behind now with blooms it seems.
Your blue flax sure looks better than mine a slow grower I suppose?

Love these too
Pattie

Make sure you don't sleep tonight!!! >I'm going sneak into your yard and dig Salvia officinalis. I really want to have this. Please folks, send me seeds!!! :P

Gorgeous!!!

pretty!!

I like the flax, I wish I had some of that!

Karen

Vera, how old are your garden beds?

They look just wonderful with all of those big, bushy perennials.

Lynda

Thanks :))

v1rtu0s1ty....I'll save seeds, but not from this round. These will get cut back for re-bloom :) Hey, I got a few white flowering ones too. Want some?

Busylizzy....Every spring I get somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 self-sown seedlings and those that aren't thinned out are full sized plants the following spring. Usually by late summer the newbies are blooming for the 2nd time on 8-10" clumps. Here's how....IF you want to thicken up a small blooming clump....go ahead and cut them back by half once the bloom phase is mostly done and BEFORE the seed pods mature (probably won't matter but they'll have more energy). Several more new shoots should emerge from the center :) I cut all mine back by half a few times a year.

Looking good, Vera. Beautiful.

Karen

Vera I love the blue flax I wish mine would of mad eit this year but they didn't luckily the person I traded with sent a ton of seed so I will be trying it again next year. Your pics give me hope that maybe someday they will make it. Thanks love the pics.

Paula

Looks great Vera, the maltese cross is georgeous!!

Alberta

Everything looks wonderful, Vera. Love the color of the purple kohlrabi.

Sure Vera, please save me seeds. I'll send you sasbe when it's ready! Thank you so much!!! :D

Oh, does blue flax have seeds? It is gorgeous! Oh, what's the plant in foreground in pic 6?

Thanks!

Your Maltese Cross is so beautiful! I planted some this year and I hope mine looks that good in a couple years' time.

Everything looks gorgeous, as always.

Thanks! This is about the only time of the year I think the Maltese Cross look good. In my garden the bottom halves get pretty ragged and ugly. This one HAS to have something planted below. After the blooms start fading I also cut them back by half.
v1rtu0s1ty,
That is Lavender and yes, Blue Flax goes to seed. Both of these re-seed like no tomorrow here too :)

Such a pleasure to view your garden beauties - you've outdone yourself this year, vera - -

Carrie

I seem to recall someone calling you the "Queen of Blue Flax" some time ago, Vera. They're sure right about that!

My Poppies that survived to bloom are pathetically face down in the mud. If they were standing they'd still only be about 10" tall. Guess they didn't get enough sun among the Iris and couldn't fight their way through the clay.

Next year they get sown in cups and planted out when tiny.

I love the Gaillardia aristata 'Burgundy'...unfortunately the groundhogs here love all colors of Gaillardia. Last year I had some that were like yellow rays with burgundy center. Sigh.

That Kohlrabi is a gorgeous color. What a flower that color would make.

Thanks for sharing your flowers...I always feel better after seeing all your beauties.