I love purples, so I will post some of my (mainly) purple bed for you.
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Butterfly bush, petunia, gomphphrena and, purple heart.
kay

This garden phlox is in the shade and I was afraid it wasn't going to bloom - it did not disappoint!

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And, I had added some compact monarda earlier this summer, but then noticed the taller variety volunteering behind my daylilies.

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It's kind of neat to be discovering all this stuff, since we just moved here and it was all weeds last fall, I'm just now figuring out what everything is!

This is the same group of plants, but looking in the opposite direction and on a sunny day (this week):

SL Magazine is coming tomorrow so that "Grumpy" can see the deer resistant gardens. I postponed him for a year and finally gave in! He called me last week, so I've had only a few days to get the weeds pulled and the gardens mulched. Water, water and more water since we've had dry weather, too. It will probably rain tomorrow during the photo shoot! LOL

Cameron

My cousin's clematis, photographed when I visited her garden on Saturday.

roper: what's the plant in your top picture with the tiny violet purple blooms?

i just love to see y'all's photos - my gardens are so much younger and sparse, and you give me hope

~ freshair

It is the annual Heliotrope. I hope to save the seeds for next year.

According to Julie Neel, butterfly expert for South GA and North FL, heliotrope is a butterfly magnet.
I've never planted it, but purple/blue porterweed is as popular with butterflies as the pink and red zinnias and pentas.

Porterweed is on my list...The butterflies like my Dwarf African
Marigolds. I received them in a trade, and I love them. I hope
to do a fall group trade later..They call it Round Robin, but it is
a little confusing to me, with box 1, 2 and 3 etc,etc...

Does Anise Hyssop count as a purple or a blue? (they all look purple to me)

Here's the whole little plant.

Oh and I should mention the other pics in this thread are gorgeous! I wish I had that many flowers. I've got 1 lone echinacea bloom and these little johnny jump ups. That's it for purple.

Here is a link that might be useful: Grow Peace and Dance in the Garden

When you post these threads, it makes me look more closely at things to see what I do have. Thank you.

Here are a few of my purples:

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and purple hyacinth bean that is taking over the garden fence!

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I am still wondering if my phlox are purples or hot pinks...

A windowbox with verbena, salvia and lobelia -

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This is Clock vine, Thunbergia battiacumbi.
Jim
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lavendrfem, in the 4th photo, are those "Painted daisies"? The pink flower with the yellow center? I have some seeds for those and am trying to figure out what to do with them. They seem almost gaudy since they're so bright. Not that there is anything wrong with gaudy. :)

I have morning glories blooming again after some rain and cooler temperatures.

I love all these purple combos! I'm looking at this thread daily to see what's here.

Cameron

I just went out and it is overcast here right now and the phlox look purple, I think.....

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What is the upright dark purple in the 4th photo of Lavendrfem's post? that's what I'm looking for! (re: upright purple needed, post i made)

Glenda,
Your flowers are so beautiful! Wowzers!!!

Here is a purple in my garden that I did not plant - it is a native Oklahoma wldflower. Wild birds planted it me thinks. It grows near my Koi Pond and next to the chicken run.

Ironweed - blooms mid-late summer. 3-5 ft tall where it gets good moisture. I love it. It is a butterfly magnet. Monarchs and Viceroys love it, as do Coppers.

Purple Petunia

Dahlia, Orion (pale yellow with red-violet edges)

Dahlia, Lucca Johanna (pale yellow with light purple edges)

Purple Feather Grass

Mixed Liatris and Lavender blooms

Purple Coneflower - Echinacea Purpurea (native Oklahoma wildflower)

Fannick Phlox, Echinacea, Magnus (Coneflower) and Tiger Lilies

Fannick Phlox - closeup

Purple Coleus

~Annie

Here is a link that might be useful: Purples and more in my PhotoBucket

Raptorfan, I think it is a perennial salvia; just look for one that the description calls darkest. Marcus is a variety that is dark and there are others.

Annie, enjoyed the new additions to your album.

We have ironweed scattered over the farm but I don't have any in the yard. I used to enjoy brush hogging to see the wild flowers and butterflies on them, but DH does all that now.

I'm so glad I keep maps!

Raptorfan- it's called East Friesland Sage

Here is a link that might be useful: East Friesland Sage

Such lovely purples! It's one of my fav colors and I can never get enough of it in my garden. I have purple columbine, clustered bellflower, dark purple delphinium, Johnny-Jump-Ups, something that may be wild phlox that keeps returning from an area I planted years ago with a wildflower mix. Had a few others but they haven't survived our winters.

I'm taking more time to take pics altho am still a very amateur photographer.

Here's a dark purple which *may* be monkshood altho I'm not sure so posted another thread in an attempt to ID it. I'll post it here as well since I have the link code copied.

Here's my tall purple delphinium which I've taken dozens of pics of and still can't get them to look as dark as they are IRL. This fence hasn't been painted this year as will be removed when the new fence is done.

Clustered bellflower. Also darker than in pic.

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Iris sicula which bloomed last month.

I've been very pleased to see these little Johnny-Jump-Ups this year as they've been scarce in my garden in the last few years. Previously I had lots of them but must have weeded or mulched too much.

I can see I have a lot to learn about taking pics. Shade would have been better to see the colors.

fox, Do I have purples? Does a dog get fleas? Let's see PERENNIALS & RESEEDERS: 3 or 4 salvias, dls, clems, heuchera leaves, zebrina, hosta, meadow rue 'Lavendar Mist', monarda, astilbe,sedum, leaf of prunus cistena sandcherry shrub, phlox, and the chives are pretty well spent, but the lavendar mums are budding. ANNUALS: impatiens, New Guinea imps, purple leafed hibiscus, a large leafed clover looking thingie, a purple wandering ?, purple spikes, coleus, irisine, petunias, cleome, verbena, angelonia and usually have heliotrope, but couldn't get nice ones this year. Also, I wanted purple hyacinth beans for the first try, but couldn't find them and I want an elderberry(MN nearest look-alike to Japanese maple, but more purple in hue. Can't think of any more off hand.
gramma jan

One of my Rose of Sharon shrubs started blooming today - One flower is open. It has pretty purple flowers. It is loaded with buds, so much so that the limbs are drooping down.

~Annie

I almost forgot!

ChickenMom (Debby) sent me some Verbena bonariensis seedlings in June...and they have grown and are getting ready to bloom!
Yeah! Thanks SOOOOO MUCH Debby!
I am so pleased!!!

~Annie

Clematis right outside my front door...

This thread is pic heavy and slow to load now, but I wanted to show the tibouchina that has finally bloomed and didn't think it warranted a new thread.

Nell

In spring I have beautiful dark purple iris, but they're all gone now. These three are blooming now (the tibuouchina is almost finished); they are also part of my 'Summer Slideshow' posted in this forum a few days ago.

Tibouchina urvilleana:
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Common purple passiflora:
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Lavendar stoechas:
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