My favorite color in the garden! Your stand of ironweed is impressive.

Ohhh, that ironweed is very nice, I should give it a try !!

Very nice Christopher! I adore Vernonia - Ironweed and so do the butterflies. You should definitely give it a try FB!

How lovely! I love the color purple (one of my faves in the garden) and your garden is just so wonderful anyway. I love the rustic fence and the gentle, easy, relaxed feel of it!

:)

Dee

diggerdee, I call them the wild cultivated gardens for a reason, but it is time to weed whack outside the fence. It takes a touch of order to get the idea of garden across.

Dee and I see purple the same...and lots of it lol. Love the grasses too! I planted some ironweed last year, a much shorter variety as i had no place for the tall one...bummer.. Not sure if I’ll like it? It hasn’t bloomed yet....Diminshed Asters decided to get happy this year for some reason? and have almost smothered them out. Crazy garden surprises....

There. The maintenance gardener feels much better. A new look for a new season. The sky-blue of chicory was done.

GardenHo, I had one good year with asters in this bed then the voles ate most of them over the winter. I have hopes my diminished asters might perk up one year.

Ahhh so clean and crisp with the softness of the grasses...Love it!

Those darn voles. I don’t have problems with those. Now moles and chipmunks are another story....

My asters performed well for many years. I had many colors and loved them for fall color. That was before their feet started to blacken each season. Then they just contnued to slowly dwindle away to almost nothing. What was left, I shovel pruned, or so i thought? So yes, quite pleasantly surprised to see these return....They should go well with the ironwwed as these ones are a light purple.

Hopefully you too....will get a nce surprise, good luck!