The wedding season is in full swing and blue seems to be the colour of the moment. As we bask in the summer sun here are this weeks ‘Six on Saturday’ from the garden. All seem to be loving the hot weather.
One: Lavender
Two: Echinops ritro
Three: Ageratum (with Clary Sage in the background)
Four: Eryngium planum
Five: Cornflowers
Six: Sweet Peas
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Beautiful blues each and every one of them 🙂
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I admire your bevy of blues. A cooling feeling for your hot weather! Now to find out if that echinops will grow here…
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We find Echinops very resilient to very dry spots in the garden. Once it gets its tap root down deep it is off and running.
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Beautiful blue selection – I wonder whether blue flowers tend to be more drought tolerant?
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A very interesting idea – I wonder.
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What a geometric masterpiece Echinops ritro is. Great picture.
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All so beautiful. And cooling!
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How wonderful to see real blue flowers. That sweet pea is quite lovely. I once rented a house where the globe thistle had self seeded hither & yon. My landlady told me it was Miss Whilmott’s ghost. Certainly acted like it! They are, as Jim said, geometric wonders. What’s between the clary sage & ageratum, the really really blue flower?
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The light blue and slightly pinkish flowers are ageratum. The deep blue is Clary Sage ‘Oxford Blue’
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Miss Willmott’s ghost is a type of Eryngium (Eryngium giganteum) rather than Echinops I think.
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Yes, they don’t even resemble each other that closely except maybe in colour. But for years, I called our globe thistle by that name until someone knowledgeable referred to their globe & I thought, wait a minute . . . it’s how I learn.
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