Katarina at roses and stuff hosts Blooming Friday each week and asked which flowers are especially pleasing to us at this time. Here are some of mine:
This is a seedling of 'Zwanenburg Blue' and a pink noid spiderwort. I love the lavender color.
It's so nice to see whole roses again after the scourge of Japanese beetles. This is 'Crepuscule', a fragrant noisette with lovely soft sunset colors.
A beautiful fragrant Crinum with the rather ridiculous name of Crinum x digweedii, also known as the Nassau lily and 'Royal White'. It was dubbed C x digweedii in 1820 and is thought to be a hybrid of C. americanum and C. scabrum. The stripes come from C. scabrum and the fragrance is wonderful, sweet and spicy at the same time.
And of course, seashore mallow (Kosteletzkya virginica).This time of year the roughly 4' by 4' plants are covered in flowers that remind me of pink butterflies.
Thank you to Katarina for hosting Blooming Friday.
I love the last photo of the spider web coming from the Seashore Mallow:) My 'Royal White' crinum hasn't bloomed yet:( I hope it doesn't skip this year. Crepescule is gorgeaous too!
ReplyDeleteSweet bay...I wish you could hear my exclamations, when seeing your photos ... especially the last one! Stunning! Your Crinum is very lovely... new to me. You have a never ending garden it seems!
ReplyDeleteThe seashore mallow is still my favorite. The last shot with the spiderweb is wonderful!
ReplyDeleteMay I please add... that your pink butterflies seem to be caught in the jeweled spider web... poetic! Early walks in the garden are so inspiring... I have been missing that lately ... thanks for sharing yours!
ReplyDeleteThat rose is gorgeous! And such an apt name. Unfortunately, much too tender for my climate, but I still have a few odd rose blossoms - and now the dahlias.
ReplyDeleteLovely, that last pictures of yours!!
ReplyDeleteThe first one, the blue, I got to know for the first time this year, it's an amazing plant, keep on blooming the whole summer. Well, they are all lovely, your pictures :)
Beautiful crinum lily, I don't think I've seen one like that.
ReplyDeleteSweetbay, I love tradescantia and your closeup is beautiful! Wonderful capture of the spiderweb, How clever she was to build her web in the midst of the gorgeous pink malva butterflies! gail
ReplyDeleteI wish I still had crinum blooming. What a lovely!
ReplyDeleteThat spiderweb is great!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful stuff,
ReplyDeleteThe rose looks so healthy, as if nothing ever happened.
I love those Seashore mallows, they really do look like butterflies, that last picture is beautiful. The Crepuscule is beautiful, it just looks like it would smell good.
ReplyDeleteWow! I agree, I love the lavender color of the first flower. I also really like your last image with the spiderweb. I will have to look for these flowers!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos, especially the crinum and the webbed mallow.
ReplyDeleteHi my friend. What beautiful flowers you show today. I think the rose is lovely. Similarly, your Lily and flower with lavender color. It was all fine short. Malvan has beautiful color to. /Margareta
ReplyDeleteI love the rosephoto, and the last photo with the spiderweb.
ReplyDeleteHave a nice weekend!/
AnnA
Your comment about the mallow looking like pink butterflies is perfect. They seem to flutter and dance over the plant. Lovely!
ReplyDeleteI love the spider words; remember read about John Tradescant when he collected them in Virginia I think it was, and brought them to England.
ReplyDeleteCrepuscule, everything is classy about this rose. I grow Crinum, have never been really captivated by them, perhaps I have never been really successful. It is very pretty and you say it has a wonderful fragrance. I have to put more effort into mine! Love the haze of those pink butterflies.
Such a wonderful garden even in the hight of the summer heat, when mine is swallowed up by the heat and goes limp and I turn my back and say I don't want to know you.
The Seashore Mallow takes this weeks price for the most beautiful flower. I love them!
ReplyDeleteI regret the spiderwort blooms are dayflowers. Something so pretty should last longer. Good thing they keep popping new flowers or they would be considered a weed in my beds.
ReplyDeleteLove that rose and the last photo is amazing.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you do about Japanese beetles?We just got them on the Island and I dread the day that they hit our garden.
Your spider web shot is lovely! I have one waiting to post too - we've had a LOT of spiders this year. They are a bit of a nuisance but their webs are are amazing.
ReplyDeleteI especially like the Nassau Lily - I planted a few new lilies this year and I plan to put more in next year. They're great bloomers.
seashore mallow is very delicately lovely
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers, and a great capture of the spider web.
ReplyDeleteGreat post! I love your blooms. I didn't read about saying what's pleasing us before posting mine.
ReplyDeleteReally beautiful flowers -the pretty rose is my favourite//Eva
ReplyDeleteAh, that last shot...amazing! And I do love the colour of the spiderwort!
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