Wild Geranium

A Geranium we found growing wild on our farm, Geranium maculatum.

Blue, Pink or Purple?

There's lots of flowers whose colors change with lighting and age of flower -- not a trick of the camera but an actual change of visual perception. It's interesting to see them change throughout the day and from day to day.

Gulf Coast penstemon is what I would call a purplish pink. I was surprised to see how blue these new flowers looked in the morning light -- there was patches of an almost electric blue on them.

Here they are a few days later

looking very pink in direct sunlight.

Eastern Gray Beardtongue, which can appear ageratum blue at dusk and pink in full sun.

These Siberian iris started out a strong blue-violet, eventually fading to a lovely almost sky blue.

Jesse's Song is usually described as methyl violet, which I suppose is a medium lavender-purple. It looks much bluer in the evening than in the middle of the day.

'Veilchenblau' starts out a rosy purple and eventually turns slate-blue. These just opened up today.

Speaking of blue -- the blue grosbeaks returned a little while ago, and just when we were wondering why we hadn't heard any indigo buntings, we heard one singing yesterday. Today I counted 3 different males that had staked out territories.

Blooming Friday

This is my favorite time of year: not yet hot, not buggy, and no hurricane season to worry about. Everything has greened up and the light and air are so clear.

The Phlox divaricata is finishing up and is starting to go to seed.

There are a lot of different things in bloom -- columbine, iris, early roses, Dianthus, Indigofera, azaleas, Baptisias, spiderworts, Geraniums...

The big bed over the last few days, with the iris and Baptisia starting up.

A lovely noid iris named Eva's White after my husband's grandmother. The
fragrance smells to me like a combination of Snowbell and vanilla.

This cute little iris is the Dwarf Bearded Iris 'Pippi
Longstocking'. She is very vigorous and has a very long bloom time.

The color of Crimson King is to me the perfect purple
color, especially when the light shines through it.

'Zwanenburg Blue' spiderwort

'Jesse's Song'

Florida azalea

Coast azalea -- the flowers smell like spicy cotton candy.

Indigofera blooms from spring until frost.

Our native Geranium maculatum

Thank you to Katarina at roses and stuff for hosting Blooming Friday.