New Flowers . . .

I went shopping the other day and somehow ended up looking at flowers and
amazingly enough buying new flowers. Hmmmm wonder how
that happened. Well, I'll tell ya . . . I was just going to take a little look
and see what they had and what they had was . . . a clearance section with a few
flowers I love and ridiculous prices. Usually the clearance shelves are full of
dried up ready to choke flowers that I really have to work at for that price to
make them live. But these looked pretty great!

Look at these beautiful pinks and purples - it's like the shelf
was hollaring my name. Somehow I didn't get the individual picture of the
Erysimum Bowles Mauve Wallflower but it's in this group in the front row. At
$1.50 I had to get 4 of them because they are soooooo gorgeous and will fill up
some big empty spaces in my flower beds.

And of course every year I fall for these Mums. It says annual but I thought the
ones I got last year were perennials. I think I'm seeing new growth on them too.
Doesn't matter - these will give me some color for now and I love them! For
$1.25 what could I say. I needed 4 of these too.

After 20 years of living on this property and trying to get Delphiniums to grow I
finally have one that is 3 years old this year. I use
to joke that I bought them only to see if I could break the record of the year
before on how fast I could kill them. So now that I have one plant that survived
a package of seeds I think I can grow more? And these weren't even on sale. Just
fat and bushy and tempting - oh and purple to go with the pinks. They weren't on
sale but a pretty good price and big enough to fill in some empty spaces so I
have to have 2 of them.

Then there was Silene Rolley's Favorite sitting somewhere that I couldn't walk
past. I've seen other people's Silene too many times to let this one slip by me.
Like the Delphinium it wasn't on sale but a really good price and will fill up
empty spaces in the gardens so there's my excuse for 2 of them.

Speaking of new things . . . I took pictures and never did show ya the mugs Mom
brought back for us from her Arizona trip. Here's Bobs and it's all about
retirement.

Flaunt Those Flowers Fertilizer Friday

Today is Tootsies Flaunt Those Flowers Fertilizer Friday. So head over to Tootsie Time and see who's showing off their flowers today.

Looks like a Peony doesn't it?

It's an Armeria like this.

This Dianthus Floral Lace Violet has one bloom on it - it's just starting and will
bloom all summer I believe.

A Pink Hardy Geranium just starting to bloom.
Pretty isn't it - the purple one is starting too but I didn't get a picture yet.

Here's another Columbine blooming and I don't know it's name.

The Phlox are doing good - in spite of a kazillion fir needles.

My pink and white Lupine is opening - can't wait to see it - to see if it's the
right color for starters!

This one was new last year and apparently doesn't grow very fast. It's Rock
Jasmine Androsace Sarmentosa. Anyone familiar with it? It's pretty and in my
color so I had to have it.

My Spiderwort is starting to bloom. One of my favorites - in the fuchsia color is
my real favorite but I love the 2 colors together even better.

One of my Weigelas is opening and I don't know the name of this one. It's just
getting started.

Jacobs Ladder is finally blooming and I can smell the grape scent. It took long
enough.

I thought it was kind of interesting that this cone fell from clear up in a fir
tree and landed right in the middle of the Crocus looking like it was a big
bloom. I guess this is a Crocus - I thought it was the one that bloomed early
then layed around on the ground all summer looking like crap and then bloomed
again in the fall. Maybe not.