Friends' Garden

 Last Sunday afternoon we visited friends out in the country, friends who have a wonderful garden.  Like ourselves they are plant collectors, always interested in new plants for the garden.  And like us (previously), they work together on their garden, putting in a lot of work over the summer months!  This is another of those posts that features my love of bright colours.

Right along the edge of their driveway are these bright Marigolds and Petunias to greet you.  I was immediately drawn to them.

There was one pot of these dramatic black and blue Petunias too.  We were at the Chelsea Flower Show in the UK in 2011 when this Petunia variety was introduced to the gardening world.

There were big patches of bright yellow False Sunflowers in the back.  Their plants are actually organized with the shortest in front and tallest in behind.

This was an interesting blue Globe Thistle.

And this was a new one to us, but embarassingly, I can't remember its name!

Some nice Fall Anemones too.

They had a table out on the grass ready for us and another couple, with the most delicious blueberry cobbler and ice cream!  I looked down to see this frog looking up at me....