Sunday, September 13, 2020

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....




15 comments:

  1. The frog looks like someone painted spots on it. Love the bright Petunias. I plant them also. Glad you are getting out and about.
    MB

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  2. Ahh, blueberry cobbler -- sounds good, was the ice cream vanilla? That would make it absolutely delicious!

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  3. Lovely flowers, lovely colour.
    ... and I like that frog!

    All the best Jan

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  4. Glorious colour and so pretty. What a lovely place for a visit.

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  5. You guys get out and about so much! Lucky for us that you often take us along!

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  6. The size of those petunia plants, stunning colours too.

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  7. It's good to see this final burst of colour as we slither into autumn to a whole range of different colours - a portent, however, of a single colour - white!

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  8. Those are indeed birth colors. I think I should plant petunias again. I missed this year as I usually just buy a plant or two for containers rather than trying to plant a bunch from seed.

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  9. What a lovely array of colour! Good to enjoy them now! cheers

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  10. Blueberry cobbler - yummy. Gorgeous colors!

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  11. Beautiful flowers! And I like the frog too.

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  12. Beautiful flowers that are not showing any sign of slowing down. My annuals are looking tired and I can see that very soon I'll be pulling them out.

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  13. Having an interest in photography definitely enhances one's enjoyable appreciation of color.

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  14. wow, they have beautiful flowers, it sounds like they know how to plan things out. the yellow flowers look like daylilies-stella de oro, but i'm not sure. my gardens look terrible right now, everything is fading and dying off!!

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