The sweet-peas have flowered: if only I could photograph scent…
Annual & biennial plants
Annuals, being grown from seed each year, are among the easiest and most colourful of garden plants. Biennials, such as wallflowers take two years to come into flower.
E is for Echium
Echium can be annuals, biennials, evergreen perennials or shrubs, with simple, coarsely hairy leaves and funnel-shaped flowers borne in panicles or dense spikes in summer. They look quite dramatic in a walled garden border or a courtyard garden.
The header image is from the Carmel Mission in California click the link to read more about the gardens there.
Poppy: Papaver orientale “Perry’s White”
This oriental poppy has large ruffled papery white flowers with a pink blush and attractive maroon blotches in the centre that gradually fade to white.
“Perry’s White”
Nigella Alba
Miss Jekyll Alba (white) is a flower that needs a closer look at. It is an old cottage garden plant and useful for scattering amongst bare patches in the flower bed.
See the blue version here.
Earth laughs in flowers 