flowers – Page 3 – Kihaku-Gato's Garden Blog (tumblr import)

I say I’m not into Delphinium but when I see the sky blue cultivars or exotic purple/blue petaled cultivars like these…. ngl, I get very tempted to grow some.

Lovely annual flowers at Canadian Tire

There were so many there than there usually is at that time of year.

Verbena, Salvia, Fuschia, and Pelargonium!

So many gorgeous flowers were at Canadian Tire this summer.

Some of the hardier of perennials at that too.

Photographed at the plant section of Canadian Tire, Buddleja butterfly bush is one of those “maybe I should/shouldn’t grow it” kind of plants for me

I love the butterfly attractive flowers but their sometimes messy form and wild reputation still keeps me at bay with them.

Mom wasn’t kidding at the time; the bees (small bumblebees?) were absolutely loving the Senna hebecarpa flowers! Catching photos of them was tricky with their speed.

It was a mystery to me as to why this flower is such a bumblebee favourite, but while doing research on seed germination for this species I learned a neat fact to explain it;

S. hebecarpa does not produce floral nectaries! Bees actually gather around these flowers for the protein-rich pollen, not for nectar. Explains why the majority of the bees that were swarming the flowers were Bumblebees

Another flush of flowers from the Hoya carnosa in this summer alone. Idk if it’s due to erratic watering or the fact that the closed curtains makes it think that it’s winter lol.

Some wildened Garden Phlox (Phlox paniculata).
Too wild for the garden, but wild enough to dominate some grassy zones.

~~I’m still weeding their remnants in the woodland garden tbh. Lil too tenacious they be.~~

Lilium ‘Black Beauty’ showing more where their name may have been derived from;
As their red flowers age/fade they become darker. Still nowhere near as black as modern hybrids, but I’m sure for their earlier years they were as close as an old garden could get.

Good news; 1 of the 2 potted Lobelia siphilitica are now at flowering age.
Bad news is that these were supposed to be a white flowered strain not blue!
The source for the seeds said they were open pollinated so it’s possible that the blue-flowered gene dominated the white genes.

~~REUPLOADING THIS TWEET/POST REMINDS ME THAT I GOTTA LABEL THAT FACT BEFORE WINTER AAACK~~

Of course the Clematis virginiana in the greenhouse goes to flower while its garden-planted siblings show no signs of flowerbuds.
If I knew sooner I would’ve planted this one instead lol. Lovely white monster-to-be.

Not entirely sure what to do with the remaining greenhouse specimens; resell them? Find some really rough spot to let them raise their hell? Who knows.