Like the Senna, the Balloon flower transplants dodged a few [edit since this tweet- more like dodged a LOT of] flowerbuds from my clippers. Unlike the Senna though, they look a lot rougher from the transplantation.
Luckily it was sign that they were mildly recovering.
The pictorial tags for Monarda punctara never really clearly show the anatomy of thier flowers. It’s like it is with the japanese iris pictures all over again.
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!
I remember back in the day when pink/red flowered strawberries were the rarest of novelties. Now they’ve become surprisingly common in garden sections and nurseries.
While maybe no longer as rare I still find them very charming.
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
Big boi Betula allengensis gets one pot size bigger in a repot .
This tree is now in one of the largest nursery containers that I own. It is now also the largest plant I’ve grown from seed so far! It has grown far ahead of its siblings.
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