More late summer sights at the BG
Seriously, I wish I could hire these guys to replant a couple of my beds. Though I am never impressed when I visit earlier in the season, they have late-blooming perennials DOWN. These plants always bloom longer and better than their counterparts in local domestic gardens.
For example, here’s where I fell in love with verbena bonariensis and where I regretted having failed with my knautia. Neither are particularly unusual plants but they both look terrific en masse, as they have them here.
We also like to walk around the park, where the trees are beginning to color and the lily pond is still full of lotus.
They also have more success with their dahlias than I will ever, ever, ever have.
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They are cool plants--very popular around here
Maybe they're not having such success with their dahlias after all ;-)
They looked like dahlias at the time.
Verbena bonariensis is another great plant. I grow a lot of it. It's nice in a mass, but my favorite way to grow it is as scattered individual plants poking up through everything else in my border -- looks great combined with the orange-flowered, gray-leaved Hummingbird plant, Dicliptera suberecta. However, your shot of it doesn't look much like V. bonariensis to me -- all of my bloom clusters are much more flat-topped. The blooms pictured look more raceme or panicle-like... perhaps a salvia of some kind? It's hard to see it very well in the back of that shot.
Pretty pictures!
That probably is a salvia of some type.
Sorry, I never do run my images as large as I should, probably.
As for my ID skills, I called rhododendrons 'peonies' for years before I actually had a garden.
Field guides are a must for some of us!g