Spiderwort! (Tradescantia) Blue spiderwort! One of my very favorite flowers! And it came from where?? Beats the heck out of me. I must have planted it last year, but I guess my brain is even more porous than I thought. But I'm delighted with myself and with this beautiful plant! (As Henry Mitchell says, you either go to pieces for blue or you don't. I do.)
More blue things: The columbine are getting ready to put on a heck of a show. You'll have to click on these photos to enlarge them so you can see them, because blue doesn't stand out well and my camera doesn't reproduce blue well (although it didn't do too badly with the spiderwort). As you can see from the 2nd picture, there are tons of buds. Yipee!!
(In the first picture you can also see lamium (deadnettle), the giant hosta, a small Pewter Veil heuchera, ferns, lilies of the valley, European ginger, vinca, and daffodil foliage.)
These columbines don't have the long spurs. I've been thinking of digging these up and moving them--somewhere--and trying to replace them with the long-spurred white columbine "Dove." Though I'm sure that as soon as I do, the blue ones will die in their new spot, and the white ones will cross-breed with blues ones that I didn't get grubbed up, and I'll have a whole new selection of blue ones. So I'm still thinking it over.
(Btw, it's obvious that if you want a real choice of things to plant, seeds are the way to go. Check out this page--more varieties of columbine than I knew existed! Not to mention lots of other perennials, annuals, herbs, vines, and veggies. A pleasant place to spend several hours. :)
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The period from late April to mid-June is my favorite here in the Midwest. Even though I'm still waiting on tomatoes and cucumbers, the other growing things almost make up for it.
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