Garden Joys of Early August

I have a many meters long flower bed beside our carage.

On the lawn side there are growing low plants with foliage of different colors:
brown Heuchera, silver grey Hosta ’Halcyon’ and this low green-yellow hosta.
This bloomed like never before in early August! I am not quite certain of its name.
I have listed it as Hosta fortunei ’Aureomarginata', but it could be also 'Golden tiara’.
I know that there are hundreds of hosta varieties, but can you help me with its name?
It is low and the flowers were very abundant and deep lilac.

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#makrotex #t in die neue woche #värikollaasit

Glancing Back to Summer

The name of this gorgeous hosta is unknown to me, because I got it at a plant exchange.

It has very large matte leaves and lush, almost white flowers.

In a few years it grows huge as a berry bush and is ready to be divided.
...
The photos were taken at different times from June till August.

Flowers are never lonely when they have raindrops as friends.

- Anthony T. Hincks



Raindrops are like fairy whispers.

- Unknown

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, 

to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, 

but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

- David Hobson

#GARTENGLÜCK

Weekend in Black & White

This week Hosta Halcyon flowers, also in color.

Makrotex Challenge / Kukka, flower

Weekend in Black & White

Kukkailottelua - Garden happiness

Viikko ei ole ollut erityisen hohdokas:
väsynyt fiilis, vaihteleva sää ja terroristihyökkäys Barcelonassa järkytti.
Minähän olen jo buukannut matkan sinne syyskuussa.

Tekaisin kuitenkin pyöreän loppukesän kimpun, jossa on kuunlilja Halcyonin 

sekä syreenileimun kukkia. Välivihreänä hopeista nukkapähkämöä ja syysmaksaruohoa.

Halcyonin kukat ovat kauniita ja ihanan pulleita, ei laihoja kuten monen muun lajikkeen.
The flowers of Halcyon are big & lush, not thin as those of many other hostas.

There has been nothing glamorous about this week.

Feeling tired, rainy weather & terrorism in Barcelona. I'm  sad & shocked too.
I have already paid my autumn trip there and my hotel is situated near La Rambla...

To brighten me up I made a pale lilac & silver round bouquet with

hosta Halcyon and phlox flowers, as greens Stachys byzantina & Sedum Herbstfreude.

#KUKKAILOTTELUA

Love and peace.

In Color and B & W

Green Weekend

Weekend in Black & White

Green Happiness

Hosta 'Halcyon' is my favourite - low with beautiful grey green leaves

This week we have got sun and rain. Everything grows so vigorously.

I love different shapes of leaves and different shades of green, the blooms are not that important.

I gathered here some examples of my wild garden = my green happiness ❤︎

Spiraea japonica’Goldmound’ would not need any of its pink flowers!

The yellow Meconopsis cambrica self seeds wherever it likes!
On the foreground Hosta sieboldiana 'Elegans'

Veratrum viride - Viherpärskäjuuri

This long flower bed is a bit empty for I have donated plants to my daughter

Late on Thursday evening there was this fantastic double rainbow ❤︎

I have never seen this great and the light was absolutely surreal on the tree tops.

There is going to be some blooming too!

Gartenglück

Green Weekend
Image-in-ing

Happy week!

Katse alas - Looking Down

Makrotex Challenge of the week is LOOKING DOWN.

I spent a moment lying on grass photographing these:

Veronica filiformis / Kaukasiantädyke & Veronica chamaedrys / Nurmitädyke

Kaukasiantädyke on aivan maanmyötäinen, pienestä palasta kasvuun lähtevä

ja hyvin leviävä. Aivan ihana kukkiessaan.

Veronica filiformis creeps tight on the ground and spreads eagerly.

Nurmitädyke on ihana alkukesän luonnonkukka.

Veronica chamaedrys is pretty wild flower blooming in the early summer.

Makrotex Challenge / Looking down

Flower Wednesday 21

Today I'll share some Hosta flowers.
This Hosta bloomed in July with beautiful large flowers.
The foliage is matte, greyish green.
I got this from a friend and don't dare to guess its name.

Unfortunately I did not photograph the foliage. 
It is not H sieboldiana for its leaves are huge.
Nor this H Halcyon.. But I love its pretty flowers anyway.

Here in the Northern Hemisphere the blooming season starts to be over.
But let's share and enjoy our summer memories!

Tervetuloa! - Welcome!

Floral Friday Fotos

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