my blanket flowers are thriving June 27, 2007
Posted by Sandy in a small garden in maine.trackback
I have a section of my garden that never gets watered. The plants back there have been picked off drought tolerant lists. I have several varieties of yarrow, liatris, also several kinds of blanket flowers, hyssop, coreopsis, echinacea, lavender, and day-lilies. I might have missed a few, but that is basically it.
I bought a burgundy blanket flower last season that I can’t find. It was a tall stringy plant, so am not surprised. Guess I can’t say that one is thriving! The plant below is one grown from a packet of wildflower seeds, many years ago.
I have a bed like that too. Coneflower, yellow yarrow, liatris, several types of coreopsis, some iris, a purple monarda that just keeps coming back, and then I plant tithonia and cosmos in there. My blanketflower didn’t come back though. Maybe I will try again. It is such a pretty flower.
Sandy, The flowers are so beautiful! It reminds me of the next door neighbor days….I remember you had beautiful flowers and gardens and I had weeds!
When I want just a bit of positive text and a lovely photo or two, I can always depend on you! Great shots once again and I will have to give the blanket flower another try.
My burgundy Gallardia did not survive the winter either, but the common ones are coming up nicely.
The second shot reminds me of Texas and Colorado, where the second flower (what we called Indian Blankets) bloomed in the wild. I always enjoy your photographs.
I’m glad you posted this. The lovely picture and your touch of melancholy over watching the flowers disappear reminded me of one of my favorite Frost poems, ‘The Tuft of Flowers’ - and these lines:
‘ . . The mower in the dew had loved them thus,
By leaving them to flourish, not for us,
Nor yet to draw one thought of ours to him,
But from sheer morning gladness at the brim.’