Well now young lady ! You really are showing the colours, aren’t you. I could talk about the pinks, the greens or the dappled sunlight... but you know what I’m going to rave about don’t you, it is the Hakonechloa . Mate yours is already looking good and promising to grace your gardens with their grace and charm throughout the summer. What a space filler, what a magical element of colour and punctuation this low clump gives to a bed. It adds bed structure and anyone lucky enough to have it in their garden can behold it with enormous pride. Oké it is in a pubescent stage now, but as the season develops it will become a thing of singular beauty catching the eye of owners and visitors alike. Hakonecloa macra ‘Aureola’— Une plante magnifique.
Thanks so much Sjoerd! Yes I do love that hakone grass. That one is 'All Gold'. It stays chartreuse, no variation in the leaf color.
That is just lovely, Cayu. Mine has alternating yellow and green stripes on the leaves. It is beginning to grow taller now. BTW—is that type of grass common over there?
Love that columbine & azalea Logan. Sjoerd, yes hakone went through a popular phase here. I wouldn't say it is common though. I think it is an acquired taste!
Amsonia, Lorelei Iris, Dames Rocket at the back Dames Rocket, a wildflower Tangled up in...orange now. Poppies. Messy but ever-so-useful compost bins at the back. Maybe I should do something about that look.
Thank you @Sjoerd and @Cayuga Morning The columbine don't come true from saved seed. @Cayuga Morning love those poppies.
Yes, we call it Damastbloem. I like these sweet-smelling plants. I haven’t had any for years now. I used to just let them stay wherever they seeded-out to. Nice group, Cayu. Is that a blacksnake there in that poppy bed? Oké, oké...but I do see a Digitalis spike climbing up there. The compost bins are alright. Of course I can understand the need for netjes, but they are functional as they are. Having said that, being tidy is always virtuous, innit. That lovely iris clump seems so happy there. Its like it wants to head out into your grass field. Chuckle. I see what you mean about the Hakone. It never became very popular here, but everyone who sees it wants a little piece of it for their garden. Its why my clumps never got very large.
That makes me happy. I have some little alliums and this year I acquired one Lupin. Ha, ha. It was the only one they had left, so I took it. It is red supposedly. I have had many of them in the past, but one year there was an exceptionally bad year for those red slugs and they decimated them. Those bi-coloured ones of yours are looking good.
