may apple - in front of the hosta. also in a bit of a breeze. i don't know what this will look like - it's from the botanical garden plant sale.
new zealand flax - of yet another kind. this is quite large, and floppy. it will be great in the back of the bed by the cottage.
sorry this isn't sharper - it's such a marvelous colour pattern - even for a coleus, they are always pretty interesting.
these are the paler pink of the 2 big rhododendrons we have. we have one that is smaller and doesn't bloom, we can't figure out why. and then there's Bob, the miniature rhodo, who has finished blooming already.
these are red 'non-stop' begonias. marguerite puts them in baskets [unfortunately we lost all the begonias we have had for a couple years in the hard freeze we had this winter] and hangs them around the cottage, on the hot tub, and in the fruit trees. they are gorgeous.
the female begonia flower is on the left, and the male flower on the right. small and kind of insignificant.
here is my wonderful Marguerite, in the glass potting shed/greenhouse in the garden, making the begonia baskets.
last summer i bought M a cherry tree with five [5!] different eating cherries grafted to one trunk. and these are the first cherries! i'm so excited!
this is forget-me-not, and a lovely dark blue flowering plant who's name i can't remember. i also can't remember the name of the silver plant.
lady's mantle. which is all about the water drops on it and how they look. this one's new and for the front garden.
not so interesting looking now, but these are dark purple bee balm - fabulous flowers but not until july.
