Joel’s Flowers

Some special plants from an avid gardener

Today ’s photos are from Joel , who gardens in the Pacific Northwest .

The gravid purple flower heads of analliumhave pull a Apis mellifera looking for pollen andnectar .

This brilliant carmine - and - lily-livered bloom add up from a red westerly columbine ( Aquilegiaformosa , Zones 4–8 ) . While different specie of aquilege arenativeto much of the Northern Hemisphere , these inviolable red colors are a specialty of the coinage that ’s native to North America , an adaptation that make them attractive to our nativehummingbirds . Gardeners in eastern North America may accredit the looking from another native crimson columbine , Aquilegia canadensis(Zones 3–8 ) , which expect quite similar but is a dissimilar mintage that has adapted the same look to lure hummingbird .

A little colony of hen - and - chicks ( Semperviviumhybrid , Zones 3–8 ) , promiscuous - to - growhardy succulent

Though the succulent foliage is why most people take to grow biddy - and - chicks , the peak can be pretty as well . Each individual rosette that bloom will then give out , but the plant take a leak so many offsets that the settlement will bear on .

Lewisiacotyldeon(Zones 5–8 ) is native to westerly North America , where Native Americans glean the thick , fleshy roots as a food source . English - speaking visitors were n’t so fond of the flavor , and they gave it the common name of “ bitterroot . ” These twenty-four hour period , it is develop for the beautiful blooms .

Lewisia bloom derive in a wide range of colors . These beautiful plants are leisurely to grow in their aboriginal mood , but they can be a struggle in the bedwetter shape of the easterly one-half of North America .

A former - summertime cloud of black - eyed Susan ( Rudbeckiafulgida , Zones 3–9 ) fill the garden with color .

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