Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Neighborhood Flower Gardens

Smelling Billy's Fringed-Leaf Bleeding Heart (Dicentra exemia)

Ants on the Peony blossoms

Ants have a symbiotic relationship with Peonies.  The bud scales of each flower have glands that excrete a nectar composed of sugar, water, and amino acids, which attracts the ants.  The ants swarm, feeding on the sugary nectar.

Hens and Chicks

Blue False-Indigo (Baptisia) about to blossom 

Kelly's Dwarf Fothergilla bush in late fragrant blossom

Beautiful combination of Galvanized Metal, Stone, Golden Creeping Jenny, (Lysimachia nummularia 'Auria'), and Bleeding Heart (Dicentra spectabilis)

The perfect leaf arrangement of Hyssop officials

Striking color combination of Sedum and Creeping Jenny

An Allium bud just holding on before bloom

An early Allium flower

Mint, Creeping Jenny, and the silvery soft foliage of Lamb's Ear (Stachys byzantina)

The statue of the swimming lady in front of Creeping Speedwell 
(Veronica peduncularis 'Georgia Blue') 

Species Geranium - Bloody Cranesbill (Geranium sanguineum)

Re-seeded Foxglove (Digitalis) along the road

Hens and Chicks

Creeping Saponaria (Rock Soapwort)

Nature's perfect flower (Dicentra) Bleeding Heart

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