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Daily Inspiration

Here are two beauties to feast your eyes on (two because I just realized I forgot to blog yesterday! I didn't think I was THAT scatter-brained...apparently I was wrong!)

Mountain Ash

'Cardinal Royal'

Sorbus auc.

Can you imagine a 35' x 20' tree covered in these 5" clusters of beautiful red berries (which follow clusters of white blooms)!? This tough, zone 3 specimen does not dissapoint!

Salvia

'White Sensation'

This pure white Salvia is underused in my opinion. We all get caught up in the dark purple varieties (which are beautiful too), but everyone needs a touch of white in their beds as well! It's hardy to -30 degrees and is a smaller version, at 12"x12". White Sensation is a great performer for a perennial bed!

 

Daily Inspiration

Weigela

'French Lace'

Weigela florida 'Brigela'

Apparently this plant is supposed to bloom only in the spring...kind of hard to believe when it has been blooming on and off all season! But, hey, I'm okay with that! This picture doesn't do justice to the lime-yellow margins on each leaf which make the deep magenta flowers pop! It also has a great orange-red color in the fall. Full sun to part shade, 6'x4', and zone 4. 

Lovely! 

Daily Inspiration

Cattails!

(dang that big ol' light that I had to work around! Totally threw off my symmetry...)

Monica and I got our rogue on today and snatched some cattails from the side of the road (rogue: playfully mischievous or operating outside normal controls...)! We usually ask for permission if we want to traipse onto land that obviously belongs to someone, but we feel a little like rogues when we are gathering from the roadside! There are all kinds of things to gather when you are on the watch for it. We laugh at one another because usually one or more of us has gloves, twine, and a pair of felcos in our purse! You just never know when you will see something that you have the perfect place for...like say, perhaps in a vase atop the piano, nested down in a terrarium, or made into a wreath or garland to go over your front door. 

Now, go get your rogue on! 

Daily Inspiration

Majestic Lilyturf

Liriope muscari 'Majestic'

A grass that is evergreen and that blooms? Could there be such a thing!? YUP! Majestic Lilyturf is the answer! It likes partial shade (meaning it can't take our hot afternoon sun), and it gets about 2' tall and wide. It blooms in summer (right now in fact, and has been in bloom for some weeks now) and is zone 5.

And if that isn't enough...

it makes a beautiful and easy-care house plant as well! 

Daily Inspiration

The most beautiful bench in the world.

I was inspired this morning when I was looking through our Seattle garden tour pictures (a nursery tour that mom, myself, and Monica went on in July).

Seeing things like this inspires me to strive for beauty in everything. There is no reason to settle for subpar! Don't do it! 

Go out there and find those things that please your eye the most. Don't let others opinions or style influence what you really want yours to be. 

Daily Inspiration

Centranthus

ruber

'Centaurea'

(Jupiters Beard)

Jupiters Beard is a fantastic, easy-care, beautiful perennial! The clusters of salmon pink blooms keep your beds bright with color June-September! 30" tall and 24" wide.