New Article Posted!

I have a new article on Heucheras over at Associated Content:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5836886/heucheras_wide_range_of_color_in_a.html?cat=32

I love heucheras; I have an urge to collect them all!

The House is Painted!

Long radio silence due to illness and business; one of the things I got done was finishing the trim on the house. The pink turned out to be much brighter than I expected.

What can I say; I've always wanted a Victorian house with lots of trim and a bright color combo; it's not my fault it doesn't look nearly as good on an old mobile home!

New Dark Red Flowers!

Two new dark red flowers in the garden today:

I don't know what the name of this hollyhock is. The only thing I can think of that might be close is the double scarlet from Germania, but I think of 'scarlet' as being a lot lighter and brighter than this. It's beautiful, and I hope it has time to set and ripen seeds before winter hits, because I really want to keep this one around. I don't know how much cross pollination has taken place, but there aren't any other hollyhocks on this side of the house.

Rudbeckia 'Cherry Brandy'. It's been around a few years now, but the seeds have always been too expensive for me. I sprang for a few this spring, and they are just as gorgeous as the catalogs make them out to be - so often not the case! Hopefully they'll make seeds I can capture before the birds get them, and hopefully they haven't crossed with the other kinds of rudbeckia I've got going around the house.