There are various variegated plants a person can grow. Here are some perennial plants I am growing that are beautiful throughout the growing season. This is Oriental Limelight Artemisia. From a small plant planted last year, it has grown into a yard wide clump of variegation. It runs fast and likes our dry Iowa climate. […]
Category Archives: Flowers
Summer Coming To An End
Summer is winding down and the plants in the garden are showing the end is near. The Blood Butcher Corn grew to a tall height at maturity. The Amaranth Flowers are still persisting. No wonder it is called the forever flower. Too bad this grain crop isn’t planted all over Iowa. Would be funner to […]
Pineapple Lily
The Pineapple Lily(Eucomis) is an interesting flowering plant from Africa. It has to be dug in the winter in this climate or will die. So it is stored in the basement.
Milk Thistle
The Milk Thistle(Silybum marianum) is an annual and has started flowering from seed planted this spring. It has attractive leaves to go with the purple flowers. Some parts of the plant is used for medicinal uses.
Forever Flower
Amaranth flowers have been quite attractive annual flowers. They grow fast and their color lasts not quite forever, but for a long time.
Sunflower Sky
Looking into the sky I see something hovering over me Rays of sunshine Even on a cloudy day
Zinnias
Zinnias and other annual flowers are busy blooming. I think the goats would like to munch on this floral display.
Garlic Chives
Garlic Chives is very attractive to insects when it is flowering. A lot of bees spend time on them. We have divided them and have more plots of them that are full of flowers like this. The fast growing vines behind them are grapes.
Flower Garden
Various flowers of my brother’s flower garden. Most of the flowers are annuals in this garden except for things like the prairie coneflower. Some others are dug up each fall like the cannas, glads, and four-o-clocks.
Yucca Glauca
Yucca plants are unusual where I live. This one, that is flowering, was planted 15 years ago. It is the species named Yucca glauca, which stays evergreen. It didn’t flower until 10 years after it was planted in this location. But has flowered most years after that. The tall flower spikes really set it apart […]