Serendib Garden

Flowers from morning walk. Lush hydrangeas, salvia, orange dayllies — low effort, pleasing border.

Mixed municipal planting in downtown Oak Park, outside the stores. This is the sort of shady color combo I’m not very good at composing. Something to work on…

From morning walk — Annabelle hydrangea with pink astilbe, lovely combo for part-shade.

Two apartment complexes (or condos? can’t tell) from this morning’s walk with Anand, with VERY different approaches to landscaping. The first is basically sunny grass with some probably volunteer orange daylilies. Perfectly nice and cheery, nothing wrong with it. The second has boxwood borders, lots of trees, making the whole space shady, benches, and lots

Monarda / bee balm and Annabelle (native) hydrangea.

Sort of a messy piece of my garden because I dug out a big perennial here and plan to move something else into this spot, but I did want to mark the little native petunias coming up, new-planted last year. V. cheery, and a good size for the front of the border; hope they decide

The Fairy rose survived transplanting, whew.  With veronica / speedwell “Royal Candles”.

I’m not sure what this allium is, and I’m not sure if I like it. It’s VERY tall; I planted three of them at each corner of my front garden, which was a mistake, because they tend to flop over into the path and get destroyed by people walking by; I think they should planted

Drumstick allium with silvery artemisia (I really need to get more artemisia, I like it so much), with nepeta in the background.

Drumstick allium. Summer drummer.  If that isn’t a name for this, it should be.