Serendib Garden

Heh — a couple of irises stacked sort of looks like a wacky orchid. 

Okay, this was fun — I happened to be at the far end of the sidewalk when I noticed a neighbor pausing to look at the flowers. A few minutes later, she bent down to sniff a peony. Makes me happy.  Garden your parkways, people — it can bring a lot of joy!

Iris and peonies and fading white bleeding heart in the parkway. The black car makes a pretty good backdrop for the peonies.  Thanks, neighbor!

Okay, I dunno, I didn’t like this iris when it first bloomed this year, but now it’s totally grown on me. It seemed very maroon when it first bloomed, which isn’t my favorite color (sorry, U Chicago), but at this point, it clearly has lots of purples and pinks and a little orange too, which

Amsonia “Blue Ice”. This one is a little buried in my garden right now, so I need to a) weed heavily, and then see if there’s actually room for this little guy. But it’s in its first year here too — it may take up more room all on its own if I let it

Heh. I moved this clematis tuteur over in early spring, I can’t quite remember why, and moved the clematis too (not blooming yet, but hopefully soon), but apparently forget there was a salvia in this spot. But I actually think maybe it’s fine? It’s blooming inside the tuteur, which seems a little goofy, but this

The sedums are months away from blooming — they shine in autumn — but look at that hint of red underlying the traceries of green.

It does seem a shame that the tulip tree’s blossoms are so high — mostly we just get a flood of random petals a little later in the year. But every once in a while, a perfect flower falls.

This iris! Sometimes I just can’t get over how pretty they are. Possibly this is “Sky Spirit.”

A little bit of the backyard bed that I’m just started last year. It has a long way to go — much of it is just mulch and weeds — but this bit is nice. Climbing English rose “Crown Princess Margareta”, alliums, centaurea, malva zebrina.