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What's Blooming
This bed is a lush group of flowers called obedient plant. For many years after we moved here, I regularly pulled up the green plants all summer, thinking them to be weeds. Eventually I learned the truth, and let them survive until late August, when they begin to bloom.
Obedient Plant
Obedient Plant gets its name from its peculiar characteristic of remaining in whatever curved or bent form the gardener happens to place it. Just a few cut blossoms make a wonderful arrangement in the house and they last a long time. What a great plant it is, and hardy, too!
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The Hyacinth Bean vines are still lush. We got a late start with the seeds this spring, so they are still blooming profusely, and making their amazing magenta pods.
The blossom at the right is Heavenly Blue, a morning-glory. We planted them, but they were joined by a bunch of volunteer morning-glories in more common purple and pink colors. The whole lot of them have taken over a couple of my raised beds, snagged a low-hanging dogwood branch, and are steadily creeping skyward. What a show every morning!
The Phlox are still blooming, too. This was a good year for them. Usually they succumb to powdery mildew, but the dry weather helped with that problem. another steady bloomer is the Purple Coneflower.
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