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close up of echinacea flower

The best bloom time in my yard is always August, all of my favorites are blooming in a rainbow of colors. The echinacea in the front is amazing as always, almost as tall as I am. The only disappointment I have is that I know I planted two more last year.

I don’t remember where.

But dang it, I know because I love them so much, that I made sure to put in a couple more.

And the same giant one keeps coming up, and the others? Phht. Who knows. Casualties of my gardening.

There’s a few of those.

But not the Rudbeckia this year! Nuh-uh, nope, these finally came back!

close up of yellow Rudbeckia flower
close up of yellow Rudbeckia flower showing the center part of the flower

I have Oriental lilies and sweet peas in the same area, and the smell is enough to make you swoon with happiness.

I could lay on the grass by these and the climbing sweet peas and inhale for hours.

close up of pink oriental lily flower
Oriental lily starting to open up

And there are more coming.

My crazy tiger lilies. These are an heirloom variety, I read once, and used to be rare.

I am not sure how, when they spit these black seed pods all over and spread like wildfire.

Which is my kinda gardening. No effort. No fail. No problem.

orange tiger lilies

I even love how this is the top view, they are bass-ackwards and point down.

If anyone wants some of those crazy spitting seed pods, let me know! I am letting a lot of my plants go to seed and will have some this fall to give out.

Delphiums, lupines, hollyhocks,tiger lilies and my gallardia all are self-seeding and spreading.

Can I mail wild seeds in the mail?

back part of the tiger lilies

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  1. Charlynn says

    I will take any seeds that you have to offer! I’m always looking for new stuff to put in the yard-as mom’s boyfriend says ‘What do you have against grass?’, to which I reply, ‘I hate mowing, so I garden’
    LOL!

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