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Double red Papaver somniferum 'Double Red' with a red Berberis and dark reddish-purple Coleus 'Big Red' in the Red Bed.
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Red, Red, Red
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Houttuynia cordata 'Chameleon'
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Amazing green and cream-colored foliage tinged with pink--see also H. cordata 'Flore Pleno' blooming in the Woodland on June 28.
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The Scotch Thistle is blooming--and looking as spiny and menacing as ever.
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Onopordum acanthium
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The Blues Have It
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The Blue Bed has the benefit of extending to one of the Flower Garden's wooden walls with more blue--the larger flowering Clematis 'Jackmanii' (AGM) and the smaller downward facing C. x eriostemon 'Hendersonii' on the right.
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Yellow Lilium 'Connecticut King' with very dark-leaved Canna sp. and red-leaved Berberis thunbergii f. atropurpurea in the background.
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Lilium, Canna, and Berberis
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Thalictrum flavum subsp. glaucum
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Wonderfully fluffy yellow and white flowers and blue-green leaves of the Yellow Meadow Rue--a member of the Ranunculaceae family native to Europe and Britain.
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A close-up of this Verbascum shows the strange combination of yellow petals and purple stamens.
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Verbascum chaixii
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Rhus typhina 'Laciniata'
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Near the Flintstone Bridge a very spreading Cutleaf Staghorn Sumac with finely dissected leaves--truly nearly two feet long--is blooming. A member of the Anacardiaceae family.
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Below the Wisteria Pavilion, clusters of small purple flowers held close to the branches on this shrubby member of the Verbenaceae family native to China. The small berries on this color coordinated plant will be the same striking color as the flowers--see October 11 of last year.
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Callicarpa bodinieri 'Profusion'
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Clerodendrum myricoides 'Ugandense'
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The poly houses are a world unto themselves where there always seem to be a few more treasures that have not made it to a more prominent location--among this week's finds, this very blue Clerodendrum--the Blue Glory Bower--native to tropical West Africa.
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And another Clerodendrum about to bloom. Native to China, and like the Callicarpa above, a member of the Verbenaceae family.
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Clerodendrum bungei
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Calceolaria arachnoidea
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And in the same poly house, a doubly interesting Calceolaria from Chile--really dark velvety purple flowers and leaves that appear to be covered in dense cobwebs--for which the species is named!
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Just one of the many hardy Water Lilies, this pink and yellow beauty is blooming near the entrance to the Conservatory.
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Nymphaea 'Charles de Meurville'
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Nymphaea 'Pygmaea Helvola'
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And at Stonecrop where so many plants are unbelievably huge or unbelievably tiny, here is one of the truly tiny Water Lilies growing in one of the little ponds on the Cliff--with a pen on the equally tiny leaves for scale. The flowers start out pale yellow and fade to a creamy white.
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