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Two plantings of Clematis maximowicziana at the north end of the Flower Garden have become billowing clouds of small fragrant white flowers.
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Clematis maximowicziana
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Ricinus and Hedychium with Clematis
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A large green leaf of Ricinus communis on the left and long narrow leaves of Hedychium coronarium on the right in front of the Clematis seen on the left.
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And by moving a bit, we can now see the ever so tall Arundo donax on the left, pink Eupatorium purpureum and a few large leaves of Ricinus communis in the middle, Hedychium coronarium on the near right, and the Clematis in the back right.
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Arundo, Eupatorium, and Clematis
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White Garden and Clematis
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From this vantage point, the other large mass of Clematis becomes a fortunate back drop for--and extension of--the White Garden.
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Another sign of late summer--the Asters are in full bloom. Here, pink A. novae-angliae 'Andenken an Alma Potschke' (AGM) glows in the late day sun with the Clematis and one of the notable Stonecrop steeple trellises in the background.
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Aster and Clematis
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Eupatorium and Aster
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And by moving again, the Eupatorium is in focus in the foreground with the Aster seen on the left now in the background.
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Yet another one of the "Dr. Seuss" plants at Stonecrop, this Amaranthus has a huge number of tiny flowers shaped into a tight mass resembling a knobby fist with a pointing index finger. A member of the Amaranthaceae family native to the tropics, the genus name is from "a" meaning not and "maraino" meaning to wither--because some of the flowers are long lasting.
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Amaranthus gangeticus
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Salvia and Perilla
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Burgundy bracts--and soon flowers--of Salvia 'Van-Houttei' (AGM) with the purple leaves of Perilla frutescens.
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Lots of flower stalks--each with a distinguishing "ball" of buds on top--on several plants of this distinctive fuzzy magenta Salvia.
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Salvia involucrata
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Gomphrena and Tagetes
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Two plants with sharply contrasting colors blooming together--purple Gomphena globosa 'Violet' and yellow Tagetes tenuifolia.
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Small orange tubular flowers of the Cigar Plant, a member of the Lythraceae family. A tender perennial, the parent species is native to Mexico.
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Cuphea 'David Verity'
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Aconitum carmichaelii
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A rich blue Aconitum blooming in rounded heads on straight stalks. A member of the Ranunculaceae family, native to Kamtschatka, a Russian province on the Bering Sea.
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The Asters above may have been a sure sign that we are now in late summer--and here is another--the first of the Japanese Anemones. The brilliant white of A. 'Honorine Jobert' reminds us of that day only four and a half months ago--April 25--when masses of another white Anemone, A. blanda 'White Splendour,' were so brilliant in the Woodland.
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Anemone x hybrida 'Honorine Jobert'
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Asclepias physocarpa
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The spherical seed pods of this Asclepias seem to be getting even more inflated.
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