Purple Flowers

A walk around the garden yesterday revealed I really love purple flowers, cool blue purple, warm red purple.

Purple with pink, lovely. Purple with yellow, colorful............and purple with lime green, amazing, a showstopper!

My kitchen window box is beginning to look fuller. These plants get a lot of sun and require daily watering and weekly fertilizing now the hot weather is here.

The hostas are blooming. Above their huge clumping shield-shaped leaves, spires of purple flowers resembling bluebells shoot into the air. Hostas are amazing plants, disappearing completely through the Winter then twisting up out of the ground to surprise again in Spring, usually bigger and better than the previous year.

The purple lacecap hydrangea is fully open now. Afternoon heat sends it into a droopy slump, but it perks up during the cooler night hours and looks fresh and rested in the early morning air.

Purple butterfly bush (buddleia) is in full bloom and attracting many bees.

Do you have a favorite flower color in your garden?