Lavendar Astillibe (beautiful)

Thanks for sharing Grandpa B...I love this color and any color as long as flower is my favorite..I am desperate for not having successful last time, I am trying another set even if I am late!

I would love to have beautiful flowers growing in my flower beds but the weeds and even the grass grow faster than I can get it pulled out. We have even put that screen stuff down and topped it off with the chips and stuff still comes up that don't belong there. Hopeless case. Also I am deathly scared of lizards and when I do get out there and see one I am done, no more for me. The lizard can have the flower bed. hahaha

I do not have too many flowers this year. Have not for quite a few years, but I did fill one planter box with dark red salvia and golden yellow marigolds. My husband is partial to marigolds. I also filled two large planters with Caladium tubers, and the soil must have been terrific that I put in, they are the biggest ones I have ever grown. Lots of shades of red, pink and green. They periodically send up a spathe flower, reminds you of a calla lily. I like colored foliage, and I keep telling myself that maybe next year I will grow more things. I have a dark purple "yard jew" as my mom called it. It does not do well indoors for the winter and I always have to baby it along and start new ones in the spring. It looks good with my red and peach geraniums, and also a big pot of it is growing in front of my caladiums. I always enjoy you sharing your garden with me. Hubby says our apples are just about ripe, I say two more weeks. They are Jonareds, if I remember correctly. Good crop this year.

Those are pretty. I like many purple colored flowers and purple mixed. I like purple tulips and sweet williams. There are a lot of purple crepe myrtles around here too that I think are pretty. The Astillibes may be prettier though.

Hi Bob i just watched this flower in ur other pic, but that was not close up, it look really awesome with white fence at back. i can imagine the shine they glow in sun, and i like their velety feel/ touch tooo trust me i am admirer of ur front lawn and back yard, and like pictuyres Hard work do pay, right Take care

The flowers are beautiful, of course if you were not a good photographer they wouldn't show to their best advantage.

The flowers are so beautiful... you really have a knack at growing plants... i love looking at images of purple flowers... such color is very rare in my country... i don't even think we have a native purple or lavender flower... your garden must look very beautiful by now...

I love this flower too. Its color and perfume let me feel calm. I have planted a few kinds of flowers, such as rose, marigold, gardenia. However, I haven't had the chance to keep it in my house or yard.