I have my first ever lupin. This baby wasn’t intentional. Himself wanted ‘red hot pokers’ and bought a pack of two (Aldi!). Only one grew, and I knew right away it wasn’t a ‘poker. I planted it last year, and this year I’ve three flower spikes and they are just lovely.
I’ve also clematis. I have four different ones, but this one normally blooms third. It seems to be very happy this year and jumped ahead of the rest. My poor blue one seems to have lost all its flowers due to heavy winds. Aww.
Lastly my beloved bearded iris opened yesterday. It was such a lovely sight to come home to yesterday!
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The iris is truly elegant. What a beauty.
There first one looks like a relative to our bluebonnets – great color
Yes! Lupin is ‘Texas bluebonnet’. Comes in all sorts of shades with the messing about plant people do. I do love those iris, this one is right at my driveway so if I don’t back in, I can get out of the car and have a long smell of it and smile. It is an amazing welcome home.
It’s obviously deep red and purple time of year in your garden! I’m a lover of tall spiky plants myself: delphiniums, lupins, iris, foxgloves, hollyhocks, etc, so you’re ticking several boxes for me already 🙂
Stay tuned! I have so many hollyhocks it isn’t funny. I’m very bad at stopping plants from setting seed! My foxgloves are a bit sparse this year, however. Oh and I have a ton more gladiolus on the way!
A garden after my own heart 🙂
Beautiful blooms! Delighted to see you pop into my reader again…hope all is well with you and the lover of the red hot pokers!
The lupin is wonderful. Not a flower we have in the garden.
We do have loads of iris of many shades and several clumps of red hot pokers.
If you were closer I would gladly donate to your garden!
You know I’d love a strelitzia! I’d need a conservatory or permanent greenhouse though.
I love your colors!! Right now everything in my yard is blooming lavender. I should introduce some red, I bet.
Lovely.the lupin looks great against the wall. So far i have had no luck with clematis!