Forgot about Cupid’s dart...new to me this year.

Love the color!

OS Your Choisya? is a new one to me. Is it fragrant?

Gardenho it is so fragrant! It rivals lilacs. I’m going to try growing my Liberty clematis through it this year.

Centranthus ruber

Coreopsis auriculata 'Nana' - the close up shows it better, but it looks better woven through other plants.

Coreopsis 'Showstopper'

Coreopsis 'Jethro Tull'

Clematis 'H. F. Young' and 'Louise Rowe' sharing a much too small trellis. I sacrificed this year's bloom to replace the trellis and cut them back to the ground last fall.

Clematis 'Jackmanii'

Clematis 'Rosemoor'

Clematis 'Starry Night'

Clematis 'Roguchi'

And not a perennial, but they self seed so well they might as well be: Cosmos bipinnatus.

Still looking for good pictures of my calamagrostis which makes an excellent picture backdrop for other flowers but doesn't seem to feature in my gallery.

jenn I especially enjoyed your picture of Rooguchi. I really like the coloring and the bell shaped flowers; they just seem so whimsical to me!

It seems like every year I have must get plants and I never actually get them, Rooguchi is one of those for me!

I have some clematis I can add

Romantika

Claire de Lune

Great C's everyone! I really need to get Callirhoe.

I miss my Catananche - Cupid's Dart. I had it for years and it got over run so I will replace it. Shame on me for letting that happen to such a wonderful plant.

Campanula 'Blue Clips'. I have no decent pic of 'White Clips'

Campanula 'Kent Belle'

Campanula poscharskyana

Campanula 'Pritchard's Variety' in it's 2nd location.

I like Centaurea dealbata & C. montana but my favorite (I think) is C. macrocephala. It is a big rather coarse plant but I like the flower form and the seed heads.

Campanula 'Sarastro'

Chelone - Turtlehead

Back with more later.

Ooh, peren! I love turtlehead. I will try and get some pics of mine this year-I feel it’s very under utilized in the shade garden.

I agree oursteelers! It is such a wonderful plant and a bee magnet. I never tire of watching the bees wrangle and squirm their way into the flowers. The first time I noticed was when it looked like the flower was talking - I thought I must have spent too much time in the sun until I realized a bee was turning around inside it lol!

Jenn, peren and oursteelers..all of your blooms are just beautiful..what gorgeous colors..I love your story about "talking" flowers peren..that's funny..

Clematis Omoshiro. I noted that under my picture posted above but don't see it so am sending the name separately.

Ladydi great choice! One of my favorites!

Ladydi, that clematis is gorgeous, and has been added to my wishlist for sure.

I apparently have a lot of C's. Continuing my list above, here's a few more...

Calamagrostis 'Karl Foerster'

Calamagrostis x. acutiflora 'El Dorado'

Cornus stolonifera 'Coral Red' (Summer).

(Winter)

Corydalis lutea

Centaurea cyanus (again, not perennial, but I bet I won't have to plant it again from the number of seeds it dropped)

And many, many Chrysanthemum. I include this one not so much because it is a particularly great picture, or even my favorite color of chrysanthemum. It's just that it grew so spectacularly large that it looked like a small shrub all summer. Actually, it ate the small shrub I had planted there, and caused its demise, but that's not the point.

Carex 'Everillo' - taken this week, which I think is rather cool. Didn't realize it was evergreen when I bought it!

Lots of good pics of the C's everyone! I feel so unprepared for this as my pics are filed by date. But I'm doing my best to find some.

peren you made me laugh! ......"it looked like the flower was talking" .....so cute!

Campanula birch hybrid

Centaurea 'Amethyst in Snow'

Clematis 'Elsa Spath'

Clematis 'Rebecca'

Convallaria (Lily of the Valley)

Chelone Betty Corning clematis, this blooms forever!Huldine clematisSherry

Sherry your clematis are spectacular!

Gorgeous!

sandyslopes that Centaurea 'Amethyst in Snow' is quite lovely.

I had this C. montana seedling pop up. It is similar but with a pink centre. Sorry it was past it's prime when I spotted it.

Carex muskingumensis 'Oehme' - Palm sedge

Calamagrostis 'Karl Foerster'

Calamagrostis 'Avalanche'

Chasmanthium latifolium - Northern Sea Oats

Coreopsis 'Rising Sun'

C. 'Rising Sun'

Coreopsis 'Zagreb'

Crocosmia 'Lucifer' is one of my top favorites.

It is the top plant that attracts hummingbirds in my garden. They almost completely ignore Monarda & Lonicera while this is in bloom. This lucky shot of a mom and baby may never happen for me again.

I forgot about convallaria majalis/Lily of the Valley (no pic) and chasmanthium latifolium/Northern Sea Oats until I saw pics of everyone else's..do cannas and colocasias count?..the sun is illuminating the colocasia from the backside..

peren..those hummingbirds!!!a fantastic pic..a once (or never) moment in a lifetime..

I’m glad somebody is a fan of sea oats, it’s a gorgeous grass, but too invasive for me. I removed mine over ten years ago and am still finding seedlings every spring. I loved the “noise” it made in the breezes!

Sherry

Yes indeed Sherry, I dug out scores. I no longer let them develop to the point of the seed being viable. I cut off the flowering stems, keep some, and a florist buys some for arrangements. It is such a shame because they turn such a wonderful mahogany colour when mature.

Wow peren!!

Lucky is right! How special to have the opportunity to capture that! Just beautiful...

Have you ever thought of having it framed?

Thank you GardenHo! I guess I have had it in the back of my mind. Yes I think I will! It was an incredible moment and it would be nice to be able to look at it any time without going on the computer. I would be very upset if I lost the pic.

Yes that would be upsetting to lose...And just beautiful framed...

Please share when you do!

I agree Laurie! Hummingbirds show up here every summer. I’m never prepared to catch a photo, they are speedy critters! I have friends in N. Carolina with feeders on a screened porch, area surrounded by trees. Those little birds are very territorial and pick fights at the feeders, so fun to watch them.

Sherry

I agree about the hummingbirds.... That's a once in a lifetime photo! And pretty with the Crocosmia 'Lucifer' in the center. I intended to try some near the house, but it turned out to be a bad year that fall so I never got them planted. I should look for some this coming season and try again. Anything for the hummers!

nw, EEs and Cannas are perennials somewhere in a warmer zone, so they should count. :-)

Will do GardenHo!

Sherry it does take being prepared with the camera. I carry mine in my gardening pouch and they are so intent on the flowers that within reason I can get pretty close. I have the lowest end Canon so I need to. If they are on the far side of the plant I can sometimes step forward and wait until they come to my side.

They are feisty little things. One of the hummers chased a hummingbird moth away and I was praying it would not attack it.

sandyslopes you would never regret planting the Crocosmia. I like everything about it. The foliage looks nearly tropical, the flowers are wonderful and the seed pods interesting. Did the city finish their work in time for you to get tidied up in fall or will it go into spring?

Sherry and peren..you're right about sea oats..it spreads..I've pulled some out..the area where I have a big clump is wild so I left it for now..I offered some to my neighbor..she said "no"..lol

Laurie, The City was still finishing up after it snowed, so I have some work to do in that area, fix a sprinkler they broke for one, but I think they're done so I'll have a sunny place to move some plants in the spring. Excited about that!

Cotinus ‘Grace’

Love these so much I’ve bought/planted more. Several ‘dwarf winecraft’ and a couple ‘golden spirit’. They are all small and I look forward to seeing them mature...

Cornus ‘Red twig Dogwood’

Good for winter interest... Certainly nothing to write home about for the rest of the season IMO.

Clematis NOID

Clematis ‘Marie Louise Jensen’

Chelone

Cichorium intybus (told you I was a blue freak. Who would grow a "weed"? Me, when it's blue)

Corydalis sempervirens (technically a biennial). Doncha just love the glaucous foliage?

Marie Louise Jensen is striking. Do you remember where you purchased it from? I might have to get that one....

OS thanks. I bought it 8 or 9 years ago...so I have no clue, sorry.

I’m a Marie Louise Jensen fan also, just lovely!

Sherry

It is a fabulous specimen GardenHo! I should take lessons from all of you, I am so mean to my Clematis. I need to give mine some love. Your Cotinus & Cornus are wonderful.

sandyslopes Thank goodness they are done. So disruptive having parts of your yard dug up. Spring can't come soon enough.

rob333 I do love the foliage & flowers of the Corydalis s. I was annoyed when they changed the name to Capnoides s.

Corydalis/Capnoides sempervirens growing wild but I enjoy it so much I am going to scatter seeds in the garden.

Ville de Lyon

Rhapsody the final bloom of the season.

Niobe - The colour in the pic is washed out in the sun. The plant with it is actually pale yellow.

“I am so mean to my Clematis. I need to give mine some love”

I can say the same...mine have really struggled.

Peren does this look like Niobe? It was also ID’d as a sunset magenta.

Clematis ‘sweet autumn‘ on the fence

Barely bloomed this year :(

(talk about mean : /

Yours does look to be a bi-tone and I would say it was IDed correctly but there are so many that are similar. Niobe is a solid velvety red then does fade to a bit lighter red.

Here is a somewhat better pic of the actual colour.

The one I would question is your Nelly Moser.

Here is a close up of Nelly Moser. Not the pic I intended but this is very accurate as to the colouring. Just when you think you are set I throw in a monkey wrench.

Heres a bad close Up. I’ve always thought the colour difference was due to my meanness/neglect lol. Big diff in stamens. Purchased from tractor supply....

Thanks Peren!

(off to correct it)

Jenn, I would expect that the clematis you hard pruned will bloom, just later than usual. Mine are often pruned by winter cold down to the snow line, and HF Young blooms just fine despite that, just a bit later in the season.

Colchicum

Double white Colchicum

cornus kousa fruit Trees count as perennial, right?

This one is upside down, but it is a selfseeded annual Cosmos

Clematis John Huxtable. It would be lovely except that the rose chasers, asiatic beetles and Japanese beetles chew it unmercifully. I wouldn’t plant another summer blooming light colored clematis in this garden. Apologies for sideways orientation - Houzz seems to put photos in with random orientation.

C. Gravetye Beauty

Clematis Romantika which is in reality a bit darker than this photo shows. (Again, sideways)

Clematis Rooguchi

Clematis Giselle

Loving the clematis pictures!

Found another ....Clematis 'Crystal Fountain' I really like the flower. I wish I could get all my clematis to flower as prolific as NHBabs clematis.

(Why will my photo only post sideways?)

More lovely clematis! NHbabs how tall is your obelisk for rooguchi? I’m giving mine a new support, just wondering how tall it should be. It’s only been in my garden for a little over a year, want to do it right ; )

Sherry

Sherry, in my garden, Rooguchi grows to about 6’. Since it doesn’t climb, I grow it up the center of a rose obelisk that is about 5 1/2’ when planted in the ground. My Rooguchi has been here for at least 5 years, and likely longer, so I don’t expect that it will get much taller.

Thanks so much Babs, I do have one that will work, don’t have to spend on that!

Sherry

This may be my favorite letter yet! All the clematis, coreopsis, campanulas... such color and loveliness!

sandyslopes, I Just planted Crystal Fountain last year. So looking forward to the blooms!

babs, your Roguchi is beautiful! I have one in a pot that needs to go in the ground. I hope it looks like yours someday.

Pink Chiffon clematis, aka Hayley Hybrid. This one never stopped blooming last year!

NOID. I call this one “Not Niobe” Lol.

Coreopsis moonbeam. New to me this year. Grows like nuts. Divided one 4” pot into three plants, each was a full size blooming machine by the end of summer. Also calibrichoa.

Corydalis solida.