Early Summer Gardens, from Rivers of Spanish Lavender to Dark-Leafed Dahlias

In between rain storms, and too often right in the midst of a downpour, I've been visiting gardens and enjoying what the snails and slugs have left of mine. Every June I'm shocked by how much the garden fills out daily, ebbing and flowing, budding, blooming and passing out of bloom more quickly than I ever remember. We wait all winter, and during the long, chilly spring...and now it's all happening! Here are a few scenes...

This is one of Raymond Evison's floriferous patio clematis growing up a metal trellis on the side of my house, along with striped ornamental corn from Log House Plants (thank you Alice) and nasturtiums not yet in bloom.

A pot planted with a chocolate-leafed dahlia from the 'Mystic' series, a lemon lime ageratum  and the new little, seriously variegated, shrub Abelia 'Kaleidoscope'.

Love this metal hanging basket I found a few years ago at DIG Nursery on Vashon..it's hanging over the gate into the garden...carexes and sedum seem to survive well up there in the sky, despite little supplemental water...

Love this combination of dark smoke bush and ruby-colored Knautia macedonica, a reliable perennial that spreads too much for a garden as small as mine...this vignette is on 2nd street in Langley, in front of the Coldwell Banker office...

And a river of Spanish lavender running through a sea of ornamental grasses at Jim and Ann Ewel's Bellevue garden, designed by Randy Allworth...the simplicity and beauty of massed plantings...

 

 

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Ageratum (Floss flower)
This plant has blue-mauve flowers with fluffy heads, and it grows about 18 inches high. The dwarf variety, which is about 6 inches high, is useful for edging.