Checking Out My Cousin's Flowers
June 30, 2012
Besides me, our family has other gardeners. There's my sister in law who planted the "Prettiest Window Box in Town " (and has a yard full of flowers), my cousin who has beautiful flowers in beds and in pots and my Aunt (my Mom's sister) who I visited with today, and still plants a couple big vegetable gardens and flowers in pots and beds. My cousin likes to try more unusual perennials. Not the ones everybody plants. Here is one: This one is a dropwort filependula. A little 18-24" ferny foliaged perennial with white tiny clustered blossoms that blow every so softly in the wind. I have one too that was a division of this one, but it is much smaller. A slower growing, non-invasive perennial. I also like this Sea Thrift. A little grass like, slower growing tuft with bright pink balls of tiny blossoms on taller stems high above the foliage. Also in the photo, to the right, creeping thyme and in the background a miniature watering can