Purple and yellow theme

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plants, postaday2016, seeds

I remember back in high school, a classmate of mine, an art student, told me that yellow and purple worked really well together. Back then I couldn’t see the combination working when it came to choosing outfits, but fast forward 30 odd years and I see how beautiful the two colors are together in my garden. I don’t think I purposely planted the purples and yellows side by side, some of the pairings came about by happenstance, a wind blown seed here or a critter burying a seed there.

The Black-eyed Susans that pop up where they feel like, which I don’t mind in the least,  seem to be drawn to my purple perennials. The wild flowers alternating between purple and yellow, depending where you look, seem to gravitate towards the yellow perennials if they are purple and vice-versa, a nice balance in the color schematic of Mother Nature’s palette.

The birds were at it again

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birds, postaday2015, seeds

   
 Funny how small miracles can happen underneath our noses and we are blind to them, until we open our eyes and find them. I was walking around the back to see what had changed, bloomed and grown, my eyes were drawn to a plant that was out of place and crowding my last healthy hosta along the fence to boot; I thought it was a weed, but no, it’s some variety of tomato plant. The leaves with the fuzzy stems and the smell of the plant tell me it’s a tomato plant, I’m so curious to see what it produces in the coming weeks.

  
My small crop of wild strawberries comes courtesy of birds or some other wildlife, I didn’t plant these small jewels. They are popping up everywhere in my yard, I don’t mind, they are so very pretty and delicate amidst the other plants.

   
My bougainvillea is producing so many blossoms, this is the first year I have seen blooms on the tree part of the bougainvillea, normally the blooms have only been on the newer, smaller offshoots. It’s going to be magnificent in full bloom, so very exciting!