Blue Flowers – Cynthia Reyes

Welcome to the last of the summer vines.

Purple clematis hanging on, above.

Also, do you remember that the wild rabbits ate two of my favorite clematis vines right down to the ground last winter?

Well, the pink one finally resurrected itself in mid-summer. And started blooming this week.

I’m glad, because it’s the clematis on the cover of my book, A Good Home.

And I’m taking it as a sign that there’ll be more books in my future!

Meanwhile, I walked around the garden in search of more ‘last blooms’. Ever tried holding a cane in one hand and a camera in the other?

The result is uneven. (Some of you, my blogger friends, are fantabulous photographers, so – be kind!)

The white-blooming hosta, above, is a fresh sight in the fading garden.

So is a very late Annabelle hydrangea bloom.

Normally, they’ve all turned green already.

The morning glories are now blooming in two colours, though I planted only one (the blue-purple).

Some flowers bloom gloriously….

… and some are shy.

Just like people.

Wishing you a happy Labour Day weekend.

If you’d asked me if I had many blue flowers in my summer garden, I would have said ‘no’. But turns out I would have been wrong. As borne out by this blue Clematis, above. The blue-lavender Clematis on the right, below. And the blue Salvia on the left. Morning Glories get in on the act, and this one is lovely. Blue Salvia will soon get crowded out by Margaritas… But right now it’s holding its own. Blue and yellow make a refreshing mix in the garden. And — honestly — this Clematis below is a blue-lavender. But compared to the sky, it’s positively pink.

Except for this other blue Clematis, which has somehow risen above the pink one and is holding court. While, just below them both, this flower – whose name I’ve never learned – blooms all summer. Do you know what it is? Almost a Forget-Me-Not, but I don’t know what it is or where it came from.