Showy Geranium

Showy Geranium ..
Scientific Name: Geranium x magnificum ..
Bloom color: Purple flowers with dark blue veins ..
Family: Geraniaceae ..

Cambridge Geranium

Cambridge Geranium ..
Scientific Name: Geranium x cantabrigiense 'Berggarten' ..
Bloom color: clear pink flowers
Family : Geraniaceae ..

Bigroot Geranium 'Album'

Bigroot Geranium 'Album' ...
Geranium macrorrhizum 'Album' ...
Bloom color: White with a touch of coral pink ...

Geranium family

# Showy Geranium .. Geranium x magnificum ...
# Bigroot Geranium .. Geranium macrorrhizum 'Album' ..
# Cambridge Geranium .. Geranium x cantabrigiense 'Berggarten'
# Bloody Geranium .. Geranium sanguineum 'Max Frei' ..
# Wild Geranium / Spotted Geranium .. Geranium maculatum ..

Spanish Love-in-a-Mist

Spanish Love-in-a-Mist ..
Scientific Name: Nigella hispanica ..
Family: Ranunculaceae ..

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Pink Mulla-mulla 'Joey'

Pink Mulla-mulla 'Joey'
Scientific Name: Ptilotus exaltatus 'Joey'
Family: Amaranthaceae

Common Borage ...

Common Borage ...
Scientific Name: Borage officinalis ..
Family: Boraginaceae ... Borage family

Shot in Chicago Botanic Garden, in June, 2009 ..
Heritage Garden - Borage ...

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Columbine Meadow Rue

Columbine Meadow Rue ..
Scientific Name: Thalictrum aquilegifolium ..
Family: Ranunculaceae ..

Canterbury Bells

Canterbury Bells ..
Scientific Name: Campanula medium 'Champion' mix ...
Family: Campanulaceae ..
There's Champion Blue, Champion Lavender, Champion White and Champion Pink ...



Campanula medium is a native of France, Southern Germany, Romania, Hungary and Southern parts of England ...



# Here's a couple of images of Canterburt Bells 'Champion Blue' taken last year, ie, July, 2008 .. Although it is named 'blue', but it's rather purple in color ..

Presumedly Canterbury Bells were so-named in the 12th Century because the blossoms resembled the bells that were hung upon the necks of horses who took pilgrims to the shrine of Thomas a'Beckett, archbiship of Canterbury ... [ Source: Canterbury Bells: Paghat's Garden ..

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Clustered Bellflower

Clustered Bellflower ..
Scientific Name: Campanula glomerata ..
Family: Campanulaceae ..

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Spanish Bluebell

Spanish Bluebell ..
Scientific Name: Hyacinthoides hispanica ..
Family: Hyacinthaceae ...

Baboon flower

Baboon flower ..
Scientific Name: Babiana stricta
Family: Iridaceae ...

Dahlia 'Hot Tamale'

Dahlia 'Hot Tamale' ...
Family : Asteraceae

Large-flowered Clematis 'Nelly Moser'

Large-flowered Clematis 'Nelly Moser' ...
Scientific Name: Clematis 'Nelly Moser' ..
Family: Ranunculaceae ..

Joseph Rock Tree Peony

Joseph Rock Tree Peony ...
Scientific Name: Paeonia suffriticosa ssp. rockii ..
Family: Ranunculaceae ..

Peony / Peaony

Peaony..
One of the most showy of garden perennials ...
Family: Ranunculaceae ..

Painted Tongue

Painted Tongue ..
Scientific Name: Salpiglossis sinuata ..
Family: Solanaceae ..

Purple leaf Weigela

Purple leaf Weigela ..
Scientific Name: Weigela florida 'Foliis Purpuriis'..
Family: Caprifoliaceae ..

Old Fashioned Weigela

Old Fashioned Weigela ..
Scientific Name: Weigela florida 'Variegata' ..
Family: Caprifoliaceae ..

Sicilian Honey Lily ..

Sicilian Honey Lily ..
Scientific name: Allium bulgaricum ..
Family: Alliaceae ..

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Sicilian Honey Lily

Sicilian Honey Lily ..
Scientific name: Allium bulgaricum ..
Family: Alliaceae ..

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Ornamental Mullein

Ornamental Mullein ..
Scientific Name: Verbascum 'Copper Rose' ..
Bloom Color: Rose/Mauve, Coral/Apricot, Cream/Tan ..
Family: Scrophulariaceae ..

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Foxtail Lily

Foxtail Lily ...
Scientific Name: Eremurus bungei ..
Family: Liliaceae

Foxglove

Foxgloves
Scientific Name: Digitalis purpurea ...
Family: Scrophulariaceae ..

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Three Birds Toadflax / Three Birds Flying

Three Bird Toadflax / Three Birds Flying ..
Scientific Name: Linaria triornithophora
Family: Scrophulariaceae ..

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