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No garden without the large luminous flowers of Ipomoea Heavenly Blue or Grandpa Ott – my favorite color varieties. Alas, it’s quite too hot and dry for them here. I did try sowing them but if they come up at all…
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Sternbergia lutea
One of those nice discoveries in an old garden: brillant yellow crocus flowers appearing after the first rains in September and lasting til October. The leaves stay around until the spring, the plant then draws back into the bulb over…
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Ceratostigma plumbaginoides
Unsung heroes of the dry garden Ceratostigma plumbaginoides – the “blue-flowered leadwort” – is a native from Western China. It grows and grows, unfettered by heat or drought, and blooms from June through September in a very beautiful bright blue…
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Linum
Pretty little flowers, as green manure or as perennials. Linum usitatissimum Sown in the fall of 2022 as green manure it covered wide swathes in the garden in dainty little blue flowers during May of 2023. Pretty but not very…
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Centranthus ruber
A pretty plant that comes in its original reddish pink tone, a brighter pink, as well as in white (Centranthus ruber albus). It’s fairly heat and drought resistant with occasional deep watering. It is supposed to bloom from May through…
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Wildflowers & Weeds
I have never seen as many different flowering weeds as I have here in the South of France – within my garden and also on my walks around the villages or in the garrigue. They provide great inspiration and ideas…