The old camera I was using died two weeks ago. I finally got a new camera yesterday, so I can take pictures again.
This European cyclamen has a very nice leaf pattern: silver edged with little green pebbles. It's a lot like Jan Bravenboer's cultivar 'Green Ice', but the pebbles are special. Hopefully its offspring will be similar.
The cyclamen in a pot on Betty Ann's inviting porch. It draws some attention from visitors. It's a rather nice form of
Cyclamen purpurascens: small, tidy, bright flowers and small neatly patterned leaves. Almost as nice as one of the smaller cultivars of
Cyclamen persicum.
This is a Minnesota native, spotted horsemint (
Monarda punctata). It's bizarre and striking, with pink and green bracts and orange brown-spotted petals. It likes dry soil, and is very fast-growing; this plant grew from seed this spring. As you can see, the wasps like it.
