Fun, fun, fun. Here are the answers to yesterday’s quiz.
1) old-fashioned bleeding heart
2) sedum – an upright variety, perhaps Purple Emperor
3) A. Siberian iris B. daylilly
4) violet (volunteer/weed)
5) peony amidst Korean angelica
6) chives
7) alpine strawberries
8) columbine, Native variety, a weed to me – come on over if you want some
9) bad bad bad campanula WEED! Campanula rapunculoides to be exact. Ugh.
10) hops, golden aureus
11) labrador retriever hole with a daylilly hanging at the precipice
12) Korean angelica (my favorite plant)
13) scilla – Siberian squill
14) Jacob’s ladder
15) Oriental poppies
16) perennial geranium – cranesbill
17) dwarf goatsbeard, aruncus
18) hair allium
19) looks like a pile of wood chips, but there are three varieties of sedum in this picture
20) more scilla
21) another bleeding heart
22) maple tree weeds
23) L to R: daylilly, perennial geranium, scilla
24) columbine AKA WEEDS!
25) clover weeds
26) hops, nugget variety
27) Siberian iris growing in a circle = BAD; MUST BE DIVIDED if in circular arrangement or it won’t bloom!
28) Korean angelica
29) forsythia arch
30) background = Pomeranian domesticus; foreground = hops
31) L = bad campanula weed; R = alpine strawberry
32) A = chives; B = sorrel
33) mostly Siberian iris
34) peony pre-Labrador
35) the brown fuzzy stuff is astilbe just peeking out
36) Jacob’s ladder
37) lacy leaves with pink/purple flowers = corydalis; straight stem with white flower = puschkinia
38) puschkinia (and one scilla)
39) bad bad bad bad common rue. Don’t ever plant this stuff. Spreads like a virulent STD.
40) Oriental poppies
41) globe thistle
42) perennial geranium
43) pasque flower
44) tiny little species iris
45) centaurea, Bachelor’s buttons
46) wild ginger, just starting to come up