Money Plant

Who says we can't grow money? That is a Money Plant. Years and years ago we had these plants growing everywhere! Seems my granny must have gotten some seeds, either on a trip to her homeland or from one of her many friend's gardens.

Over the years the HUGE abundance of these plants has diminished in our yard. I always thought they looked VERY weedy and hated them for popping up in my neat flowerbeds. I tugged and pulled them out.

But now? Now, I love that the butterflies love the purple wildflowers that these start out being. They turn in to flat green shapes and then eventually dry up. They will naturally shed the two outer layers and leave behind the "coin" looking dried flowers. They look beautiful in a vase or dried arrangement!

So this year a whole crop of these came up in the creeping myrtle in the front yard....and I left them. The dry Summer made them change sooner, but I cut about half of them and have been peeling off the outer layers a few at a time. I have saved all the seeds. I am going to take most of them up to camp to scatter along the woods on the way into camp. Maybe next year I'll see my granny's Money Plants grow miles from home.....

PS - Anyone want some seeds??????

Delphiniums

This past weekend P and I visited a local garden stand. I was looking for another hanging basket for camp and spotted some Delphiniums. Since I am an avid perenial lover and always looking for something new to add to one of my gardens, I decided to buy two. I purchased a white and a purple. The white one has been planted at camp and the purple one is being planted at home. I'll see where they do better and if they survive and come back next year. I really wanted to take the white one home....but....as you can see it is already well over 4 1/2 feet tall and I did not want to take the chance of breaking it on the trip home. I would have loved to see those beautiful white flowers against the red brick of our house.