The color purple

 

The garden is green and purple right now, very soothing to the eye with only the alliums and Japanese iris blooming. Everything is bigger and taller than usual from all the rain. Soon it will be a chaos of bright, clashing primary colors. The roses and other annuals were planted hodgepodge over many years, without a thought to color coordination. We like it that way. 

Welcome, June.

“What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.” –  

Gertrude Jekyll