I arrived in my Napa garden after being out of town for a few weeks and was sad to see much of my garden color from spring and early summer gone. The roses are in between blooms and many of my remaining flowers have been bleached out by the intense sun and heat of our summer this year. Tis the season… It happens every year at this time.
En route into town this morning, I stopped off at Central Valley to get some potting soil and I got lured into the nursery by some rudbeckia ‘Prairie Sun’. This beautiful, large yellow-flowered perennial was just the antidote to my washed-out garden that I needed this morning. Don’t you just love the chartreuse centers?
Once I was committed to buying color, I wandered over an area that had several varieties of echinacea, and once again – I couldn’t resist. I bought some echinacea ‘Sombrero Adobe Orange’, pictured above.
Finally, I found some happy Shasta Daisies, which – although white – will provide a pop when massed together.
I wasn’t the only one happy to see these colorful additions to my garden. I couldn’t believe the number of bees that were circling around this echinacea!
