Lilies

No fancy name for these. Originally from Tim, they grow in the shade garden.

Saskatoons and raspberries

This must be a banner year for saskatoons (and the wild raspberries aren’t too shabby either). The sask. berries are giant and the bushes are loaded. I’ve been picking for days and days.

Purple Pavement rose

We bought this shrub a couple years ago, and it hasn’t bloomed until now. Last year I nearly tore it out as dead. Fortunately I waited. The leaves are similar to the rugosa roses so I imagine eventually this will be one of the large shrubby roses. Fingers crossed.

Night and Day

The only surviving tea rose here at the Compound. The buds are so beautifully dark before they open. Quite set back by the June cold snap, I think we’ll only get these two blooms.

Clustered Bellflower

Campanula glomerata. Planted on a slope that the dog decided to use as his path to the lower backyard, yet they keep coming back. Very best cut flower, lasts for a full week or longer in a vase.

Pearly Everlasting

Anaphalis margaritacea. Fairly hardy, a bit weedy, but doesn’t mind the clayey soil at the end of the flower bed. Great cut flower. and blooms for 3 to 4 weeks

Therese Bugnet

A hardy rugosa. This is her first year to bloom but is supposed to be quite shrubby eventually. Planted up on the knob, that just the kind of rose we’re looking for.

David Thompson

Hardy rugosa. Moved to the ‘knob’ last spring, this is David’s comeback year. Well shrubbed out, but few buds. Maybe next year.

Alexander MacKenzie

One of the explorer roses. Not quite magenta. Tiny blooms, much like the Morden Centennial with a central bloom first, and the surrounding buds later

Cranesbill Geranium

A true geranium, these came from Tim many years ago. Very hardy. The dog sleeps on top of them as winter warms into spring. Then they start to grow and push him off.