Oh Wow / Purple Splash rose

Oh Wow / Purple Splash Rose - is a large-flowered climber. It can grow up to 400 cm high. 

I planted mine last autumn, but since then it has grown to about 1,4m high and bloomed a few flowers. It's still flowering though. 

The first developed blooms had been eaten by some insects so I had to wait more to see these fancy purple flowers. 

The first flowers had more white in a purple-white mix, but the next were darker. 

Cosmoses, my favourite annuals

Cosmoses (cosmos bipinnatus) are my favourite annual flowers.

I love them for their typical shape of petals, like in a children's painting. 

I love them because they're easy to grow, they self-seed and they flower till the first frosts.   

Most of them grow high (1,2m or even 2m), but nowadays you can buy shorter, dwarf varieties that will fit in any garden.

 They attract bees and butterflies. 

I absolutely adore them :)

Take a look at range of varieties I planted this year.

White and Pink

Pink Popsocks

Cupcakes White

 

Cupcakes Pink

 

Xanthos

 White Double Click

 

Daydream

White Sensation

Typical pink one

Belated July photos

 

I wanted to post these photos in July, but was so busy and didn't have time to update the blog, so here they are :)

Dahlias, roses, coneflowers and daylilies. 

Black Touch dahlia

Lavender Dream

John Davis

Pashmina / Pompon Flower Circus

Friedenslicht

Escimo Flower Circus

Daylily Aspen