One of the best things about a garden on several levels is that you get to see plants from unexpected view points. Here’s Rozanne busy flowering her socks off. She’s on top of the wall that holds up the bank behind the house, well above my head height, and will be flowering now until the first frosts. The almost black foliage in the corner is Cotinus aka Smoke Bush or Smoke Tree. When it flowers it is a mass of feathery creamy-pink plumes.
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Bless Rozanne’s beautiful blues. 🙂
She’s a stunner, isn’t she 🙂
With sky like this you could be in my garden. Although I expect it is a little warmer over there at the mo.
I think most of the heat is in London, but it’s pretty nice in Shropshire – sun without too much melting. So yes, probably pretty much like your neck of the woods just now.
how beautiful –
Thank you, Beth.
Lovely, Tish!
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Thank you, Janet.
I love smoke bush- just the hint of it value$adds to this beautiful blue sonata!
A blue sonata – I like that.
Rozanne’s a stunner! And there was Cotinus in the garden where I used to live…lovely in flower
They are definitely handy trees for a bit of planting drama. Also the spiders love them in autumn – lots of webs incorporating the old flower spikes.
Yep, drama aplenty!
So beautiful!
Thank you, Kendall.
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That’s a beautiful combination of blues. 😊
Cheers, Elaine 🙂
Rozanne, is that her name? a brilliant floral lass!
That is indeed her name, and she’s a fairly recent horticultural invention, bred in the 1990s I think. Definitely ‘a goer’.
well Roxanne is stunning, and what a sky!
I think you are mixing her up with the Police song!! This is Rozanne, an entirely different lady 😂
lol!!! What am I like 😀 got a great song now playing in my head though!
Beautiful!! I love the idea of a plant that flowers all summer, especially one this pretty.
When I googled it to see about growing it in Canada, I got multiple links about growing your own marijuana. I think this may take more research 😉
Ha! Fascinating where google searches can take you!
Definitely interesting 🙂
So beautiful!
Rozanne is a beauty, she looks like G. Brookside. I like the ones that flower for ages. And blue on blue is perfect 🙂
Yes, the long flowering geraniums are such an asset, Rozanne also proliferates and makes loads of plantlets.
My Geranium × oxonianum make lots of plantlets but they are also a bit too rambling for a small garden.
Perfect shot! 😀
Thank you 🙂
Always wanted a smoke tree. If we could get someone to come and cut down the trees in front of the house, we’d actually have ROOM for one … and the sun to grow something! It can be really hard to get people to cut down the trees. They always say they want the wood, but then they don’t show up!
Am amazed they don’t show up. Would have thought there was a great need for wood in your winters.
I do love geraniums but I haven’t ‘met’ Rosanne, gorgeous.
She’s worth seeking out 🙂
The flowers are beautiful.