Thanks Vic.
It does, Mike. Someone on FB did it first. Some other people cut the blooms and float them in water, as you know, but I don't like to cut the flowers.

I'm with you on that - I don't like to cut the flowers.

Loretta, Vic, I agree about not liking cut flowers.

I had an interesting experience along those lines in August 2009
and actually have a picture of the plant concerned. It shows
a corner of part of quite a large block of common monkshood
in my Pike Garden. (No children or pets lived at the address).



Mr Pike was away and a temporary house keeper was there.
She'd come out to the garden and cut a nice bunch of the monkshood,
apparently with the kitchen scissors, for the kitchen window. Later,
I was able to inform her that the plant, including its sap, is
very poisonous.

Still, at the same time, I'm currently reading online, advice (from differ sites!)
that monkshood should not be used as a cut flower and that monkshood
makes an excellent cut flower.

aspenhill said: Charlie, I love that little primrose!

Terri - that double primrose looks like Quaker's Bonnet - always a good doer in my garden

I'm with you Charlie - Monkshood is very poisonous.

We were at Biltmore Estate gardens last week and in one of greenhouses, they had a huge Brugmansia that was hanging in the aisle where a child or even an adult could have easily touched it. All parts are poisonous. I was surprise they were allowing it in the aisle like that.

Thanks for the comment, Terri.
Plus the response from Valerie.

Hadn't got round to looking up that identification yet.

I know David (Merlin's Hollow) loved primula, with quite a collection of species and cultivars.
I did recognize another heritage primula there (which we had; namely 'Kinlough Beauty').

Perhaps a bit gaudy (?) but, for me this Primula aurantiaca (in an artificial bog bed, an early July)
is my most showy picture of all the primulas at the former Merlin's Hollow.



Vic, that's very surprising and at such a location. Sounds like negligence.

Beautiful Charlie

It is so hard to find any kind of primroses for sale in the US. Lots of sources in the UK. If anyone knows of a mail order source, LMK. I'd love to get that Quakers Bonnet one as well as others.

Terri, I guess that primroses (primrose-cowslip (+) hybrids) would be recognized and used as garden perennials in places with strong seasonality (notably a distinctive spring time).

One of our two 'Paris in Pink'. Think I prefer the deeper colour of our other (second image); plant located in the shade of our cedar hedge.





All our hellebores are still going strong.
Ice N' Roses (White)


Seeing Corydalis.


Don't feel that the Crescendo series has the "delicacy ? " of the heritage/ more traditional primroses/primula but they clearly add colour.


As said, love the blue hyacinths that seem to go so well (colour-wise) with the daffodils.

Frustrating that they can be floppers (with rain and the like). Not that practical to stake them all.


Maybe the older ones, now with less showy heads, are good in this regard.


Still have a few Tulipa praestans 'Unicum' around.

Oh, your garden is so colorful and beautiful Charlie

Very enjoyable, Charlie.

Thanks Vic, Arlene.
Today:

All lovely, Charlie! What is the small yellow flowering one, 2nd from last? It looks like a nice spreader.

Thanks, Nancy; it's Anemone ranunculoides. It's become a bit too spreading for me, but it's me who inadvertently spread it (while renovating flower beds). We have light blue A. robinsoniana, which I prefer. Stopping it crowding out the latter has now becoming a challenge.

Thanks for the extra info, I'll look up both before deciding to plant either.

Charlie - all the colors in your garden are so beautiful!

Nancy, I know exactly where you're at in deciding on whether to plant a particular perennial or not.
I tend to be a bit of a perfectionist myself (OCD!) in "policing ?" perennial beds: always aiming for blocks of colour.

As many of us would likely say, be very careful of buying perennials from places like garden club plant sales. Why some of those perennials got to be there, for sale, is exactly because they're vigorous seeders or runners. Personally, for me, the main attraction of (more expensive) cultivars, compared with species (wild tyes), is often that they're more tame (well behaved) in perennial bed. And, I aim for the beds to contain enough of a diversity of different perennials for ongoing flower colour, throughout the growing season.

Then, of course, the same perennial can behave differently, in different growing conditions, within the same garden!

It may be reasonable advice to try a certain perennial in your garden; but that goes with keeping a very close eye on it, so that there'll still be time to eliminate it, if necessary.

Vic, you know me; I garden for flower colours. Love colours/colors (latter, my friend, as you'd say!)

I totally agree about plants at garden clubs. In a year or two you may be digging them out.