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I grow sunflowers and other lovely flowers (cosmos, peonies, irises, daylilies etc) in the boulevard in front of my house. The sunflowers seem to come up on their own now each year and I think they are the highlight of this small garden. We often have people stop and admire the flowers as they walk by the boulevard each day.
These lovely yellow Hollyhocks give my garden a kind of old fashioned look … but just in some areas of the garden. I love these full double flowering hollyhocks. I have others, black Hollyhocks, that are single flowering and they only have about five petals, whereas these must have twenty or more petals per flower.
I just wish that these lovely old fashioned Hollyhocks had a scent!
See. I’m as good as my word. Here’s a follow up picture of the actual bloom of the balloon flower, the bud and “balloon” was featured in my last post. I also have a deep blue (almost purple) version of these Balloon flowers and they are just as lovely as these white stripped balloon flowers.
This photo is of Balloon flower buds, and one blossom – the large white “balloon”. This is an amazing flower to watch as it goes from bud to blossom. I’ll post a picture of an actual Balloon flower tomorrow so you can see what it looks like when the Balloon opens.
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