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A pretty, late Spring and Early summer, flowering plant that grows in my garden. Astilbe is a green leafy plant most of the year, but it blooms once each year for about a month and these are the flowers that are produced on long stalks that grow out from the clump of green leaves.
This flower is best know by it’s common name of “Four o’ Clocks”, but it also goes by the names of Marvel of Peru, and it’s Latin name of Mirabilis jalapa.
As it’s common name implies this flower begins to bloom in the late afternoon around 4 pm. Mine have never opened that early though. Mine tend to open somewhere between 6 pm and 8 pm on long summer days.
I’ve found that the white four o’ clocks produce the strongest scent so I tend to only have white four o’ clocks in my garden. The scent is a strong jasmine and since the flowers tend to bloom all night long the garden is scented with their lovely jasmine scent at night.
This is an annual flower that produces large round hard black seeds from September until it stops blooming. I simply save the seeds in a cool dry place in the winter and plant them directly in the garden in late spring or early summer in order to produce new plants each year.
If only all weeds were so lovely as this common Ontario Musk Mallow.
This plant also goes by the name Malva moschata L, and like the Malva Sylvestris that I posted a short while ago this plant,too, is a relation of the Hollyhock.
This plant produces pretty pink flowers several times each summer in my garden and like it’s relatives reseeds itself quite well so I doubt I’ll ever be without this plant unless I decide to tear it out of my garden.
I’ve come to think of the Morning Glory Vine as a weed in my garden as it does much too well reseeding itself hundreds of times over. Yet, it’s flowers are lovely.
Morning Glory flowers bloom in the early morning hours and gradually close up and die off by late day. This flower is in the process of dying, but it’s still very pretty and colorful isn’t it?
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