Flowers for Mother's Day

Doug and I picked-out some flowers at HD the day before Mother's Day. We hope to enjoy them this season, and possibly for many seasons to come! These were some pictures of the flowers we've planted within the past few weekends.

Plectranthus mona lavender & white salvia (& purple flower-wheel for Ava)


Lilies


Lilies


Cockscomb (Plumosa) and some sort of yellow flower


Cockscomb (Plumosa), close-up


The mysterious unnamed yellow flowers


This past weekend, Doug made a trellis and I painted it, so our newly-planted Clematis could climb to the high heavens. I've always liked seeing clematis around other people's mailboxes, so I thought it might be nice if we gave it a try ourselves. It seems to grow really well in the full-sun of Georgia.

H. F. Young Clematis and our spankin'-new trellis


H.F. Young Clematis, close-up


I've always loved foxglove flowers. They're very interesting-looking. One myth states the flowers are called "foxglove", because foxes would save the flowers and wear them on their paws during Winter, to stay warm. This is my first attempt at tending to them.

Foxglove (digitalis purpurea)


Foxglove (digitalis purpurea)


I also ordered some Cockscomb seeds (Celosia argentea cristata-Chief mix), which I'm very anxious to receive in the mail and plant. Some of my Grandmother's relatives in Kentucky have beautiful fuschia cockscomb flowers. The flowers are fool-proof, hearty and seriously the size of a human brain (they actually look like a 12 to 16-inch velvet brain, in my opinion)!

Cockscomb is named as such, because some varieties of the flower looks like the "comb" of a rooster. I ordered a mix of colors, so I'm anxious to see what colors bloom. There was a very pretty yellow-gold color for sale, which I've never seen before. Unfortunately it was sold-out. Hopefully the seed mix I ordered contains at least one of the yellow-gold flowers. The fuschia-looking flowers we planted in pots (on our porch) are also cockscomb, but they are of the "plumosa" variety. It's amazing how different two flowers with the same name can appear! See below for a few of the MANY different types of celosia / cockscomb.

Love and flower-power,
Shelly