If you’re thinking about a stroll through the Medicinal Herb Garden, put on the flip-flops and start walking. It’s pretty colorful right now. Here are some very recent photos of the latest plants to flower, but there’s much, much more in bloom. Enjoy!
Mirabilis multiflora (Colorado four o’clock) section C
Sidalcea neomexicana (pink checkermallow) section C
Gentiana macrophylla (qin jiao) section B
Veratrum viride (green false hellebore) section A
Philadelphus lewisii (Lewis’ mock orange) Cascara Circle
Baptisia australis (blue false-indigo) section F
Opuntia polyacantha (plains pricklypear) xeriscape bed
Triteleia laxa (grassnut) section C
Vaccinium macrocarpon (cranberry) section C
Rhodiola kirilowii (roseroot, hong jing tian) section
Allium canadense (wild garlic) section D
flowerless summer
imaginable but grim
no, perish the thought
See you in the garden.