Adding élan

My mom and I decided one of the gardens needed 

something extra.

For a new garden, it's doing pretty well with mostly transplants 

from family members' gardens:

Shasta daisies, 

another daisy that flowers early and then self seeds like crazy, 

purple loosestrife, 

tradescantia, wood aster, chives,

garlic chives, 

which also self seed like crazy,

 blue columbine and a number of different  hostas.

And a couple of purchased plants: 

a Knock Out Rose that sometimes gets eaten by the deer 

(but so far so good this year) 

and some heuchera that don't have much to show

in the way of flowers.

We were in town this morning, going to the library's book sale, 

and saw a great display of Russian sage in the library's garden.

I told my mom - that would be a great addition to our garden, 

and the deer don't like it.

Late this afternoon we went to the local nursery 

to buy a Russian sage. 

As we got out of the car, 

we passed a woman pulling a wagon full of plants. 

One of the plants stopped us in our tracks: 

a yellow coneflower.

So guess what we came home with.

Makes a nice pairing, don't you think?

We also bought a daylily called Cosmopolitan.  

There were several with blooms, 

but the pot that had the most plant in it 

(which we figured we could divide into 3 when transplanting)

had no blooms, so I don't have a flower to show you.

But here's the description:

miniature, rosy-red round blooms, 

excellent bud count, 

very floriferous,

a bit of fragrance and reblooming.

Very floriferous!

Doesn't that make your heart sing?