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Pale peachy pink buds gradually open to form neatly cupped, cream rosettes. Each bloom has a perfect ring of waxy petals enclosing numerous smaller petals. . Named after an 8th century limestone sculptured panel, discovered in Lichfield Cathedral.

Queen Lime boasts huge blooms in a versatile chartreuse-green shade that pairs perfectly with other colors. These tough plants bloom prolifically, have long, strong stems, and thrive in the heat. The more you harvest, the more they bloom.

Dahlia Imperialis enjoys a long, rich history as a part of dahlia royalty. Brought to Europe from Mexico in the 16th century, this variety boasts pendant, or nodding, style flowerheads with a single row of lavender/pink petals offset by its orange center.

Orange Planet Daylilly Medium orange petals, smaller red eye, tiny gold throat, three eighths inch wide ruffled cream and red double edge on petals only.

Heavenly Bloom of the Earthly Gardens Named after Iris, goddess of the rainbow, the Tall Bearded Iris lives up to its mythological legacy with an explosion of color—lavenders, deep purples, golds, icy whites, fiery reds, and exotic bi-tones.

Throw a tea party for the hummingbirds and other pollinators when you plant Purple Cup and Saucer Vine Seeds in your garden. This heirloom variety produces large, bell-shaped flowers in deep purple hues, resembling delicate porcelain cups atop saucer-like green calyxes. Grower photo.

Hot Cocoa™ displays an unusual coloring of a smoky, chocolate-orange which stays vibrant and beautifully contrasts against her glossy, dark-green foliage. She has 4” blooms that offer a spicy fruit fragrance. Expect the flowers to bloom in abundance on this continually blooming Floribunda.

#MacroMonday Geranium blossom

Historical Rose Charles de Mille Before 1786 Gallacia Rich crimson-purple blooms in shades varying from lilac to wine. Extremely double, lightly fragrant blooms in late spring on a compact, upright 3 to 5 foot bush.

Sharifa Asma David Austin By Marina Olberg A lovely rose with delicate blush pink, rosette-shaped blooms. Distinctive and beautiful fragrance with fruity notes reminiscent of white grapes and mulberry. Short, upright growth.

Gemini® looks like a work of art with graceful brushstrokes across each petal. No other continual blooming rose produces such constantly perfect and beautiful, massive, 5 1/2" blooms. She has a lovely blend of cream and coral flowers on long cutting stems. Perfect if your a Gemini!

The Duchesse De Nemours Peony is garden royalty! The bulbs produce a double, globe-shaped creamy-white flower that has a tint of yellow at the petal's base.

Vancouver's 8" blue-violet flowers have long petals that are gently cupped and frosted with white. Each plant pumps out dozens of blooms and will keep your garden and flower vases filled with color from summer to frost. This dinner plate, dahalia, will fill up a boquet in a hurry.

Named to commemorate an exceptional woman, Mom’s Special Dinner Plate Dahlia is a gorgeous double bloom splashed with vibrant lilac purple stripes. This bold flower grows up to 8 inches wide, with mid-summer blooms that add crisp, clean color to a flower garden or bouquet.

This variety pairs peach-pink standards with ruffled, plum and mauve falls. A tracery of peach around the edges of the falls brings the colors together. Crimped edges on the petals give them a fringed look. Florentine Silk is a garden treasure!

Summer Carnival Apple Blossom Hollyhock seeds create a mix of semi- to fully-double blooms in the sweetest shades of pink and cream. Carnival season is beginning its time for some summertime fun!

Ivana Komanickâ shares her photo of her historic rose this morning. Tolstoj was bred in 1936 by a Czech breeder Jan Böhm, it is a setigera hybrid. It is a climbing rose with big and very fragrant blooms. Available in Czech Republic.

Vista Point" features port wine standards with faint chrome lemon peppering at the base, liver brown style arms with light chrome yellow wings, and white falls with a chrome lemon patch, port wine haft, mid-line, and edge. The beards are white with layered rust tan and purple tips.

Rainbow Loveliness' is a clump-forming hybrid pink dianthus. Masses of heavily fringed, very fragrant, single flowers cover the foliage mound in spring in a mixture of colors ranging from white to pink to rose to carmine to lilac with some bicolored and with some having contrasting eyes or rings.

The peonies had to be rescued from the garden as they fell too heavy with the all day rain. They 5+ generations old and have moved with every home with many branches of the family. We love the history they carry with them. We are all better together!

Wollerton Hall, fragrant climber, its strong, warm myrrh fragrance has intense hints of citrus. The buds have attractive flashes of red, open to beautifully rounded, chalice-shaped blooms of pale apricot, eventually paling to cream. Named for one of the most beautiful private gardens in the country.

The Mill on the Floss" is a mid-pink English shrub rose named after George Eliot's 1860 novel. Bred by David Austin and introduced in 2018, it's known for its large, cupped blooms that fade from pink to lilac and have a sweet, fruity fragrance.

Ferdinand Picard of the best striped heirloom roses. Intense contrasting color combination of candy pink, overlaid with stripes of rich deep crimson aging to purple. Wonderfully fragrant blooms are globular shaped and produced on a strong repeat blooming upright bush. Photo by Carol Roberts.

Peonies are popular cut flowers and garden plants, and can thrive for over a century. Appearance: Peonies come in shades of red, pink, purple, yellow, white, and cream, and can grow to be 2–4 ft tall.

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Peonies are flowering plants known for their large, showy blooms and rich texture. They are native to Asia, Europe, and Western North America, and are China's national flower.

Gentle Hermione David Austin By Vicki Yeates Wales The perfectly formed, shallow cups are pure light pink, paling to soft blush on the outer petals. There is a strong, warm myrrh fragrance.

For the third year in a row, we have had this perennial bloom in our yard. We didn't plant it! Our garden seems to be a safe space. We haven't got our roses fenced in yet... Hopefully this week.

Gitts Perfection,' is no overstatement. Perfect 10” Dinnerplate blossoms are shades of tender pink that pale to a creamy white center. They’re lovely and impressive in the garden and in vases, where they blend beautifully with a wide variety of other colors. The photo is from the grower.