Angeliqueomania, Anomolas, and Mystery Ferns

I can't stop looking at these tulips. And that leads to photographing them, doesn't it. And that leads to showing them on the blog.

Another of my favorite plants is the Climbing Hydrangea, Hydrangea anomola. Its really all year something else. I pulled two out of a garden that I knew was going under the bulldozer (cause I planted it myself!). I put it on the fence of the side yard. Only down side is that people snap the branches a lot.

But what graceful form, gestural.

Another plant, a fern I pulled out of that very same garden is coming back this year. I had my doubts because it is planted in the front yard, in sun all day except for the last few hours and is tucked between heat holding wall and sidewalk. But there it is, making its way back.