Sunflowers update

A few weeks later, the sunflowers are approaching the fence!



It is such fun to watch them grow, along with the other wildflowers I planted in the bed. The cosmos is fluffy and tall and doing great, as are the bachelor's buttons that came in the packet of seeds.



Also growing from that packet are some tall green plants that I can't identify. When I rub them there is an amazing smell...it reaches back into my subconscious and makes me think of something green I smelled a long time ago...memories like that usually reach to India. Is this a plant I knew in India, so many decades ago? Time will tell. I will wait for it to bloom and reveal its name. 



The wildflowers were growing so well that I decided to add more flowers! I dared to plant perennials - cheery coreopsis (in burgundy and gold), hot pink sweet william, and a tall plant with spidery pink blooms. I have seen it at the Experimental farm and never knew its name. I googled it this time ("tall pink flower") and...it is cleome!! Is there anything Google can't tell us? What did gardeners do before Google? It's a mystery, just like many of the other plants in my blooming lovely garden. 

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