Sunday, June 13, 2010

Pink Police Report

The Pink Police are out, and have reported this as the pinkest garden bed in the city. Bodaciously borderline. Warnings have been posted.

Pink dogwood, Pink paeonies, Pink thrift (Armeria maritima)

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Pink everything from a different angle.

You kind of want to jump in it. But that would wreck it. Jumping in gardens is a distinctly unprofessional activity.
(This is Norma's garden. The third-year-planted pink dogwood is outrageously pink this year.)
Showing more restraint, the foxglove below is serenely Pink against a backdrop of California lilac (Ceanothus)...


But there's hundreds more where it came from. Glade of wild foxgloves in Roswitha's garden, below, as viewed through a Pink gateway of mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia)...




Up close, Kalmia latifolia unfolds as precisely as the most surprising Japanese paper sculpture.



Very pink.

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