Purple Coneflower and Mugwort

Echinacea purpurea and white-flowering mugwort (Artemisia lactiflora 'Gutzhou')

A lovely combination for late summer/autumn. This combination was one that we spotted at Stan Hywet house and gardens in Akron, Ohio in their Great Garden. See more about this garden in my series on Stan Hywet... here. 

Spring Photo Contest @ Fine Gardening.com

Tulips 'Design Impression' and 'Pink Diamond'

Flaunt your spring photos for the Fine Gardening Spring Awakenings Photo Challenge. 

Enter your images with a short description by midnight tomorrow, April 15th.  

The grand prize is a $100 certificate from White Flower Farm.

Fine Gardening has been one of my favorite garden magazines for over five years now... and as I thought about the photos that I would like to enter, I also thought of all the beautiful photography that I have seen from my fellow Blotanical members.  Hope you all enter and see what happens :)  Maybe add some Allium 'Purple Sensation' or some Iris pallida 'Variegata' this year...

Thanks Fine Gardening.com!

 Fairy in the Snow

... for the 3rd runner-up mention in the Garden in Winter photo contest.  Go here for complete post.