{"id":186154,"date":"2025-05-03T09:02:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T14:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=186154"},"modified":"2025-05-05T20:01:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T01:01:26","slug":"more-blues-plus-pinks-yellows-whites-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/more-blues-plus-pinks-yellows-whites-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"More blues, plus pinks, yellows, whites, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Baptisia australis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Baptisias I started two years ago are finally blooming. Blues are (almost) always welcome, and the plants are tough and attractively bushy, but they’re no substitutes for Russell Lupines.<\/p>\n

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Baptisia australis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lupinus perennis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The eastern Lupinus perennis<\/em> is also an unsatisfactory substitute for the flashy hybrids, but it is a good plant in it own right. It took two years from seed to finally bloom. It’s apt to disappear in hot summer weather; of the several seedlings I planted, only the one on the shady north side of the house survived.<\/p>\n

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Dianthus grationapolitanus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Penstemon cobaea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A Kansas native, Penstemon cobaea<\/em> has the largest flowers of any Penstemon in the USA.<\/p>\n

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Penstemon cobaea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mystery clematis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This clematis was sold at WalMart as the variety “Ville de Lyon,” which is a vivid red. I don’t think so.<\/p>\n

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Mystery clematis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Know your enemy: Vinca major, an unwelcome blue, is a psychopathically aggressive ground cover. Think very carefully before planting it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Know your enemy: Silver Maple. The keys germinate the instant they touch the ground. The tree is as invasive as the Siberian Elm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Penstemon “Blue Lips” (P. crandalii x P. linariodes v. coloradensis)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Penstemon “Blue Lips” (P. crandalii x P. linariodes v. coloradensis)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stanleya pinnata<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stanleya pinnata<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pulsatilla after rain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Big pink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Monarda bradburiana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Monarda bradburiana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cerastium tomentosum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cerastium tomentosum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Baptisias I started two years ago are finally blooming. Blues are (almost) always welcome, and the plants are tough and attractively bushy, but they’re no substitutes for Russell Lupines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-photo-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-Mqu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186154"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186196,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186154\/revisions\/186196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}