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buddleja Miss Ruby, Buddliea, butterfly bush, Cercis canadensis, Daylily, echinops ritro, Forest pansy, hemerocallis little grape, hydrangea arborescens Annabelle, Lily, six on saturday, stachys
This is a new meme for me. Simply put this is a look at six plants in my garden which are looking at their best and most interesting right now.
Cercis candanensis underplanted with stachys
Such sweet glossy heart shaped leaves become bigger and bigger and back lit their foliage is unquestionably eye catching.
Hydrangea arborescens Annabelle and chair. This is their second year and boy do they deliver. 
From lime green they open to a dreamy green white, one of those colours the people at Farrow and Ball would no doubt find a great name for.
Lily 
After a few weeks picking off lily beetle these are looking in good condition and smell divine. They are huge too, about 1m tall. Shall I pick them? Hmm maybe just one.
Echinacea purpurea
I planted these in 2015 and unlike my last garden they have returned each year looking bigger and better.
This is Hemerocallis Little Grape. All daylily do well on my heavy clay soil and this one is a cast off from my friend Liz. Thanks Liz! It is smaller than most at about 40cm high but the strength of colour is very good.
Buddliea love them? Or loathe them? I would not be without at least one as they definitely bring butterflies into the garden. This is Buddleja Miss Ruby a modest sized version at 2x2m but easily contained with a spring pruning The aroma is very fruity. I really like the sharp colour on this one.
Echinops ritro I love all of the echinops but some such as Taplow Blue do not do well on my soil. This however is delightful, makes a good cut flower and adds such a clear form after the alliums are over. 
so that’s my six on Saturday. If you have six to share please add a link #sixonsaturday The propagator
Have a great weekend. D.
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Some really lovely plants there. What a nice idea for a meme. I might even have a go myself next week! Thanks for this post I really enjoyed it.
Yes it’s a good one I think. Thanks for commenting and delighted you like the 6
Very much so, thank you.
‘Forest Pansy’ redbud does not keep the foliar color well here. It needs to be well exposed to develop the bronzed color in the spring, but then, if too exposed, fades to dingy dark green through summer. The cultivar with yellow foliage does the same, except that the finished color is sickly pale green. There are two outside right now. I think that their flowers are reason enough to grow them, and that they are just fine with normal green foliage.
Interesting. Here the foliage is the reason I grow it but I have never seen it flower, yet!
The flowers are rad. There are better plants for bronze or more purplish foliage.
What a great set of photos. Love the hydrangea. Love the echinaceas. I haven’t got that globe flower yet. I love that budleja. Beautiful colour and good size if you have restricted space. I’m joining for the first time too.