Just went out and took garden pictures in the rain. Here are: Blue Angel Hosta with “finger-pruned” white spruce. Pinching the spruce buds half-way back with the fingers every spring, just as they are about to lose their papery brown “cap”, creates a soft, feathery look and keeps the tree’s size within bounds of the garden. It is generally a bonsai technique but works just as well in the field.
On the other side of the hosta are the Japanese Iris, Nehretsubane.
And, on the other side of the garden, the pale pink dwarf Campenula is in bloom . .
. . next to the Rose Campion.
