Every time a new flower blooms in our meadow I think I have a new favorite flower! This week’s favorite is the American basket flower. I love that it looks like a purple thistle without the prickly bits!

Now one bonus flower (Standing cypress aka Scarlet gilia) is one thing, but two is suspicious. I think that I planted a hummingbird and song bird flower mix as well as a shade flower mix, and Lady Bird Johnson’s mix. All at different times in the last year and a half, all (I thought), duds. Apparently we are getting the right amount of rain for the meadow. So there we go, mystery solved. Kind of exciting to see what my next favorite flower is going to be.