Grateful for Summer, 2006, acrylic on birch plywood. 

Linda Lee Alter, American born 1939.  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

 

 

 

Some of the purple-lilac-lavender-blues in flower from March until late October in the metropolitan Philadelphia area.

 

Every year a glory.

 

 

Stokes Aster, Mt. Cuba, DE

Bigleaf hydrangea, Longwood Gardens, PA

 

Italian windflower, Winterthur, DE

 

Virginia bluebell, Mt. Cuba, DE

 

Siberian squill, Winterthur, DE

 

Glory of the snow, Winterthur, DE

 

A variety of columbine, Longwood, PA

 

A variety of iris, Winterthur, DE

A cultivar of the Butterfly bush, Gibraltar, DE

 

Poppy-flowered anemone (Anemone coronaria), Longwood Gardens, PA

 

A form of capsicum, Winterthur, DE; a deep purple

 

Purple dome New England aster, Jenkins Arboretum, PA

 

Varieties of native (hardy)wisteria developed by Longwood, PA growing at Mt. Cuba, DE

 

 

Rosa ‘Veilchenbrau’, a hybrid multiflora rose. 

Morris Arboretum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

 

 

Field thistle, Mt. Cuba, DE

 

 

Wild geraranium, Mt. Cuba, DE

 

Closed bottle gentian, Mt. Cuba, DE.  The flower’s petals are closed and insects maneouver their way in from the base of the flower

 

 

a variety of salvia, Winterthur, DE

 

 

Dwarf morning glory

 

 

Jacobs-Ladder (Polemonium reptans), Mt. Cuba, DE

 

A variety of giant allium growing at the Philadelphia Art Museum

 

Barbara’s Buttons (Marshallia grandiflora).  Mt. Cuba, DE

 

A variety of native iris:  Iris versicolor.  Mt. Cuba, DE

 

Blue thistle, Morris Arboretum, Philadelphia

 

Moss phlox, Mt. Cuba, DE

 

A variety of hydrangea, Arden DE

 

Anise Hyssop, fragrant leaves, many varieties, native

 

 

Spike gayfeather, Mt. Cuba, DE

 

A variety of dwarf lobelia, Jenkins Arboretum, PA

 

Blue Flax (Heliophila coronopifolia), South African mustard family, Longwood, PA

 

Petunia, deep purple, growing in an urban garden in Philadelphia