Welcome to the only brief time when purple is the dominat color in my garden. It was not done in any way intentionally, just the timing of what is blooming early, before the show really begins around here.

Of course there are the several cultivars of liac (other than Miss Canada which blooms pink), bearded iris, the opening spires of baptisia, salvia, the johnny jump ups and pansy I let seed at will, the ajuga that covers all the bare ground I have not planted yet,the spurs of columbine, nepata ,jacob’s ladder(‘stairway to heaven’)  and my earliest blooming large flowered clematis called’ Elsa Spath’. This year the blooms on Elsa are HUGE and it is windy and they are being difficult to photograph in all their expansive flowery-ness. ( I gave it my best shot)

 Anyway, I will enjoy the purple while it lasts,it may not be my favorite color but it beats the heck out of the dreaded yellow time that comes during the late summer lull.