Monday's Favorite Flowers Combination #5

Here is a more subtle Monday flowers combination that I like as much as the bold bright ones I posted in the previous weeks.

The focus in this picture is on the front row of plants, but overall a somewhat blurry shot so here comes
take two:

Monday's Favorite Flower combination #4

Today's favorite combination involves three different flowering shrubs in bloom together with the cobalt blue Bachelor's Button during the month of May. This bed is in the front left side of the house as you look from the street called the North front bed. It receives the most sun out of our garden beds and it has been a challenging bed to plant in due to the vast amount of tree roots left in the ground after some old trees were removed before we moved in. Every year I continue to add sun loving perennials and flowering shrubs to this bed  but more to come on this later.

Azaleas or  Deciduous rhododendrons  " Herbert" (pink) and "Gibraltar" (orange) plus  Deutzia "Nikko" (white) and Bachelor's Button or Centaurea Mountain Bluet

New blooms in 2013

As I was looking at my flower pictures from 2013 and I realized that a lot of the flowers that I can't wait to see again in the spring or summer were new to our garden in 2013.  Some of these plants I had researched for a while and had on my MUST FIND list. But some, I just discovered on the spot and knew that I must try.
I will share with you a few of these beauties:

Poppy Mallow, Winecup or Callirhoe involucrata (zone 4-9). It prefers a sunny dry location.