What's blooming

A bouquet of blossoms from the garden. Including the first dahlia to bloom, shasta daisies, pink yarrow, monarda (bee balm), pink salvia, goose-neck loose strife. The Queen Anne's lace at the top was picked from the roadside. Everything else has come from the garden. Can't wait to see the rest of the dahlias come into bloom. This dahlia is a mix of colours; pale yellow at the top with pink in the centre and golden coral at the bottom. Interesting.

And another addition, on the right is amaranth, a flower I have been waiting for. It looks like fuchsia dread locks. It is also known as love-lies-bleeding. And on the left is Japanese bottle brush, the only flower here that has a smell.