Red and White Turks Cap July 20, 2021

 The red and the white Turks Cap are beginning to bloom.  These are useful plants.  They do fine in sun or shade.  I also have a pink variety, but it's not blooming yet.  In the winter they are a bit high maintenance because I have to cut back all the sticks.  I have many dozens, maybe hundreds of Turks Cap plants throughout the Boardwalk Gardens, by the pool, in the Shade Garden and the Star Garden.  That's a bit time consuming.  I suppose I can stop cutting them down, but I think over time they would get really messy looking. These plants are butterfly favorites.    

I can never get a photograph that does the white variety justice.  The white is so pretty, but my camera doesn't like them I guess.