Pear harvest this year?

Anemones

This year the anemones have really taken off. And they are flourishing, nearly so much that they are weed. Well, not quite, but aren't they cute.

Anemones

Obedient Plant

What a name for this plant: Obedient plant or Physostegia or scharnierplant. You can turn the flower, as our friend Brian showed us.

When it is dry in spring, as it was this year, they don't grow high. Last year they hardly flowered: the rain must have come too late. But this year they flower nicely. And being a bit shorter is actually nicer.