Baptisia & Friends

Baptisia 'Purple Smoke' is just finishing blooming I had planted it under the cascading branches of Buddleia alternifolia amazingly they seem to have the same color blossoms. Each year I say I am going to prune/ train this Buddleia into a much nicer shape maybe this will be the year. It blooms on old wood so my excuse is I remember it too late & then the Carolina Aster, also on this pole, starts to green up & there goes another resolution down the drain or is that up in smoke?

Louisiana Iris 'Black Gamecock' above in the Rain Garden & the species Baptisia australis has seeded itself here too.