Lysimachia Punctata

I started seeing this plant in English Gardening books but rarely in American gardens.  It has been here for some time though.  It is a bit spready, if not invasive.  It is related to Mint after all.  I looked for this for ages before I found it in a coffee can on the side of a road for $1.00.  Then after years of people asking what it was I started finding it in nurseries.

Mountain Laurel

This is perhaps my favorite flower, without family associations.  A woodland understory plant, so it likes shade, a real stunner!

Veronica

I have this in lavender as well as the blue, but it is difficult to see the other color.  I got this from my sister's garden when she left civilization for the wilds of northern Maine.  It now grows wild in the paddock grass behind my house.

Willow

This is variegated willow, the color only shows on new growth.  Below see Cotoneaster, behind, a pink Barberry, Euonymous and Hydrangea Petiolaris climbing on a chain link fence in a solid wall of green.

Bachelor Button

Centauria Montana.  Related to other Bachelor Buttons in the garden, like the Cornflower, and is also seen in pink and yellow.  This was one of my grandmother's plants.

Lychnis Coronaria

There are a number of Lychnis including pinks, whites and magentas.  Also called Rose Campion, we always called them Mullein Pinks.  Pretty much cast iron plants just cannot be killed.  They are not exactly invasive though.  Lychnis Chalcedonia is known as  Maltese Cross in various shades of orange.  I had Grammie's plants here, but they have seeded together with the ones that were already here.  There was an inquiry about this plant. Is it invasive?
Well, the stand you see here has been there since I moved here some ten years ago.  In that time the stand has doubled.  They spread by seed and it does produce plenty of it.  It was in my grandmother's garden for sixty years and never seemed to be there in any overpowering quantity

Feverfew

Feverfew is Tanacetum Parthenium.  a lovely little plant traditionally used to combat fever.   Spreads readily.  Always be careful using medicinal herbs.