A dark pink or fuschia coloured single petal hollyhock.  Bees and birds loved these all summer, it was a treat to watch.

How I did not get a good picture of this is beyond me.  I sure enjoyed this plant summer of '21.  Always covered in bees, it was fun to watch them try to wiggle their way into still closed buds.  I even got hummingbirds visit on a regular basis.  

Single petaled soft pink.  

Can be used for dyeing fibre.

Single petaled white hollyhock.  

Considered a biennial in Alberta as we do not have a long enough growing season for it to produce seed first year.  All parts of the plant are edible, young leaves can be used in salads, the roots can be treated like carrots, and of course the seeds are used in baking.

Forget-me-not mix of blue & pink

Soft blue and pink blooms that start in May - June.  Give it a trim after blooms are spent and it will reward you with more blooms in the fall. 

Forms a rosette of leaves first year and blooms the next.  Self seeds readily and can get a bit 'weedy'.

Parry's Townsendia

Not wild collected, grown from seed in my garden.  I do like this plant, a lot.  It is compact, a good bloomer (in my garden), does well in part shade, and the bloom is purple.  

A biennial or short lived perennial.  Soft fuzzy gray green leaves form a rosette the first year, sometimes it may bloom in the fall, most often it will wait until the next year.  The flower spike can get upwards of 180 cm (6').