Father Pitt

Tag: Gardens

  • Entrance to Phipps Conservatory

    The entrance to Phipps, rendered in old-postcard colors by the Two-Strip Technicolor script for the GIMP.

  • Daylilies After the Rain

    It had been raining all day, but in the evening there was enough of a lull for old Pa Pitt to get out and take these pictures. The daylilies are all unnamed varieties from a planting of mixed hybrid seedlings.

    Camera: Canon PowerShot A590 IS.

  • Purple Coneflower

    This American native is one of our most beloved garden flowers. It blooms most of the summer, and it tolerates a wide variety of conditions. Butterflies love it, too. You can often find it growing wild around Pittsburgh, but it is currently one of the most fashionable garden flowers. This is a semi-wild specimen: it was a volunteer seedling whose parents were deliberately planted nearby.

  • Drumstick Allium

    Drumstick Alliums (Allium sphaerocephalon) are more and more popular, but still a bit odd-looking. These grew in Beechview, where they were in full bloom at the beginning of July.