Pretty flower picture of the day
These flowers put up some huge ugly green leaves in the spring, which die back at the start of June and leave nothing except barren ground until the end of August, when these purple shoots spring up, flower, and die off by the middle of September. They’re really bizarre plants, and the ongoing debate at Chateau Chaos is whether or not we should just root the hideous things up and be done with them, punctuated with an annual “but they’re so pretty – quick, come look before they all WILT AND DIE again!”
They are pretty, in their own ephemeral way.