Purple

In The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Shug Avery explains that the color purple is God's way of showing love. "I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it."

Tradescantia ‘Purple Profusion’
Spiderwort blooms for weeks in the spring, rests for a month in the hottest part of summer, then blooms again for weeks in the autumn.





Iris cristata
The crested iris is only three inches tall and disappears when the weather gets hot. A good spreader, there is a two foot patch of Iris cristata near the birdbath in the back garden.
This year, a hungry visitor nibbled the blooms off every iris except this one, which was hidden by a clump of bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis.

Viola cornuta

Johnny Jump-ups are so sweet. The yellow ones set off the purple ones nicely.

Everyone notices purple in my garden, thank God.