We have three little bushes of these guys in the back yard and they've bloomed beautifully all summer. Amazingly, the deer (who have given my fuchsia bush a very bad haircut) don't eat them. I used to know what these were and now, wouldn't you know, the only "safe" plants to grow out back and I'm clueless.
From a photo-geek standpoint, see the beautiful out-of-focus background? I shot these with a 50mm lens and an extension tube. The aperture was f/1.8, a super-wide-open aperture, which caused the background to go really, really soft. And I find it really, really pretty! ©Carol Leigh
