Here is an interesting plant which has found a bed it really likes. It is a native of the southeast where its popular name is Skyrocket. I had planted one which lived long enough to bloom and drop some seed. Some of that seed dropped into a raised bed with soil specially prepared to make pincushion flowers happy. Ever since then they just take over that bed right around the time the pincushion flower has finished blooming for the season and will be in flower on into the fall. I think it's an annual.
This funny thing grows straight up and narrow, blooming like mad the whole way up in vivid scarlet.
#1 Shows the location of the raised bed in the side garden back in April.
#2 Shows it beginning to bloom in early May.
#3 Is how the flowers look close up.
#4 Shows some veining in that contrasts with the scarlet, but only from very close up when back lit.
#5 Shows it most recently. Some stalks are taller than me.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.They look like a plant I once tried growing from seed but had none germinate. I bought them under the name Standing Cypress, Ipomopsis rubra. The description said they were attractive to butterfllies and humming birds. It's a beautiful flower.
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RussRAB
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June 13, 2020
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I lucked out in having atypically prepared soil nearby which it’s seeds liked much better than the mother plant liked her time with me. Coming from the southeast USA I’m not sure but I do t think it would do well in much cold.
Nice scarlet. I never been around one except photos.
What is the round spherical blooms with many like fingers?
HerbertNewsam
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June 12, 2020
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That’s the pincushion flower, leptospermum ‘Tango’.
@MarkWD have you ever seen wild carrot tops that get spherical shape late in their bloom cycle, and the hemlock looks similar but it doesn't get the rounded cage appearance
Very lovely plant! The color is very deep in the 
flower.
Redheadedgammy
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