Purple Sensation

We have a few really cool flowers in our garden. One of them is a purple spiky flower. It grows on a long thin stem and the flower part looks like a bloomed out dandylion, but instead of seeds, the head is made up of bright purple flowers. They mostly grow from bulbs. I found out today that these flowers are called Allium 'Purple Sensation'. Last year Alan spread the seeds from the seed pods that resulted from local bees' busy work. This year we have many more Alliums than we did the first year. I read that Alliums grown from seed are a lighter colour than ones grown from bulbs. This could very well be true as some of the Allium have a lighter lilac colour compared to the others. Today I cut some along with some cat weed, and put them in a vase on the coffee table. I love having flowers in and around the house, and we are lucky we have enough flowers to do so! Isabelle luckily does not seem to be at all interested in the cat weed, so at least I dont have to worry about her knocking over the vase.
The Mountain Bluet has started to bloom as well, so I cut some of those along with some of the impatients. The impatiens are starting to produce their little seed pods, and they do not have very much longer to bloom. I'm going to have to cut them all back. Hopefully I'll have time to clean up our little 'secret garden' ally between us and the neighbour house a bit and get a good picture. It is filled with impatients and even though it is very wild, I think it looks beautiful.