Some new flowers have popped up in the yard, they’re pretty neat looking and purplish in color with dark bluish veins through the petals.  The flower has 5 points and the petals are all one piece, not individual petals.  The middle of the flower is white with a blue bulb at the tip.   I managed to catch these flowers while mid-bloom, so some of them are still closed, and their shape is also pretty interesting when closed.  They look like a puffed up 5 sided star.  Apparently they usually bloom with 5 ‘petals’ but for some reason oen of them has 7 points.

After doing some searching I’ve found that these flowers are a ‘Balloon Flower’ or ‘ Chinese/Japanese Bellflower’ or more specifically Platycodon grandiflorus, they come in a varietty of colors. There are a lot more buds on these plants and I’m hoping that they will all bloom, it will look really nice.

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