A year of flowers #47: Yarrow

 

Achillea millefolium

 

Yarrow is another flower like Wyeth's buckwheat that creates hovering clouds over the green in June.  Yarrow is white, while the buckwheat is cream/pale yellow. I have never planted yarrow--it was here when I arrived, and through all the mistakes and disasters, yarrow persists.  I can't seem to get a photo that delivers the effect of the floating white yarrow clouds, but it is lovely out there.