It's bachelor's buttons! Like this:
Pretty, they are. I have a different variety in the shade garden in the back - smaller ones with just round flowers - not the spokey ones.
I finally have iris in bloom this season. Moved 'em when I did the stream bed. Got yellow and purple. Just a few, but at least they bloomed.
Hey - those are rather cool! Are these in the front or in the back?
We went to Home Depot on the way home and I bought some little shady mossy things to put under the big tree in the yard, and a couple seedling corn to put in a container.
Where'd you go?