Pale yellow backed by darkest burgundy! In this picture, the colors alone make me whoop with delight.
Tasteful yet intense, from the partnership (OK, at least the propinquity) of two peerlessly unusual species.
The burgundy backdrop is the foliage of Eucomis 'Sparkling Burgundy', about which I've written time and again.
The flowers, though, are brand-new to me. Literally just planted not two months ago. They are yet another flavor of the small tribe of hardy gladiolus. "Hardy" meaning reliably in Zone 6 as long as the drainage in the Winter is OK, and you mulch a lot the first year or three.
I'll post the others as they come into bloom. I've got apricot, pink, and honest red, and they've been happy for me for some years now.
This one is 'Carolina Primrose'. Like all the hardy glads, it's totally more graceful and self-reliant than the tall and tender florist varieties. (Not that I'm not easing my way into those too, no surprise.) No staking, two or three feet tall instead of five or six, and blooming (here in New England, for me) in July and August. And forming nice colonies too, so you'll have plenty for friends. Well, maybe just a grudging few, so no one takes this beauty for granted. Get them at Lazy SS Farm.