Pacific Northwest Gardening: Garden Pics: Braving the HEAT to Save our Blooms!!, 0 by Rarejem

Rarejem wrote:
Mom, I drool over that begonia both in person and now on the puter too! It is wonderful.

RC, Such wonderful pics, and I had been missing your "water drop" accents! The dahlias are wonderful, and I really like the pic of Precious with flowers in her hair! My favorites though are the echies! I am definitely going to try Tomato Soup next year...I just LOVE the color! In regards to the coreopsis, I have lost American Dream a few times, and one dark bronzish one that I just can't come up with the name of right now. In my garden though, I can never be sure if it was winter, water, slugs, or dogs to blame the lack of survival on, so maybe if they had been planted in a different spot I might have had different luck.

Pony, Your garden is looking great! You have to be thrilled to see all of your hard work paying off! I am with RC and Lynn regarding the dahlias. I have a wonderful dahliah garden that has come back for me for 8 years now, with few losses in that particular bed. I have lost quite a few elsewhere, but I am certain that it was to bulb munchers rather than the winter. Mulch well and with good drainage you should be just fine! You may want to wait one more year before you decided to move your lilies forward. They can be short their first year and add up to a couple of feet the following (especially in Tagro!!). FYI, I don't have a single lily in my collection that I would consider under 3 foot, and my Stargazers are about 5 foot.

Well, I am supposed to be packing and watering, but figured I would post a few pics as I am cleaning off my camera card for our trip.

RC...I took another pic of my psycho "coreopsis from seed" yesterday morning, and I could FIND this one! It is the thing cheerfully taking over the left edge of my path. Also on the left side of the path is my "baby" moonbeam that just showed up last year (original is on the right side of the path in the same area).