Mid-Atlantic Gardening: FIRST FLOWERS OF SUMMER!!! Yay it's finally here!!!, 3 by speediebean

speediebean wrote:
Seq, your blooms are lovely, and I really like your Cupid's Dart (had to look that one up, had never heard of it before!). That's a beautiful Day Lily, too... now I want one! < =P

Oh! My Veronica looks just like Jeff's!! =) They sure are pretty, huh? Well, a handful of those things are gonna get transferred out to the Big Bed out front this Fall, including a Hydrangea that's in one of the pots back there.

Thank you David for the info on the Caladium's "bloom". I knew there was more to my Caladium than just that 'cause I can see its leaves and the junction from which the "bloom" is growing... (pic included). I too have read that many prefer to snip the bloom off, believing it to be beneficial, to re-direct energy back into the leaves. I think it's really pretty though, so I'm gonna leave it until it starts to look yucky. ;)

And, what the heck, while we're here... Pic 2 is another happy Caladium with that Hydrangea in front of it. She was a rescue from work Winter-before-last; just a lump of brown sticks.
Pic 3; a happy little Coleus family! :)