Specialty Gardening: New Container Plant, 1 by BettyFB

BettyFB wrote:
revclaus,

I too am loving this balloon flower. I deadhead it daily and just love to look at the blooms right before they open---just like looking at a little blue balloon. I want to try upright ones next year. This is all I could find right now to purchase, as it is late in the season for perennials. That Rudbeckia is called Indian Summer and I was lucky . This year many came up from seed from last years plants. That one plant in the picture I did purchase from a nursery. It has taken off. The one I am loving this year is called Iris Eyes Rudbeckia. I will post two pictures right now of the Rudbeckia Gardens.

Caught a possum in my neighbor's yard last night and have to release it to the woods this afternoon. I did this a few weeks ago in my own backyard but I am still very much afraid. This neighbor is a friend and a widow and she has given me so many day lilies --it is the least I can do to help a kind neighbor. Someone just posted me a picture of one saying they are so cute. I think they are so ugly, like something prehistoric. The last one hissed and growled at me as I was opening the cage and I was screaming at him big time. Sometimes you just do what you have to do to protect your yard and flowers and the neighbors are not wanting to help me. A private co said he would do it for 180 dollars---no thank you.