yo terri! I beleive we have a match mate!!!
Its called kwanzo and your color in your pic is right on! Mines a tad off!
CHICKA-BOOOOOOOM!
Boooom
Bloom!
July 2009 in the garden
Wow! I only have 3 and cannot believe we have a match you must have 100's LOL!
YAY< > < > < > KWANZO !!!!! great name .
and mate, the red one looks very close to my MIdnite Magic, but I cannot verify that for sure because I do not know how tall or other details, but is close! I will not put an exact label on it, but I can for KWANZOOOOO! LOL!
Well, sortof kina! LOL!
On that first one you showed, I would need just a little better pic of if it.. can ya do a retake? Shoot it right down its throat! Aim for those purdy lil pistols!
Aaaaah! My first four oclock in many many years! I am sooo delighted! its like pink and orange, quite the gA-wady thing isnt it!! LOL!
You have so many daylilies they are fantastic. Do you separate them every season?
Terri, you still have poppies, how nice.
WEll the giants finally bloomed.
Up close and personal.
Wish I could recall which echinacea this is as it is quite fluffly, puffy.
Lovely flowers agian haighr!! Oh my gosh no, I cannot seperate them all! I have close to 500 or more varieties and only divide as I do garden projects around here. this year I have been dividing Stellas and have made close to 100 of better new clumps to go into a huge dogleg shaped garden bed here. Its a hobby gone over the edge in collecting and there is three acres here in beds, but not all are prime and proper being still in the works! The stellas are dug, but in pots until we can get a day when we will plug them in. As it is I have about 500 plantings to do this year yet.
I have only divided a few other varieties out of necessity or trade where they had to be moved due to encroachment on another area not welcome in or by a request. I had so many requests this season I had to stop excepting new trades until I got caught up.. Heck no I am not caught up! That never happens it seems! And no sooner do I get somewhat caugh up, it rans and the grass needs mowing. It never ends! But we love it.
I just keep spading away.
Oh my goodness, that must be a 3 acre field of dreams. I bet it is just beautiful!
It is when the weeds are in control. Right now and this year we are pretty dang grassy from all the rain. But most of the other weeds are under control. We hand pull most of the noxious ones but some we spray too. As for the grass. well we can spray for it too. But it depends how wet we are since we pond up here and have to be careful when applying ANY chemicals if we apply them at all.
Usually we will take the big mower and just mow them towards late summer or any time after I have harvested seed. They will come back. Always do. We lose very few but it also depends on the hybrid. If I find a daylily that does not do good here I do not replace it and try to get a different one to take its place.
IDAS Magic is one that does realllly poor here. I have had one fan of it for a really long time and it just never seems to propergate herself. There are a few others like that and I have had some that just die out because they do not like their location, either too wet, to shady or too sunny or some lame thing.
This is posibly Willie Bill. I thought I lost it, but found I have a clump that might be it, but am not positive. It looks close. It could very well be a seedling from it or another too. If you do not get all the seed pods from them and the pods drop, you get a brand new hybrid not like the parent. Each seed is different. It could look close to the parent, but genetically it is not.
Stella De Oro gets a lot of pods. Right now she is very poddy and I will have to take some time to harvest them. I put them to another part of the garden for newbies!
If you propagate them by divisions, they are most likelie the same as the parent, but occassionally if we miss a seed pod, the seed will drop into the clum and something else comes! Stella is one that a lot of breeders use for propagation because she is a tremendous pod plant!
I dont have time or the space to polinate my own selections so many of my new plants are what is called open-pollinated and are pollinated by wind, rain, or bug. Oh and each seed in the pod can be different so if you plant all the seeds form one pod if the pod has 10 seeds, each seed is a new hybrid. Some can be similiar, but often they are very different! Its fun to see the newbies!
Candee, fabulous giant lilies! do they have a powerful scent?
Love that Echinacea, it's different! There are still some leaves on 2 of the 6 that I planted, fingers crossed I MAY get somethin' lol.
The lily wasn't really open today to see the 'throat ' Blossom, here's another pic but will try again another day!
Black cornflower next to it.
Un named day lily!
Crocosmia, looks like the one DG has!
The first crocosmia!
Cornflowers and Lavender
Straw flowers
Hollyhock
Knautia, Godetia, Carnations, Penstemon
Pleased with the Godetia ! will have to cut some and see how they do!
Chives seeding themselves everywhere!
I will have to keep in mind the mowing idea, we could easily mow ours and that would cut down on the backbending a bit. How do you keep them in order there are so many, I would never remember what is what!
Terri, I never saw a black cornflower they are really nice. Oh the crocosmia, I miss them, mine just didn't return. Good luck on the echinacea I am sure you will get a couple.
Ok, terri, I will be watching for it! ANd for yer begonia!! LOL! And fer a shot of the GPS of yern!
Haighr, we used to do a nursery business. We quit and so before i yanked all the markers out I made garden maps which were much better than the markers. However, I do need to update so much here it is terrible just for my information..
That was one of the reasons we quit the business end of it was because of all the paprework needed in running this and that was before we were computerized. Now we got the puter, but it does not make that paperwork any easier. Now things are just a glorified hobby. The govt wanted so much technical information on what got sprayed when and what planted and sold, I just could not do it anymore. It was one royal headache. And really took the pleasure out of gardening. Then trying to keep up with clients. I still cant keep up with it all and traders now too in doing it for a hobby. Least now I do not have to file the annual reports which were a royal pain in the behinder! I can work at will.
Thanks Candee, I think it'a a new cornflower for this year, starts off almost black then goes dark purple.
My greenhouse needs tidying up Blossom, when it's done you can see..... LoL!
Thats ok mate, I hear ya on that one. Mine still has a few plants in it and needs tiding up too.
I am done on pics for a little while too. Least as to the weekend unless I get more caught up on my other journal so will see ya later!
Thanks for the explanation BB, I bet that would take the fun outta gardening. Terri, you get busy and clean up that GH on your own, can't you see BB is quite busy with her lilies?
ok. if I have to....
Meanwhile, back at the ranch!!!! Hollyhocks are flowering.
Hollyhocks!
Another 'Blue Moon' smells lovely.
It's getting dark, another flush of yellow roses.
Veronica and a red hot poker (looks quite sad)!
Chinese lanterns ....
Caught this squirrel eyeing up my hollyhocks, seen them eating the buds! Scoot!
Terri, that bad little squirrel! Your Hollyhocks are SO gorgeous!
Terri... Your flowers are beauiful! I love your 'Blue Moon' rose and your holly hocks are gorgeous! I have a few HH but they are not blooming... Maybe later.
BB... You have a fabulous collection of daylilies! Beautiful pics
Candee... You have some lovely lilies also! I remember seeing that coneflower... I think it is something like 'Razzmatazz'
Here are a few of my July blooms
Texas Bluebells... I know they are pink...LOL and i forget the name of the center plant.
some toadflax
Terri and Yardqueen - lovely photos.
Yardqueen - is the Texas bluebells the same as lisianthus? I like those flowers, but they do not come back for me and I did not want to have to buy some every year.
The toadflax is nice and feathery. Do they have long enough stems to make good cutflowers???
Moss Rose
