Thanks Connie!! Painted Ferns are very cold hardy.I am in zone 5a and they always look great!! Mine are in part shade.Ostrich Fern needs more sun.
July OT
Cool! Thought you would have to dig them up - don't know why. I guess I thought they were more tropical.
Physotegia is what we call a tender perennial, Lin. I don't know the colors available now but I used to grow white, purple (kinda bluish) and pink physotegia. I just planted them every year from seed. You would love growing them. (our heat in September always killed them)
The newer cultivars stay much smaller but I love Miss Manners.............
Not a bloom but I thought I would share this picture I took about 45 minutes ago. We live about 50 miles north of Kennedy Space Center and have a good view of the Shuttle launches from our front yard. It's not as spectacular as seeing it from the beach but still amazing every time!
Space Shuttle 'Endeavor' launched at 6:03 p.m. EST ...
Thanks for sharing...I just watched it take off on tv :) You have a closer view lol
We watch t.v. until the countdown gets to 0 and then go out in the front yard to watch for it clearing the trees. The most amazing are the night launches, viewing from the beach. It looks like the entire sky is on fire and is really spectacular!
Thanks, Lin.........awesome view you have!
Now that I look closely at the picture I see it doesn't look like much really. We had a thunderstorm roll through just before launch time. I really thought it was going to be a no go again, but the weather was clear at the Cape and storms passed by quickly, but we still had a haze and clouds. This was the sixth time they tried to launch Endeavor ... we've had storms every afternoon.
Lin,
I think your picture is awesome!!
Connie,
I will send you a Dmail.Time is very short tonight!!
Lynn
Lin, we do as you do. We watch TV and wait for almost liftoff, and then run outside and look north east. This time we only saw it for a brief few seconds before it went into the clouds.
A few years back, a customer of mine at CompUSA got us passes to go see a daytime launch. It was the most breathtaking sight I have ever seen. My hubby and I both had tears in our eyes. What a great country we live in that we can share these moments freely, not like other countries where everything is kept secret.
Now to get back to pictures, here's a pic of my passiflora. I don't know which one it is, but it's growing all over the screen enclosure. The butterflies love the leaves. I went to check in the corner of the yard where I have ginger growing and found a bunch of passion fruit hanging from one of the passion vines. This is the first time we have fruit.
I'll have to take some pictures tomorrow. This is the exact color of the flower. There are so many blooms on the vines, that you can smell the perfume all day and well into the evening. I had a red one, but it died during a freeze we had a few years ago. This particular passiflor is very invassive. It's comming up all over the yard. Every time I go out I pull a few more babies out of the ground.
Those are the most beautiful passifloras I have ever seen.........can't imagine living in a climate where they look like yours do!!! Congrats.
Wow,
You Florida girls have some amazing plants and what a great thing to be able to watch launches!! Zone envy,Zone envy.....LOL. Just kidding,great pictures!!
Lynn
This thread has over 130 posts making it impossible for our dial up folks..........don't know how to hyperlink, but am starting a new OT July thread...........
We've moved to here...
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1016434/
thanks , WildRose!!