Sophie wants me to leave this log just like it is. She has a better view up that high.
What's Your View?
What adorable cats ;)
I think they're pretty cute. Miss Sadie thinks this is her special spot nowl
And what does Pedro the Killer Dog think of all this?
As summer moves on we get a color change in our crabapple and viburnum.
The balloon flowers bloom, and the grasses shoot up as the late lilies finish.
And morning glories take over the planet!
Endless Summer is the best it's ever been. I think it's the rain. But what I'd give gor goldfinch's multicolor!
Nothing like a little red to liven up the pastels.
From the other side.
Everything is so wonderfully lush! Thanks for sharing your yarden with us. :)
The red rose in front of the white arbor is lovely. Looks like you have a beautiful home too.
susan
Very pretty - love the tall grasses!
Thanks everyone. I'm inspired by your pics. More! More!
Beautiful!!
The rose of sharons are starting their show here.
Oh Booj, how lovely! Great red barn!
I need more Rose of Sharon I only have a pink on and I love it !!!
Gloria
I have 2 big ones like this, 1 big double white (Jeanne D'Arc), 2 medium sized white with red center (Red Heart), 1 medium pink single with red center (Minerva), 1 good sized double pink (Lucy), 1 peony type large flowered white (White Chiffon), and a tiny blue (Bluebird).
there so pretty wheres a good place to get them ? the only ones around here are the pink
Gloria
I find them in local garden stores and I've seen some in box stores.
Rose of Sharon are easy to start from cuttings too. It usually just takes them a year or two to bloom.
I've had terrible luck starting from cuttings. Do you have a method that works?
Here is White Chiffon.
Its been a while, but I believe I just dusted slightly woody cuttings with rooting powder and stuck them directly into pots of media. I wonder if some varieties are more difficult to start than others? I have a deep rose colored double that is gorgeous right now- I'll try some cuttings from it and see how they do.
Wow boojum mine are no where near that big of a bloom !!! what are you feeding them ? I'll have to look again but I looked for a couple of years then gave up ;0( may be just may be theres some out there in Midland
Gloria
Back lurking
Goldfinch your gardens are beautiful
Boojum always a treat for the eye.
Whats not to like about flowers?
Here are some of my views
.new flag walk
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.Garden Treasure
.lots of lilies in there Jul12
things are winding down
I think the August garden is beautiful too. Very pretty!!!! Love the new walkway.
A neighbor put in a new patio and took up the flagstone sidewalk and gave me the stones.
I was neat, the workmen loaded 20 of them on a pallet and they trucked them 3 houses down the street to my driveway.
DD had to lay them, I tried 2 and it was just too much.
I created a whole new garden for what we didnt use in other gardens
This is the new "woodswalk" garden where my daylilies from Pirl are planted.
ge that is one lovely daylily in post #6955566! Your walkway is great. Mine are too narrow and always get eaten by plants. Very pretty gardens!
Thanks Goldfinch
Those stones were a wonderful find ge. Your gardens are lovely. It's I always nice to see what perennials people use to keep the color going in August.
Susan
How about a view into my neighbor's yard? He started out with one Tiger lily, I gave him a few of my surplus hybrids, and he liked them so much that that he went to our North Star Lily Society bulb sale, and he made a bed exclusively devoted to lilies. Now, after several years, he is experiencing the "scourge" of bulbils. His Tigers are taking over! I kept warning him . . .
Now he is trying to go the easy route of containment. He is kinda picking the bulbils, kinda shaking the stems and making the drop to the ground. Then going with his shopvac and vacuumiing them off the ground. He says it works, but don't know . . .
WOW Thats a great bunch of lilies.
My neighbor has a black raspberry bed full of weeds 6 feet high
Lefty I laugh at the neighbor story. Because, you see, the same sort of thing has happened to my neighbor. I gave her a few I divided a few years ago and now she orders from Buggy Crazy and has dozens more lilies than I was even aware of now. Apparently lily-itis is contagious, especially with neighbors.
Love that stand of tigers.
That looks like a lily hedge, and I want one.