Have to give that moose some thought BB. Looks like quite a task.
terri, I am gonna have to take a close look at something when I get home today cause I had some nicotiana once and I swear I have something that I thought was a weed but looks quite similar to your pic above so have to go take a better look at it!
July in the garden part 2 2009.
Here is a pretty newbie I got last year.. I think its called LOVE IS. I am going to try to cross pollinate it on my IDA and see what happens. Awww what the heck.. My turn to play bee!
How pretty!
Pretty daylilies Lily!
Candee, the leaves do look quite weedy!
Amaranthus is taking off now, both the green and red leaf ones.
Thanks again terri, there are more coming up!
Right now my cleome seeds from Geek are blooming! They are lovely and Geek, no, I have not forgot I still have things to send you! I am sort of finally getting back to catching up on trades now after the hub has recovered and I can work again on them. Sheesh, the best laid intentions and I am so behind, still. And your cleomes came so lovely!
Great pictures, Terri and Blossom!
Thanks Sally, here is a new open pollinated seedling daylily.. I think its parent was a daylily called Dallas Star hence the lavender color and the cross parent was a daylily called Frans Hall giving it the bi-color petals. Frans Hall is yellow and rust... but it is lovely. I hope it is prolific. It will be a new hybrid then in the future fromour garden to which I can name myself and register if so inclined! Right now its a one of a kind
I love the petal color so much!
I do too! It was such a lovely surprise to find the bloomer thismorning! I hope it is a good performer!
So how are you fairing the Texas heat? We need some rain.
Here is Frans Hall.
And here is Dallas Star. I am really taking a guess that these might be the parents. They have the attributes, but I really do not know for sure. Looks can be deceiving in the daylily world if you dont know for sure.
Still hot. Not the whole state though. LUCKY people in the west and northern areas are getting tons of rain. I am south, on the gulf. NO RAIN, HOT, serious drought.
I am inside. No outdoor gardening. Just watering with the sprinkler system.
I am enjoying my african violet garden inside in the cool air!
Very nice new pictures. Our Daylilies bloom MUCH earlier, while cool outside.
Sally, do show us your african violets! They sound awesome. I tried doing them once and did not have the green thumb for them. That was in our old farm house. Maybe one day I will try again. But right now.. too many other plants going on. I am going to try to winter over some of my wax begonias and coleus as houseplants this year, but I am not sure what kind of luck I am gonna have in the livingroom!. I also have spider plants and baby sunroses and christmas cactus in baskets that I hope I can salvage througe to the spring!
My daylilies are what does the best here in my lil flood plain! I have been collecting them and trading them for 20 some odd years! I am afraid it is a serious addiction!
I need to get back the my GPS and do some divides. Pop in on my thread there if you have the time. We are on part 4!
I don't want to highjack. You can look on the African Violet forum. Lots of there. I will add a couple here. They are wonderful plants. They are so pretty and soft. Like little plant pets.
This is a BIG fairy. 8 inches tall and wide. Big violets too.
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This was after major surgery last year, ha. I look a bit tired.
All of my violets are named. This one is Sunlit Sugar Plum. I have several. I LOVE them.
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Well Sally tired or not they and you are awesome! I like the violets, I think though my water here does not like them. It is high in iron and calcium, very very hard.
Anyway, love that name of that one....Sunlit Sugar Plum, that is catchy!
I have a two year old seedling un-named open pollinated hybrid that is out of Frans hall again. and its color is lovely. Sorry to say the pic here does it no justice. It is a lovely pastel bi-color. I love Frans hHall for crossing on other hybrids for its bicolor genes!
I even have a tiny Frans hall that has Stella De oro charactoristics in that the plant is dwarf, but the color is Frans!
The one in the pic below is quite tall. I am glad it is showing promis to be a good multiplier.
Nice, Blossom!
Our water is very hard too. Very few people use water from the faucet. We buy spring water. Here are my violet stands.
That is so neat! So are those babies on the bottom right?
Yes, babies coming up from leaves.
Now that is quite a display of violets, I see why they like you so much! You take such grand care of them.
I really like your no name hybrid BB, very soft and subtle.
Which hybrid, my plant?
Thanks, I think!! LOL!
Anyway, good news, Momma got a new camera!! YAEH!
Hows this for IDAS MAGIC, I am soooooo happy! Derned thing even takes video!
Talk about beauty and the beast!... This is also an un-named seedling of ours.. I am sooo tempted to call it BUTT UGLY! But the frog does not seem to mind its decor... True to its form last season, its still BUTT UGLY! Looks like a sunburnt starfish. LOL!
Last year it had more speckles...
Puts that red above to shame! This is Anzac
I am not sure which this is, I am thinking Captured Love, its in the location, but just does not look right.. .a seedling maybe then of Captured love?
last years Captured Love...hmmmmm! I am befuddled!
What a collection you have!
Kong! The only thing disappointing about this plant for me is that I am sorry I did not get more giant varieties of this coleus! It has been a fun plant this summer! Maybe next time. I just hope I can winter it as a houseplant!
Thanks Sally, got more coming. Been doing this for years!
I was disapointed in my overall dayliles bloom this season. We had a very cold winter and I think the bloom was about half down on a better year. I did have some great performers but still over all the garden was lacking. Then of course, it was a horrible year for weeds.
Last season I feel the bloom was better. But this year too, between the standing water for so long, that did not help.
This is Connie Sue, she did the best she has done ever. But was overcome with grass.
This is Oarange Vols. It was stunning. I need to retake the pic though, the color is too far off. It is a brite sunny rich orange!
Rudbeckia goldsturm
So many great blooms!
This is Challenger, it gets to be over 60 inches tall and is one of the tallest daylilies
Not exactly a bloom, but a toadstool in the garden!
Heres a shot of Double Bourbon...
Followed by Blue Butterfly (one of my favs!)
And Macho.. dontcha just love some of the names! Macho, kinda little isnt he!! LOL!
Yes, the names are so nice. Love that last one a lot.
A much better shot of Orange Vols...however, the thing in real life has a more yellowish glow to the orange. Very brite and very vivid!
Sally I think some of the hybridizers have an amazing sense of humour when it comes to naming their daylilies! I would have a terrible time doing that!
This little cutie is called Double Almond. Its a really lush golden brassy color in real life!
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I like violet names also! Names make plants fun.