Garden Pics: Breakin' Our Backs for Beautiful Blooms! #10

Thanks Katye. They left the bedded plants around the pond pretty much intact, it's just water plants that got destroyed. One very kind person here (I won't mention her name because I don't know if it's okay to) has offered to send me some water plants. That will help a lot.

I'm mostly worried about my frogs. I saw one tadpole and one frog while I was cleaning up a little while ago, but I can't see into the water at all, it's totally murky now. I have no idea how many actually survived this.

Pond people: should I change some of the water? I have a bottle of the stuff that removes the chlorine and provides a slime coat for the fish...

I've got to find a way to keep this from happening again. I have no idea how though. But now they've found it, they're just going to keep coming back.

I just found another frog survivor! That's two now- this one was green, the other little guy was a tiny bit bigger and brown in color.

And look where I found him... LOL

Wonderful pictures everyone, too far behind to mention all. So funny to read about those who love bikes, count me in too. I rode in the 60's but gave it up after I had kids. Fun memories.

Pony....loved that picture of the taddie, hope it's still there. So sorry about the raccoon raid, that's why I don't even try a pond, they hit my fountain every night. Maybe the electric fence like rc said is a solution. You have worked so hard on it, and it was looking so good, it would be a shame to lose it. Hopefully some of the pond people can come up with ideas.

Bea, That video was just awesome! Oh to have that confidence and clarity at 89! Your daylilies are just lovely, and I espically liked the picture of the one with the sedum. And the pic of the beautiful lily, etc........WOW!

Willow, Isn't it fun to be able to look back and say "Now that was a lot of fun! Glad I tried it!".

RC, The story about finding the pic of your Grandma on the Harley cracked me up! I can understand your family being overly cautious about bikes when someone very close was hurt on one. There's nothing quite like it though! I love your pics of the little hellion! What is it about dogs and children that can't resist sticking their heads through a railing? I have the exact same pic of Phoenix in the Following Phoenix thread...head through the railing with the cute little look.... Your coreopsis is great! Does it have as many color variations in it as it appears to?

Katye, Your world is absolutely stunning! How do you get everything to stand up so well? I am so jealous every time I see a garden with everything standing at attention rather than flopping over! That nicotiana is wonderful! Do you collect seeds? I love the "different" forms and colors in the garden. I also really liked you Triumphator lily! Is it one of the ornipets? I haven't been able to do the orientals as the varmints have eaten them all, but they seem to leave the ornipets alone, and I just love them!

Pony, You know you have my total sympathy with the pond situation! At least there are a couple of survivors for sure, and I am confident that you will find more as the water settles. Hang in there!

I do have some pictures that aren't daylilies, but not so many on this particular card, so they will have to wait till later. In the mean time....some daylily pretties

Flasher with common phlox

Spacecoast Seashells...new to me last year and I just love this one. I can get lost in just admiring it's patterns...

And an unnamed seedling that hybridizer Paul Owen didn't feel was "special" enough to introduce...I think it is stunning!

Such pretty photos everyone.
Katye your garden is lovely!

julie - i prefer plants that don't sprawl & flop. But I also like to give them help if they go that route.
The Lilies in particular must be spared the wagging dog tails & spontaneous romps THROUGH the borders. (why is this considered fun for them?) I have lots of sun here, and I deep water so the foliage stays dry. However - I absolutely love somethings that are flooooooopy, like Coreopsis 'Full Moon', and Baptisia 'Carolina Moonlight', Peonies, Clematis recta purpurea - they get staked. Thats one of the wonderful things about Daylilies - strong scapes & non-demanding.
That unnamed seedling is very nice - I like the piecrust edge & green throat. Does it have sparkles like some do?

I agree that the unnamed in great - surely deserves a name! Something lime or Irish.

Katye, LOL regarding the dogs! I think that they get the same enjoyment from dashing through the flowers as we do walking through the paths! It's a good thing that you really love them when they decide that a big clump of daylilies in the shade looks like the perfect wrestling mat! Was it you that suggested hog wire this spring to contain floppy plants? If so and if you haven't seen my thank you's in prior posts, THANK YOU! I have enough "part sun" and overhead water in areas in my garden that if I don't tie stuf up, it sprawls everywhere. I am still working on adding things that are self supporting, and moving some of the sprawlers to the edge of the woods, but that is a never ending project. If it was you, then be pleased that you are single handedly responsible for my moonbeam coreopsis looking the best that it ever has!

Thanks for the compliments on my unnamed seedling. I know that I would just go insane watching the big name hybridizers compost beauties like that because they are not "good enough" or "special enough"! At least Paul thought that this one justified the chance to be a common garden plant that won't be recognized by the AHS rather than composting it! Yes Katye, it does have the diamond dusting early in the day...it just glows!

Judi, as funny as it sounds, I think that you just came up with it's garden name for me! For some reason, "Something Irish" sounds perfect to me...just that.....Something Irish. Like I said, you all may think that it's odd, but I think that it will stick!

So I have to share this with you all as I know that you will understand.....

The garden I have been working on for the last two weekends has taken me a long time to complete because it has been hugely depressing and hard to stick to finishing up. My main rose garden.... I lost at least 7 that had been here for ten years, and have had to cut enormous amounts of others out....some basically down to the ground when they had been over seven feet tall. Some are coming back well, but some are looking like they are making a valiant effort that will eventually fail. Towards the end of this bed was my wonderful eucalyptus tree that I had splurged on about four years ago. It is a slow growing variety, but had gotten to be a beautiful 10 or so foot tall (in spite of the hemlock that it was planted by being uprooted in a storm a couple of years ago). I was thrilled that I had found a protected enough spot in my yard for it to grow well....I had even cut my first boquet from it last year. Then came this horrid winter.........and my wonderful tree turned brown and dead.

In May and June, I had examined it carefully, and found it to be brittle and ....well....dead. Nothing green to be seen anywhere...... I finally had stopped looking because it made me very sad every time I confirmed that it was just not alive any more. I didn't cut it or pull it, because somewhere in the back of my mind I was holding out just a sliver of hope........

This is the tree and the big root ball of the hemlock that dropped (the eucalyptus is to the center-left...the dead lookig thing)

And a closer up of what used to be my beautiful tree....now all dead and yucky ....

And this is what I discovered today as I was pulling the blackberries off of the base......


HAPPY DANCE !!!!! HAPPY DANCE!!! HAPPY DANCE!!!

Eeeeeee! Yay baby eucalyptus! :D

Julie what a nice story ending! Thank you for sharing. Persistence!

A couple more pics from today before I crash in a heap.....

Spice Hunter

Shady Lady

Dancing With Julie

A pretty little friend

And my mountain was wearing a sombrero tonight...

oh I do like the lenticular clouds.....too bad they don't come in colours like the dl's!!!

Wonderful story Julie...so happy you got to do the Happy Dance!!! Beautiful pictures especially like Dancing With Julie. And your mountain was looking particularly awesome tonight.

Julie..loving your daylilies! You have such a colorful variety.

This is the last bloom of Wild Horses. Sure was a pretty one.

Two little pink noids

These two are so bright in direct sunlight. They were enjoying partial shade this AM.

Clematis

Have been very impatient waiting for my sunflowers this year. Found some pretty ones at the farmers market yesterday to tide me over until mine bloom!.

The Pansy family summer reunion & BBQ. With all this heat I am suprised that they are still with us!

Look at all those little faces. Some even have noses.

Love the rebirth story RJ.

So many beautiful flowers.

That clematis is beautiful, Bea. Love the color. I'm hoping to get some next year to grow up the side of our shed.

great pics RJ and Bea!

RJ... So happy to see that the Eucalyptus is coming back for you. Wahoo!!! what A triumph. I have no idea what it is about pets and kids with railings, but it is cute. Assuming that they dont hurt themselvs. Glad that you liked the story. I crack up about it every time I see that picture as well.

Posted some on Tillys little Acer.


Great pics all. Candy need more candy LOL

Its too hot to move. I need to go to bed soon, up at 5:30 am. But my room is way too hot to go and rest let alone sleep, would like a cosy bed roll in the yard, but then the skritters will eat me alive. Tis hard to live on a creek. LOL
Whats is, is deal with it LOL

Your flower pictures are really good Tils.

If I would've thought about it when I was outside watering a little bit ago, I would've taken a picture of some of my wilting plants!

Very pretty Tilly and Willow.

I took this picture and the next one of coreopsis limerock dream and limerock ruby two days ago. it's a good thing that I did too, because the either sun bleached or scorched by this evening into a light pink and a very light yellow. :-s

ok, maybe now it will let me attach a picture??

a little more of a close up