Great blue Lobelia, a gift from the birds.
Summer ... show you'r pic's #3
Swamp milkweed, much smaller this year,but the butterflies have found it, I have caterpillars.
Lovely blooms, that particular cactus has bloomed 4 times this year and each bloom only lasts a day. Which to me makes them much more special than roses! I like the anticipation of watching for a bud to bloom on them. LOL!
icanfindroom
Aug 07, 2009
More fabulous photos :)
Cactuspatch ~ that picture is beautiful! Special roses indeed!
Sorry should have said MORE special THAN roses indeed LOL! Whoooops!
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cactuspatch,that photo is beautiful not to mention the cactus bloom,very very nice:)
such pretty pictures. My mailbox bed is hopeless. It is looking so sad from the heat. I need to go out and cut down the sunflowers and the bee balm. Zinnia is not coming up strong this year but four o'clock is growing gangbuster!
I do have some brug buds. I didn't think they were going to bloom because it doesn't seem to get alot of sun here.
LiliMerci,I gave up on mine too ,way too dry.I need to redig and amend the soil,and use drought tolerant plants also.oh well:)
Lovely blooms ya'll!
Here is a picture of a jasmine plant that my mom gave me. The flower is the size of a small mum. Must be a new hybrid.
Nice Brug and Jasmine Lili! Thanks for sharing it with us!
thanks.
I love those zinnias
That is one great color zinnia! I love my zinnias too. I have some that seeded themselves out by my mailbox and are blooming there, more of the pink ones. What is special for me about those is that I would never water out there by the road and yet they are doing fine on their own with the small amount of rain we have gotten this summer.
Phlox drummondii
peach verbeena
my phlox is dead. :(
But my sweet potato vines are going gangbuster!!! Every 2 days, I have to take cuttings and root a new one. I should have tons of tubers by the end of the summer.
Also, lots of MG's bloom. Went to a friend tonight and her moonvine are HUGE!
liliMerci, what kind of phlox ?Iam collecting seed,save you some? nice shot of the butterfly,Ineed to sit in the garden and take more photos,instead of always working in the garden !!! Today we are going to get the harleys out,so Ill be sitting today,but not in the garden !!!
darling ladybug!
Thanks Bea,painted rocks with the grankids,thats my creation,going to do some more bugs,working on a concrete cat right now,he was a gift,miss kitty is posing with him!!!
huggergirl. painting rocks brings back many memories of my childhood. My Mom painted rock with us too! Can you imagine 8 kids all painting rock all summer long. We had quite the rock garden!
Post the pic of your painted kitty when finished. Your real kitty is darling!
Here is my Kitty helping me sort seeds yesterday. She was such a good helper!
hugger, that sounds like fun - riding on the Harley! I enjoy strolling through my garden in the morning when I water them. It's too hot and too much mosquitoes have hatched since we had all that rain 2 weeks ago. We went to a friend last night for dinner and I got ate alive by mosquitoes!
Huggergirl,
How do you paint rocks? I want to paint some rocks for the PNW Roundup. Also, how did you do the cat? You are so talented.
What bike do you ride? I ride a Harley Softtail Deluxe and DH has a Road King and a Gold Wing.
Lilimerci, do those sweet potatoes "potato"? I have been wanting to try some of those but its too late in the season now....I want the ones that potato too!
LOL Both the 'Blackie' and the chartreuse sweet potato vines do produce small 'potatoes' but they are pretty insignificant.
we ride sportsters,dh 1200,mine 883 hugger, I want a softail deluxe !! (red/blk).When I paint rocks we just used that craft paint,used it to paint bird houses ,and the cat.
blossombuddy, I will be glad to give you some of those potatoes in the fall. I would send you a cutting but with the hot weather, I don't think it will make the trip. There is a way to store them in the winter, but mine just shriveled up. Anyway, I bought these little things at a neighborhood plant sale for $1.50 and they have multiplied this summer. The darker ones (Blackie) doesn't grow as fast and sometime they produce flowers, but I've never had them.
An odd thing I noticed one year with ornamental sweet potatoes (Blackie and Margarita) was those in the ground produced tiny or no potatoes at all, while those in pots produced them, some quite big. I think it may have something to do with heat, that keeping the root zone warmer helps with tuber formation.
Oh, I thought those were the eating potatoes! I am not too familiar with sweet potatoes, but I do like the ornamental look of the vines. I see them growing in pots all around town everywhere and they are beautiful just was not positive if they were eating or just ornamental.
I tried buying the eating kind from a seed catalog and did not have any luck. My soil is pith poor sand and while it will grow a good baking potatoe, it has issues with a lot of veggies.
Does anyone here grow grapes? I started a dozen seedlings this year in the spring and they are now in gallon pots. I want to plant them on my trellis that is ready for any vine but am wondering how should I ammend the soil where they will go into the ground. I can add chicken poo or horse poo and was thinking that was what I should do, but since I have never grown domestic grapes before.. dont really know! Any help would be great. The soil is pith poor sand to start....so ok, what do I do?
Here are some blooms today:
I believe this is Angel Trumpet Flamenco
and Morning Glory Flying Saucer
Gorgeous!! What kind oc containers are you using! Thos plants look huge!
and my sidewalk needs to be pressure wash but water restriction has kept me from washing it...
They are planted in the ground, but I have some MG's growing in a clay pot container on the pergola and they are vining like crazy too.
The Geraniums are in a container though...
Close up of the Geraniums - hot pink
double lavender TRAILING geranium
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and some velvety-looking deep purple
Yvonne Red Salvia - but they are not as tall as I expected. May be next year.
hummingbird vine climbs up a twine to the pergola
lilimerci - the brugs that you have in the ground. How do you winterize them? I live in zone 9a, but we get just enough frost that it almost kills mines every year, and then it limps back the next. Because of that, it never gets very vigorous.