Double DL 'Zella Virgina'
Garden Photos '09.....#39
Phlox
Rose of Sharon bush has started to bloom.
My Hibiscus are finally warm enough to bloom.
Liking the heat!
Dalhia
First Glad opened.
DL 'Wedding Band'
Oriental double lily 'Lady Jayne' but it's not looking right just yet. Hopefully it will straighten out some. lol
noid DL
One of my favorite bright red DL's.
Rose 'Angel Face' reblooming.
Oriental Lily 'Lavender Gem'
'Westbourne Birthday for Theresa'
Last one.........Malva
Okay way too many pretties to mention them all. Love the parachute, DLs especially that last beauty, and echies. Poppies are very nice,maybe need some of those , oh ya right where would you squeeze them in silly girl. You all do make it tempting to dig up more grass, but I cannot keep the beds I have now weeded this year.
OooooH!--ooooh! ooooh!
Hey JoAnn.... I think that you were around for a conversion a little ways up above on the new Echies, but maybe not. I gave my experiences with them there. Post #6947389, just below Willies' casserole picture (still makes me hungry!). Tiki Torch is doing well for me, both plants. Initially the blooms on one of them were pretty small, but now they've come pretty close to catching up to the other. For me, one tomato soup does very well. The color does fade within about a week, but it fades to a color that I still like and the flowers still hang on well. That faded color is the color in post #6955545. The other plant of it, starts out great, fades at about the same rate, but then the flowers crap out shortly there after and it's not pretty. It is in an entirely different location in the yard, so I'm going to try moving it to somewhere near the other one and see if it does better.
.......But, you also have to factor with any of my new plants, that most of them were planted only 2-6 weeks before those (at least) 108+deg. days hit, who knows what the ground level temperatures were?!?! I would think that that sort of heat has an effect on brand new roots on the best of plants! So, I'm really trying to remember not to discredit most of my new plants as they really had a heck of a battle! The sad part is that most of the echies have just opened up new flowers since then and we are supposed to be at or near 100 deg. again for the next 3 or 4 days :-( Oh well, It's summer! And I'll take 80 and 90 deg. weather over ice and snow any day!!!
Pixie.... Wow, so much going on in your yard! I love the 'Lady Jane' lily! Where did you find that treasure?
Allison......Oops! I ment to put a name with that one since it's always changing! It's Coreopsis 'Red Shift'. The blooms start out yellow, with just a little bit of a red center, and then they change to a mostly red bloom as the weather changes. I'm hoping that it has enough of the yellow parentage that it will survive the winter.
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Here is a picture of my alocasia and Brug. temple godess and cranberry hibiscus that i just got in a trade.
Very pretty! Gotta love those kind of trades!
Debilu and Marilyn just left
We had such a great visit.
Marilyn filled us in on the 2 great RU's she attended this spring.
The garden tour was short, just too hot out there.
Thanks I do love trades that are that nice the burgandy habiscus is the one that I got in that trade here is another alocasia I got from ebay over the week-end.
Please post a picture of the Burgundy hibiscus when it blooms....i've never see a burgundy one.
Well me either the leaves are really burgandy I just got them last week in a trade and love them already. I will post a picture once they do bloom. which will probally be next year before it is big enough to bloom.
Jo Ann.... nice pic of Debilu and Marilyn!
Thanks RC
I'm off to bed, the heat takes it out of me and I was up at 4AM
nice shots today Ge and Pixie!!... RC that red shift is really cool
Thanks! I'm trying to figure out what weather causes what colors with it. I've read that it was cooler weather that starts it, but so far it just seems to be anything unusually hot or cool. It's sort of fun to watch.
Another view of the echies.
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coreopsis limerock dream
have to have a water shot.
and the last for now, a euphorbia
How did I miss the coreopsis Limerock Dream?
I thought I had seen them all.
Its really beautiful.
I like that too.
I had a nice time with you and Robin yesterday!
Thanks Jo Ann and Deb. Jo Ann, I'm glad that there's something new for you! lol
nice ones RC!!
Coreopsis Limerock Dream is very nice!! To bad it takes so long to make a nice big clump of them. I've had these for 5 years now, of course the first two years I plucked most of them out thinking it was some sort of weed!! lol
Thanks!
... And, good morning to all of you early birds!
Celeste... how very true! It would be easy to weed them, I've probably done it myself! What is that cute little pink one?
URGENT
I hope all DG'er s will read this.
Marilyn aka Robindog, left her camera at my house.
I am sure she has missed it by now.
IF ANYONE
knowes her cell # or how to reach her at her nieces house.
Let her know I have it.
D=Mail me for details