She is a happy little bugger most of the time, but this is her 'mad' look.
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allison nuke the cats - i get a couple trees a year that have an aggressive cat and i exterminate them - and i can't believe what the bear did to your pole!! last year i found one feeder in pieces all over the yard although i have a hard time thinking a bear did it because the other feeders where untouched although we have had a few sightings close to us.
Karen, Love your coleus, do you propagate them? This is the only coleus that I have this year. I hope Benjamin Britten takes off well, just got it on clearnce from Waterloo gardens.
Allison, sorry to see your bear damage. Do they run away when humans come to the area?
Rama
Isabella is adorable!!!
Rama... no they don't run off... it actually came in my yard with me not knowing it a while back and scared the heck out of me... never saw one here before... yelled who wants a cookie to the dogs and high tailed it inside... you might want to pinch off the flowers of that coleus ... sometimes when they set seed they die
glad friendship
Indigo Spires is just starting to bloom... not sure if this one is going to come back next year
bluebird getting full of blooms
Randy's sunflowers are rockin
Those sunflowers are beautiful!
I love them because they are short and I can keep them up on my deck ... since the deer or whatever other critter snapped the tops off right before they bloomed in the past
well here is my first morning glory I started it way to late it has been up for about 1 - 1 1/2 months it is growing in a small pot with another plant. I hope to get some seeds from this one as I absolutly love it.
Morning glory
Allison, your sunflowers are beautiful, our critters had a gourmet lunch on our big nodding yellow ones.
We live among the woods too, the first time I saw a snake and a family of four foxes was quite an experience.
I like the morning glory Pensacola garden.
nice color on those Peoniae
Thanks, I like your bright cheery ones.
Pixie, those photos of Isabella are the cutest---can't believe how much she's grown!
Here's the first painting of your Bosc pears Marilyn.
It needs more work but its going well.
Cool,ge. I like the painting.
GE,
That's pretty nice.
Oh, Jo Ann---looks great! You captured the old, crooked branches perfectly! We are supposed to have heavy rain on Wed.---supposed to be bringing flowers to the fair on Thurs. ---guess I better pick them early, & put them in the fridge.
Victor, try the Monterey Garden Insect Spray for the cats on your ROS. I've had great luck with that for any type of caterpillar. Allison, should work on the dogwood sawfly as well. I sprayed it on a cat infestation on a swamp azalea this past spring, and it did the trick. I don't know what kind of cats they were. Little green ones. That was the first and only time I've had cats on an azalea.
Rama, no, I didn't propagate my coleus. I bought them as rooted cuttings from a DG co-op from Rosey Dawn Coleus. I hope to overwinter some cuttings this year. I did root some cuttings earlier in the summer that I gave away at my RU in July. They are so easy to root. In fact, I have found pieces that I've pinched off and tossed on the ground rooted. Probably wouldn't root so easily if we didn't get so much rain as we have.
Isabella's a sweetie!
Allison, that pic of the glad with all the other out-of-focus flowers is really pretty! In regards to sunflowers, I have had squirrels take off the blooms just as they're opening. I wanted to kill 'em!!!!!
Jo Anne, your painting is coming along great!
Karen
Thanks Karen.
I saw our first mexican Sunflower bloom today, somehow my camera dilutes the color. It is a brilliant orangish red.
Rama
Pretty! I have not tried growing those yet.
Karen
Nice flower pics
Glad you found out what those were Allison.
Love the mad face.
The knockout rose hubby bought me
Painting is looking good Jo Ann...
Karen I have had my pinches root in the past as well... gotta love that!!... and thanks... I am going to try and take another shot of that glad.. hopefully it will stand and not flop when more buds open.. I take em while I can
speaking of glads does anyone leave them in over the winter??.. I dig em every year.. just wondering if I can avoid that step or not
pretty color on that sunflower Rama
Jen your hubby is too cute with that rose!!!... pretty flutterby!!
collage from yesterday
Fall asters are just starting,
Some sedums with lavander
a low sedum noid
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My glads overwintered. Some people recommend a heavy mulch, I haven't done that.
Todays pix
dahlias over six feet
.my cat Jerry with DD's pink lavander
.Little appreciated Kantigne Royalle coleus and tiera misu heuchera
Nice---you've had great luck with those dahlias, Jo Ann---some of mine are OK, some never budded. Loving the color on the Mexican sunflower--have never grown one. Also happy to see the butterfly---not too many around this year---our nature writer had some sad stats on the butterfly count he participated in---just too cold & wet here.
jen nice butterfly pic - here is one back at ya
i followed it over to a rock wall
then i saw a bumbler on some golden rod
cleome
Glads must be dug here. Even the 'hardy' ones didn't make it through their first winter.
endless summer hydrangea
some joe
water lily
volunteer elephant head amaranth
