papyrus? Not sure which, but its a native in our bog.
September in the Garden
arrowhead gone to seed
Purpleconeflower heads... Oh how the finches have attacked these!
Plant or animal???!!
BB I think that yellow is coreopsis?
You do have the strangest looking creatures?
Here is a link to my September in the Garden if you care to take a peek, it is still a work in progress.
http://haigh.phanfare.com/4311932
Well, actually, I am thinking its a bidens marigold. It does look like a coreopsis too! Some of the prairie plants are so similiar to others!
Well, I will keep that walking stick! He is a good bug!
Off to peak at your September!
BRAVISIMO! That is stunning haighr!
Love how you set that to the music! GOOOOOOD JOB MATE!
Guys, bring popcorn and a drink, thats a phanfare you do not want to miss!
Thanks BB, it does make for a nice presentation I think. Makes up for my lost webpage of hhcreations and has the nice addition of my choice of music.
I add to it almost every day.
Please feel free to post a comment below photos.
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Ok, will have to return to it and do so..
hey! I went back but could not find your page to leave comments!
Do you have a direct link you could put here?
Well anywhay, my todays pics....
Finally, I planted the Kong coleus to the garden...it lost some of its vivid color, but I think it will perk back up...it is also blooming!
Dark pink gomphrena
Unknown.. reminds me of a wandering jew though! It is like a wild ground cover out here
Wild white aster
Blue aster - wild 4 feet tall
White gomphrena
gomphrena in pink. I wished I had strawberry fields... man that one is soooo hard to come by.
Alysum.. boy I can never spell that!
Coleus - hmmmm.... this one looks Christmasy! Its coming in the house.
Mum....no buds yet. This one is the last thing to bloom around here!
BB that aster sounds like a beauty. Wow you have so much in bloom, guess I better go out and look a bit closer.
haighr, I have 4 asters.. one is a powder blue, one is white, one is that purpleblue and then the blue one above. They are all about 4 foot tall.
I used to have one called purple dome which was a compact one only about 1.5 feet tall. They are stunning with mums.
I used to have a huge collection of mums at our old farm. They did not survive here. I have only one mum now and it is my last bloom before winter.
I need to get out to the woods. Things shouldbe interestiing out there.
Here is another coleus. Why are coleus flowers all blue.. or is there another one I dont know about? This one is coming indoors.
I seem to have a fetish for coleus this season..
This one reminds me of a red velvet jacket with gold brocade!
Here is one that is more subdued. Kind of an olive drab. I dont know if it is going to get more color with maturity or not! It was a seedling, so I suspect it is hybrid....I think I will bring him into the house too. Need to grab a few cuttings first though...
Ok SW and Haighr, here we are gonna get really artsy fartsy! This coleus is a rainbow! Love the pank, maroon, green and all! It was a seedling too... I must bring this one indoors.. take some cuttings and pray all will make it in the house until spring so I can enjoy this show again next season!
Goldenmaroon sweet tater vine
Blackie (sweet potato vine....)
I am amazed on how fast the cuttings of the sweetpotato vines root in water....WOW! Then doubly amazed how fast they grow in the pot...!
red rose
Ajuga
Varigated yucca.. boy this thing had its greatest season ever, but no seed.
Hmmm this is interesting and very colorful.. a fungi!
Your coleus are quite colorful. I have 3 and potted them last weekend to bring inside along with the caladiums and elephant ears. Hardening them off before they come in. Last year the caladiums failed in the house so hope they do better this time around!
I am trying the coleus, begonias, impatiens, the sweet potato vines, baby sunroses, herbs, spider plants and a few others in the house...Hope I can get them through the winter. I already brought some in for fear of getting caught with my bloomers down on an un-announced early frost. It is gonna be a wee tad crouded in here with 12 baskets of baby sunroses, 10 spiders and the rest! LOL!
Sounds like me, I have to take in a quite large cane yucca, my vigna, the passifloras, the pineapples, the pineapple lily, the majestic palm, the coleus, caladiums, elephant ears, star jasmine and am sure I will forget something.
Well slowly I have been adding things to put under the growlights in the house... Silly me, still doing cuttings.
Well, I was out in the woods today and ran across this beauty....well beauty as in the eye of the beholder. It is one hive of two that is out there. It is a huge hornets nest. After the critters leave the nest this fall we hope to preserve it. Just am not too sure how we are gonna go about getting it out of that tree yet! And I surely am not gonna bother them before they are done! OUCH OUCH!
another shot...
Green pepper flower! My peppers are still going strong!
For a veggie, that sure is a pretty flower eh!?
BB, believe it or now we have a hornets nest hanging over the television at the cabin. It is quite a conversation piece. I'll remember to take a pic for you. Hope you can preserve yours.
I've grown peppers for years and never saw them flower, how interesting.
How did you preserve the nest?? Our plan is to wait until its near or in winter and then hope there is no body home, stuff it in a box, fumagate it and put the box in a plastic bag. Fumagate it again.
We have actually two of them out there but the one is waaay high and well...getting it down is going to be an issue.
The hub said to auction it off on ebay!! LOL!
Still getting peppers....I hope they dont frost.
LOL, I can see it now the bee hive with that MJ bikini falling out of it LOL< LMAO -
We didn't do anything to preserve it, just got it down and let it dry on a covered porch and made sure no bugs in it and then brought it in and stapled it to the slanted ceiling. I'll take a pic for you next time up there. It is really neat as it looks so fragile and the workmanship is phenomenol. They really are busy bees.
We didn't do any of the fumigate stuff just put it up when sure no more bees around it.