Is lavender kind of rednecky also? I have a feeling it might be.
SUNFLOWERS for 2010 - whose here?
Only if da men wear nylons in hunting season! LOL!
I'm not touching that one. Only thing we get down here is tourists wearing white socks with sandals. Very bizarre.
oooooOh NOW thats just down right GA_ROSS! Especially with lavender sandals.. and most of all with white socks on Labor day! Its just dispicable to hide all that orange toenail polish unnerneath!
I mean come on now, lavender and Ozenda orange, thats classy, but that other stuff... UGH!
Well, meanwhile back at the ranch.. trying to look at seed catalogs and oh my,
www.VermontBean.com
has a super rainbow selection of sunnies!
How I ever got on their list is beyond me, but oh so glad!
They have:
Soraya - deep orange
Red Sun - red
Jade - light green (NEATO!!!)
Apricot Twist - white and yellow petaled (Double Neato!!)
Moulin Rouge - burgandys
Razzmatazz - rainbow of color
Bohemian Rhapsody - rainbow of color
Double Dandy - yellow orange
Summer SUnset - rainbow of color
And more!
Oh DROOOOL!
Hiya Blossom. There must be at least 100 varieties of short, tall, and mixtures of Sunflowers. I'm guessing I've tried at least 50 different one in the past couple of years. Have one box of seed packs that are just Sunflowers. Here's Sunflower "The Joker" blooms from this morning.
Happy Thanksgiving,
Jon
I find myself with a sweet tooth so I'm going to do a chocolate bed next year and hope to find a short or dwarf sunflower ina "Chocolate" color
I already have:
Iris "Hot Chocolate"
Daylily "Chocolate Kiss"(my own OP)
Purple Smoke Bush that a smokey chocolate bronze color
Lorapetalum in simular color as smoke bush
Chocolate akeba vine seeds sewn and hopefully will sprout next spring
Nicotiana "Hot Chocolate" seeds
Digitalis"Milk Chocolate"seeds and plants
Penstemon "Chocolate Drop"seeds
Silene "Purple Prince"plants
MG "Chocolate"seeds
Eupatorium "Chocolate"seeds
Just purchased seeds:
Nicotiana"Chocolate Smoke"
Delphiniums"Kissed by Chocolate"
Aquilegia "Single Black"(have a bed that goes from sun into shade)
I do believe I have pepper seeds Black Hungarian and a chocolate jalapeno or might be cayene. Would like to find seeds for mini chocolate sweet bell peppers since we're not doing big veggie gardens this coming spring,I will plant edibles in the flowerbeds and containers so they have to be "prudy"as well as edible.
No telling what else I have and what else I can find that will fit the theme.
Patty. You must must must visit www.chocolateflowerfarm.com. Even if you don't buy from them, you can come up with many other chocolate colored flowers you can add to your "Chocolate Bed". How about some chocolate colored cosmos, hollyhocks, papavers, primulas, salpiglossis, scabiosas, violas, dahlias. They're all there on that website.
Jon
that's who I just purchased the Chocolate Smoke nicotiana,Delphs. and Aquilgeia from and plant on ordering some plants from them in the spring.
That Chocolate Smoke is to die for. Delphs don't do here but I'm gonna give it the best shot I can.
LOL! Not a calorie in a carload eh Patty! I have some chocolate mint if you want some.. I grow it in baskets....
Happy T-Day all!
I've ordered from them once in the past. It was the chocolate garden seed kit and a chocolate candle. I remember it was nicely packaged. Delphiniums don't work here since it's way out of zone and there's no winter dormancy period. I'm trying to grow Larkspur, from seed, for the first time. Most Larkspur are 180 days to bloom from seed. That wouldn't work here either, so I ended up trying "Imperial Giants" which are supposed to mature in 90 days. So far so good. They've germinated and are growing
Oh yea forgot to tell ya Patty, I got Chocolate Milk DL here some whars!
I feel ya amore. Lots of beauties I'd love to grow if it wasn't for our humidity.
I gotta try there "chocolate" delphs. As well as d.nudicaule"Fox"(don't hold me on species spelling),d.zalil and c. cardinalis. Probably just putting them on death row but I'm gonna give it a shot. I started a delp.thred on the mid-south forum and someone said they had successfully grown...???...geesh,can't remember the varity now....but planting them in partial shade in a well ammened bed and made sure they were watered properly so stand back I'm going in....LOL.
Larkspurs do really well here...almost to well in some beds.
BB, I've sewn seed for the chocolate foxgloves 2-3 x and finally got some plants. The seem very picky about watering and the dang scale love all the slick leafed digitalis.
Sometimes you can get flowers to work for you, out of zone, if you make some good decisions regarding when and where to plant them. You might as well give it a try Patty and start "small" with just one of two plants of a specific variety. If they work out you can always buy more. If they don't, at least you tried and you're not out much money. I've failed miserably with quite a few out of zone flowers. The few successes, as in Echinacea and Reblooming Bearded Iris, have made it very worth it to me.
There's one Delphinium named "Blue Butterfly" that does work down here. Its a short Japanese Delphinium that can be grown strictly as an annual.
The most chocolatey colored flower I have, would have to be my "Black Voodoo" hibiscus (photo attached). The most chocolatey Sunflowers I've grown would be "Moulin Rouge" and a newer one named "Chocolate" from Johnny's Selected Seeds.
Jon
Maybe that hibiscus is more like a "chocolate covered cherry"???? LOL
Oooo,amore,that's hibiscus is toooo yummy.
I'll look into Johnny's Chocolate sunflower.
I'm about to have a kanipsion fit...I can't find my penstemon Chocolate Drop seeds.
I grow probably 80-85% of my plants from seed. I get them bulk wholesale so I can kill a bunch until I finally have success....LOL
Is it the Chocolate Farm that has that corydalis Chocolate Star? I think it is. I have that on my 2010"Gimme List" although I haven't had much luck with the hybrids. Killed a whole tray of 72 of "Blue Panda" one year. Ouch! That hurt.
Yeah Chocolate Farm has Penstemon Chocolate Drop seeds in their Perennial Chocolate Garden Seed Kit as well as Corydalis "Chocolate Star (as a plant). Penstemon "Chocolate Drop" seeds are also available at Diane's Flower Seeds and Summer Hill Seeds.
I have several brown hibiscus, but Black Voodoo is the most brown. It will be more readily available in 2010.
Um Patty.. that was a DAYLILY called MILK CHOCOLATE! LOL!
Nice hib there Jon!
I planted a ton of sunflower seeds this past summer and after a very long time, only 2 came up. But they were both beauts and lasted forever. They were the kind that have multiple flowers on one plant, which I like. I like the ones with just one flower per stem but I like to plant the multiples too and never know which is which. If anyone has good varieties of the multiples to advise me on, let me know so I can be sure to order the right ones!
There are many different kinds of multibranching Sunflowers and some good mixes of multibranching Sunflowers.
Some of my favorite individual varieties are "The Joker", "Strawberry Blonde", "Cinnamon Sun", "Ring Of Fire", "Ruby Eclipse".
There are many mixtures of multibranching sunflowers. Some of the most reliable ones I've tried go by the names "Autumn Beauty", "Pastiche", "Harlequin", "Large Flowered Mix" (from Burpee).
Jon
I hear ya BB. I still have my little daylily dog I grew from seed and named Chocolate Kisses.....or was it Brown Sugar Baby after my DGD? Sent you some fans many years ago. I need to move mine because the shrubs and trees have got too big and shading it too much too bloom.
Sumbody needs to take my cc away frowm me and hide it. I just placed two more orders for "chocolate" seeds
ooooh RED! Too funny!
Yes, I still have your fans.. I hope they come back next season....
Here is that Milk Chocolate.. I hope it has grown, I just got it last season so might not be big enough to do much with yet but I have you in mind!
Oh and thanks for the Sunnies seed... nice mix!
I just did somethin terrible and ordered more seed catalogs!! hah!
Never...NEVER too many seed catalogs
Well right now, I got too many old ones, gotta boot them out and get new ones.. and while I love hoarding them.. time to empty the office, I cant open the door anymore with out an avalanche!
Thanks fer the Autum Beauties and Mammoths! I hope I can get seed off them next year.. this last year was a total diaster in savng sunny seed.
Ok, quit slobbering over the Milk Choclate, or your M wont work....!
M-MM-Mmmmmmm
Well ok, maybe yer G will hang up! LOL!
So wipe that silly *g* off yer face! Ya'll get a toothache!
ok, Im in with some Mexican Sunflowers....well, not yet, but got seed so I can do them in 2010
Oh yes. I got some of them Tithonia seeds also in the past week or so. Probably gonna wait until spring before I give them a try. I'm a little lacking for spring and summer things to grow down here, so they'll be a good fit.
I'm curious as to how this Tithonia diversifolia (Bolivian Sunflower Tree) is gonna do. I received the plant from Annies Annuals about 3 weeks ago and it's growing quickly. It's supposed to grow to 10-15 feet, in a year, with many 6-7" sunflower type blooms from approximately Nov-April each year. Sounds like a "monster tree".
I forgot to add that the blooms on "Bolivian Sunflower Tree" are supposed to be fragrant and smell like chocolate!!!
Dont tell Patty!
Her M on her keyboard will stick.
Mmmmmm. I think she prefers chocolate colors over chocolate fragrance....perhaps. Here's my "Bolivian Sunflower" baby. I just repotted it, up a size, two weeks ago and the roots are coming out of the bottom already.
Yeah...chocolate colors.
I'm going to do a Neopolitain bed w/ a section of chocolate blending into a red/burgundy/pink then a vanilla/white/silver section.
There she goes again.
..... pilates time!
Hey Red, Remind me when to start new thread links ok, I keep forgetting about how long you will go.
Lucky you. That one hasn't come yet. Today I only got one from Annies Annuals.
no new catalogs for *e lately...Danggit!
Yup,I gonna have to stop watching two or three that are just about to long for *y slow dial-up.
New link coming.... Be back in a short for
SUNFLOWERS for 2010 #2
Ok, its done go here for the new
SUNFLOWERS for 2010#2 - WHOSE IN
link...
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1060274/#new
Remind me to link on in the other threads too will ya.. dont want to leave the dialups behind!
Here's Sunflower "Titan" blooming.
Jon
I just can't count how many Sunnies I will be growing in 2010, + my selections from the species+ some really weird other species of Helianthus☺
amorecuore, what is Bolivian Sunflower?