Countdown to spring! One Photo per Day Part 12

BEAUTIOUS

Nice DL Weedy.
Beautiful lily Allison, nice deep color inside!

This is 'Lavender Gem'

"(my wife runs every time I get the camera out, I don't know why,I think she's beautiful)"

Isn't that sweet to say how beautiful you think your wife is........

Janet

I'm hanging out today.

Great lilies! I'll go with a DL. Mauna Loa.

here are some more ballons

Pretty DLs and lovely lily pic. Better get a pic in before they shut things down. This is a new dwarf butterfly bush from last year. It did stay short so I am anxious to see if it does the same this year. Buddleia 'Blue Chip' Lo & Behold. Does the double names on a lot of new plants drive anyone else crazy?

Nice balloons Bill, can't ever have enough of them.

will try pinching them this spring to stop the flopping and get more flowers - thx

nice butterfly bush shot!

Celeste, love that Lilium Lavender Gem. I have not seen it before.

Wha, I never have had to pinch my Platycodon Fuji Blue and it is tall, but I think I will do it anyway to get it to branch more. Good tip, onewish1. I also am thinking it is goner every year, as it shows up so late each spring. It was my sons favorite plant when he was little.

Here is a strong performer called Lilium Touching that blooms at the end of July into August. This photo taken on July 22. Patti

love the speckles Celeste.. Victor that color is great.. not sure if it will stop the flopping Bill.. but it may help

These are the new lilies I hope to see with Ligularias and Clems.

nice dark columbine!!!

sea holly

Are those sea hollies the dwarf variety?
The dark columbine is William Guiness

I don't think so... maybe 3 foot tall

Its not the dwarf then.Great color

Love the flow of those lilies Patti. Very pretty. Love the colors around them too.
Pretty collage once again JoAnn. Is the ligularia a dark leaved one?
Love the sea holly. Very nice shot too.
I have the dwarf one 'Blue Hobbit' . They were new last season and only get to around 10" tall including the blooms. Hope to see them return this year. Here is a not so great shot of them. Cute little guys that as I recall did bloom for quite a while. If you look closely there is an assassin bug in the center of the pic. Don't try to remove these little buggers with bare hands, they pinch something fierce I know.

Thanks for the dwarf holly infoI planted 2 last fall hope they come up.
Yes the Ligularias are BritMaroes or Desdemonas cant remember.
Thay are enormous.

Love the look of sea holly. I planted seeds for a dwarf one.

Love that dark columbine too.

Neighbor's azalea.

hope to have blue hobbit growing here - dnut gave me some seeds that i've winter sowed - nice collage joann

noid hydrangea

I added Dwarf sea holly to my 'going to order this weekend' list! lol!

Common daylily 6/23/09

Tulip

onewish1, I love your eryngium , which one is it, perhaps one of the Eryngium alpinum??? Which I want, as I think I lost my Blue Glitter. Anyone grow E. alpinum Amethyst? Never seen it in person.

gnam, Nice bunch of Eryngium. I planted Blue Hobbit, but I am not sure it made it back last year, as I don't remember seeing it. I really like the foliage on Jade Frost and on Miss Marple. I have always liked the ghostly gray flowering yuccifolium. It has no blue in it. I have grown the ones below and a couple more including Blue Star. But I need take pictures of them.

Eryngium yuccifolium
Eryngium planum Blue Cap
Eryngium planum Blue Hobbit
Eryngium planum Jade Frost
Eryngium variifolium Miss Marple


Here is my collage for today of that includes a Salvia transylvanica 'Blue Spires' which does well for me, though it gets a bit sprawling with course leaves and has spread, but not out of control and has great presence in size and color when in bloom. It seems to mingle well and blooms for good long while. Combined in the photo with Lilium Cannes and Ensata Oriental Eyes & Salvia transylvanica 'Blue Spires' & Lavender Goodwin Creek Grey. Patti

Hummmina! hummmina Patti that is one georgeous collage.I like the inclusion of the group shot.

Ge1836 Thanks, I think it is helpful to see a close up as well as the big picture. I wish plant catalogs always had more than a close up of the plant. Especially to see the grown shape of something. Hard to buy many plants from just seeing a bloom. Most don't even show the foliage which is what you see most of the time. Patti

Blue & yellow & purple & orange always look so great together----nice photos, everyone!

Nice pic of the neighbors azalea Victor.
Bill I think I have that same lacecap hydrangea and also do not remember the name.
WC I do love those common DLs. I have fond memories of them lining the road where I grew up. Thought they were just the best thing that they grew all by themselves without any help at all.
Lovely red tulip Jen. Neat how they all have a secret design hidden down inside the bloom.
Patti I agree with JoAnn that is a wonderful collage and I agree with you that I wish we could get more whole plant shots in mags and garden sites of plants for sale. Nice list of sea holly too. I like the yuccifolium also.

I always google the plant.There are usually full looks at them online and hopefully PF will have a full picture. We dont see single mycros of flowers in nature. Its the combination of shapes and textures that are the most interesting to me.

I. pumila in Canada. Last spring's picture.

Beautiful picture

Very perty, Lucy.

Patti sorry but that one came from one of the not so good catalogs... just called it blue sea holly... don't know what one.. but it was a cheap!!

I knew it looked familiar, but couldn't put my finger on it...til now--Thistle!
http://www.howstuffworks.com/sea-holly.htm
http://www.paghat.com/seaholly.html
And sources...
http://www.kvbwholesale.com/store/perennials/64189
http://www.dutchbulbs.com/store/perennials/64189
http://springhillnursery.com/product.asp?pn=75822&bhcd2=1267833750
I like them too^_^

I think mine came from Spring Hill

Pretty good detective work! Thanks!

(Just ordered 3 & and I'm hot on the trail of the balloon flowers too! hee hee!)

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if you bought them from spring hill... just be aware they might only be an inch tall when then arrive

one of those cheapy "red white & blue" hydrangeas

Hi Allison.No pic yet today.I am barely awake.

Daves is jumpy again today
Here's my pic trying for the second time.
Anemone Sylvestrys

nice!!

I am down to the nubbs here for photos.Guess I will have to go to Aug and Sept.