June blooms

Adding to this report I am ever alerted when someone or an organization wishes to take away our right to bare arms. The only language some thieves understand is lead in the air or large dog with training to deal with thieves.

That is really terrible. In our area one of the Nurseries had a very rare and expensive evergreen someone cut it down around Christmas probably took it home to use as a Christmas Tree. I think it was valued at about $5,000.00 and they weren't even sure they could replace it at all. You just have to wonder about people sometime.

A special plant is a special plant no matter what the $$ value. Really hard when you think how much you open your home and personal garden for the Open House. We had someone take an impatient from our yard once. Just couldn't believe that someone would dig up such a common plant but from the looks of it they must have. Right by the front walk was a hole where the impatient was and it looked dug up not pulled. Figured it must have been some kid, can't imagine any adult doing that. LOL

I didn't make the bird bath, it came like that.

Rcn, that stinks about your missing plants. And, I'm glad you mentioned that the 'Beaujolais' doesn't need to be kept moist. I've been trying to keep it well watered, which is why I planted it right next to the bird bath.

HollyAnn, sometimes our chipmunks do a pretty good job at making a single impatien disappear from its planted spot!...Chip could be your thief lol

Wind I didn't think so something about the hole just didn't look like something an animal would do. Too big and too neat more like a small shovel or hand trowel but really I couldn't understand it. Of course we have a lot of Chippies and right now there are plenty of young ones running around.
How about a water lily?

Echinacea 'Coconut Lime' planted last summer are in full bloom. Darned sun reflecting off the Heuchera to the right made it difficult to get a good picture!

Geranium 'Purple Pillow'. I never have a problem with Geraniums but this little one has given me a lot of grief! This is probably my third attempt to grow it and even though the blooms are tiny I'm just happy that it's alive :)

Another "washed out" photo, the sun was just too bright the morning I was taking photos! This is a pretty little Ruellia with almost black foliage a friend gave us a few years ago that's planted along the same border as the Geranium. Hard to tell from this photo but the flowers are pretty too, a really light lavender in contrast to the dark foliage.

Wind, I didn't realize I even had pictures of my Lysimachia but you can just barely see it blooming on the right in the border where it's planted in full hot sun!

I haven't had Gaura in the gardens for years, all the pink flowering ones we used to have disappeared. I'm really pleased how well the white flowering one is doing. They were small plants when I planted them the first of May but they're filling out nicely and I love the wispy blooms :)

Heuchera 'Paris' is always one of the last Heucheras to bloom, one of the reasons I like it and I wish I had more!

Unfortunately I ran out of time when I was taking pictures last weekend. We've got some great flowers on Hydrangeas this year! This is the only one I had time to get a picture of - 'Bluebird'.

Last one for this morning - Arisaema consanguineum. Most of our Arisaemas have already bloomed but this is always the last one to bloom. Last year was its first year in the gardens and it was fairly small. It's kind of tough to capture it in a picture but the ends of the leaves have long, thin tails, almost 12" long!

WOW look at that Arisaema. One of my small Hydrangas.

I want to move one of my lilies anyone know best time to move them? After bloom or should I wait till fall?

so many pretty flowers, all of you

ooh, gee Holly, maybe you should 'move' that next time I have a empty pot handy -snicker. I have some to move too, Got them on clearance and thought they would be taller once put in the garden, but no.

Rcn you have some really interesting plants. I love the Arisaema consanguineum and the chocolate foliage Ruellia!!!

I usually keep the eyeball plants potted up on the porch -- a seed must have snuck into one of my salvia pots -- here it is blooming now in the bird bath border.

Caladium blooms are weird and easy to miss

Just added a country garden chair alongside my new potting bench

stuffed a pot into the broken wicker bottom and planted double white picotee Japanese morning glory, Coleus and Browallia Americana

Salvia guaranitica, comes back every year. Saw a hummingbird at it this morning ^_^

What a pretty chair, Wind.

Debbie, I think next year you need to pot up some nice weeds, the more invasive the better, stick a high price sticker on them and leave those in the gravel.

Here's some more of my Mothers Day new daylilies. This one is Femme Fatale.

Spacecoast Dragon Prince

Clueless

Tuscawilla Tigress

Lord of Lightning. This one is really neat - it has gold and I mean glittery gold not golden yellow on the edges.

Laddie Boy

Divine Comedy

Purple Eyed Magic. I hope this one will improve with later blooms because it's more pink than purple.

Peacock Maiden, another one that's pretty wan but these are baby plants that were just planted a few weeks ago.

Regale lilies

UUUHHHHAAAAHHHH. Those are just gorgeous.

hart--
My Regale Lilies just finished flowering....

NOW--we await the huge, white (w/yellow accents) Honeymoon lilies.....
They were outstanding last year......and the fragrance would knock over a horse!

Things are doing fairly well.....Your Clustered Bellflowers did not bloom too long this year.....
I even cut back the spent blooms to encourage the new ones to bloom....Nope!
I think it gets too much sun where they are planted. My "YUK" bed--

Yeah, they won't ever rebloom. I tried that too. However, if you leave the stems, they will develop more but smaller flowers along the stems.

Honeymoon sounds like it's an orienpet - oriental/trumpet cross. I love the scented lilies the most, especially the orienpets and trumpets. I have some planted right under the kitchen window where I can enjoy the scent when I'm washing dishes.

I had earlier but shorter bloom times on a lot of my stuff this year, including the peonies and irises.

hart--

Here are the "Honeymoon" Lilies from last June....YES! They are Orienpet Lilies....

Do the Clustered bellflowers make seed? I cut the original blooms off already--hoping the smaller ones lower on the stems would fill in. Nope!

I think everything bloomed earlier this year--and maybe, shorter times--due to the heat.

G.

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Gorgeous stuff! wind, your place is looking pretty. The chair looks like magazine-quality project. My Caladiums are blooming too, seem like quite a few, maybe they're happy. I need to buy soil and uppot. some for the shade garden.
That Salvia seems like an earlier bloomer than many--? My S farinacea is not near blooming and S coccinea just seedlings self sown.
hart what a super assortment of DLs- you indulged!
I took pictures but baving trouble with exposure esp on light color flowers. I've never gone into changing the exposure on this camera Lazy. Spiderworts are STILL cranking out some blooms, Black eyed susans starting, Swamp milkweed, Verbena bonariensis, Yarrow, Liatris spiking up.
Got one good one, this 'Easter" lily

On advice of Mike Quinn (MqIq77) in GA--I have totally cut back my beautiful camellia...
It has been struggling the last 3 years with weird leaf problems. The blooms were small and 'fungusy" looking and the whole Shrub had gotten bare and leggy.
That's why I had cuttings of it at the Plant swap.

Cut all the branches down and sent Mike a box-full if tip cuttings.....He already has them in the rooting "thing"....

He said (on seeing that I cut it all the way down): "I'm proud of you, Gita! You won't regret it".

I always listen to him......

Our Easter lilies (Lilium longiflorum) got some sort of rust on the buds this year...no blooms :( I hope they come back next year...

Petunia, supertunia hybrid “raspberry blast”

Daylily, Apricot Beauty