If I take that bed in the morning, they are not open! LOL! I will go try again now!
Heres my longstem rose by the GPS.. its a small bloom this time!
THE GPS 10 - The Glorified Potting Shed
Nice photo. I prefer hybrid tea roses, but getting them to do well here, year after year, is pretty tough. There's no dormant/downtime season for them to rest. Had about 6 of them, but have removed all but one in the past two years. Will always hang onto Hybrid Tea Rose "Tahitian Sunset" because it is so fragrant. The fragrance has been bred out of so many of them, but not this one.
I think I am getting immune to smelling certain scents.. When the daylilies first start opeing here I can smell them and they are really strong, now they are waining.
I only have one tea rose. I dont do much in roses.. I dont like thorny things. but I do like roses, I just do not like the extra work, the cones, the pruning.. all that and more. I suppose if this garden was not as big as it is, I would do more, but only have the pink tea, the red longstem and two climbers. All are heirlooms,
Ugh, just checked on the mess in the GPS.. we are behind.. needs a royal cleaning in there.. most all the annuals are dead, only a few coleus left and a couple odd plants
Have to make another plant shopping trip today. Bought and sent mom & dad two hibiscus plants two weeks ago. Last week they wanted Caladiums, so bought as mailed three of those. Now they want a Caladium plant, so gonna go plant hunting. For some reason the nurseries up there are way behind at getting their tropical plants in this summer so I'm just sending them from down here.
I have not been to any nurseries since the $2 specials...do not tempt me!
I am looking at that thistle patch and going Daaaaylilies. DAAAY LILIES
I got to get more DAYLILIES!
After I finnish mowing the yard, raking, putting in the zuchinnies and weeding the lil hooper, cleaning the greenhouse. bathing the dog and cleaning house. THEN REWARD TIME! .... might be next year! LOL!
LOL. No more Daylilies for me this year. I've gone from 6 to 15 just in the past month. Ah just go to the nursery and look around. You don't have to buy anything. LOL. Just got back from the nursery. Picked up this Mandevilla for mom and dad. Hope they like it. Gonna box it up and ship it in the morning.
Dint get my chores done so no newbs today!
Im still mowing and raking... got dang near 21 carts of grass clippings whoohoo!
Well, have to rake today.. OY!~ More rain looks like its coming. Gotta get those clippings!
Got out this AM, watered the containers by the Hooper. Finally dug in the zukes. weeded the glads, stargazers, cherry maters, marigold, moved the glads, tied some larege maters up, moved the cherry tomaters, moves some peppers.
Need to finish watering the daylily/cutting garden and the viranda.
then need to straighten out the GPS.
Ran my elf silly this morning.
Guess you have a few things to do. Not much needs to be done here. Planted a few more Wild Lupine seeds last night, but that was it.
Well I did some raking and mowing. The a guy contacted me had some wayward daylilies for me... so I got a pile of Burpees Red Token, a pile of Kwanzo, one hibiuscus, some var. vinca and a pile of bearded NOID iris... That will keep me busy for tomorrow, although I have to pot that viinca and the hib.
And iots back to mowing.
He had more iris and vinca, kwanzo.....might go back again.. that varigatedvinca is great for baskets..
Price...free for the digging.. cant beat that! WHoohoo!
The vinca. .. its a little droopy, hope it perks up... I gotta get more of that! It must be a giant variety compared to my other one. The leaves on this are huge!
The pile of Red Token
The pile of bearded iris.. who knows what colors lurk in thar!
the pile of kwanzos....
Hmm, that vinca is totally different than the tropical annual vinca we grow, in the summer, in Florida. Took this photo this evening of Vinca "Pacifica Really Red". Vinca is our summer substitute for impatiens.
Well, remember that one I had in the basket last year.., this one here the leaves are like
2- 3 times bigger~! I have to go back to get more!Told the gentleman after the next rain I would come and dig again... besides that I got to pot these up....I have no clue as to where they are going...
Well that one is like my purple one! They were a $2 flat special..
The one in my basket I think is also refered to as periwinkle? Perhaps its called greater periwinkle? Dont know for sure.
Scrounging around today.. found a pic of the GPS back in 2005.. little blurry, but boy the gardens were nicer back then!
Another oldie shot! 2005.. yep, the gardens were less grassy! Nothing a case of Ornamec would not cure. That is on a dry spell too.
Yes, that's the vinca we know. It's also known as periwinkle, but almost noone down here refers to it as periwinkle. I'm kickin myself for now growing some of the apricot colored vinca. Like it. Grew the "Really Red" myself, but it's nothing special. I like your $2 flat better. My guess is that yours is Vinca "Cora Lavender"
Dont know.. dint have a tak other than "vinca"! LOL!
LOL. Gotta love those generic plant tags. I'm about 75% sure its Cora Lavender. The "Cora Series" is quite popular.
oh oh.. another oldie pic! 2005...must have just finished the mowing.., my how that bed has changed.. it now has a row of Citrina going down its north side! The trees too are huge!
Purple monarda.. do not know what the variety is....
Stargazers have started....
Tall white garden phlox is going strong.. I think this is David
My purple tall garden phlox has gone insane.. I need to thin it out becasue Icannot find the daylilies in this bed and I have some nice DLs there. OY! What a mess!
love the colour!
Must try phlox in my garden, I like the look of it.
Roll on spring down under!
Hi dalfyre,
Oh I love the phlox, but its 5 foot tall and just over powered the rest of that garden.. I need to give them their own space I think!
Right now its summer...going to get zizzling temps again before too long!
Some of the additional DL's I got in from Jim will look like these next year!
Love that Monarda and garden phlox. That phlox looks exactly like the wild phlox I would see blooming this time of year where I grew up in NY State. It grows and blooms everywhere. Saw all this "Veronica" growing and blooming in the wild this weekend in the Toronto, Canada area and was wondering what kind it was. There were tall purple Veronica stalks everywhere alongside the highways.
Do ya have a pic of it Jon?
Im still trying to figure out what this plant is...I have it in this lovely peach, in purple and in yellow. Ima thinking veronica or verbena? The gal at the nursery told me, but the brains a pharting.
Here are the 2 hibiscus Jim gave me.. they are surely a Rose of Sharon in either pink, white or lilac.. dont know.
I didn't take my camera with me to Toronto. Did find it funny to see all these tropical plants being grown as summer annuals in pots and flower beds in downtown Toronto.
Youe peach color flower looks like a verbena to me. They're popular year round plants in South Florida. Generally hardy in Zones 8-11 only. If it over wintered for you and/or set seed and grew you did well.
Ah verbena, thats what she did say it was, and you seconded the motion! YAY! Um, the yellow diud set seed so I put them back into the basket the parent was growing in. Maybe I can winter them again. I wil have to plan to get more seed for all the colors! I like it! I cannot imagine it growing wild, but I bet its awesome! Hope you had a nice trip.
Well, here is my sunny that was in the strawberry basket.. it turned out to be knee high! LOL!
Ima thinking this is a calendula....
liatris kobold... This ones by my porch, but I have them growing wild in the prairie as well. It tool almost 10 years to establish them on the prairie. There are not a lot, but they are starting to do their owwn thing now! YAY!
Melons are up!
variagated baby sunrose
wander ing jew???
Nice photos Blossom. I'm thinking I need to try some Liatris kobold. A real eyecatcher.