Garden Blooms 2010-21

Just beautiful Pixie
Hooray for gardens
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Lovely ge! I like the combo of poppies with the campanula, it's stunning!
Nice views too, all green and lush...your right your going to want to look at those come Jan-feb.!

I think I saw a picture of your gardens the first year I joined. They were on a corner with lots of lupine and Delphs etc.I never forgot how lovely it was.If it wasnt you Just take credit anyway lol

JI Midnight Angel
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JI is beautiful, mine aren't blooming yet but I can't wait!
Not my corner shot, sounds like Pirl and it IS beautiful.....can't take credit. ^_^

Wasnt Pirl.I thought it was a Maine garden.Its long past so .

Were the lupines Red? If yes, then they might have been mine.

Pixie, I love that HH....colors are so soft...and the poppy is a beauty, too! Jo, also love your poppies....the combo with the lilies is a winner! I planted Calif. poppies for the 1st time in the mix with all the other annuals......love watching what's blooming there.....

White linum....

Noid DL.....

great shots celeste, joann, and marilyn!

Pretty Robin, i like the white linum

Thanks Bill!

you are welcome - btw going to start picking your lupine seeds today

My pods are still green.....

most of mine too - there are two plants that have black pods.

Lovely pics everyone.
Pixie that color on First Crown lily is scrumptious. As is the HH,poppies and roses. DD gets me every time I see a pic of it, beautiful bloom.
JoAnn your poppy combos are so pretty and the scenes of your garden are really lovely. I agree thank goodness for gardens.
Robin your pics of DL and cal. poppy are so bright and cheerful, just really nice and summery.
This is a pic of the first bloom from echinacea 'Summer Sun'. It is supposed to change color but to what color we shall see.

So many Balloons this year, I just love them.

Noid orange DL.

The other lilies are starting to bloom already. This one is first to open.

and a garden scene for JoAnn. The back arbor.

Love that arbor!!! Your balloon flowers look good, cant wait for mine:)

Nice balance Pat

nice shots pat - the balloons do look nice - waiting for mine i tried trimming them down this year.

Thanks everyone. The balloons are tall and I left the stakes in front of them over winter just in case, but so far no flopping yet. They are quite tall which I didn't expect since the rain and clouds of last spring that made so many things extra tall were not a factor this year.

Great shots this morning, ladies!

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Purple Prince red poppies

Very nice!!!!


How long do poppies flower?

edited for spelling and again, I'm typing too fast

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The poppies individually only bloom a day. They grow with multiblooms on one stem that open day after day. They also grow in bunches as they were sowed and as the biggest plants mature with seed pods I pull them and hang them upside down to allow the seeds to mature.Yes a paper( no plastic)bag tied loosly over the pods keeps any seeds from emptiin onto the floor.
The smaller plants in the clump continue to grow .They may not be as lerge as the enitial plants but they do bloom and seeds can be harvested.

Love them, Jo, and the arbor scene is very pretty, Pat. Curious to see what Summer Sun turns into.

Very lovely shots, Celeste, Marilyn, Pat and JoAnn! JoAnn - on your garden scenes album, what is the white heuchera in the 3rd photo? I love that combo you have in that shot. Pat - I love your arbor and the whole area around it.

Louise.There is no "white" heuchera.That is a silvery rasberry leafed one.Rasberry Ice I believe.

GE - for a second I thought you were showing Purple Prince LILIES. I was like - already?

Anyway, took more shots today. Here's an example of how I packed every square inch in my beds.

Shown in picture - echie Ruby Star, English rose - Heritage, echie Milkshake, Tangerine Dream, Helenium Mardi Gras.
This fall Helenium will pack her bags and will relocate to another place. Acquiring the real estate will be another English rose shrub.

Gosh thats beautiful.
I do have Purple Prince lilies opening with the annual poppies.
Can you see them bottom left.

Opposing shot. Lily buds in foreground is oriental Marlon, somewhere in the middle - one already partly open is oriental Tiber. Aster Alma Potschke(sp?) which I already pinched for the 3rd time is tucked in there too.

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Wow! My Purple Prince still have green buds on them. I thought they don't open till late July.

Echie Meringue and Winchester Cathedral (white and white). Next to Winchester Cathedral is Mary Rose. WC by the way is a sport of Mary Rose by origin.

Here's pink on pink, PDD and Mary Rose again.

More PDD, this time with Heritage.

Here, a juvenile Christopher Marlowe (rose) getting cozy with - of course, more PDD.

Ok, I promise no more PDD. How about White Swan with Mary Rose.