Thought I would start us a new thread as June was pretty full. Post your pretty flower pics here. How about a few lilies to start us off.
July Blooms
And another
wonderful lilies Holly
This is the scene from my bedroom window.Poppies Venus
http://picasaweb.google.com/jgentle4/BedroomPoppiesJul2
Great to start with lilies, Holly. One of my favorites. What do you put around them to give some color when they're gone?
Beautiful view from your bedroom window, ge. I'll bet you find yourself there often just to soak it all in.
My tuberous begonias are starting to show themselves in my one and only, very small shade garden.
Only new bloom so far
glads
Nice view ge,
RRR, I have those pretty sweet creme marigolds planted in there and a new variegated garden phlox and Purple Emperor sedum.
Here is another area. More garden phlox & lilies.
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I'll have to post pics when they get established...I'm excited of my recent plantings from Chocolate Flower Farm: Angelica gigas, Chocolate astrosanguineus cosmos, and perennial Geranium maculatum 'Espresso'!
Our veggie garden is awesome this year...new fence...new raised beds... and a dear gardening friend came over yesterday with her grandchildren and gave my Mama a homemade toad house the kids made using hand painted clay pots...just adorable! I'll take a picture tomorrow for you all =)
Have a great holiday weekend!
Holy,
I have never seen such blue Phlox!!!! Wow!!!
I don't have any new individual blooms to share--but i will post some "groupings"....
Here are some of my Coleus and Imps.
That orangy-yellow Coleus is called Alabama Sunset...so true! Love it!
Here is the other side of this bed--which is in a round bed where my cut down Birch tree used to be
This is my Endless Summer Hydrangea--nicely blue this year.....
These are Joyanna's Zinnias--the seeds Jill gave us all.
They are still small--and the pink stripes near the center are very vague.....
One of my large planters......
Last one---
Here is some Heliotropes---one of my favorite flowers......and--VERY fragrant!
My patio is begining to shape up. Guess I am only three or four weeks behind you in the South from me by quite a bit of zone difference. I will crank up the camera soon as we get filled in a little more. I am enjoying all of your results that look so pretty.
mid season lilies are starting
Nice Gita, Oh I wanted to tell you that the hydrangea you gave us last year is doing well.
Roses I have begonias in one of my hanging baskets I'm waiting to see it bloom.
Jen Ric planted glads down in the Veggie garden as an accent not too sure they will bloom as they were planted so late.
Doc, Looking forward to a few pics of your patio.
Well, those 'Zahara Starlight Rose' zinnias are not living up to their hype! Small, I expected, as they're supposed to be a short variety... but I was hoping for vibrant pink stripes!
Oriental lilies are starting here, too!
Beautiful blooms & foliage in those shots!
drum roll please.......our first poppy bloom is just opening!!!!
Lauren's Grape
sweeeeeet
Here is that adorable kids - handmade - toad house, that my mother received as a gift. She is going to sink it in ground an inch or so later today...
Naughty Marietta marigolds in the pot, started from seed
That is too cute. Love it! Looks like a nicely fenced Veggie Garden in the background. I was thinking we don't have a thread on containers. Ladyg usually starts one for us. Guess I will go and do that.
Whats happening here
http://picasaweb.google.com/jgentle4/JustLatelyJuly3
Now I feel that I must have heliotropes, Gita. What a beautiful sight, and they're FRAGRANT, too!!
Holly, my Oriental Lilies are blooming also. Aren't they glorious?
This daylily still in container
(looks like black eyed stella, but not sure)
Love the coloring on this coleus
This Chantreyland Viola still going strong
That's a "wow" coleus!
My black-eyed stella doesn't have quite so much coloring in the throat (smaller area of dark color), and I don't think it has those edges either.. I like yours better!
Saw my first Florida Sieboldi clematis ever. Didn't know the flower was so tiny. We do get to enjoy them, though because they climb on the herb pot holder on the deck.
Pretty
I like small clematis like that one. The rabbits do too. Dern 'em. Had one up and going ten or more feet last year before the critters got me all vines about six inches from the ground. I shall cage the vines on the next one.
Just makes gardening so much harder.
Fried rabbit is a delight. LOL Gone wild because domestic bunnies are not on every meat counter.
Domestics have more calories and a high fat content.
flowerjen--
What you have there is the "Cong Coleus".....The "monster" of all Coleus's....You can tell it is a fast grower...
YES! It is impressive! YES! It is very colorful--BUT--as it grows older, it gets very leggy and starts flopping apart.
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I got a couple a few years ago--and will never really grow them again, unless I would just enjoy them in the early growth period and then get rid of them. We have them at HD--and, by now, they just sit there....Too big for most people's taste.
I wonder what kind of comments there are on the "Cong" in the PF's????
Gita
Those wild rabbits in a slow cooker with bar-b-q sauce are very tasty. Beats the heck out of the KFC.
Again this year like last, I have a giant sunflower next to the driveway. Planted by itself- it has to be thirteen feet tall. Some residents here miss certain subtleties of my garden but they can't miss, and are actually quite impressed with, this guy! It is impressive, what can grow from a tiny seed in april to this.
Yeah, that's not subtle. LOL Good growing!
Geese...........you might have competitive quality seed because that sunflower has repeated great growth for you. It might be fun for you to play with Google to see what fun the competitive growers have around the country. That plant is impressive. If it were played with another four or five feet would be possible. Crop rotation is importent too plus all the good practices one can work into the grow. Yes....I would treat that seed like the champ it maybe could be.
This would not be the first time a record plant was delivered by the birds and grown in a fence row or shrub row. The world record tomato over seven pounds was reported to have been a fence row discovery. Good story anyway. LOL