Garden Photos: Part 25

Court Magician

Malaysian Monarch

NOID pale pink that always does great. Blooms and blooms!

Closer look...

A bee visiting my pink malva.

Time to go outside now. Hope you all have a great day!

Karen

Karen everything looks wonderful!!! LOVE Song of Spring

Luvly DLs Cousin Nut. I like Little Red Dumples in this group. Have fun at your RU.

Well no blooms yet but wow what foliage on this morning glory!!!

this looks like the lily forum... I've got some blooming now .. looking like this

Fantastic array of pretty DLs, Karen!! I haven't Id'd this one yet, but I know we didn't plant it and I think it's a little volunteer cross of Stella d'Ora and a cellar hole lily that is many moons old. It's the first time it has bloomed, so I'm assuming it's a baby of mixed parents....

Thanks, guys!

Jen, yes, isn't SOS a really nice one? I keep telling my friend Karen she needs to see it. She was selling DL's with me at my sale this past Saturday, and of course it wasn't in bloom that day. We're having another sale this Sat. Hopefully she can see it then.

Pens, that MG foliage is something else.

Nice, Gordon, and I love your view. You must get that a lot.

Marilyn, I love that DL! If it is a cross with a species DL, then it's a rarity. It's very difficult to cross with those, as they're not very fertile at all. I would love to have a piece of that one, if you're willing to trade.

Well, we're getting quite a bit of rain now. I didn't get anything done except to take pics today. Will post some soon.

Karen

do daylily often cross pollinate and create news ones?

I wouldn't have thought so, but there's no other explanation I can think of for this one, given where it is located and what is surrounding it. I don't have a clue! This is the first year it's shown up, amid an overgrown bunch of stellas, solid yellows and very old cellar-hole orange lilies. Maybe someone who is into pollinating DLs can explain it. I've put a piece of velcro around the fan so I can dig it up and put it in my garden where I can watch it. I'll wait until it finishes blooming.

Look at this cool little dude admiring my Wild Mustangs.......

Harper's Shastas fell over in the rain and are now resting on the chives.......

Rain caused these delph blooms to fall in to my Becky Shastas......

Pardon Me just popped today...

All of the flowers in front of the porch came from DG friends at our RU last September....some were the leftovers from the plant swap, but most were brought to us and that has become my DG garden.....

Butterfly on the echi's from Bill

annuals next to the BBQ pit......

one side of our front steps

the other side of the steps.....yes, I do need to do some stella deadheading!! LOL

ostrich ferns beside the driveway stone wall.....

last one....cute little "Fire & Ice" hosta settling in nicely!

Karen I am impressed you know so many.. AND where they are... now that's good!!!

Gordon - what a great backdrop you have for those lovely lilies!! Beautiful view!!

Yum, nice blooms guys.

Oops! Louise, I called you Marilyn. Sorry about that. I was interested in trading for some of your DL cross, but if you only have one fan you'll have to wait a few years for it to increase. DL's do cross pollinate on their own with help from bees and sometimes wind. It's surprising to find one that will cross with the old ditch lilies, though, as they're nearly sterile. Your place is looking very nice, BTW!

Thanks, Allison!

Oh, I'm posting over here today, and takes a lot of time to double post, so I'll just provide a link and post a few non-DL pics here.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1115472/

Karen

Phlox, whose name is not coming to mind right now. Seems like it's named after some musician or composer or some such.

Patches with phlox, which are flopped over from the rain. Glad we're getting rain today, even though I still have lots to do outside. The next few days are gonna be hot and humid!

Karen

Patches sniffing the phlox. Actually she probably got a whiff of some critter.

Oops! Here's the picture!!!!

My bed with the butterfly bush.

Patches again, taken on the evening of July 12th.

Karen

A dragonfly.

Snapdragon 'Double Azalea Apricot'

Oriental lily 'Zsa Zsa'

echis

Me with some of the DL's.

My sister Hope with shastas.

Dad, his dog Buffy, my Patches, and me.