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New room everyone!

Show off your pretties!

Me first!!! I'm here. Love that pic LK. Is that an allium?

I haven't been here in a long time. It's good to see familiar names and catch up on all your plant victories. All the flowers are beautiful as usual. You all do good work. That little Lillie is by far the most beautiful and most precious. I am so glad she is doing so well. October seems so far away to me. I can only imagine how far it seems to her parents.

Awwww Linda, Lillie Marie is so beautiful! I can't imagine being away from her, I am saying prayers for your neice.
Great hummer pic too. Is that your queen of the nile plant?
Neener.. your card came and made me so happy. Joe liked it too. You and I need to talk about custome made cards. Can I hire you? LOL You have a great talent.
Hi there Texasgrower. I am joeswife aka Debra, nice to meet you if I havn't already.
Joyce zI had dh unearth the leander by the A/C today. I am glad cuz he then commenced to cleaning the a?c filter and stuff, was all gunked up with duke dog hair.
My little hummer is the baby from last year. I havn't seen its' parents this year. We found the Baltimore Orioles Nest. We are very pleased that they have come back to us.
There was some sort of a huge egret out back the other night. It was weird to see it since the river is so far from us here.

Hi Texas, welcome back. Linda when I saw the picture of tiny Lillie, I had goose bumps on my arms. God is so good. He created this angel from the beginning and now He has His protective arms around her. Will pray for her and her parents that stress will be at a minimum.
Hugs, Faye

Go to church somewhere today! I am.

Thanks for alll the prayers!

That flower is a lily of the nile plant I bought at wal mart. They had them in the purple and white. Well the pots were marked white, I ended up with one white one!

Welcome back Texasgrower.

Lillie Marie is a Doll, LK. I know she has a long way to go but can already tell she's a real fighter considering how far she's come in such a short time :)

We've been reading the same website, happ...lol Also have that one bookmarked since DH is encouraging me to add more Lilies. I was drooling over the tag of a Pink Double-Decker Coneflower at Lowe's last week. The plants themselves though were pitiful looking. Then I noticed about 6 of those tall plant racks marked down 75%. Not a perennial in the bunch but did get 2 packs of Red Storm petunias to add back to the 2 baskets out of 8 I managed to salvage and consolidate with the Black and Chartreuse sweet potato vines and Silver Falls. The baskets are now hanging at the back of the house so they only receive morning Sun so I'm hoping even with this heat and regular waterings they won't croak as quickly as the Million Bells did. Did you make it back to the D/L farm today?

Question, Debra, if I cut back Coneflowers, Coreopsis, Helenium, Blanket Flower, Shasta Daisy, Monarda, and Agastaches to name a few, even if their seedheads are only about 1/3 dry now, will they still be OK and dry naturally in brown paper bags? Would I need to cut stalks too and hang them upside down like I do sunflowers? I have you down for Coneflower "Tomato Soup" seeds. Would you also like Tiki Torch, Hot Lava, and Milkshake? Or any of the ones I mentioned? Anybody else interested in these?

Hi, Texasgrower. It's great to meet you!
Susan



Daylily "Chicago Apache"

Susan, if you have extra, I would love to give them a try.
Thanks

I would love some of your cones. I have white swan, double decker, magness, grey headed, sweet yellow, and some natives. My coconut lime did not come back.
havn't felt well today so been inside napping most of the day. Kids came over this am, talked me into cooking breakfast.
Yesterday DH helped me get mulch over the beds. It was overdue. Tonight three brugs are bloomig. It is too hot and muggy to sit. I counted 8 more colours of 4 o clocks. ^ of them were fragrant. My crossing with the yellows has paid off.
Not all of them are fragrant.
Linda I just think your little TaterTot is adorable and you can imagine her little cherub wings.

Also, I just cut them down to the next leaf node ( when cutting for dead heads) and put them in brown paper bags, marked and then leave them outside under the patio table. Some I bag up in organza bags. The black eyed susans and monarda seeds are too small for those. I also use newpaper and lay flowers inside, fold up and tie with string and a tag. Works for me. I use a large net draw string bag I get at dollar store to keep the white and brown lunch bags full of flowers in , at Fall I box them up, and keep out in the garage in a plastic tub for stratififcation.Most of them stayed in the trunk of my car last year After I found mice had gotten into a couple bags. You guys have a good rest of the nite. I am going to bed.

I never knew there were that many colors of 4 o clocks, bet they are pretty. Do they come true from seed?

There is a huge rainbow of four o clocks. I love them. Last year I had about five colours, so I did some crossing. The seeds I got from them I planted out in spring. Some have the lime leaves, some have dark leaves. Only the yellows and the whites had fragrance last year. This year the marbleds and the new coral, and the two toned colours have fragrance. Oh my do they smell sweet. Come true from seed? Well , if now that they are all open pollinated, they will be even more mixed up than last year. I dig tubers to get the plants of the true colours for people. Tell me what colours you want. Okat I gotta go to bed, my tummy hurts. Love ya all.

All I have is pink, and it did not do very well for me this year. Would love any color you pass along. Thanks


Sure hope your feeling better.

Try this again...LOL
Made it to the daylily farm, and we were blessed with the first nice day we have had in weeks. The temps were wonderful, little humidity, cloud cover, no rain, it was perfect. We could walk thru the flower beds and talk, examine and not break out into a sweat, not one drop. It was sooo nice. Took lots of pics I found one that even after all of our abnormal hot weather was full of buds, so I figure it will be a great late plant and it isn't yellow, altho I found a couple of yellows that were really pretty....LOL I don't need any more yellow, but there was one that the scapes were so tall! This is the really late blooming one and the name is "late again".

I left home about 8:15 and didn't get back until 1pm, I should of been working in my garden, but.....

Edit to say it was hard to find it on the web for some reason, his price is $12.00 which is high for me....rofl.
He keeps trying to sell me primal scream.......what a beauty.

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Those are pretty colors! Sounds like you had a great time.

We had T-strorms from about 8 o'clock this morning til late morning and lots of steady rain the rest off-and-on of the day. It's really unusal for us to start the day with T-storms, but I'm a rain-fan and welcome it anytime. And guess what? Our HIGH today was only 78! It hasn't been that low since April. The cloud cover was heavy so the sun never shown, and humidity was almost NIL. The down side is several plants were blown over, most of them needed cutting back anyway, and am glad I spent part of yesterday collecting seedheads.

Late Again...lol...love that name, happ, and what a pretty bloom too. Bi-colors add another dimension of interest and LA even has a frilly edge. How's that Orange & White Garden of yours coming?

fotv, glad you finally got a break. We had that same storm the other day but the rain missed me but I sure enjoyed the lack of humidity and sun for a short bit..... Mine didn't last long but maybe you will get more of the weather from the tropical storm that broke up. Can you water where you are? I am out in the middle of no where on a really big well, so we are ok. I don't think Missouri or Kansas has ever had a lack of water problem.

Don't you just love that name late again, and it is truely late most of the buds hadn't even opened yet.

Orange and white has turned into a miss mash, cause I couldn't find enough orange flowers.... :C Actually don't tell anybody right now it is a big weed pit....so sad! Anyway I put strawberries in there and they are a mess and dahlias which are growing good all colors, still have my oranges but lost in translation I guess.....It is on the west side of the house and once the sun hits it, it is sun until sundown, I just couldn't drag my self over there in the evenings too hot and humid. Some how the weekends get eaten up, usually by push mowing early and then playing with friends...LOL Have to push mow to keep dh from the edges of the garden....not good for him to be too close.

Got a bloom on the big black ee but mine isn't so black this year cause it isn't getting enough light. Now I am afraid to move it afraid it will get fried....need to post it on the aroids. Oh yeah, I think caladiums love bayer-all-in-one I have been using on the tropicals, the caladiums are huge!

When are you going to the daylily farm???? LOL Can't wait to get out names on the next swap, that may be my excuse to go to the iris farm, then over to the daylily farm....so much fun.

Happ I didn't knw you were wanting orange colours in your garden. I wish we would have gotten more than an eighth of rain the other night.


You all come on in to my back yard for a while, sit down in this chair for a bit..
Oh, Let me move that plant, it is n't too heavy.. Meet Elizabeth, the dainty.. Her bottom is adorned with white begonias that I kept alive over winter. They were just nubs when I planted them in this pot. Behind you is the helenium, and then the bean patch, and then the back House flower bed, with all kinds of stuff growing in it. To the right of you is the sunflowers, morning glorys, jasmine sambuc, jessimine, cestrum, and, more begonias and some other stuff.dead ahead of you is a wonderful little area on the table..

This little Gloriosa lillie is growing in a pot of vanilla scented heliotrope, some coleus and some other stuff. There is a small trellis it is climbing, and two small morning glory vines it has crept up on to. It is pretty when they are open too.

On the table where Elizabeth is sitting ATM, there is another container of a geranium with some other dark red stuff and some sedum and some spurge. There is also a large silver tea kettle filled with wandering jew, dark red oxalis, sedum and some other stuff I have growing in small baskets and containers.. I will show you later.. meanwhile let me go out to the far west part of the yard and see if I can see you.... NOPE. You are hidden behind my wall of flowers. YAY! those other chairs are waiting for the rest of you.. This is taken from the Lilac tree, and I am looking East to find you, it is late, about 7 thirty. Are you thirsty? Let me get you a glass of wine?

Lets take a look on the outside of that patio to the south.. That is my Brug fence. Well, it is where some of them are..
this is not the farthest East end of the South fence, but a good place to start, since it smells so good right now..

going on down the fence.. a little farther to the East end of the South fence.. I have my monardas now dead headed, and the loniceras have quit blooming for awhile here.. If I didn't have this stuff there, we would see Sanford and Sons back Yard.. ugh.

Farthest east end of the South Fence, Chrissy has been deleaved once again, and my stardancerX pod two is about to bloom for the first time. Hard to believe she finally has come around.

It looks like it is going to be a frilly thing, look at her bud..

Here is that corner long view, I have made a notch in chrissy and have some soft gauzy netting wrapped around that spot, I keep it kinda moist for her..

Oh! Come here, look at Betty Marshall from outside the patio on the south end..

Are you bored yet? I am sure this yard is going to cost me a hundred dollars in water bills this month. I have to show you what I can, as I feel so helpless right now in keeping things up.. This is the outside of that patio where you were sitting. The north end, looking south.

I grew most of that stuff from seed. Look it this one I grew from a seed..Aint she purty? If only I had tagged it LOL

here is the fence on the North side, across from the patio.. Just a small area, I have already cut back the monardas, and the cones in that area..gotta have room for my special four o clocks and Zinnias

One more picture of where I wish you all could be right now .. standing here in front of the table, watching the little lonely hummer flit around the lobelias. Have a good Tuesday! Please come over anytime.

Now that's what I call a fabulous tour, Debra, right down to the glass of wine..lol
Your yard and flowers are just gorgeous. So tell me why you deleave Brugs? Is it to divert energy to the blooms instead of just foliage?
And if that Gloriosa Lily sets seeds, I would love to try a couple.

We're fortunate to have a well, happ, around 220' deep and *knock on wood* it's only gone dry once years ago when DH and a neighbor had the bright idea to grow an acre of watermelons. It tastes better than bottled water too, just clear fresh mountain water. Although with our drought-like conditions lately, I've been hesitant to water much.

Speaking of watermelons, this is from one seed the birds must have planted. Great groundcover and has little watermelons about the size of my big toe...lol

Mickey has a beauty shop appointment today...lol I've been grooming him the last 2 years, or trying, so this is a treat for him and me too since a girlfriend and I are going shopping while our furbabies get spiffed up.

Here's Canna Florence Vaughan this morning showing her first blooms.

Everybody have a good one!

Wow, loved the tour, and the wine! Thanks Debra! ^_^
Wished my yard looked half that good! I have to ask what that big black hose type thing is all around your gardens? Is it just a border type thing? Beautiful blooms ladies.

This is what I have blooming.
First is a yellow knock out rose.

Then I have a beautiful rose from wal-mart, I have no clue what the name is. It starts out light, and gets darker every day.

Next I have a beautiful madavilla, that is two tone, red and pink...

Then I have a white mandevilla...

I was told this is a blue rose of sharon

And my miniature rose are doing well

I have one morning glory open...

And it looks like my camelias are try to bud again?