Rarejem has been busy working during the daytime and starting to spread our 15 yards of Tagro around in the evenings, so has asked me to take over her thread once again.
Sure wish I could share with you the fragrances that come with these lovely Orienpet lilies.
My Pineapple guava has never had so many blooms this has been a year full of surprises.
This is "Dennis". I had just planted it out last fall and was surprised it survived especially since I lost another Abutilon planted close to the house this last winter that I had for several years
I have a pink on and I always bring it into the jacuzzi for the winter. Very succeptible to scale inside. Don't know how it gets there.
I am just starting to get DayLily blooming now. The North Pacific ( Queen Charlottes) is WAY behind y'all.
It may be my imagination, but are some DL much less prolific than others? Maybe I fuss too much. My neighbor has the regular yellow ones in a weedy clump off by a fence. She does nada with them. They are prolific and SO pretty, urggggh. lol
We had such a cold may - June, then a cool July and blazing hot end of July - Aug. Now its damp but not wet andcool again. Not an ideal gardening summer. I amglad I decided to not get too involved this year. I am doing more intensive things like moving plants around and thoroughly cleaning out areas I have ignored for a long time.
Thanks for all the lovely photos.
enyeholt, that sound like a good idea for this year. I'm making some plans like that for later in the month. Most all of the flowers are going and shrubs and trees remaining. Getting to old to keep up with the up-keep.^_^
My lilies are just starting to open.
This one is a Samur LA ~ planted in my mail box and always the first to bloom.
Have tons of lilies in the greenhouse still in bud.
Nice!
My OT lilies are absolutely done, a few orientals left to go. But my white phlox is just thinking about blooming.
( Glad to hear that I'm not the only one who battles scale on abutilon. At least I feel less like it's somehow my fault. Definitely the downside to that plant! Both of my large abutilon have picked up a nice dose of scale this summer. :( I am going to have to go after it and I don't like dealing with it.)
Abutilon ? It looks rather like Hibiscus... is it related? A new one to me.
I reread my post re: Day Lily I have to remember they come in early / mid and late varities. Its easy to forget details years after planting them
Flowering maples are mallows here is a link. They are marginally hardy here in zone 8a and many people keep them as houseplants http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/search.php?q=flowering+maple&Search=Search+PlantFiles
I am finally (maybe) going to have some time to catch up on line, and hopefully catch up on walking through the yard as well.
Welcome TP! It's always nice to see a new face in the forums! Lovely lilies! My asiatics were a sad mess this year due to wet and slugs, but the OT's are finally starting to bloom, and they have fared much better.
Linda, your Abutilon is lovely! I am growing my first this year, and have a few buds on it... now you have made me even more excited about seeing it's face! I am too cold to risk it as an outdoor plant, but it will decorate my deck in the summer and have a cozy spot in the greenhouse for the winter.
Enyeholt.. there is definitely a difference in performance between different daylily cultivars. Some grow like mad, and some (especially a lot of the newer "fancy" ones) just kind of sit there. And as you mentioned, there are early, mid, and late varieties, so if you want the longest bloom season, you need to plant a combination. If you would like recomendations of some that are very prolific here in my area, d-mail me and I will be more than happy to send you a list of wonderful "no fuss" performers that have done extremely well for me.
In answer to a question that Bonehead had on the last thread, YES...with breeding the daylilies, I do get to name them. Most will just get "garden names" as it costs $15 each to actually register them, but I do plan on registering a few if I feel that they will have a mass appeal. The naming is one of the best parts. OUR method is to first come up with a list of names, and then find the daylily that goes with the name. Making our original list involved myself and Mom and a big bottle of wine.......... This winter, we will incorporate seedling pictures, our list, and ANOTHER big bottle of wine and come up with some garden names.....
Some names however just come to you when you are looking at bloom and then you "know" that they are right.
This is my buddy Hunter (with a baby Phoenix in the background).........
And this is my seedling "HUNTER'S HEART" last Saturday.........
"HUNTER'S HEART" is stunning.
Petunias. Sadly these are not in my garden. We made a visit to Bauman's Farm in Gervais Or yesterday.
They are well known for their hanging baskets. They were awesome!
Wonderful!
Look at those petunias!!! drool................
Julie, wow, your daylily is gorgeous!
Wish my petunias looked that good! Wonder if it's worth giving them an extra shot of fertilizer or not this late.
The Shasta daisies are now joining th phlox. ( I had no idea how almost-invasive they can be. Moving way to the back of the beds this fall!)
I just ripped out a mountain of shastas that had completely obscured the frog pond. They started out as two tiny little plants last fall. Yikes. I'm going to get rid of all of mine- they're just too aggressive. And I don't like the smell of them. Is it just me, or do they kind of smell like poo? LOL
They certainly don't smell very good, and the slugs LOVE them and hide in them very well. They do, however, last in a vase for quite a while. I did move them outside the fence into the boulevard at the EWA house, where they seemed even more aggressive.
I haven't been very good about posting pics lately.
Dahlia 'Bonaventure'
Dahlia 'Camano Sitka'
Dahlia 'Summit Steady'
Dahlia 'Rycroft Magnum'
I think Shastas smell like dirty feet/socks. But they are great for late summer blooms. I just pull the ones I don't want when I see them i the spring.
Unknown variety of white hydrangea and my pear tree blooming pears.
And my blueberry starting to bloom berries.
Another lily that smells fabulous.
very nice PNWMountainGirl!
what is the name of this lily?
Is it an orienpet?
Oooh- gorgeous lilies! I used to have one that looked just like that at our old house- the scent was so lovely.
My stargazers are blooming now- another very strong perfumed bloom that I adore. *breathes deep* Ahhh. :)
This clematis has really taken off this year.
Close up.
Beahive your clematis is gorgeous - mine looks like it needs the ICU.
I have one calla lily bloom.
And it's surroundings.
TPN, the lily is indeed an Orienpet. "Shocking" is the name and the colors do vary a bit from year to year.
My south facing bed in the backyard is finally in full glory. Here we've got purple asters, crocosmia, rudbeckia 'Goldsturm', NOID peach dahlia, drumstick allium, and schizostylus coccinea 'Oregon Sunset'.
Edited to replace lavendar with drumstick allium, because I guess the lavendar got cropped out of the picture.
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Wow, very pretty.
Beautiful, Kim!
Willow, are your callas smaller than usual this year? My three are usually quite large, but this year they just didn't grow worth a darn, and I've only had one bloom. :(
Kymmco, that is a lovely spot- so many colors and textures. I could sit there and daydream for hours. :)
