Garden Photos 2010 number 29

screamin yellow

kind of beat up orange

Nice!!!!!! Love it tooooo!!!

Wha, you know you can't get away with posting a beautiful conifer and not telling us what it is....a Chamaecyparis pisifera of some type?

Allison, that pink begonia is awesome.

Tee Hee luvin the dhalias. Tee ^_^

I agree D-nut, Robin's purple one is beautiful!

granite - i looked it up Boulevard Cypress

Is that a BES vine Allison?

yes I grew a few this year http://davesgarden.com/community/journals/vbc/onewish1/83467/

don't know which one that is... maybe the alata mix?

Mine never came up. I had White with dark eye and yellow w/dark eye.
Guess I should have started them inside.

mine got leggy inside and took a long time to start blooming... I wouldn't say they were great here either

I dont feel so bad then. I had heard they behaves that way.
I think I saw some at a nursery,started in pots with annuals.

I bought one in the past.. and it did great... will give it a try again next year

They never look as good as the pic.

the one I bought did

:)

Mine are just now in bloom...was begining to wonder if I was just gonna get foliage this year!

Very nice everyone.
I am partial to the purple dahlia too Robin.
Bill nice evergreen cypress and coreopsis .
Onewish those are some gorgeous begonias. Hard to pick just one.
Also both BES vine pics pixie and onewish. Never have tried those, they are quite adorable.

Did some remodeling on the hobbit house and elves homestead yesterday. Some new doors have been ordered with birthday money so needed a spruce up. Still under construction but I took some pics.
This is the Hobbit house on the back slope.

Elias Entwisel elves homestead.

Those are adorable!!!

Close-up of Elias and his friend Sammy Snake.

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Thanks pixie. Oops. Okay should post the pic.

Love those mushrooms in the background, very unique!

While out there building also saw the first monarch butterfly.
This is the where the doors are coming from. One is round and one is pointed. http://www.gnomegarden.net/product/fairy-doors-that-open#

Nice! I've never seen them come in different colors!!

Here are the Hobbit doors. I got the tenth one with the window on top and natural wood. http://www.gnomegarden.net/product/wooden-%20gnome-door
The pointed one I ordered was the dark frame with blue. Will post another pic when they are completed. I think the grandkids will get a kick out of them.

I get a kick out of them...they'll love them!!

ooooohhh love all the hobbit stuff!!... you did a great job with the house!!!!

Elias Entwisel elves homestead is really cute! I wonder if toads use it.

My granddaughters would LOVE those! Very cute.

Very cute, Patti!

Thanks everyone. I checked this am and they are holding up well with all the heavy rain so far. I hope a toad doesn't decide to move in, they have other places in the garden, there will be a door on both so I wouldn't like to lock a toad in or out.

Took some pix this AM.
Mist and rain make it too wet.I did manage half an hour of good weeding in the moist soil.Crabgrass comes out well, no roots for next year.Dandilions too,the ones that have grown into the JI's.

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Very, very pretty JoAnn. Nice to see that lily still in bloom. Your garden is looking lush and green and those are some lovely combos of plants. The good news with the rain besides hearing the garden sigh is that it is perfect slug hunting weather, I only found two so am encouraged the invasion has been stopped, and the weeds will triple in size and number is the bad news. I am just happy for the rain finally.

The lilies were planted late.Black Beauties. They will be ontime next year.
Rain is good, we are getting mist and drizzle.

That looks like the lilies that my nieghbor has right now too.

Everytime we go over there he walks around his yard with my daughter and a pair of scissors cutting flowers for her.
Here's the latest batch

That is lovely thing for him to do and very pretty flowers. Many, many years ago a neighbor did the same with me. Some of my best memories.

They last a long time and bloom late...Black Beauty , Rubrum Lily, and Lilium speciosum var. rubrum 'Uchida'.

I need to get me some of them.

My neighbors are wonderful...he tells me the other day "ya know your kids are our surrogate grandkids"