Hydrangea Annabelle
May Blooms
Asiatic lily
Hydrangeas and kitties ... showing their skin after being to the groomer
Dahlias
Sandra....I went to school in the late fifties at what was then Irving High....Bowie now....From 1970 to 2003 my children went to Bowie and Nimitz as we lived directly across the street from Bowie in South Irving before retiring to the woods up here.
This Lily must be 10" large !!
Very tall Asiatic Lily
Daylilies
Are Sunflower suppose to point all in the same direction?
Look at these two !!
Beautiful blooms!! Love the sunflowers!
Daylily "Trail Boss"
The coneflowers are really putting on a show this year!
Great lily and kitty pics! I wouldn't have thought sunflowers would be up at this time of year. You have some happy blooms.
I had a sunflower come up from birdseed and the flowers would follow the sun! Beautiful flowers everyone. I especially love that Hippeastrum Blossom Peacock, the dahlias, hollyhocks (remember seeing them on Colorado along with peonies), and all the lilies. Thanks for sharing. Janet
Sharondippity,
Wow, that is cool....i went to school at Nimitz i was there 85 and 86 i believe....I am ready to move to the country...
Sandra :)
Prickly Pear cactus
Cardon getting ready to bloom
Blackberries ... yummy
I received seed for this Gaillardia Pulchella in the native seed swap.
The sun was going down and caught the light shining through this Datura Jimson Weed, also seed received in native swap.
Black and Blue Salvia - received in Arlington Round UP fall 2009.
Dahlberg daisy - started from seed received from Sheila.
Started these zinnias from seed I saved two years ago. They've done very well but two of the plants have these little round bud things with no petals on them. Strange but kind of cute in their own way, I guess.
Red Salvia seed received from Sharondippity a couple of years ago. I LOVE salvia of every kind !!
A few pink salvia with the red. Don't know why.
Butterfly bush also received at 2009 Fall Arlington RU. Wish I knew who from. Receiving plants from DG friends brings to mind wonderful memories from the '50s and '60s when my mother, grandmother, aunts, friends and neighbors all shared flower plants because that was about the only way they were available even if they could have afforded to purchase them. The Texas Gardening group recreates a sense of community that is so often missing in modern neighborhoods these days. Thanks to all of you.
It's so fun to know who your plants come from and the fond memories of trading and talking plants at RUs!
You've got some beautiful blooms, Glenna!
Looking great Glenna...love the light through the Datura pic.
The pink salvia looks like it could be Coral nymph which is blooming now at my house.
After 300 or more plants I quit trying to remember who I got what from. LOL! I do remember the 'coral nymph' start I got was from Kim (blue eyes) from College Station RU.
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I need to figure out a way to mark the pink salvia right now so I can be sure to get seed from that one. I just wondered if it was possibly a mutation or something of the red salvia. Don't know much about that sort of thing. But I know I want more salvia, both annual and perennial types.
That coral one will reseed like crazy if you let it.
Golden Girl daylily. This pic doesn't show the shimmer it has.
Cowpen Daisy & Blue Mistflower
Tall Mexican Petunia
Rudbeckia Hirta with a bee loaded with pollen.
Purple Coneflowers at least 3 ft tall and raspberry monarda in front. Can't WAIT for the monarda to start blooming!
Zexmenia flower resting on pink skullcap
Oooh, that skullcap is so pretty.
My tall Mexican Petunias have not bloomed yet. Maybe because I cut them off to the ground during the winter.
No blooms here either. I cut mine back also and trying to dig all of them up to share with some with more space. They are pretty but very invasive in their seed sowing!
I have them planted along my garage in the little "hell strip" that gets a lot of shade for much of the day. It's kept them contained. That soil there has been greatly amended and they pull out easily.
Once or twice a year, I go through and take out all the volunteer Mexican petunias, both dwarf mounding type and the tall ones. I love them because they bloom so in the heat but don't want them out of control. Have been doing the same with Obedient plant recently but they are a lot harder to take out than the Mex. Petunias. Still like them anyway.
The obedient plant is much easier for me to pull up that the petunias....But they do leave a lot of roots and reseed too.