Spring 2011 - What's blooming in your garden? Part 3

Thank you!
Opening now with the iris's are lupines!

I love the darn things!

I like lupine's. I wintersowed some purple perennial lupine. No flowers
so far, maybe next year.

Echinacea Pink Double Delight

Oriental Lily

Brazilian verbenia

Poppy, suppose to be Lauren's Grape, but its pink.

Beautiful!

I agree.. love my brazillian verbena.. it is blooming here too..I have yet to see a poppy bloom from the thousands of seeds I have thrown out..

Beautiful blooms Pixie, Linda and Debra.

Thank you. This morning I found the first MG bloom. Very pretty, one of Becky's .

Nice one.

Pixie - I really like your Dahlia 'Gallery Pablo' and your Sparks Fly Iris blooms! Fiery colors! I like your Buster Iris too! All so very nice!

Zinniared - Beautiful Purple Flaked bloom! Glad it's making some great looking flowers for ya! I just have to tell you that I absolutely LOVE your Echinacea Pink Double Delight! Never seen that cultivar before and it is a winner!!! Gorgeous blooms! ♥

Thank you Becky. The purple flacked put out 3 more blooms today. Took another picture.
The Echinacea Pink Double Delight is one of my favorite flowers. I bought it from Bluestone
Perennials last year as a very small plant. It sure has grown this year.

If you should get seeds from the flowerheads of your Echinacea Pink Double Delight, I'd love to trade you for some! A very desirable Echinacea! :-)

Love Pink D. Delight , that poppy and a lily already? Be still my heart! I think I have zone envy again.

I'm still on iris blooms!

Sorry it's taken me so long to reply I have been busy keeping the garden from dying with all the heat we've been getting!! Day 14 of 90+ temps..NOT usual for June.
Becky you asked what I was goign to grow in my garden arch..well, I got some seeds of hyacynth bean & they are growing beautifully now... this is a new plant for me & I saw it when we were on vacation at Monitcello in W. Virginia. I have a 10ft high (Mammoth) sunflower next to it!!
After putting organic corn meal gluten on the garden it has bloomed all over!!
My roses usually don't bloom until late June so with them blooming in March I was quite surprised. Of course now the grasshoppers are starting to take over & they eat the roses first! Since I have a butterfly garden I don't use pesticides so i have to fight those darned gh's every day!! They are SOOOO fast I can't get to them all the time! The roses do bloom all year & really do look pretty, that's before the gh's get to them!! hahahahaha

Pixie that pink iris is beautiful. 95 degrees today. I think I
have zone envy!

Becky, I can save some of the dried flower heads on the
Pink Double Delight, but it is a hybrid, so I don't think
the seeds will grow true. If you would like to try I will
save some.

Yes! Please save me some of your seeds from the Pink Double Delight! Thank you! I am game to see what they produce and not picky about named cultivars. I have about 50-60 NO ID daylilies that I grew from seeds. And I love them!

Cindy - I've grown hyacynth bean for several years and they are a beautiful vine that bloomed constantly for me! My roses bloom in cycles... according to when I fertilize them! LOL!

What is the "organic corn meal gluten"? I haven't heard of that before.

me neither!

O.Corn Gl. is a fertillizer, i've never used it but hear good things! Now I hear a DG member using it with good results, I just may have to try it. :)
http://www.bradfieldorganics.com/corngluten900.html

Thanks Zinnia, we finally hit 89 the other day, but that will not stay. It's back down to 65 now, better working weather. We don't stay in the 90's until July usually, and it's not for long. A week or 2, maybe 3....once in awhile we do see the triple-digit mark, not often thank goodness!
Here's another iris, one of my favorites called 'Rare Treat'

Beautiful Iris!!! Thanks for the explanation about the fertilizer. There are so many fertilizers out there. Wished I could afford to run an experiment and use several different kinds to see which one works best!

Can't stay outside long — fighting a cold/virus & it's 98°. blah!

But, had to photo the butterfly peas! ;-)

edited to mention how much I like that last Iris!!

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beautiful! hello from Kansas!

Hi Kansas (& Debra)! I love your state flower! ^_^

Nick - Love those blue sweet pea blooms! Really pretty! Is that a sunflower? Beautiful!

Debra - Ahhh yes! Summer arrives with the sunflower blooms! Love it!

I am excited as I believe I may be getting a bloom on one of my bearded irises. I've never grown them before and got this in a trade 2 years ago. I was beginning to think they just wouldn't bloom in the heat of Florida. I have no idea what it will look like. I don't even remember the cultivar name. But I am thrilled to FINALLY get to see a bloom! :-)

My waterlilies are soaking up the sunny days here! This photo is for you, Debra! :-)

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Rainlily blooms!

A darker pink cultivar of rain lily.

Beautiful! I hope my pond blooms like that.. it is so tiny LOL...
this is argyia wallachi, started from a seed last year, hope it takes off this year..

I have a bunch of the lighter pink rain lilies growing under my backyard oak tree. They bloom everytime it rains or I water that raised bed of lavender blooming lantana and rain lilies. :-)

I had a few rain lillys this year for the first time, it was fun to watch them..
Ace of Spades and Blackie from over wintering..

Debra - Your argyia wallachi looks like it's doing well, so I do expect you'll see some good growth on it this year. What's that saying? First year sleeps, second year creeps, and the third year leaps!

I have a thing for petunias. I do kill them often by overwatering them, though. But so far this year, they've done well for me.

well it has been raining here for the past two days, we needed it, I will have to watch for them.. things are waking up all over here..

Love those I. batatas, Debra!

I am still getting a lot of blooming daylilies. They all stopped blooming and now they are blooming again. I'm pretty impressed with their show this year. :-) :-)

all my annuals were started from seeds over the wonter, I just put out the petunias I started, they havn't bloomed yet. these will pop in a few days tho..I made up so many tubs and containers of annuals and prennials this year..been giving them to son and sis in laws..

Debra - I have a lot of Caladiums in my garden, too! Love that white one! Looks like a ghost! LOL!

This "was" a pretty light purple bloom, but it is now a developing eggplant veggie. This eggplant is a large bush and just loaded with developing black "eggs"!

I love that cultivar of Salvia that was in your photo, Debra! I have a pot of them growing in my front garden container.

Passiflora. I think this is Lavender Lady.

mmmm yummy.. I have tomatoes, peppers, squash, cukes, potatoes and green beans, lots of herbs and some okra going right now.. no blooms on this, ugly right now, this is the once lush baby woodrose I had down in the basement, it is vining all over the honeysuckle, it will pop out soon with new leaves..

I can't grow potatoes here. Not sure why. But I have these wonderful bell peppers that have been giving me large peppers for the past 2 months. Grown from seeds.

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none of my passies have bloomed yet, maybe this year wil be the year.. this is on a new arbor Joe bought me.. you may have seen it blooming all winter in the basement.. the passie is on the other side, and a canary vine is leafing and vining nicely I started from seed in winter..

Debra - Your garden is really lush already. I remember it becomes a green jungle by summer's end! My kinda garden!

And I've had a steady supply of tomatoes this year. Someone told me that the season for growing tomatoes in FL was in the Spring and Fall. But mine are doing good in the summer so far.