Woot! My first raspberry monarda bloom!! (Thank you, Sheila!)
JUNE Blooms
Janet, you will never need to buy cosmos seeds again!
This little pigeonberry started blooming.
Is there anything special I need to know about Monarda? I have 2 plants that are growing well in full sun but the bottom leaves are getting yellow and there is no hint of blooming yet. Info much appreciated! Janet
This is the first year mine has done well enough to bloom, so I'm not much help. I have read that it does get leggy and the bottom leaves fall off, so what you're experiencing is normal.
drthor, that mondarda is so compact and lush. Do you know it's name? (besides gorgeous!)
It is "Grand Parade" Monarda dwarf.
It is the best Monarda I have. Amazing blooms !!
Jimmy Turner at the Arboretum, he was the one talking about on his "Fire proof perennials" lecture
I love Jimmy, he knows everything !!!
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Janet, Stephanie is right -- you'll never have to buy Cosmos seed again! Besides Cowpen Daisies, that is the most prolific re-seeder in my flowerbeds.
Stephanie, the Mockingbirds and Doves are going to love your Pigeonberry when it comes into berry. :-)
Carla
I received an email back from Jimmy Turner who wrote:
"Grand Parade is the dwarf one you have a picture of. I also like 'Peter's Purple' even more!"
He is awesome! Did he have a plant sale at his lecture. I would love to go to the next one...bet you have to go early!
Thanks so much for finding out the name of my Monard. I will update my picture.
OMG JIMMY is AMAZING !!!
Check the Dallas Arboretum classes and take all the one he teaches. Normally maybe 2 a year.
In the spring after his lecture there is a plant sale and you MUST RUN really fast, because there are more than 500 people looking for all those plants Jimmy talked about.
His trial garden att the Arboretum is great. He is letting us know lots of plants that are "fire proof" for our weather.
Today I went at NORTH HAVEN GARDEN and OMG they have the biggest collection of CONEFLOWERS of all colors, shape and hights. Expensive ... but just incredible.
I bought a few for my upcoming birthday and OMG I want to go back and buy more.
I will post pictures soon.
Daylily - NOID. I've had these for 4 years or more; this is the best they've ever looked.
I just can't imagine that...hope no one gets trampled!
suzq232, I have a similar one that looks great this year too. I wonder if they appreciate some real cold.
here are my birthday's presents (from NHG)
and one more ... I think this is Rasperry's Sorbet.
The flower is 4" large
Strawberries
Lilium Citronella
Butterfly on my Cardon
wow !!
another friend on my Cardon ...
Look at her pollen bags
She's in heaven!
Another NOID Daylily from that box from Sam's.
The blanketflower and coreopsis are still going strong.
Monarda, Turk's Cap, and Purple Coneflowers
drthor...hope you have some parsley, fennel, or dill for the BST to lay eggs on! She is in heaven at your house with the nectar too. Looking good Stephanie. I went out and hand watered a few things in the back yard this morning. That sun is really doing a number on stuff this year. The sprinkler is good but when some plants get so tall others don't get water.
I hand water a few times a week and run the sprinkler a couple of times in between. That way when I hand water, I can be sure everything is getting watered.
Drthor, we have a message for you here; Post #8625768 in the Birthday Thread.
Josephine.
Stephanie_TX yes I have lots of dill but millions of parsley.
I buy one pound a year of parsley seeds and trow them as a ground cover in some areas.
I love and the butterflies too.
drthor, I haven't grown parsley before this year, didn't plant seed, just bought plants. It did great until recently, love having it to cook with, but now I guess the heat is diminishing it. Is there a variety that will last longer in the heat before it bolts?
I have more luck with curly-leaf parsley than the flat leaf, it gets too tall. But of course I don't grow it to cook with only for the Black Swallowtail butterflies. I haven't had much luck with it in sunny areas though. I have it where it will only get sun for the first part of the day. It is in with my flower beds along with fennel, dill and cabbage...none for our eating though! LOL!
I buy 1lb PARSLEY seeds here:
http://www.edenbrothers.com/store/italian_parsley_seeds.html
I throw the seeds in the spring every year, they grow no problem.
drthor....what do you have growing in your garden in the winter?
There is always something growing in my garden ...
Let's keep starting those forums on the month blooms ... so we can figure out what everybody is growing.
Also, as a suggestion, who started this thread should have added the year ... for example : "June Blooms 2011" ... so we will know in the future.
Hine site always 20/20 as they say. We can't change it now. But usually nobody goes back to check dates anyway. LOL!
Also on the posts there is a date although not on the title.
drthor, do you grow those small Mediterranean cucumbers? I love them. I see the "spacemaker on that website for parsley, but am interested if you have found any you like.
Nothing new blooming today, but the Kwanzo daylilies are blooming like crazy in this 100º+ weather.
My Carolina Phlox are doing nicely. Attracted a Tiger Swallowtail this afternoon.
Thank you Josephine for sharing this native a few years ago!
You are welcome Sheila, that Phlox has brought a lot of joy to many people as well as many butterflies.