LOVE the color on that lily!
What's Happening in your Garden Today June 2011
Beautiful pic Sally,
Jen it all looks so nice. Great shot on the Hydrangea.
I must get out and take a few pics.
Lavender
black eyed stella
I have a few minutes left at work--so I am getting my DG "fix"....
Can't do it at home! can't open anything at all for a week already!
Bummer! I am in a total withdrawl!
Had the same problem last week--a guy from work came over and
"messed around" with my "C" and finally determined that my mouse was bad.
I went right out and bought a new mouse for$20 at "Best Buy".
Plugged it in--and everything was fine for 2 days...Then it shut down again.
Trying to find someone to come over w/o having to pay a high fee.
Still working on it...
I miss you all so much! I am in total withdrawl!
Gita
Nice pics Jen. Do you have any with the progress of your new bed? What's in it so far?
Things starting to pop now:
I haven't planted anything new in there, with the heat and how crazy busy it is with work....I'm making my list to plants I want in there though
Hosta Guacamole
Huechera Obsidian
Some type of hot pinky purple reblooming daylily
Some kind of hot pink echinaceas
Some of the Weigelia "wine" series
Was looking at bulbs to buy for fall too, last night
Hi Gita, Hope you get your computer up and running soon. Remember you can go to the library to use the computers there. I do that when I travel.
Roses, Beautiful collage.
Jen nice want list. I don't seem to be getting alot done. Ric is out mowing and he weeded the flower bed down by the Veggie Garden for me the other day. I did get the Lamppost bed weeded and the spring bulb foliage removed. Now I need to get it planted with a few annuals.
Maybe I have something that you want, Jen
Oh I don't think I could pick just one. LOL
We have Guacamole at work at Lowes.
I have a pretty lime green one. Not sure of the name I will have to see if I can find it.
Here are a few others. I should get out my list from the Co-op and see if I can ID them and mark them for the future.
Terri, the bottom middle and right, the real bright ones...what are those? do you know the names?
Jen, I vote for King Tut
Since the first was Sun power, are you looking for sun tolerant? I read that yellowish ones are more sun tolerant than blueish- unless it was the other way around...
I had a great day working in the garden, weeding & planting. It kept trying to rain me out but I kept coming back. Got a couple of hours in then it started as a misty drizzle not enough to chase me inside. Then almost finished with one of the beds it started to rain harder, Ric called out and asked if I was too dumb to come in out of the rain. LOL
So in I came for an hour or so when the rain stopped and back outside I went again for awhile. Things are looking better there are a few less plants sitting in the driveway and there are a couple of new mixed planters sitting on the patio.
Good news!!!!!!
All is well, and back to normal with my Computer!
All I had to do is go to my "Control panel----Mouse tab----Button Configuration
and make my mouse Right handed......NOT for left-handed people....
I am so relieved--it is like being totally back in my comfort mode.....
Who woulda known?????
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OK! Now I can post a few pictures for June.....
For those of you who may not know what the Perennial Begonia Grandis looks like---
Here it is.....The bigger plants have a nice root-system. The "newbies" have
barely a minute nub for a root--but they may be scattered all over near the older plants..
I believe this plant may spread by dropping seeds--as I do not know where else all
these little plants come from--with almost NO roots to them.
This perennial Begonia blooms in early-mid fall--either pink or white.
Easily transplanted---this plant totally "disappears" over the winter.
Don't be digging to much around the area they are in--as you cannot see where the plants are.
They just appear in late spring....out of nowhere!
I grow mine in AM sun or part sun/shade. Treat as any other Begonias.....
Gita
Guess what?
My Easter cactus just finished blooming.....
I think having it outdoors helped that to happen. I keep it inside all winter--
and it does not look too supple or happy.
I keep ALL my plants outdoors all summer--just have to mind their light needs.
Here's another picture of it....above my Purple Oxalis....
What a neat, easy plant to have!
Here is my Climbing Onion out for the summer.....
It, actually, grows the most fronds during the winter sitting dormant
on my Laundry Room window-sill.
All these fronds are from that time! They are SOOO soft and tender!
The bulb has, by now, FINALLY split in 2 or 3...can't tell....
My small-blooming, Estonian Clematis--"Piilu" (Little Duckling) in bloom.
The blooms are just over 2" in size.
It really put on a lot of growth from just a small new plant last Spring...
It is growing in a lg. pot by my patio roof post facing towards the house.
It said in the catalog that it can take part shade.....
Google "Estonian Clematis" and you will see the amazing variety they have.
Most of them are also more cold-hardy given their country of origin.
Just above mine--Latvia.
Here is a close-up of it's bloom....
My new Hibiscus I bought at HD. It is a nice deep pink color.
I planted it in a huge pot that sits on top of my slowly disintegrating,
old Birch tree stump. I think it will just cave in one of these days....
Has a good population of termites working on it....
Besides--it was cut down about 5 years ago!
Last year, I had Purple Fountain Grass in this same pot.
It took everything over!
YAAAAYYYY!
My Red Epi is going to bloom again!!!!! I am a happy person!!!!
It has several buds coming out of the older fronds....
Ruby! This is one of the two I gave you!!!!
Here is a good picture showing that there may be blooms....
See the red "blush" of the veins of the leaf--endinf at one of the "bumps" of the frond?
Then the tiniest buds appear.....and you are on your way!!!!
This is on the Red Epi that has NEVER yet bloomed--
Not since 2006 when I got both of these...
I am excited to see if the blooms will look the same--or different....
Ruby--You got one of each....
Lastly----yawn.....
Here are my Tomatoes growing in my new, raised bed....
Seem to be doing OK!
To the right--both should be "Sun Golds".....One is bigger (the back one) than the other....
Hmmmm......Seeds have been mixed up before.....
Glad to have a functioning computer back.
Gita
Gita, That Clem is just beautiful.
I just planted the native Clem I got from Critter at the swap. Also a hardy Begonia, red hot pokers, pulmeria & some annuals to fill in the beds. I like the looks of this small bed. Purple Emperor Sedum, Nora Leigh Garden Phlox several different lilies the one blooming right now is First Crown. Filled in with some marigolds and put a couple of Cannas in behind the Box Pond.
Looking good!!!
Lily in the shade
Lily in the sun
I'm going to try to find the names of all my hostas in my purchase records, Jen, and maybe will come up with the names that way.
Roses--
I am sure you can find a "Hosta Society"--or some such--that would have
EVERY hosta pictured with all their names...
How about the Garden Catalogs that specialize in Hostas?
Here is the site for the "Kivistik" Collection of Estonian Clematis.
Please snoop around!
http://www.prideofplaceplants.com/vines.html
Gita
Roses, That is what I try to do I look through my old co-op lists and compare them to pics.
Echi Sundown
Have taken some photos and uploaded them....just for you all to see.....
First--a "mystery plant"......WHAT IS THIS?????
It is growing in my S. exposure bed--right up against my house foundation--
in 2 places. There are several of these--and they look healthy as if I had planted them.
However--I do not recognize this plant??? May be just another Sr. Moment.....
Here is another picture of it....
The plastic fence is around this area b/c the rabbits keep chewing off
every leaf from my Rudbeckia Goldstrum plant--which is trying to establish there.
See the stem nubs????
I am waiting to see if it blooms--then will either go--"AHA!"---
or post more pictures of "What is it"?
OK! Now on to actual pictures of plants that i DO know what they are.....
Here is my basil jungle. Me thinks I should be picking some of it????
I keep these pots up on my lower entrance wide railing so the critters
won't get to them. The squirrels still do. Had the plastic fencing around all
these as well--but took it down. They are now big enough....
These are my pickling Cukes.....
I had 3 mounds--only two made it. Growing more seed for the third one...
Ahem--I make my own pickles....
And--Here are a couple of my Tomato plants in my new raised bed....
They should both be "Sun Golds"--but sure don't look alike.
The back one is huge! The front one is not so huge....
My new, potted Hibiscus I bought at HD.
It sits atop the slowly rotting out Birch tree stump.
Not gonna hold up much longer!!!!
My slew of X-mas cactus babies.....they are doing so much better
outside in the shade by my front door than inside on my window sills....
Nothing like fresh air for any plants to thrive. Indoor plants--or outdoor plants....
Hope by Thanksgiving of this year--some of them will have blooms on them.
THEN I will have takers!!!!
