Alaska Daisies, which I grew from seed last year, and Heliopsis..
Nice combo!
What's Happening in your Garden Today June 2011
I have an abundance of seed pods on my Wintersweet Shrub this year.
Too many--and they are getting ripe for picking at this time.
Since this plant has a special kind of meaning to Chinese people--I put an free
ad in our local "Pennysaver" inviting anyone to come and pick them off free.
I already have enough seeds---will never do anything with them.
Like--maybe 2-3 cups full.....
Here is the same bunch as they look like now--all dried and shriveled.
Each one will have 3-5 seeds in them.
Anyone want any?????
My kitchen side flower garden....
I never use this door--so I put these heavy clay W-Boxes there...
And--always a Mandevilla....
My tomatoes going gung-ho in my new raised bed....
OK! Time for some breakfast!
Gita
Everything looks just gorgeous, all of you.
I kept one Datura and it is not near bloom yet but I think it's settling to the garden- I know it'll get there.
Diana, Lucia is very pretty- Lucky Lucia- I get it- Luciano, right ? tee hee
I seem to find and see just white and purple Rose of Sharon so when I found a pink (wild/ volunteer) I kept that.
so Sally you like our gangsta kitty =)
Gita, our Rose of Sharon is lavender, the picture looks deeper than they are. Your gardens are so nice. Your wintersweet shrub is interesting.
Today is terribly sad for us. Our dog, Holly, is struggling big time. She is old and has been having troubles but today she can hardly walk.
today is so beautiful outside and she lays inside and can barely move
She's so gangsta!
Oh , aw Diana, i know that is heartbreaking.
Your collages are beautiful as is your garden and pets in them.
I need a new camera that will pick up blues and purples and reds better...
Your colors are amazing--wind! Do you use one of those SRL cameras?
If not--what do you have?
Gita
Wind so sorry to hear your beloved pet is doing poorly. Our Buddy isn't doing well right now either. But I have seen him rebound, last year I was sure we were going to have to do something he was having so much trouble walking Ric put a ramp in for him as he couldn't get up the steps. Even getting up and walking he would loose his balance and go down but then he seem to pull it together and started moving around much better.
I just love that Daylily. I just love those collages you do. I must see about a program to do that one of these winters.
Gita, We have these beautiful double Rose of Sharon I was thinking of bringing one home. The kitchen side garden is lovely and the new bed looks great.
I just moved a good size hosta. Started out weeding and decided that the hosta needed moved. Cleaned out a spot for it and needed the loppers to cut back a branch. Then while I was in the area and had the loppers in my hand I trimmed up the Trumpet vine. Finally got the Hosta in place and will get back to the weeding I started 2 hours ago. LOL
We had a great day today. Hope you all did too. After the vets visit yesterday, we got to take our dog Holly home again. Turns out, she has a bad case of old dog vertigo. We were told, often times dogs get put down because of misunderstanding about it. Being an old Shepherd makes her wobbling around even worse. Hopefully, her "off" equilibrium will pass in a few weeks; she is definitely not herself now.
Our gardens are so terribly dry. How are yours? We really need a good soaking rain. I tied up our dahlias today; they have buds! And I had to cut off a few tomato branches that grew too tall and bent over and snapped. I hate that.
Diana, so glad to hear Holly was able to come home with you!
Di thats really good news with Holly. I'm so glad.
Yes I am needing to water, and to tie tomatoes. Three plants with several branches each, but now I'm really keeping up with any further suckers, pinching. Hot and dry which makes for not so bad to work in the yard, and with our bedroom on the shady side on the house we actually have the windows open to sleep woth ceiling fan--those who ARE sleeping that is. I had a feeling that big brownie was not a good sleep aid. but it was a good tasty treat!
I have two new Mystery Plants.....
This one has been growing since beginning of spring.
I did not really recognize it--but it was in more than one place
and looked like it could be a flower or something.
Well, now it has grown bigger and has a spike with itsy-bitsy white blooms.
Take a look! Will post these on Plant ID as well....
Here is another picture of it...
This plant is growing smack against my house foundation on the S. side of my house.
The leaves are sort of oval, and very slightly and softly fuzzy.
Any ideas?
Mystery plant--#2.
This one is growing in my YUK bed--among Hart's blue Bell Flowers.
This is the same bed the Mole Plant was growing...
Did you read where I found the tag on it, buried in the soil, and
it came from Hart?? So many years--and it was just now rearing it's head.
It was Euphorbia something or other....
This new Mystery Plant is robust and tall and is branching.
All the tips of the branches look like it may have a bud there---soon.
But, nope! It is just leaves....
Here is the whole plant.
And--here is a close-up of the top of one of the stems....
See what I mean--it looking like there may be a bud soon???
NO buds! It looks nasty! It is growing too fast and too wide.
Probably a weed of some kind???
Hope some of you have some ideas.....Gita
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Hope you ladies are getting the same downpours that we are!! After last night's rain I went outside for about 2 hours and weeded very easily with the ground being so wet. It's started raining again and thundering, so I'm back doing some inside work for a change. Hope your Holly rebounds well Diana. Gita, your garden pictures are always so lovely. Jen, come up and select whichever hostas you would like. Holly, can't wait to see your finished projects at the swap next year!!
I have some garden pictures here:
Don't know if I'm doing this right and I know I have too many pictures, but I'm still learning.
https://picasaweb.google.com/Goomareesa/20110630Lilies?authkey=Gv1sRgCIyF8-nhmMbikQE
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Dianna, Wonder if that is what was wrong with our Buddy last year. He really was having trouble but then it did seem to get better.
Roses, Your pics are lovely, what beautiful flowers. Yes, I took pics of the gardens into work, a couple of people asked if we do tours. LOL Ric's Veggie garden is looking great and everything is going together so well.
Gita that first weed, was something I tried to identify about 2 years ago, the closest id was a weed from the Lamiaceae family
Teri, I LOVE #26
My second "Mystery Weed" was ID's already as a New England Aster....
NOW I remember planting it last fall. Got it on clearance--somewhere..
it was tall and the stems were woody and it has little blue flowers all over it.
It will bloom in the fall. Glad I didn't pull it up....
Hey! Whatever can grow that well in my YUK bed--is welcome!
Gita
Happy Fourth of July!
Gita, I'm glad you posted your mystery pics because it reminded me of a weed I keep pulling out that is goldenrod and I WANT to keep it. I determined it wasn't phlox and ever since then I yank it. I like goldenrod and mean to leave it. I'm glad you were able to ID your second weed anyway. NE Asters are nice. The camera I use most (or should I say "try" to use - still learning as I go...) is a Nikon DX.
Roses, your pics are great! Your camera captures vibrant colors
Jen, I meant to give you a cutting from Gita's begonia if you were interested - maybe next time
Here is a picture of the double purple datura from Sallyg.
and a squash bloom.
Cat, I have a bloom coming on my Datura, too. DIdn't open yet but should very soon.
How about a few Day Lilies.
Pretty
Glads
And some Trumpet Lilies.
First Crown
Ric has two whole rows of Glads planted down each side of the walk in the Veggie Garden sure hope they bloom. Got planted a bit late.
Back yard is looking pretty good this year.
A little closer Lilies
Lily & Garden Phlox
Holly---
Your plants look beautiful! I guess they don't have to struggle through
a blanket of feeder roots from a Maple tree....Like most of mine do!
Wish I could just dig and plant anywhere without much effort....
I took a few pictures today as well....Seems at this time--most things are almost
at their prime. Lush--healthy--not yet succumbing to endless heat and lack of rain.
I love this stage in my garden--and I want everyone to come by and see it....
My KK Hibiscus is HUGE! It is full of buds--not yet open--but I see color
at the ends of some buds. It will be a traffic Stopper for sure.
Let me share a few....
This is a pretty Lily--it is growing between my RR tie edging and between my
neighbor's rocks which divide our properties.
He is a young Middle aged, single guy--and NOT a gardener...
I love these---Like a premium type of a Ditch Lily.
Don't know the name of these either--and don't care.
These are by my shed. Love when all these "unknown" Lilies pop up!
Always the first--and the prettiest--these deep red D-Lilies...
Dug these up from my neighbor's yard when the house was going to be
sold--and it sat, unoccupied, for 2 years.
I wanted to save all her plants....especially her bulbs.
Her father was from Holland--and owned a Bulb Nursery in S. Maryland.
He gave her several beautiful bulb l=plants--most of which I now have.
Detail of one of the three heavu clay W-Boxes I put on my side,
wrought iron, porch every year. I never use this side door..
so I can plant things on and around it.
I wanted to show you all how nice the Purple Oxalis blends into a mixed
planting. It has gone bananas! Getting too big!
Thanks, whomever gave this to me at the Swap. I have sharde it and shared it---
and it still keeps growing.
Was it Donner? or Nisi?
They all look great Gita. I have some of that Purple Oxalis, too. It's a very pretty plant, can't remember who gave it to me either. I really should take better notes at the swaps.
Holly, all your gardens have such lovely intimate settings. Lots of individual secluded places which really appeals to me. Everything looks great!!
Thanks Roses, Ric and I are really enjoying our gardens.
We were in need of rain, and we sure got it. 0.8" yesterday and a whooping 2"s today. I was just about to start watering the larger woody shrubs and trees but that appears to be taken care of for a few weeks. Ric
Robin, Jen, Holly, Ric, all pretty stuff.
Asked Mark how much rain we got, he said A LOT! I was in work listening to it pound the skylights and hoping it wasn't too much leaking in my slightly opened car windows. It was LOL.