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Summer Containers Garden 2011
House Plant vacationing outside during the growing season.
I used to have this plant and loved it.. Left it out one winter & might know, it was actually one year we had some winter, lol...Lost it.. Would you consider a trade or a small piece for postage?
Thanks..
Larkie
Larkie, you've dmail. FYI, queen's tears bromeliad will wither after the plant produces flowers. Like some of our exotic tropicals i.e. the 'Voodoo Lily' I'm fond of it but the tuber withers once it spends energy to produce flower.
Mexican sunflowers, a butterflies and hummingbirds' magnet.
Miscellaneous container grown. Featured here is 'Lipstick' flower. Next to the flower buds is an epi. :)
The Lipstick vine's first bloom of the season for me.
There are more of the charming 'Lipsticks' to come. :)
now that lipstick vine is really unique.
Jan
It's a fun vine, Jan. The flowers while develope, they look like lipsticks coming out from a tube.
Here I've brugmansia 'Tropical Sunset' first blooms. Although some of these brugs. can be hardy in our climate here. I have some in containers, with lots of TLC they blooms much earlier in the season for me. Those planted on the ground in my neighborhood aren't making flower buds yet.
I will definatly get coleus Sedona next year, This is with glads Kosmick
brugs will something that so many folks had up north which is the part of why I never had any, plus the fact that they could kill one of my dogs should they decide they wanted to sample it. So I never grew them, they are amazing, but one plant that never called me to take ownership of...
ge1836 that is most unusual one for sure.
Jan
Brent and Beckys said it was 12 to 24 inches. NOT.
Thanks its a Flevo I guess they re supposed to be dwarfs.The flowers are small but thats it.
Hummm, I typed a response to Jan. Then it disappeared ... Jan, I understand your concern about brugs. I'm not sure it's a myth or fact. But, a healthy respect for nature is a must and caution is taken to protect our beloved furbabies. Love those colorful glads. Jo Ann.
Lipsticks. ^_^
OMG I have never seen a plant like that
LOL, Jo Ann. I have to appologize for the present of the green whishbone-like epi. right in the middle of the picture. This is actually a vine from a nearby basket.
where did you get the lipstick plant? locally or did you mail order it, please share where if mail order.......
thanks so much
Jan
I had the plants for several years now. Jan I'll check with the source, which is a small ma & pa nursery a county away from where I live. If they have them. I'll ask if they'll ship for you.
oh how cool that would be.
thanks for taking the time to do that, no hurry as right now nothing being shipped would last... so I will be interested after september, should be ok by then to ship, especially since it most likely would be 2 day.
Jan
Their business is like a hole in the wall. That's small. I hope they're still around. But I'll keep you posted. It only gives me a chance to look at their lush looking plants lol. I need to quit for I don't need any more lol.
you can never have enough...LOL
I'm glad I gave you an excuse..
Jan
Pic. taken today of more containers in the back yard.
These might be my favorite combos.
I think small leaf coleus are just as nice as trailers.
This container has Mahogany Giant,Beckwiths Gem and for trailer Cantigne Royal.
Plus a dicentra and Hosta Nana.
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Great arrangements, Jo Ann.
I just love this time of year when plants are mature.
I too love those arangement! The Nana hosta is one tiny tinsy little bit hosta! Hi Arlene.
I don't put my favorite hosta, plantaginea, in containers because deer love it TOO much!
Awww, deers do look nice from a distance, not right in one's garden. Down here, beavers are more of a pest for me. They took down some of my favorite nornamental trees in the garden. :((
I've got scattered reblooming clem. among others.
I have some clem's as well.
How do you protect your gardens from beavers?
We don't! Just kidding, Arline, we tried to raise chicken wire mesh around the trees that we "think" that are vulnerable. Usually we failed thus far for they are capable of chewing two feet above ground-- as if the critters know how to climb up tree. DH thinks he needs to stay up all night and hunt for them critters. lol
Hmmm...beaver stew?
the pic of your hubby up at night in the garden looking for them varmits....LOLOLO thanks for my laugh to start the morning.
ok off to get ready for work.
Jan
Have a good day at work Jan. The idea maybe amusing, but in reality it's never going to happen. lol We call the day off with the roosters anymore. Gone are those days that we can stay up well into the wee hours...
Hoya's blooms from hanging basket.
Oh Arlene, I appologize for being tone-deaf. Goodness beaver stew? I haven't thought of that one. lol
We're also past the point of staying up all night to spot the deer, Kim.
Jan, yesterday I went and look for that little nursery that I purchased this vine years ago ... sadly, the strip of the shopping center has changed beyond my recognition. There is now a Zazby and numerous others stores that weren't there before. So I stopped by HomeDepot and asked one of the nice ladies that waited on me there, she recalled the name of the store "Sun Shine" was closed over a year ago.
One of my fav. containers over the years. A 'bonsai' wana-be. lol Actually it's a dwarf Crepe Myrtle "plant in a pot". If the condition is just right. The draping shape of the plant will be smothered with flowers soon as the summer winding down.
