She's about to...61... Summer is upon us!

Just have to show more!
Do wish I could upload more than 1 pic. per post. Will just have to do another.

We were so careful when Ray put him on the floor, to make sure the furbabies didn't see him.
OK, this will be the last one, but you know I have more. He is soooooo cute.

Now to show you ladies beauty of a different kind, all came to me from Susan, thanks lady!

Well, It's to hot outside so you will just have to put up with me.....LOL and thanks.

Bet you thought I was finished...not yet.

Faye, love all your photo's. Keep posting please?

Thank you Linda, hope you got some rest last night. I started my day thinking and praying for you and your family.
Debra, thought you might like this one. No, I didn't plant it, and cannot keep them pulled up (so many). I think it's a beauty but it wants to take the garden. And, where did it come from anyway? It' a wild thing, but ain't she pretty?

Pretty pretty, and love the frog, I had a tree frog in the solar room all summer. He would sit on the elephant ears in there and just scare the daylights out of me every once in a while....rofl. I hear one out on the front porch now and again and I wonder if he has climbed back up on one of the ee's.

Here is a pic of my little succulent garden. It is doing pretty good this year.

You are so right happ, that is pretty. I see frogs around here often, but never one like this, and I did not see him get onto the table and I was there before him.

He is such a cutie. Our little tree frogs have suction cups on the feet and can climb anything, the glass door you name it. Usually ours are green but I have seen them change colors and blend right in with things and be quite loud when they sing.

I went to the greenhouse at lunch...uggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh! 95 outside the greenhouse I don't know 145 inside? But most things were a dollar, yes, got some great buys on some tropicals and on some prennials. So disappointed tho, last week they had varigated ginger and it was beautiful, wanted 15.00 on Thursday, so I guess over the weekend they sold it for 5.00! They had pretty good size bushes of coleus but no names, I bought 2. So I will get started taking clippings and see how many I can get going by fall to mail out to you all. The guy at the greenhouse was really trying to talk me into buying shrimp plants, but my funds were limited, so he gave me one...rofl.

I am going to do a talk with out mg group on tropicals in August and bought some small ee's to give away, now I don't have to cut mine up....yeah.

Happ I have the worst luck with shrimp plants. I kill them faster than Frootz kills crotons. :0) Remember the shrimp plants we got Sooz when you were here?? Well mine bit the dust about 2 weeks later. I knew it, but I bought it anyway. Too soon we get old, too late we get smart.. (Old PA Dutch saying)

LOVE that saying.

Seems I remember having those when I lived in Texas and killed them constantly. Doesn't mean I don't like them just don't know how to take care of them. Eating dinner then going to brave the heat and go play, or at least water....

So cute Faye. I have cute little camoflauge frogs around here. I was mixing up my tub of potting soil this morning and a frog jumped out. Scare the begebers out of me until I saw what it was. lol

Had my procedure today. Turned out they did not have to biopsy. She decided to try and asperate it first to be sure it wasn't fluid ....... and it WAS! God is GOOOOOD!!!! I knew he would watch out for me. Don't have to go back tomorrow! NO BIOPSY! She drained all the fluid off of it and sent me home. It is sore, but Praise the Lord, it was nothing worse! How many times can I say THANK YOU GOD, PRAISE THE LORD!!!!! I never had any worry about it, even when I thought they were going to have to biopsy. THAT was a good sign! Thanks for the prayers.

Lovely photo's faye!

Does anyone know the real name of this plant. She bought it and the woman called it Ragged Betty, I have other pictures if it will help.

Crit so happy for you!! I know how that feeling is to well, but it feels so good to find out the answer. Yes Praise the Lord....

Would of loved to have seen you when the frog jumped...rofl, I would of probably had to go change clothes...LOL

Sorry happ, don't know what it is!

Crit, so glad you did not have to get a biopsy.

I bought some shrimp pants a few years ago, and I thought I lost them with last years freeze. Well they came back this year, and have been blooming for a long time! They are red ones, but still pretty!

so glad for you, Patti. God Is Good

Faye thank you for the pretty photos and the cute frog is adorable, I still have never sen a tree frog of any kind... ever.

My little succulent garden is doing okay ( from Bonnie)
but the other hens n chicks seem to be pouting. the large white flowerette looking thing seems like it is sunburned. well, everything looks sun burned. anyway, i been whining about my plants tonight so much Joe said he was tired of my complaining.. I am still pouting over that one. HMPFF!
sure is a pretty morning glory. looks like a kinolas black.
I have brought in a few things already, don't wan t to lose them, leaving this friday to go to see sister.

okay, I am still awake.. sheesh..for Joyce, this one has had some babies.. I missed a bloom if it had one..

are these hens n chicks.?

the north west corner of my patio

the south east side of my patio.. not looking too good..

my basket which was full of ageratum, yellow zinnias and salvia, has been overtaken by caladiums that sprouted, so I had to take some of the other things out..

my tropical milk weed..

I missed the bloom on this one.. it is about two years old maybe three..

I have sunflowers growing and tall evening primroses for the glories to climb on.. these are on the primrose, reaching for the poles.

this one is on a sunflower on the patio

Debra, the light colored one is called a Ghost Plant. I received a bunch of those from a friend this winter. I planted them in the cracks in the rock on the retaining wall in the front flowerbed. They are suppose to be cold hardy. The other looks like hen n chick to me.

Great pics! I need to get some milkweed going here. Although, the butterflies are very, very scarce. My zinnia's are all a bloom but haven't seen anything but a few skippers on them.

Debra, sure hope you got some sleep! Beautiful blooms!

Graptopetalum Paraguayense
according to PF is zone 9 cold hardy.. *sigh*
okay who wants that one? LOL

Beautiful pics Debra, don't you worry about ole Joe, you can complain to us about the plants cause we understand completely where you are coming from. I don't even mention the plants to DH cause he is clueless and no amount of talking is going to change that....actually I don't think he even notices the plants until a visitor says something about them... ;) What you think doesn't look good, sure looks good to me.

Fun to see those voodoo lilies making babies. I am guessing now we have multiple bulbs under the dirt?

Stay cool today is going to be our hotest....yikes Debra and Crit you all have been going thru this forever! I am so sympathic for you. I am replenishing the water in the watergarden afraid of boiling my fish, I think the shade screen is helping a little. Built a bigger shade area for the ee's last night. I am either getting use to the dis'cuss'ting weather or my body has stopped working cause last night it didn't seem quite so horrible.

I have a voodoo lily also. Once it is done growing, do we cut it back? Do we remove the bulb from the soil?

Linda Kay, I am NOT an expert at all, but I let mine die back naturally, I do not water it until it started growing again in the spring. I transplanted it one time from a tiny pot to a bigger pot after it died down last year.

I started a thread and lots of people told me how to do it:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1012149/

Thanks, I will go over there, and read up on it.

hi all, home for lunch, the lillys bloom first ( if a few years old) and then form the canopy, which then may or may not give berries ( bright red) and they send out root runners that have bublets on them and they form new bulbs.. ( aunt b told me this) they die back naturally then go dormant, they feed on their foileage ( eat themselves) for food Ugh.
let them be until they yellow, wilt and drop down, then store as you would an amarrilis or plant in soil to come back next spring. That is all I know. ;)
this day last year i had four brugs in full flush. does anyone have any buds at all?

Buds??? What's that? My few plants I have are only 2-3 foot tall, and struggling!

Debra, I do have a few buds. Antique lace has a few buds on it, this will be the first time budding for it. Problem is most of mine aren't labeled....I have a couple of others with little itty bitty buds.

Lovely blooms and grouping, everyone. What wonderful news, Patti!

happ, you know I'm usually wrong, but could this be your friend's plant?

http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/weedguide/singlerecord.asp?id=280

FAYE HER IS ONE THAT SAYS KHARRIS pink NOT QUIT OPEN ALL THE WAY YET but it is starting out yellow could the takes have gotten mixed ???
could this be the yard sale yellow ????

Buds? BUDS? You say BUDS? (lol) I just want mine to get their leaves back! They, too, are only a couple of feet tall. This heat is just brutal on them, even though they are in mostly shade. Day 19. Continued 100+ until Monday when we have a "cool down" to 99, then back up 100+. UGH!

Debra,
I'll have to go look again, but the lady who sent me the Ghost Plant told me they would be hardy in my zone 7a. I put 5 of them outside in the rock retaining wall in my front bed. I think they look so neat! If you truly don't want them, I'll take them.

Oh LOOK WHAT I Found this morning My K HARRIS IS PINK :))))) OH SO Beautyful I just want to stand & stare at her :) she looked so yellow yesterday & now this morning she is herself :) with pink cheeks :)
faye thank you for sharing her with me .

all of mine are on the north side of the house in shade & get watered every morning not allot then get a feed every sunday of holly water :) HEHE then with this heat if at night they are looking wilted I Give them another drink .
don't give up crit it is very hot & Humid every where .

well off to get my house work done before the heat hits 100* chat later

Susie, she is beautiful!