Garden Photos # 16

'Arabian Red'

daylily 'Exotic Candy'

Backside of balloon flowers

'Dallas Star'

A "star" of a geranium. :)

My hibiscus is loving this humidity!
A double

single

another single

'Zella Virginia'

'Mabou'

Last one for now.."Fire on the Mountain' gave me a threesome...but one just wanted to be different. ^_^

Nice lilies Pixie
Here is my Black Beauty,last lily here until '12

I love the lilies, Pixie. By your recommendation I have purchased Black Beauty for fall planting. Haven't run across nympth because of throwing out catalogs, I'm sure, so that may wait a bit.

The only way I can have controle over my garden budget is to toss catalogues,no guilt there.

nice shots!

The photo of the lilies & the hollyhocks was wonderful.....tomorrow's paper will have an article on the red lily beetle...can't wait to see what it says....here's Schezzerade, blooming for the first time....no RLB damage yet.....

A black swallowtail at the little park in town.....

Nice Marilyn. See you Thursday.

Gorgeous pics, Celeste. I especially like this one: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=8741344 I love the monster geraniums. Must be 'Rosanne'. I have it, and it just blooms and blooms. I love 'Starburst' and 'San Souci' and 'Tom Pounce' and 'Elusive'. You have so many nice ones. I have some nice ones, but not many. Next year I want a lot more. Your shot of 'Dallas Star' is great, and so is the one of 'Exotic Candy' with the balloon flowers in the background.

Your 'Black Beauty' is a beauty, Jo. So sad they are ending for the season.

Marilyn, your 'Schezzerade' is stunning.

Karen

My late mother's unregistered cultivar CRANVIEW FAERIE'S TUTU.

One of my planters in the back.

Love Celeste's Fire on the Mountain, JoAnne's Black Beauty and Marilyn's Schezzerade. Wow to all 3!!

closer look......

AUGUST FLAME

Nicotiana alata grandiflora with geranium 'Orkney Cherry'

I love this gorgeous white lily that I have lost the tag to.

Another look at it...

Last one for now... double white lily NOID

Yes, Jo, I'm looking forward to Thurs. My niece is actually here right now, taking the things she wants from her Grandma's estate.....she will be driving her Mom to Pittsford, I'll be driving my brother....Karen, love your Mom's DL!

very pretty Karen

Celeste even your Chaos bed is gorgeous! Loving all the blooms you have.

Karen, what is the peach flower in your container?

Karen ! The combination of peach verbina and lime trailing plant is teriffic.

Thanks everyone!

Karen your container is lovely! The white lily reminds me of 'Casa Blanca' and the bloom time is right. The double, could it be 'Miss Lucy'? It is supposed to be white with w hint of pink but mostly the ones i've seen are only white.

My DD Tarsha has always loved my lilies and when she lived in Florida I had to do a "Whats Blooming Today @ Mom's in Maine" series of folders with lily pictures for her. She kept saying she was going to get a lily tattoo so she would always have a piece of something I loved and grew with her. Got an email last night with this picture.....
She did it!!

If a DD is going to have a tatoo, isn't it great that this is what she chose? How wonderful to have such a tender, loving daughter!

LOL Rosemary! I have 3 DD's...all have tattoo's! Not something I would of ever suspected they would do, but they did.

I'm not usually a big fan of tattoos, but that one is special !!!

Well, my two DD's are 17 yo. Great kids, but the idea they'd try to remember us at home is very remote at this time. I think the tatoo thing starts about when they leave home, doesn't it? We had one aupair who started while living with us and going on trips. She called her dad in Germany to excitedly tell him the bad news right after tongue piercing when she had gone to new york, but she could barely talk.

Me either BA, never got one, hubby doesn't have one either so we were shocked when they did it. Of course not one of them told us until after they did it. LOL
I DO like it though.

Oh, tongue piercing? I've met alot of people who have had that done...all I can say is OUCH!!!

She's keeping you with her, Celeste.