What's blooming in your garden?
The spiderwort I received from Smockette at the RU is blooming. It's such a pretty purple color.
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May 2012 Blooms
Spiderworts are pretty but anytime I try to grow them they get very floppy...too much water?
C
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Will post more tomorrow!
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This milkweed was winter sown about 4 years ago. It's come back faithfully every year, even with much neglect on my part.
The self-heal continues to bloom even as the main bloom has started the seeding process.
Lots of balloon flowers popping open amongst the phlox pilosa.
The pink (& white) skullcap is blooming!
My first daylily of the season!! I'll have to figure out what the name is.
Zexmenia blooms.
Cholla imbricata
Gorgeous, Cheryl!!
I think this is rock penstemon. It is looking so much better than last year when I planted it in late spring.
C
Another pretty! I love red blooms in the garden. And yellow...and purple...and pink..and......LOL
Creeping Rosemary
Balloon flower
Daylily 'Siloam Double Classic'
Pink Skullcap (needs to be cut back!)
Heartleaf skullcap starting to bloom!! I've waited for a year for this!
My sunflowers are starting to bloom up in the garden, the volunteers in the front yard are just about spent.
Very pretty Joy.
Steph - gorgeous flowers.....reminds me to buy phlox
rouxcrew - so jealous, I planted sunflowers and none came up except 2 volunteers from last year.
newtons3rd - LOVE that flower
Canna -crimson beauty
Canna Tangerine with some Jasmine
Daylilies
Got a little rain and more blooms.....
Canna - Tropical Sunset
I think this is Coreopsis?
Wow....this system actually let me post 2 pics at once. Yesterday it would only take one.
Let's try it again...
Crape Myrtle Pink
Vitex Tree
Whoo-hoo we're on a roll.
Yucca Blooms
Mushrooms popping up
Esperanza or Yellow Bells as my neighbors call them
Yarrow - Love these....so Fairy like
Just 2 more.....
A Guaro Flower....more fairy flowers
Plumeria just starting to open
sweet pea and my only surviving (overwintered) penta
mystic blue spires salvia and champion blue canterbury bells
purple fountain scutellaria and Thunbergia battiscombei
A few of my colorful spots.
So pretty, and lots of things we haven't grown yet.
bariolio - How was your Penta "over wintered"?....and Love the color of it. Your Sweet Pea is adorable. I tried to grow them once here because they smell so good.....but they all croaked in our heat.
Wildcat Thicket - Your field of pink is just gorgeous.....and the Irises too!
Such pretty blooms!!
Thanks, Morganc! This is the first year I planted sweet peas. Gotta plant in cooler months. I planted them along with my snow peas. I got a small number of snow peas because I didn't catch the powdery mildew in time. The sweet peas also got it but kept blooming anyway! They grew really tall before any flowers developed, then tons of them. I didn't realize they smelled so good. I'll definitely plant more in Nov.
As for the penta, it was just a nub above the ground with a few green leaves so I just left it there. Didn't do anything special. But we did have such a mild winter, a few things didn't die that normally would, like one of my bell peppers.
I love seeing everyone's flowers--they're all so beautiful and different. So many flowers, so little time, space and energy. I think I'm repeating myself!
Hope we all get more rain soon! Janet
I have heard that you have to plant sweet peas in the fall, around October.
Tall Mexican Petunia (I call these my TCU plants since the blooms are purple.)
Sweet William amid the phlox pilosa
This is the most prolific my balloon plant has been since I planted it several years ago. I love this guy!
Pink and white skullcap. Not sure if the white is albino or a mutation.
Daylily
Gomphrena 'Strawberry Fields' is starting to bloom.
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stephanie - Love the pink Daylily.....pink is something I want to add this year. And white and blue....ha ha. I once planted over 100 seeds of Strawberry Fields.....I think we got three blooms. What do you do to yours?....they are lovely. I'm writing on my forehead....must buy Phlox!!! And plant Sweet Peas in fall. :-))
Do any of you mix in your veggies and flowers? bariolio - did you only mix the peas?
I have put an Artichoke plant in a flower bed because it would have taken too much space in the veggie gardens, but other than Morning Glories, which we grow amongst the cucumbers, I haven;t mixed too much. But I'm think of doing more.
This is last year's cukes and MGs.
I love, love, love morning glories! It's the first plant I can remember loving when I was little! I have some Grandpa Ott's seeds but need to check when is best to start them.
Actually, I'm going to plant my okra seeds in the back of my flower bed this year because I ran out of space in the veggie beds! And I have a few flowers and vines mixed with my herbs. Of course, there are plants that are supposed to repel bugs, like marigolds, that I've tried with the tomatoes. Not sure if they did anything and when the tomato plants grew, they didn't get enough sun and pooped out. Anyone have luck with flowers repelling bugs?
Now, back to blooms!
Gazania and my cactus
Morgan, I don't do anything to my gomphrena! I just leave it alone and let it reseed. I have tons of seeds all over my flower bed, so they don't all germinate.
Silver Ripples
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There are so many cultivars of daily its often pretty hard to ID it absolutely.
C
Speaking of "blooming".....I think she may be a mama just in time for Mother's Day. :-))
Dracopis amplexicaulis,
Cheryl, I have all the names of my daylilies, I just need to look at the tag that's buried with them.
I never keep the tags. I do like that pink one.
Here is Coreopsis tinctoria, overgrown but still pretty.
