I love Coreopsis and gomphrena! Actually, there are few flowers that I don't like...
Morgan, that deer pic is adorable! But I'm sure the deer aren't near as adorable if they get into your gardens!
I'm visiting family in New Orleans. I'll take a pic here if I see anything purdy.
May 2012 Blooms
Daylily 'San Antonio Firecracker'
This little Black-Eyed Susan bloomed today.
More San Antonio Firecracker daylilies bloomed today! These are my favorite daylilies and I thought I'd lost them last year in the frying summer.
Grasshopper picture, the flower almost distracts a person from the enjoyment of the hopper. The second photo is a pic of some weeds that are everywhere. I just love weed.
bariolio - We have fenced off the back yard so they don't go there unless we forget and leave the gate open. And we tried to plant most stuff out front that they don't like as much......but when they get hungry almost anything is vulnerable. Yet it's really hard to get mad at them just for being deer......and deer eat plants. :-))
Wildcat - weeds are just misunderstood.......my DH admires their tenacity. Cool pics.
We have some Coreopsis too!
"I just love weed" Hm? LOL Made my evening there wildcat.
C
Walking in my backyard showed me this lovely little flower. Obviously some sort of rain lily, I had never seen this color before and after researching it now has a name: Copper Lily. I know it has a long Latin name but this is easier for me to remember. Apparently it is native to TX although apparently further west. In all my years on the farm I have never seen one before and when I dug this one up, there was only the one bulb. I am hoping it will thrive like my red ones and multiply in its new pot. If so I may have enough to trade at the fall RU.
I wish they find a better way of downloading picture, its a lot work here! I have no idea of what my picture are until they post. I think I have a Vitex tree, Mexican Flame vine and a Daylily run over by the MFV. lol
rouxcrew - love the little rain lily.....only have pink ones here.
Sylvia - I adore your Vitex tree. They so remind me of lilacs. What ran your Daylily over?
Cosmos are starting up
and Lots of Balloon flowers
I love balloon flowers!! I've had one for 4 or 5 years and it never ceases to impress me. I know they're not native, but my little guy survived last year and that's a plus in my book!
My Four O'Clock has started blooming.
The one prairie verbena that I received from Cheryl at the RU and haven't planted yet is going like gangbusters. My plan is to get it planted this weekend.
Morganic you probably dont see the Mexican Flame Vine running the wrong way. I am trying to get them growing on those dead shrubs. There is a another picture of it with orange flowers.
Daylily 'Chance Encounter'
Daylily 'Torrid Tango'
We need a "Like" button here.
Thanks for showing and naming your prairie verbena, Stephanie. Now I know what it is growing in my front bed! Going crazy too. It was included in mixed wildflower seeds I spread there last year. I just fixed up my open areas in the front and spread more mixed wildflowers. So far I have cosmos and zinnia that I can ID. I'll take pics when more bloom :)
And did I say I love balloon flowers too? I love almost all blue/purple flowers, especially mixed with gold/yellow. Go Tigers!!
Janet (LSU Alum) :)
NOID daylily
Sweet William--I absolutely LOVE this hot pink in the garden!
My Rock Rose is gearing up!! I love this plant!
Some garden views
escobaria minima, so cute
The cause of hummer spats.
My first Coreopsis basalis. Smaller than it should be but pretty. Next year I am going to start these in pots and place them around the edge of some beds. It is supposed to bloom all summer.
C
Congrats Cheryl. It is always a thrill to see a bloom. I assume you started it from seed. Is it native to Texas?
Stephanie, I don't know how you get the balloon flower to reseed. I buy one every year with no luck.
Rouxcrew, what an adorable rainlily!
Sylvia, those vitex blooms look great. It seems to be a banner year for them...What is a MFV? I guess the V= vehicle..maybe the other letters need to be bleeped?
Wildcat, it must be fun to see that!
Anna, my balloon flower doesn't re-seed, it just comes back from the roots. I have spread seeds from the seed pods and have never gotten a volunteer! Maybe I should try pots or winter sowing them.
Bariolio- Where did you find your lovely Thunbergia? I bought one a few years back from a little nursery in The Heights but it didn't come back this year & they've closed the nursery. The only ones I can find are the paler lavender which I'm not as fond of.
Anna MVP = Mexican Flame Vine. LOL It just dawned on me what that could have meant. lol
LOL
I still made a boo boo. MFV. Now I could say that about the Passion vine. Worms all over it, eaten up, The neighbors are having conniptions, the mailman scared to leave the mail. LOL
Lawd its nasty looking! Linda says dont you dare cut it down! I ran the story past my neighbor ... but she aint buying it! LOL
The granddaughter is waiting for the swarm of butterflies.
Before the butterflies come the wasps to eat the worms. Don't cut it down, but be prepared for the wasps.
My front gate is still blooming strong with blanket flowers, 5 or 6 kinds, all rustled over the years from roadsides. But I still don't know what the red flower is. It isn't shaped like a blanket flower or daisy, really doesn't look like any coreopsis. I found some years ago on 290 and haven't seen them anywhere since. They have taken over a corner of my front and will bloom all summer if they get any water at all. Any ideas?
My brown eyed susans are doing well this year, they are blanketing several places.
Joy
The red ones kind of look like gaillardias to me. Maybe gaillardia "Burgundy"?
Terri, it doesn't have the ball center that they have, I do have burgandy elsewhere in the front.
Here is a better pic of some. They are very tall, close to 4 1/2 feet.
Joy
Yes it is a Gaillardia here it is
http://www.wildflower.org/gallery/result.php?id_image=26100
Ohhhh, 4 feet tall? Well I was close LOL!
Not just close, you were right.
OK, I stand chastised and corrected. I find it interesting that on the site that some of the pictures are not of the same type of flower, hence my confusion when I googled burgundy gaillardia. Most of the photos were of a different flower. My apologies.
Joy
There is a cultivar of the common perennial that is burgendy in color. I bet thats what you kept finding and not the native annual.
Joy, which site had the different flower with the same name?
You are probably right Cheryl, plus the wildflower site calls them red or maroon and we all know that one word will totally change the results you get when you google. Not that a search engine is going to be totally accurate, just shows what pops up.
The wildflower.org site shows several that I have although the leaves and bloom type are not the same as the main picture, at least on my flowers.
22578, 22579, and 18307 all have open flowers with yellow bands, high centers and the leaves are different. I have them in my patch as well as the maroon ones that never totally open flat nor ever have any yellow on them. I also have several that are almost totally yellow as well as the traditional looking ones that are sort of half and half. I do have a couple that have rolled flower petals, much like the cultivars I see at nurseries although I have never gotten mine from anywhere but the roadsides. I have always enjoyed all the color variations that they offer, it is one of those flowers that always makes me smile.
You know I should have realized it was a Gaillardia since the deadhead is the same. Oh well, mark it up to being blonde and having a moment.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=burgundy+gaillardia&qpvt=burgundy+gaillardia&FORM=IGRE
Those are images of a manmade cultivar of the common perennial form. I know about it because I bought and grew it for a while until it died. I was just thinking that is what her search got her. You know they have yellow, taller, shorter etc all of the same parent plant with some selective breeding thrown in for fun. Gaillaridia doesn't do well for me. I think I give them too much water and too rich a soil. I haven't tried the annual species but I do like that burgendy one. I doubt I could find seed for it.
C
Wow! that is a lot of pictures, no big deal Joy, it sure looks like you have a lot of wonderful flowers, and that is what counts.
Josephine.
Why do you suppose my R. hirta came up behind this bed and in front of it? Only one seedling is actually in the flower bed. Makes for an empty look.
Those girls do spread, but they are so pretty that Who Cares?