Garden Gems June 2012 #3

I started mine from seed and put them in the ground when they were about 6".

NIce Callas, Teri.Do you overwinter them?

RD 12 - 14"

Beautiful pics Allison! Your containers look amazing!
Love the Asclepias, didn't realize they got that big. Teri the callas look so pretty, I've never grown them.

thanks Ronnie.. been having fun planting that is for sure.. started my under the sea coleus today.. hope to be done with that tomorrow.. got dark by the time we got home and I didn't get to finish

Jan I can't believe your hosta are blooming already

I know, right? Do you think it is because it has been so dry that they are flowering earlier?

Thanks, Allison....

some more

really starting to get on my nerves that every once in awhile I can't post 5 pics at once...
Always Afternoon

Rudbeckia, Mary Todd

Best Beau really putting on a show, hydrangea

Buddleia starting

nice looking plants everyone.

Nice Jen

Love those shells!
Hydrangea is beautiful Jen!

I really like the shells, too. Great pics, Jen. Venu, I grow them in pots, put them in among other stuff in the garden until they bloom, pick up the pots and take them to another site when they are done, store them in the garage over the winter. For me, this is much better than more digging.

I always have trouble posting five Jen can never be more than two. I always forget to re size them.
Great shots!
I like the shells to Allison!

oh of course the white sticks are from christmas tree shop and have led lights on them.. LOL

Looks great, Jen. Love the hydrangea.

1 & 2) Baptisia 'Carolina Moonlight' & 'Twilite Prairieblues'
3) "Spider Lily' growing in z4!!!!!!!!!!!!
4)Rugosa
5) Clem 'Lincoln Star'

nice bloomers jen and celeste

celeste how do you have babtisia blooming now?

My poor Japanese Iris most are half as tall as last year and the buds look chewed.
http://smilebox.com/playBlog/4d7a49774e444d314e54593d0d0a&blogview=true

is funny how the baptisia & all that other stuff is blooming at the same time

Your link just gives me a commercial, how do I view your photos?

NOT Pink Lady but a nice early bloomer.

I don't know Bill, im z5...my brother is z4 and his are blooming too. Not only are his baptisia blooming but so is his Foxglove & Delphiniums!! (mine aren't :( AND he has strawberries!

Looks good Jo!!!!! Love that clem, containers look great and your lilies are lovely!!! Im still waiting but I do see buds. :)

I like that purple & white

Pretty Mittsy! Looks like one called 'Fortune'...actually it goes by many names but thats the most common one.
http://www.forestfarm.com/product.php?id=5819

JoAnn's link worked for me

We've been picking strawberries for a week, the Foxglove are blooming here too. My Delphiniums have just started blooming. I grew them from seed. Mixed colors but mine all turned out to be pale lavender. I had hoped for dark blue.

Wow....impressive blooms this morning! Jo, the Smilebox was great....Pixie, where did you get that Spider Lily.....I'm very jealous!

That Fortune sure looks like mine, I'll have to measure to see how tall mine is. I have extras if anyone wants to swap Japanese irises.

nice garden pictures Jo. check your JI flowers for orthacheata larva. There will be a white worm inside. they are the bain of siberians (we found one in 'Lee's Blue). They will also go do the stems which are hollow.

dang

That is my thought after you said 'chewed'. A lot of irises have shorter stems this year.

Some spuria iris, white roses with white penstemon, & lavender delospermum beginning to bloom, & cuphea....

Forgot photos!

Love cuphea!

Beautiful, Marilyn. I can't wait to come and see!

ooohh I love that cuphea too!!!