Garden Gems 2012 #4

the sneaks are too cute

Lovely

Hi Andy, so nice to have you back!! That columbine is just stunning!!!

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Gotta go,I'm painting iris

I love all these blooms! Jo, your pics convinced me to try Mona Lisa lily next year in my "pink' garden where there are all dark maroons in bloom now.

Rosemary, do you have 'Burgundy Iceberg' ? It's dark and blooms now so it would bloom the same time as Mona Lisa. I have it paired with a daylily that blooms early.

Ohh, great combination, Celeste! No, I don't have a lot of lilies (yet!), and nothing quite like Burgundy Iceburg. Funny how color schemes start to change. I was hungry for dark colors and now suddenly in almost july, everything in that section is burgundy--especially early lilies and HHs, so about the only contrast is from leaving the seed pods on the green lotus peony (I know, I'm supposed to cut them off). Pinch me, but the wasps that were released in this area seem to be effective-- very few RLbeetles.

The daylily is 'Pandora's Box' it's an early bloomer for me and it was an accident that the 'Burgundy Iceberg' rose got placed next to it. I love it when accidents like that happen. ^_^

Rosemary:: Mona Lisa is under 30 inches tall.

Pretty combo Celeste

more I have nothing else better to do shots.. sat out long enough to get my vit. D.. now I am back in again

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Allison the hummer shots are incredible! I like the last one of the petunia, love single shots like that!

Great color on the columbine, Andy.....I wish I had more luck with them....Jo. fantastic lilies....I saw many paintings there! Allison, the hummers love you.....none here, although I did have a bluebird hanging around yesterday.....

it's funny how the hummers fighting .. and I hear that chatter.. makes me smile every time.. I don't get the territorial thing here.. when I see photos from other people with 6 - 8 hummers all eating out of the same feeder.. never going to happen here.. the one male keeps chasing everyone else away

They can be brutal...must be a Napoleon thing.....

My Chocolate Canary opened today, along with a noid DL hiding behind the ladybells, & a campanula I forgot I had.....

I want Chocolate Canary soooooo much

ooooo, pretty!

rudbeckia maxima making Randy look short!!

lily from co-op last year.. clary sage.. and HH

gerba from Celeste!!!.. and can't miss the trixi combo basket

Love those HHs.....I have a tall rudbeckia, but not that one....my DH used to say mine were the 'outhouse' ones, as he remembered them being planted by his childhood home in Woodstock,VT....right near the outhouse!

bet they were well fertilized

The scent of the 'Touching' Lily is filling my entire yard WONDERFUL!!!

Great pics, everyone. I have not had time to post any pics, but I've taken a lot. Will get a few on tonight.

Bill, your gardens around the pond are looking good. Love the lotus.

Allison, I love the Under The Sea coleus.

Celeste, I love the Sombrero Hot Coral. On my want list! BTW, happy accidents happen in my garden all the time.

Jo, your lilies are looking great. Are you spraying for the beetles? Those paintings are great, even the one you just got started. I love you watercolors.

Andy, I love the hens and chicks in the shoes. I have some old shoes. Bring some of those hens and chicks to the RU, if you want. Love the columbines, too. They are a favorite flower of mine.

Marilyn, I think your NOID daylily could be Strawberry Candy. http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/21225/

Karen

Here are some pics from this past week.

The first is a very floriferous DL of my late mother's, one that is just called DL8; the second and third are of another of my late mother's that I've named Mom's Yellow Pinwheel; the fourth is a shot of those 2 together; the last one is a shot of Inner View with Mom's 2 in the background.

Karen

Cranberry Cove
Surprisingly Pink
Cool Jazz
Tin Soldier
Alice Mae

A triple shot and single of Stella's Ruffled Fingers
Two shots of a really nice NOID that I sure wish I knew the name of.
And a NOID Asiatic.

Last ones for tonight...

Gomphrena
Two shots of Asiatic 'Zsa Zsa'
Dark Star
waterlily

Gorgeous!

Nutsfordaylilies: Yes I do spray altho this year they caught me off guard and there are a few with bud damage. In the whole spectrum of the lilies its hardly noticeable.
Warm March larve emerged early I didnt do the early spring drench.

Nice shots Allison! My gerber is not ready to bloom yet, love looking at yours!

Those a lovely Karen!! Your noid asiatic is 'Grand Cru'

More beautiful pics. That Gomphrena looks interesting! Need to get me a "Touching" lily, Jen. Can't resist flowers that have beautiful scents/.

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You keep coming up with some really nice blooms and combos, ge. A new treat every day.

It's a pleasure to visit you gardens Karen and Jo!

The treats are from the plants.I am surprised every morning.

Lovely, ladies!!!

Thanks for the cheery pics---they clear the mental fog.

very nice Karen & JoAnn!!!... if the spider wrapping up the fly is going to freak anyone out.. skip passed those.. LOL

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