Garden Gems 2012 #6

Beautiful Bill!!

Thanks, guys!

Your pond is so lovely, Bill, and such an amazing feat. I think about all the work you put into it every time I see it. I wish I had a bigger pond for a lotus. Someday I want to make my pond bigger.

Celeste, I believe you're right on that Fruit Loops ID. I think you may have told me that last year, and I forgot. It was you or someone else. Can't remember for sure. I'll have to make a tag for it before I forget. It's a really pretty one, but I don't believe it's fertile, so can't be used in hybridizing. At least, according to Tinker's database, there is no rating on fertility, and it has never produced any registered offspring.

Caitlinsgarden, all of the last ones were blooming on July 18 and 21, although this year they're blooming about 2 wks earlier than usual. This also happened 2 years ago, due to the crazy, early hot weather in the spring. Today I'm posting more from July 21.

Witch's Thimble with Handsome Ross Carter, Royal Palace Prince, Phlox 'Frans Schubert', Lavender Etching, Arthur Edgerton (this guy was filming my gardens last week with my friend Connie, who interviewed me, and they're putting together a show to be on a local cable station).

Karen

One of Mom's seedlings from Pardon Me, Sundays With Vernon, a Jamie Gossard seedling, another J. Gossard seedling, Jocelyn's Oddity.

Karen

Never Say Never, Wilson Spider, NOID red (I think this is one of Mom's seedlings), one of Mom's seedlings, Rainbow Towers.

Karen

Love that second Jamie Gossard seedling!!!

This is one day's worth of daylily deadheads on the top of one of my compost piles, Navajo Grey Hills, 2 shots of Firestorm, Yes Yes Yes with Phlox 'Frans Schubert'.

Karen

Thanks Celeste! The J. Gossard seedlings I purchased from a seller on the LA. Her name is Judy Davisson, and she has registered some of her own daylilies. I purchased some of hers this year. The ones I got are Riot On The Kindergarten Bus and Barn Doors Open. I think there were one or 2 others as well, but I can't think of which ones they were.

Fooled Me, Autumn Wood, bluish purple NOID, Outrageous, Siloam Sunburst.

Karen

2 pics of Phlox (the white one is 'David'), the next 3 shots are of my mother's seedlings. The lavender ones are probably Prairie Blue Eyes crosses.

Karen

NOID daylily and phlox (this small daylily is trumpet shaped and never opens up wide), Prairie Blue Eyes, a few long shots.

Karen

2 shots of Barbary Corsair, Mad Max with Lois Burns in background, Lois Burns, one of my Mom's seedlings.

Karen

Ottis Leonard, Designer Jeans and Red Volunteer, Black Moon, NOID from Marilyn with Prairie Blossoms from Celeste (thanks you two!), close-up of Prairie Blossoms.

Karen

Hazel, Cameroons and Brown Witch, Cameroons and August Double, August Double, Homage To Patrick.

Karen

Asiatic Pheasant, Siloam Bo Peep, Addie Branch Smith, Lavender Achievement, Lookaway Rocket (supposed to be an early-midseason bloomer, but blooms rather late here, so not sure it it's even what it's supposed to be).

Karen

Techny Peach Lace, NOID, Mahogany Magic, Elvis Rock King, purple NOID (I think it's a seedling of Mom's, but don't know for sure).

Karen

Love your Mom's seedlings, Karen, especially Classy Miss & Faery's TuTu...Pixie, those lilies are so pretty....love the light pink in the 1st row, last photo....name? Bill, the lotus is so cool....hope to see photos of the blooms....your phlox & Karen's Franz Shubert are really nice......

Pretty sure thats 'Maywood' & 'Timezone'

Thanks Marilyn!

Here's some more before I have to go to my overnight.

2 shots of another of Mom's seedlings (I believe this is another Prairie Blue Eyes cross. That PBE makes some nice seedlings), All American Windmill with another of Mom's seedlings, With This Ring, Isle Of Capri.

Karen

busy day karen? :)

NOID double white Asiatic, another NOID Asiatic, close-up of With This Ring, Swamp Yankee, Mysterious with BES.

Karen

Yes, Bill, busy posting pics. :-) Most of the day was drizzly rain here, so I didn't do anything in my gardens except give a tour to one customer, and she ended up buying a couple of the potted daylilies, so it's all good.

Several long shots.

Karen

One more long shot, Black Pearl with Hosta 'Gold Standard', 'Star Gazer' lily, Candy Stripe Mountain, Sings The Blues.

Karen

Oooh...nice! Thanks, Pixie....must be Maywood, I have Timezone......

ignore the weeds as I have.. should have used the flash for all of these.. sorry

coreopsis from Celeste last year.. don't know which lily off hand

Nice! Your caladiums looks wonderful!

Yes, those caladiums are rally eye-catching....

Wow, Karen, you are really ambitious! I always just deadhead right onto the ground!

Great pics!

Karen how long before a daylily flowers if grown from seed?

Allison your caladiums look wonderful!!

thanks all... I do the same Caitlin.. where it's cut.. it's falls

:)

I deadhead the same way

I am so enjoying all the blooms since really nothing new going on here, except 1 echi, I'll get a pic tomorrow

Caitlin, I don't always do that, but I had a guy coming over to film the gardens, and I wanted all the daylilies to look nice, so I just collected all the dead heads and put them on the compost pile. Usually I put them on the ground, too, right in the beds, hopefully hidden under daylily foliage, if there is enough to hide them. They worms like them.

Nice caladiums, Allison. I have not grown those (yet!).

Ronnie, it usually takes about 2-3 years for a daylily to bloom from seed. They bloom sooner down in Florida or if they're greenhouse grown. I think you can get bloom in about a year that way.

Karen

thanks.. I love them.. easy care that's for sure

Not going to overwhelm you with blooms today, just 3 of my favs.

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1. Oriental Lily 'Girosa'
2. phlox 'Laura'
3. 'Candy Cane', 'Pookie', & phlox 'Blue Paradise'

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Love, love that Girosa! All the phlox is wonderful....here is lobelia, and an unusual cosmos.....and part of my annual flower garden.....

I sooooo miss the lilies

Never overwhelmed by your pics Celeste! "Laura" is a beauty.

Marylin I love that cosmos!

Thanks Karen, I figured as much but wasn't sure. I'm a bit of an impatient gardener when it comes to perennials started from seed.

Crape Myrtle just starting, first bloom on 'Secret Pride'Echi, rebloom on Black Eyed Stella, El Desperado, one lone bloom on Dianthus Zing Rose

oops that was 2 shots of El Desperado
Here's Stella, front garden, Katherine Phlox and Noid, Agastache 'Golden Jubilee'

anyone know what this is?

That coleus makes a great impact, Jen....sorry, don't know what the plant is....