Josephine and Stephanie, there are no photos or growing information at all in Plant files for Lanceleaf Loosestrife. There is just the name. Would be easy for one of you to add your photo and growing information.
June Blooms
Wish I were near Dallas, I would love cone flowers, now that I have two that are thriving. Won't be heading that way till end of the month.
Stephanie, I just got some Strawberry Fields and love it. I hope it does as well as yours. I cannot keep ahead of the Bermuda and other grasses in my gardens. I am loving the rain, we have been so long without it. But so does the grass. My little push mower won't start, and the grass I mowed around my beds is already tall just three days after mowing.
I just pulled tons from my lone Blackfoot Daisy, thanks for the tip.
My green zinnias have started making a comeback after being a no show for the last two years. They don't photograph well, but are almost chartreuse. And two of my pink rain lilies are blooming, one huge and one small.
Thank you, Josephine! I knew it started with an "L" but was only coming up with "liriope" and I knew that wasn't it. LOL (The mind is already starting to go!)
Joy, I added a pic and a few other comments to the Plant Files.
Thx. Steph.
I like that pink/purple daylily Anna, does it have a name?
Some post rain picks.
Joy - I'll let you know if I get the coneflowers. It's not clear to me what the guy who has them is talking about. If I do get some, I'm sure I can keep them alive until the end of June if you're going to be coming this way. Let me know and if you do want some, D-Mail me so we can arrange specifics.
Here's what he said in an email:
'The largest plants are probably too large to transplant without sending them into shock, but then again maybe it's OK to cut them down before the transplant and start out with a large, robust root system. I was kind of hoping that the takers would be good at transplanting*. But no matter, there are plenty of babies.'
*I might have said I was needing to make a new bed.
You can easily divide larger clumps of coneflowers, cut down the foliage to a few sets of leaves, and they will spring back if provided enough water and a little bit of shade.
The daylilies are starting to bloom!
Cat's Pajamas
Chance Encounter
This little oxalis has survived neglect and drought, but still keeps on producing.
On the tractor this evening trying to mow the wildness that is our back yard. I hate mowing down all the brown and Black-eyed Susans but the rest is awful.
This lovely is near one of my persimmons, the flower is delicate, pale pink, and the plant is easily 4-5' tall. The plant and leaf remind me of Mexican Petunias. I have never seen it before and want to find out what it is before I start up again tomorrow.
Joy, I think it is one of the Smart Weeds, some are perennial and some annual, here is a link
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=POPE2
I hope that helps.
It does look like pale smartweed Josephine. So strange to have it, I guess that shows how much water we had in a short period since it is a marshy plant. I will leave it since birds love the seeds and it is the only one I see.
Thanks!
You are welcome Joy, get them around here once in a while too.
The pink daylily is Always Afternoon.
Some from the xeri bed:
Apache Plume, Silver Dalea(?) needs a better contrast to show up, Blue bonnets still hanging around,
From another bed:Obedient Plant "Miss Manners....it's true!, Desperado.
With this great spring , we can almost dare say that gardening is easy
I love obedient plant, but don't like it's misbehaving ways. I'll have to look for some of the Miss Manners.
SantaRosaGardens is having a sale on pink Miss Manners. They have fall delivery
Apparently my plants are loving all this rain we've been getting!
1 'Cheyenne Spirit' echinacea
2 Zinnia
3 Big beautiful zinnia
4 Nicotiana
5 Kinda hard to see, it was windy, but the yellow bulbine is blooming in the front
Edited on account of pics being jumbled.. 😖
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1&2 are my A. fimbriata, pipevine, brown blooms
3 is my clump of purple coneflower
4 is my black tropicanna from Jokenna last year
5 is my Clerodendrum bungei
Beautiful flowers Everyone!!!
Anna, you are not helping my budget!! LOL
Becky, your flowers are so pretty! I'm thinking the flowers and the veggies are all loving this rain and the cooler temps.
Marty, you always have the coolest plant pics to share!
This NOID yellow daylily greeted me when I walked out this morning.
The tall pink Mexican Petunias have started blooming. I also saw a purple one out there. Grrr! That purple one has to go.
Zexmenia is already blooming like crazy.
This is my neighbor's Rock Rose. Several years ago, I gave her a small transplant and it's grown into this. She pretty much neglects it and it loves it!
The cacophony of my front flower bed.
Very lovely. Well I just couldn't resist showing some.
#1 Phlox carolina at the Fielder House Butterfly Garden
#2 Phlox and American Germander.
#3 Phlox and Conefflowers
#4 Milkweed Vine on my fence, Cynanchum leave
Yes Marty you really do always have the coolest plants. That pipe vine especially so!
Steph, I can't believe I've been too sick to get up early and pollinate squash for the past three days. They are putting out female blooms every day and I am wasting it big time :( I do love the way your front flowerbed plants play together. Especially the drift of red puffballs w the gomphrena. My MIL is my garden buddy and she is very picky about what plants I plant in our "shared" beds. She'll love that one, so I will try it next year :)
Josephine, the butterflies must feel so loved! It's so pretty there, for us without wings as well..
If you want gomphrena, I can bring you plenty!
Thank you Steph :))
I will look for always afternoon.
I got several cone flower seedlings last year from someone at the spring RU. This one is very tall with deep pink flowers and very dark stems. Any ideas as to the variety?
2. S. pentstemonoides starting to bloom
3. Carolina phlox from Josephine. Love this one and it spreads a lot for me.
Cheryl, I am so glad it does well for you, they are all beautiful, of course.
Cheryl, you might've gotten the coneflowers from me. If so, it's echinacea purpua.
My carolina phlox is just starting. Love it! Cheryl, if you are patient enough, I will eventually divide the DL, but might be awhile. I saw it on line. Let me think where.
I need to move my Carolina Phlox. I'm thinking it doesn't get enough sun as it's remained scraggly all the years I've had it and it's not bloomed. Can it take the full afternoon sun?
I need to get some phlox, maybe next RU.
Loving my heirloom zinnias1&2, 2 also shows my green rose blooms. They are wonderful, smell like pepper.
3 is my rudbeckia maxima,
4 is one of my echinacea, peeping out from under some Cowpen daisies.
5 is my daylily Tropical Depression.
I got them from someone growing specific named varieties from seed. Many didn't make but a few did and each of them looks a little different, including a few white flowered ones. I think they came from patrob but I'm not sure. I really like the tall darkly colored one and if I knew the name I would order some seed.
I had never grown convolvulus and when I looked it up, it talked about common bindweed. I looked it up because I took some seed for it from one of deejay9's Round Robins. Pkg did not give any info about color, nothing. I planted them back In the winter and now I have C. tricolor growing in a hanging basket. It is apparently not a native one but kinda pretty. I only have two blooms at the moment but hope to have a basket full at some point.
Went out after today's rains and found that my Kwanzo daylilies had started blooming along with the bird planted lantana horrida.
They look like they were made for each other.
From Nickajack Lake and Chattanooga. Finally found flowers the states werent poisoning!
Today my Neches River rose-mallow (Hibiscus dasycalyx) started blooming. An endangered species, I was given one last year as part of a project to create interest among gardeners and help increase their numbers. It grew last year, but didn't bloom. A rather unassuming plant, mine is close to six feet tall, twined in my variegated canna, competing for some sun. The blooms are not as large or fancy as the hybrids, but it is a thrill to see it thrive in my garden.
Surprise, surprise. On my way to chores the amaryllis I thought had sent a bloom stalk up is in reality a huge white spider lily. Wow, I don't remember them being this big but I am not complaining.
Joy, I have the Neches River Rosemallow also and I think it is lovely, and so is the Spider lily.
The various petunias are blooming!
Native Petunia (from Josephine) I now have these in various places in my gardens.
Katie's Blue petunia
Tall Pink Mexican Petunia (from Sheila)
Tall White Mexican Petunia (from Sheila) amongst Strawberry Field gomphrena (from Anna)
I love the orange and yellow lantana horida
Texas Betony--so happy to see this since my big plant died in the freeze.
In a neglected corner of my backyard, I found a Cowpen Daisy growing among the pigweed and native poinsettia.
Moonshine yarrow and blackfoot daisy (both from Anna, I believe)
