Steph that daylily is gorgeous! And I hate orange! Lol, your other flowers are pretty too. I so love that gomphrena :)
June Blooms
I had several plants return after the freezes, was tickled they made it thru- I expect it of the mexican heather, mexican petunias, but the gold lantana was a surprise. and the Texas Everlasting sage is slowly coming back after freezing down to the roots. More pix will have to wait for nex home visit.
Not my grandmother's morning glory. Why did I wait so long to try this?
Stephanie, I love Lantana horrida and camara. If I was only able to have one plant in my flowerbed, it would be Lantana.
Carla
rouxcrew
stunning Morning Glory !
Marty, I love seeing plants I shared doing so well in other gardens. Love all the pic everyone is sharing.
Joy I cant wait for the next RU. Any plans on one yet?
I would love to get some of your canna and the Neches River Rosemallow.
Here are some pic I took the other day.
a few more
Jokenna! We were wondering where you were. Good to see you again. Your flowers are gorgeous, and like ours I suppose are really enjoying the rain.
Thanks drthor. Jokenna, you are more than welcome to some of my canna. It is doing unbelievably well this year and I am already planning on moving it because it takes up so much room in that bed. I will research how to propagate my Neches mallow.
Today some of my huge pink rain lilies made an appearance. There is a 4" pot just underneath one bloom for scale.
Joy thank you!
Are you going to be doing the Fall RU this year? So sad I missed the spring one don't know where my head was didn't even see the posts.
I just some pink fairy rain lily in the mail, need to get them in the ground.. I guess between down pours.
Your are so pretty!
I love rain lilies and Joy, yours are so pretty! Love that dainty pink color. I should check and see if mine are blooming!
Mine are! The rain/aka fairy lilies :))
Lycoris hasn't made an appearance yet though and with all these rains recently, I wonder why it hasn't come out to play? No drummond's rain lily yet either..
Jokenna, love your hibiscus!!
My lycoris don't bloom until fall.
Mine too.
I took these pictures last October
We'll that explains it about the lycoris, I bet I missed them in the fall since I transplanted them in early fall = no blooms :(
Two more of my pinks. The first is white with pink tips, has always bloomed that way. The second is such a dark rich pink but not quite as big as the others.
Joy, since you gave them to me, I think I have the same two or maybe my larger ones came from Sandy (ilj).
Aren't those large ones wonderful?
So pretty!
Are the large ones Crinums? I have one that finally bloomed last year and was a very soft pink. The bulb is huge, too!
they are nowhere the size of crinums. They are rain lilies, just a lot larger than my other pinks. A little larger than hurricane lilies.
Cool! I've never seen large rain lilies!
I tell you, ya snooze ya looze. I found these today and was so surprised and delighted.
I wasn't aware I had a black and blue salvia, but in clearing out some stuff taking over, I found a very leggy one. Hopefully it will get easier sun now.
My crinum, I think its Ellen Bosenquat, is exploding with dark almost burgundy blooms.
And this iris, what is an iris doing blooming at the end of June, is from someone at an RU. All I can say is unbelievable.
This is an Australian Violet that had died earlier this year, or so I thought. Some pink Mexican petunias are now sheltering it and it has not only come back it is spreading.
They are all lovely but I really like that Iris.
Oh my goodness Joy, that iris is gorgeous! And the EB is very pretty.
Everything is so pretty right now! Joy your iris is gorgeous!
John Fannick Phlox--I used to go to Fannick's Nursery in San Antonio as a kid. There were tons and tons of roses and trees.
The very happy and cheerful Gomprhena "Strawberry Field".
I just love these Kwanzo daylilies. I know that most people don't like them, but I love the orange and the "pop" they bring to my garden.
More Lantana horida (what a terrible name for this pretty plant)
My Rock Rose has finally started blooming. I found several babies in my front flower bed, too.
stephanietx,
I'm with you on the Kwanzo daylilies...I love them too and I have a tons of them in this place we bought. They have just let it go wild and my DH and I have not started on those and the daffodils that are all over.
Oh Stephanie, I love those Kwanzo double daylilies. I remember them in my grandmother's garden. A friend is sending me some from North Carolina because I didn't realize anyone had them. If she doesn't come through, could I get a fan or two at the fall RU?
Joy if Stephanie doen't have any i have plenty to share with you...and is you want any of the old daffodils I have them too.
Do you have plans for the fall RU?
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Not a problem! I'd be happy to share, just remind me when RU time comes again. They were here when we purchased the house and they've just multiplied over the years. I love seeing them out my window from my computer.
Stephanie, I love the orange daylilies too, and the name of the Lantana has been changed to;
Texas Lantana, Lantana urticoides http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=LAUR2
I hated the old name too.
Good! I really didn't like that name so I'm glad it was updated!
I didn't like the name either, it must have been named by someone who didn't like the scent of it.
This is mostly for Joy, since I now know to simply give this time enough to do its thang. Where are you Joy, am going to be weaning one female muscadine vine from its main root very soon...my vines are loaded this year, guess I need to see if I can get another or two to root..
Awesome Kitt. Did you just stick a vine in the dirt?
It looks like she did "layering" which is to bury a portion of the vine in a pot or in the soil until it roots. Then you can cut it loose from the mother plant.
I chose a vine that had a double Y, one branch got lopped, earlier than the last RU by about 2 wks- the vines were starting to come out of dormancy- that pot has been getting slammed with rains, skeletonizers, and dumped a few times, chuckle, still it granted me one grape and roots just recently. I didn't scrape nor anything else, but will need to start seperating it soon from mama.
These Ellen Bosanquets are the deepest color I have ever seen them- thought it may have been the 13-13-13 they got hit by, but maybe not. The pink and white crinums have been blooming steady for the past 2 months- guess they finally rooted and got enough water...
Wow yes that iris a real beauty, Joy. And I am happy about the lantana name change also.. I can think of many other plants more deserving, bur clover and briars anyone?? Lol
Kitt, your crinum is gorgeous, that color is ridiculous! Also, I'm wanting to try your trick of layering the grapevine. I found a wild vine on our deer lease and have been wondering how to propagate it. Steadycam, are you saying, I could set a pot of soil next to an in-ground grapevine, pull one of the tendrils up through the bottom of the pot and wait for it to root, then cut it away from the mother? Would this work for any perennial vine?
Kitt your EB is gorgeous!
I didn't get that complicated- I just laid the branch across the top of the pot since that was as low as I could get it. I used a Y branch on purpose, and tucked it in a u curve under 4" of dirt- there are usually nodes at Y's that are a plants way of survivng and drawing nourishment more easily from these points. It sat in that pot doing nothing til just last month when the skeletonizer worms went to work, and the passing rains hit, and I got roots. I did pour out a seeming gallon of water from this special pot you water at the bottom, and the dirt is saturated I noticed.
I have done rosemary the same way, and am eyeing some salvias that came back from roots as I like that one. My red salvia reseeds, and we relocate em back to the flowerbed. The african blue basil grows 6' hi, and dies, but we can root them for new plants as they dont seed at all.