I've read grower's comments and blogs on it but haven't seen any reports that it flops, so that's disappointing to hear. I think I'll pass, Gita! :)
Btw, the pink brug I got from you is finally blooming... both pink and yellow! I's blooming yellow on one part of the "Y" and pink on the other side of the "Y."
FIRST FLOWERS OF SUMMER!! AUGUST Edition :)
SS--
The pink Brug has an amazing bloom cycle. It changes colors.
Some of your blooms may be a day older than the others--so--different colors.
Usually--when the bloom opens fully--often in the evening--it isyellow
The next day--it will start turning milky white
By the end of the second day, and by morning--it will be pink.
Kind of neat if you get a picture where all the colors are together.
Is yours growing kind of tall? mine always did. I no longer grow it.
G.
edited to correct the sequence. The unopened buds are yellow.
The next day the bloom is white--and then, it turns pink. Sorry...
This message was edited Aug 30, 2014 8:21 AM
Not sure which photo I've posted in the past. Here are 3 photos of our Elizabeths taken different years and or locations. They don't flop for us.
Sure thing Ecnalg. I'll dig it this weekend :)
david--
Your blooms seem to be holding straight up--NOT floppy. What's the secret?
Since mine are in pots (to contain spreading), maybe they do not
grow as robust as yours. Lack of nutrients for sure...
Gave one plant to my neighbor--she put it in a bed in full sun--
and had to prop it up with a taller plant behind it.
Mine sit on the landing in front of my shed. same place my two
Brugmansias sit. Good AM sun to -part sun later. Tree nearby.
#1 shot is from 2011. just showing you where I keep the Elizabeths".
They are not there on this picture--or are out of sight.
The sun passes over from left to right--there is enough sun on this area--
but then the tree shades this area a bit.
#2 is of two pots of the Elizabeth new plants growing just now. This are 2-16" pots.
#3--Here is the third pot--by itself. Pretty crowded and full. How many plants in there???
Digging now would be pretty hard. it is solid with new plants!
I will let all these bloom next spring. Should look great. Then--I don't know what i will do....
Each of these plants will then want to multiply...Mamma Mia...WHERE? TO???
I may just give away one of these pots at the Spring swap then...
Gita
I don't mind flopping Campanulas; the blooms still peek out just fine! They flop less as the clump gets larger, I think.
LILIES LILIES LILIES!!!
I gave the lily group buy (from van Engelen, for pick-up October 25) its own thread: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1373199/
I think ours don't flop because our soil is so poor. ;-)
Mine were up last year but floppy this year- this year getting very regular rains here all spring.
I have yet to get first flowers from a night blooming jasmine. 6 inch pot four feet tall main branch. Who wants it/ Too much bother if the blooms are so rare
1. I'm now totally in love with turtleheads! What a pretty little flower.
2. Hardy begonia. Goes really well with chelone.
3. Caryopteris Sunshine Blue. Finally blooming!
4. Brug with 2 different colors.
5. First year that my liriope has bloomed so well.
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SS--I wrote you and explained the different colorings on your Brug.
It is natural for some Brugs to have blooms open one color and then change.
"Maya" brug does it too....So does Dr. Seuss--geoes fro yellow to apricot.
I have something new to share. CUTE! Will post it on the Swap talk Thread.
Gita
Gita, I got your post, very interesting. I really like the fact that it changes bloom color. I don't remember my Dr. Seuss changing from yellow to apricot.
On about day #3--when Dr. S. is almost done blooming--the blooms will be
turning a pale color peach/apricot. Call it a Peachy-yellow....
Just a bloom-aging thing.
G.
Not really a flower but these mushrooms/fungus have been popping up in my garden, fresh in the morning, dried up by evening.
Robin! Those are bizarre!!! From Outer Space....eeeeeeeeeeeeeeek...
Probably just a fungus in your mulch. Never know what is in there.
Harmless--i am sure--just knock them down with a rake.
G.
Cool fungus! They are alien-looking... :-)
Stinkhorn mushrooms, see http://www.mushroomexpert.com/mutinus_elegans.html
I've seen those before. I think the orange color is cool.
Turtleheads are great SSG!! At least in the garden and not the other kind LOL. Mine is blooming too.
Some blue flowers currently in bloom:
Clematis stans, a small-flowered shrub Clematis
Clematis heracleifolia, another small-flowered shrub Clematis
Torenia
Carypoteris
Mistflower
Some current white flowers:
White Rattlesnake Root - Prenanthes alba, a woodland native.
Whorled Milkweed - Asclepias verticillata
Hoary Mt. Mint - Pycnanthemum pilosum
Eustoma grandflorum 'Echo White'
Little Glasswing Skipper on Boneset
You guys always have the coolest pics GT. I like that Hoary Mint.
David, I really like the skipper photo. A unique angle, looking from behind its shoulder, so to speak.
I also really like the skipper on boneset photo!
...our Elizabeths flop all over the place and they are quite established. nice whites greenthumb. I especially like the Whorled Milkweed.
we have sunflowers from bird seed blooming all over the place
I don't want rain to spoil a holiday weekend, but we can sure use it around here
very pretty wind. Yes, I have been watering this weekend. And weeding, my gosh the weeds
Could use a good soaking rain here, too! It's hot & muggy out there today, not like we're enjoying a good day out back anyway. Some days the flowers look very beautiful from inside, with the AC going!
Wind--
A very nice photo of the Cleome bloom!
What is the seed pod laden stem in pic. #5? Is it your Red Canna?
If it is--I have a pile of them collected...
My short pink Cannas also are making similar seed pods.
Seeds are the size of peas...just black. I am collecting them too...don't ask why..
Has anyone here grown Cannas from seed? How long until blooming???
G.
My short, pink Canna
Jeff---
How about a new Thread. "First flowers of Summer-August" now seems
out of place. it is more like--"Last blooms of Summer" something or other...
Besides--it is at 265 Posts. Not that I have a problem....some may, though.
Gita
G. that was the really tall hollyhock plant. I'll post a pic tomorrow. I took a photo of mom sitting in front of it when it was in full bloom. It bloomed most of the summer and as you can see it's all gone to seed now.
Our cannas are still blooming. I've grown them from seed. I seem to remember that they bloom about the same time as the planted roots do. I rarely grow them from seeds though. Every year we get canna surprises in the garden that just pop up from seeds from the year before.
my fav zinnias still blooming!
heirloom tomatoes galore too!! picked another colander full besides the one shown in the pic this afternoon. We can't eat them fast enough lol. Any ideas on processing besides salsa? I'm tempted to chop them in the food processor and freeze and see how that works. Anyone ever try that?
wind, I have frozen tomatos and been disappointed in how much water drains off when they thaw, just seems like a waste of freezer space having all that pink water in there.
But I've been reading you can process the whole thin skin and all. Some say seeds add bitterness.
When I dice for salsa I set them in a sieve to drain awhile.
Some make that roasted tomato sauce.
Last year I made lots of salsa. Put it in zip-lock bags laid flat in the freezer so that it froze in a layer less than an inch thick. When I wanted to zing up some dish I was making, I would break off a chunk of the slab and add in. Worked great.
wind--et al...
You can easily freeze whole tomatoes just as is. Put in a baggie and put in freezer.
Cherry tomatoes too. They stay frozen and red for years!
My neighbor, Olga, taught me that.They remain red and 'fresh" in a frozen state.
To use--take them out, run a bit of hot water over them, and the skin will just slough off.
The frozen tomatoes can then be easily diced for cooking. A bonus! NO mess...
Can't dice a fresh tomato without a holy mess....!!
Gita
I got you G. I'll post a new thread later today. I'm going out to the mall with DW to get me a new suit.
Oh I bet you're looking forward to THAT, Jeff... Try to enter a zen state and only come back to the real world when she glows at you and says Oh you look so handsome!!!
Lol yeah I'm in the middle of it now. I only got a break right now because she's in Victorias Secret. Good times.
I would absolutely definitely do the herbed roasted tomatoes here http://awaytogarden.com/herbed-roasted-tomatoes-freeze-alana-chernila/ and freeze them. Note the low oven temperature (275). I've roasted them this way and they are to die for - never had enough left to freeze because we ate them so fast. We don't grow fresh tomatoes (not enough sun) or I would do it for sure.
I'm trying to find the recipe I used last summer -- note that in this one, the oven temp is just 225. http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2008/08/slow-roasted-tomatoes/ I think that may be the one I used.
Or maybe this one, which uses just 200 degrees. http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Slow-Roasted-Tomatoes-102278
Actually, I think it was this one -- http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Oven-Roasted-Plum-Tomatoes -- which uses 250 degrees.
The slower the better. They come out almost like sun dried tomatoes, except juicy and more tender.
This message was edited Sep 1, 2014 12:20 PM
Moving to here:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1374072/