Yeah, the Chelone I got from Gardadore is slightly darker than the one I have and the gold color around the 'lips' is more pronounced. I have some pics but I haven't taken them off the camera yet.
END OF SEASON FLOWERS!!!! SEPTEMBER 2014
Some new pics from the garden:
Physostegia virginiana
Front yard garden with various blooms
Toad Lily first bloom
Aster NOID
Anemone NOID
ugh Physostegia. LOL JK
It all looks beautiful. I like how you have Physostegia accents rather than my big swathe
My cyclamen hederifolium - this is a huge garden win for me because I thought all of them were dead after last winter. This is actually the biggest one and there are two others starting to bloom close by.
Begonia seedlings that have just begun blooming. The parent died over the winter but left a butt load of seedlings so hopefully I'll still have them next season.
Oh Sally put up a pic of your big swathe.
I know you're just hating on it because it's 'ugly and boring' all season but I see this gem as valuable late season color. You got to appreciate the strengths of the physostegia ;-P and the ROS for that matter LOL
I'm getting fat eatin my words about plants i don't like!
Sequoia: I'm very jealous of your cyclamen hederifolium -- I've tried and failed several times.
But as to the Begonia grandis -- you'll always have it now (unless you yank it). It will 'walk' around your garden to wherever it is happiest. I love it -- it is gorgeous in bloom.
Happy, cyclamen goes dormant after blooming and likes to stay on the dry side during dormancy. You can just leave the pot under a tree where it gets rain and do nothing with it until it starts to grow again :o)
Seq, I really like the begonia - never had one that could over winter before.
I just bought a white anemone last weekend - still have to plant it. Also, picked up 2 new hostas. And, our obedient plants have taken over the entire butterfly garden!
not sure if I posted this pic of some antique hose guards I just got from a friends garden. She is moving and selling all her garden treasures.
Jeff---
Your Aster looks very similar to my New England Aster.
It is now covered in bloom....slowly opening.
This picture is from last year. Does it match?
Jeff, I'm with Happy about your cyclamen. I have also tried cyclamen several times and they just don't make it. I love it though and will keep trying.
Yeah G, I think that's the animal. I wasn't sure before. Thanks.
Wind, those hose guards look very nice!
This is my second full season with my cyclamen. I think all my spring cyclamen died off and it's only these summer ones left. Truly, I thought they were all gone. They are quite striking though. I love plants that flower with no leaves present. Hopefully I'll have some fall crocus blooming soon.
I hope I'll have some begonia forever because it's so beautiful and I'm a sucker for this late season color. More of these little seedlings better get to blooming as their time is running out.
Nice photos, Sequoia! I love my Begonia too; it looks great planted with Chelone lyonii 'Hot Lips'. I'll try to get some photos tomorrow.
I'm going to plant a lot of swap plants tomorrow, starting with the Physostegia virginiana I got from you. My goal is to get every perennial currently sitting in a pot into the ground before Saturday.
Wind, you're getting some really special garden decor from your friend. She must have a beautiful garden and must be so sad to be leaving it behind!
Thanks Muddy! I'm going to try to get all my swap plants in the ground Saturday plus 4 shrubs that are waiting as well. Perhaps it's a lofty goal but I hope I can get it all done because I won't be able to work on it Sunday or the following weekend either. My parents are coming in from AZ to visit me and my sister and they'll be at our house next Saturday and Sunday.
oh for crying out loud.
Trying to share pics from phone but I forgot I have to crop before using them, or they do this...
Hope yo have a laptop so you can turn the screen!!
An aster I got from long lost stormyla
My dreadful Physostegia swath
Gotta go to to work now
Looking beautiful, Sally. How did you get the plants to grow sideways? Teehee.
I love the uprigt Physostegia. Is the flower color really lavender as it appears on my PC monitor? Or is it a light pink?
Here's just a tiny bit of my Begonia grandis, this morning.
Gotta love that Begonia grandis!
Sally, that's a super combination of leaf shapes in your garden. Any time you want to get rid of some of your Physostegia, I'll take some more....even if it's dormant in a pot when the seed swap rolls around!
We have had white Obedient Plant at the HD for some time now.
Does not seem to be moving a lot....
There are two other pretty, blue-flowering perennials that are so pretty.
Every time i water them--I am sorry I did not bring my camera.
One of them is a bee magnet....
Happy--
My Begonia Grandis is almost invisible--buried behind all the Coleus,
caladiums, Phlox and ferns in my Kitchen side bed...
Only the sole Cleome, with its arms outstretched rules there--visually.
I am almost scared to grow Coleus again...they all are bizarrely huge.
This is in August..I think it is all bigger now.......Find the begonia G.???
G.
Gita: What is the plant with the yellow flowers?
Sally, what is that taller plant with the purple/lavender flowers? Is that a phlox still blooming that nice?
Happy, that's quite a patch of Begonia you have! Looks very nice :)
Sequoia: That is maybe 1/10th of the Begonia I have -- it is very content here. It grows in every nook in cranny, including in cracks in our stone steps.
Wow, that's awesome. It's a very nice plant to have grow naturalized.
Happy--
That yellow flower is a melampodium on steroids...aka :"Butter Daisy'..
Sally has them coming up all over and she gave me some starts.
I have them in more than one bed but this one (E. sun till 3PM) takes the prize.
I was expecting a nice, little clump--maybe 1' tall...OH, yeah??? How about 3'?
Never ever have I seen it grow so big! It ruined my idea of what this bed will look like.
Not alone--the Coleus have also taken over--everywhere I planted them...
Jeff--
Many of my Phlox are still blooming as well. Especially Jill's "Aunt Felicia's Phlox"
It just sends up new stems and blooms away. Awesome color!
let me run outside and snap a couple pictures....
1--The overgrown kitchen side bed today. The previous pic was from August.
2--Coleus gone nuts
3--Same bed--from a different side
4--Jill's "Aunt Felicia's Phlox"--awesome..stilll,,,
5--My N.E. Aster
Ah, so Melampodium "Butter Daisy" is an annual. No wonder I didn't recognize it!
My Echinacea 'Cheyenne Spirit' is blooming!
I sowed the seeds this February/March, after the seed swap. I'd read that they bloom the first year, but I figured I'd started mine way too late to squeeze in blooms this year.
The seeds were expensive, but this is much cheaper than buying them in containers.
I don't have any pics of the echinacea yet. Anyone else have 'Cheyenne Spirit' blooming?
I love hardy begonias, btw. The large groupings of them at Ric and Holly's and Happy's are so pretty! I can't wait for mine to self-sow. :)
ditto - happy's B grandis is fantastic!
My aster has Paul's 'yellow French iris' next to it and a volunteer Nicotiana 'Only the Lonely' behind it, And the phlox, yes it is still going strong, I think it is Felicia's but there might be Robert Poore in there as well
the Physostegia is true lavender colored. Muddy, I'll have plenty to share.
I have one bloom open on the tiny dwarfed yellow Datura growing in the sidewalk crack. Gosh they have the best smell.
Thanks, Sally. Sequoia gave me Physostegia virginiana, and Greenthumb gave me P. virginiana 'Miss Manners', and I know it will spread quickly, but right now I'm having trouble visualizing having too much of such a great plant!
hahaha. I'm not!...( having trouble visualizing having too much of such a great plant!)
My sunny perennial bed is just a random mess...it's not the plant's fault
I think it looks great....even sideways! I like big swaths of single colors.
That's nice G! Your phlox doesn't look to have any powdery mildew either. Mine is still blooming a little but it's starting to get powdery mildew pretty bad.
Look what bloomed in our family garden this morning!
Oooh sweet! Congrats Happ!
It's a Homo Sapien var. Devon! :)
AAAWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!
Adorable! Congrats to all, Happy!
Thanks! We're in Seventh Heaven, needless to say.
Congratulations!!!
Congrats on your new beautiful bloom Happy!!
I'm taking some pics out of the camera now. Harry dug up another batch of potatoes. I noticed a purple bloom on a surprise butterfly bush that planted itself in one of the raised beds. Sunchokes have started blooming.
Still see a few hummers around too. And, I was hoping to have more of a variety of dahlias, but as they each have started blooming it looks like they are all the red and yellow 'Show n Tell'!!
Congratulations, Happy!! :)
wow, congratulations, happy!