I see flowers!!!!

Hi Everyone....
been enjoying the rain....yahoo on the water!!! the flowers are loving it!
RobinDog....what a haul! Nice bargain! I love new flowers to the gardens!
Here are some of my latest pics...

So nice to see what's in bloom now, Alikat! Marilyn did well at WWF. i think this year I am especially working on sedums. Many are still quite small but they are planted! There are big hopes that they will reduce the weed population here. Queen anns lace has been among the worst this year. Lots of pulling of tap roots but I doubt we can eat the carrots.

No, Rosemary, they are probably poisonous! I love the bright color of that lupine, Ali.....also the campanula.....here are some spuria & Japanese iris blooming, along with late primrose.....

As long as its QAL and not something else, you can eat the carrot. I'm not sure you would want to, but botanically Queen Anne's Lace and garden carrots are the same,Daucus carota.

Lilies are blooming beautiful this year , the rains did a good job

I thought you could eat queen Ann's lace - I had one in the gardens and even tho it was small - that tap root was LONG AND DEEP!!

Good luck with the sedums - dmail me if you ever want to trade -I have tons of different kinds!

Love the blooms everyone! I can't wait for my lilies to bloom - they are so NOT ready yet!

Lilies do look awesome! My small Asiatics are blooming, the tall ones are budded......

Get busy for a day--you miss so much! Interesting debate about QAL being edible or not. The carrot aroma was very strong but I'm glad we're not a tableau in Gone with the Wind.

Something in our front yard smells heavenly, and it seems to be the combination of Oyama magnolia and many mature conifers after the rain. Wish I could post smells.

Most of my sedums are still very small but they would make for very interesting trades in a year or two, considering the amazing varieties there are. I think Thundercloud and Bladerunner are my favorites right now. The succulent that is currently the most fun here is a huge Flapjack waiting to make some pot look good, as long as it goes inside for winter.

Color here is from the hardy geraniums, nepeta, salvia and Japanese knotwood, mainly. need more color, NOW! The clematis vines have very weak stems and only some flowers, so I must be doing something wrong with them. No lilies blooming yet, so I wish I could do as Marilyn has. Fata Morgana has disappeared (absolutely no RRB either!). Even the ditch lilies starting up are welcome, as they make me think of the DD in Spain who won't let me pull them out.

How nice that your daughter gets to spend some time abroad! Your sedums sound awesome....Bill has given me Angelina several times, & it finally has taken hold. Also, I believe it was Allison, gave me several other varieties...no names...that also are doing well this summer....

sedums are hard for me to say no too - easy to toss in as a bed filler have many varieties.

I didn't get the Gone With the Wind citation, and I've read that book fairly often and seen the movie too. Please explain!

Just thinking about the scene when Scarlet is digging her hands in the dirt desperate for food, finds nothing but a rotten carrot that makes her retch, and she then promises she'll never be HUNGRY again. I must have watched too many Miss America talent acts on TV as a kid.

(Edited to get it right)

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I have never seen the entire movie....only parts! More DLs are opening every day.....also the Asiatic turk's caps...love those the best.....

Oh, I forgot those were carrots! I just think of her grubbing in dirt (red dirt) and no foliage. I understand the reference now! (Oh, Ashley!)

here are some japanese iris from around the pond that are just starting to bloom.

and some stella's in front of a nice new dwarf jm called shojo hime.

Love that 4th photo of the delicate pink.....I thought the JM I planted next to the house was a dwarf.....getting too large ....wonder if I can trim it to get it back to size....Here's a white Japanese iris I have.....

Japanese iris is lovely this year....the first clump of DLs is Dominic.....no names for the others.....camera didn't capture the deep mahogany color of Dominic.....

Some from July

Pretty, Jen.....my DLs seem larger & brighter this summer.....

So pretty. This is a banner year for lilies in general. Most of the time everything is either dark and rainy or wilting in the heat, so I don't have good pics nor the chance to really take them!

Phlox is wonderful this summer as well.......my glads are about to open, & most of my dahlias are blooming or budded.....

First White lily for the season that I planted in the front garden and my neighbors were stopping to admire it.

Love the hydrangea, too!

My hydrangea was beaten up by the snow two years ago and it really came back beautiful this year. It was so beautiful that a plant thief must have come by in the night and stole 7 beautiful blooms , my hubby was outraged. I think because I have the loviest plant on my street that they wanted it since up the block one of my neighbors have a light green one but I have not seen any of her blooms missing

My Quickfire hydrangea, which we moved a few years ago, is really blooming strongly this year. It smells wonderful, and we can smell it better in its new spot. However, it is still too big for where it is.

A plant thief is terrible! I would hate that.

Wow....stealing flowers is pretty low! I noticed one bloom starting on a Cityline hydrangea....they only bloom on new wood, so I'm happy I have even one flower....here are some phlox from the front garden.....

Plant thieves aren't welcome here, either!

Carrie, have you seen that now there is a Little Quickfire?

I have an ordinary h. panticulata that doesn't know I've been trying to wipe it out. After we felled the tree next to it, it looks too big for the spot, so I cut it down hard to the ground last year and again this spring and it's better than ever! I should start a thread about being a chicken gardener because some things just insist upon staying put so I say OK, another day.

Yes, I have seen (and drooled over) Little Quickfire. Even if I purchased Little Quickfire, what would I do with Big Quickfire? Like everybody else, I ran out of space long ago. Good news is that DH noticed some useless green pine/evergreen/shrub kind of thing, in the context of trimming shrubs, and said "This has to go." :)

Sadly, I am guilty, sometimes, of plant homicide. More often than not there is no intention to kill so it's plant-slaughter.

Yes I can see if they took one bloom, but Seven blooms.?

Sad.

I think the best thing to do is knock on their door and ask if you can have a cutting! I would have been super ticked if someone stole flowers from my yard!!!


I love anything with a scent that can be smelled from a distance, every year I so enjoy the Oriental lilies and miss them when they're gone

A couple years ago, maybe 4-5, I told a friend that her mother could dig up a start of my crocosmia. (The mother lives in my town, but the "friend" doesn't.) That mother comes EVERY YEAR and digs up crocosmia, never says hello or goodbye or thank you! Now that she has some, she shouldn't keep taking mine. No good deed goes unpunished.

I think you should tell her that this year you offered plants to other people who have just started to make flower gardens so you cannot share with her anymore . I think she will get the message lol. My family allow tell me that I pull excuses from up my shirt sleeves. Lol

If she comes when I see her, I will certainly say something. Some years she comes when we're not here. On the other hand, I don't think she has been here this year, so maybe she's over her gardening phase.

Some neighbors were walking their dogs one day when DH was working at killing porcelain berry vine and complemented him on how great the garden (and especially the crocosmia) looked. He said he almost said, said, here let me dig some up for you....but he stopped himself just in time. It's not that I don't want to share, but wait until I have too many!

Do you have to pick them up for the winter ? And what is your zone?

The crocosmia? No, they are hardy. We are in zone 6. I got these from a DG friend who was trying to get rid of hers. We aren't organized enough to plant things we have to lift!

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/57411

I don't know if ours are, in fact, 'Lucifer', but they look like they might be.

I have gladiolus in the ground for years and the come back every year so maybe I will try crocosmia some time. If you ever have to spare , You can let me know.

Got it!