Well I've got a few to post. Your bud sure looks like an Electric Orange Ju. Mine is way behind yours.
#1 I just bought on the Lily Auction, Daylily 'Double Passion'
#2 My hybrid's still blooming
#3 Button Bush
#4 Hibiscus 'Kopper King' about to bloom
#5 Hieracium spilophaeum 'Leopard' getting ready to re-bloom
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Crinum, that's the name I couldn't remember. Thank you Kitt! Nice photos, be safe. Robin, those are gorgeous but my brain is too tired - the Leopard plant isn't what I'm thinking of - but i don't know the latin name on mine. Maybe same family?
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Robin, please post the blooms when your hibiscus copper king flowers. Those are just foliage plants here. I plant a similar variety and they haven't even done very well as a foliage plant the last two years, too wet and cool
In usual senior fashion my old mind spit out the variety of my hibiscus just after I signed out. It is mahogany splendour. The doctor suggested that I try doing Lumosity puzzles daily to help with that but I don't think it's working. LOL
Keith, your 'Mahogany Splendor' is a tropical Hibiscus acetosella for zone 8. They grow it in the warmer regions to replace Maples. My 'Kopper King' is a hardy Hibiscus moscheutos and is good to grow in zone 4. The blooms are amazingly large (Dinner plate).
Here are some from previous years. The middle bloom is an unusually dark bloom as it bloomed late in the season.
Awesome Robin, thanks for that. Your blooms are spectacular. You are correct in the maple substitute use of my hibiscus. That is how I started growing them as they were presented as an option for those of us who are unable to grow Japanese Maples.
Robin ,, Super , your plants look really Nice !!!
That bud bloomed it was a small plant beside the first , Maybe a cross with red Volunteer x Electric Orange , More red than before but the form is the same , Larger than Volunteer not as large as the big orange was
Robin it will be interesting to see yours bloom 1 and 2 ,
3 the one I call Crayon ,
Oops, I forgot to name one, it's fixed now...
Your welcome Keith! Every once in a while my shrub throws off a double bloom, The darker pink one is also a double (double stamens and pistils along with another row of petals).
Amazing Ju!!! I adore the new color! So, let me get this straight...you lost your original hybrid...only to find it cross pollinated with Red Volunteer, left you seeds to germinate all by themselves and unintentionally produced a better Electric Orange?
Robin , This Way ,,, The plant beside my Original Electric Orange , Was actually a cross I had made , it was a seedling of the cross of Electric orange and Red Volunteer
The root age fooled me some ,
Today was and is a very Humid , swim in the air day , Went and got some Japanese beetle lure for my bag traps and a few stakes ,
Tied some string for Morning glories to climb on ,
A little False Nettle Snails ate most of them
Okay, I thought it was all luck, no work involved...I feel better now that I know you worked for it. ;p
As it is Robin , you still have the only one ,, During the next few seasons as it grows , it should be nice to see
Without cell pressing ( I have forgotten how mostly ) I can do a nice bloom ruffle form by crossing apparently ,
I am going to try that Apricot with the ruffle crossing that with a few , if it blooms anymore ,
Oriental Biennis , etc night blooming primrose
yep , another weed ..
My goodness. Ju, that picture, it was of the false nettle?
Gypsi False Nettle ( B cylindrica ) yes
Here it is , as before
We've got that one here.
Despite the heavy rains we had overnight my lilies bloomed.So happy for the rain so my Rainbarrel got filled up and my garden got watered.
Gypsi it is a Host for Question Mark and Red Admiral Butterflies
cytf , Nice lillium
This morning a few old rose of Sharon , Weeds , and a Stargazer Lily
Hi juhur7 I am a lover of weeds too ,thay do a beautiful job. Lol .Beautiful Roses of Sharon.
Nice flowers Ju and Cytf. I may have something to post by tonight. We are still recooperating from over 3" of rain. Catching up on weeding. My weeds don't have pretty flowers. LOL.
Chuckl, you have gorgeous colors, Keith, now you need to address the weeds and whip them into properly blooming weeds
Keith You always have wonderful sets and blooms
Kitt it is a roaster of a day here
Cytf , their colorful if their where you can have them and Thank you Also
Cherry Sparks Penstemon
snow fountain Guara
Pow Wow Echinacea
Lavender Ice phlox
the Temp
Great photos Ju and I love your Times weather reports. Awesome. A few shots from Oxdrift
Bonbini Dahlia
Masses of sedum attracting a lot of bees, butterflies and butterfly moths
Hopefully my Hosta Sagae is done growing. It has taken over the bed
Keith Beautiful !!!
Three more pots. The last one is my first attempt at training a coleus into a tree form
Ju, my gaura got overrun by Turks cap last year and died. Will it start from seed?
Gorgeous pics Ju and Keith!! Lavender Ice phlox is sooo tempting.
If ever there was a Coleus Master, it's got to be you Keith. Your potted arrangements are stunning. There's got to be a way to sell the designs as most people can't do what you can do. What a gift.
Keith needs a florist shop sort of place? The arrangements are amazing that is for sure.
I can't do much of anything except ponds and bees. I mean I can get flowers to propagate but I have NO idea what they are.
Does that make sense or did the heat addle my brain? moved my best hive to be near good forage, 100 acres of it, and it rained this afternoon. And less likely to be sprayed there (although still in city limits)
Very flattering Robin. Selling would take all the fun out of it. It's all about the joy
Keith
Yes Amazing those sets , real Pretty Kieth
Gypsi , Guara does grow from seed for some , I have trouble keeping it alive I have grown it from seed , it will , but not vigorously here
My red -pink old fashioned phlox is also blooming
Robin it should add some shiny to the place it is at , if it lives
My Black eyed Susan are doing well and I painted my Chair and its ready for a container full of plants.
My Black eyed Susan are doing well and I painted my Chair and its ready for a container full of plants.
cytf , interesting chair , did you make it ?
BES here are doing well also
Last few years I had a bunch of die offs 10 to 20 year old plants ,
Hi juhur7 I bought it at a flea market a few years ago and it was getting weather beaten so I decided to give it a new look.
Hello cytf , a fun item, it appears to be ,
My shredder a few pots like the Hen & Chick pots pulled out of the waste pile are rather my projects .
Trying to many is my only problem
Trash to treasure. I do it all the time. My neighbor across the street is getting new items in her back landscape and I told her, please let me know when they hit the garbage so I can take my pick. I got a short, oak table with wrought iron legs last week. Wood needs to be refinished but a really heavy table and will make a great plant stand.
Ju, love your hens and chicks. Still very hot here. All of your photos are great.
Hugs, Sharon
A BUNCH of plants in my landscape were on the way to Home Depot's trash (dead azalea, it's white and still alive after 3 years), customers were piling at curb from flowerbeds while I was working on pond, yeah, that is actually where my guara came from. and my pink spirea. They sat in a bucket under a bush til I had time to pot them, then eventually put in ground.
I love the red chair (somebody's not afraid of color)! The Hens and Chicks look really happy and they look really good potted like that. I've been having a problem with rodents (I guess) digging all mine up.
I saw a chair missing the bottom once and the owner had it full of flowers sitting in the space where the seat was, it looked great! Ju, I have killed too many Hens and Chicks to ever try them again. :P Joe is pulling out the beans out of the patch, so I guess two bushes plus is enough! Now I can move my peppers and tomatoes to that area.. YAY!
Rose from my youngest re-blooming, caster bean bloom, Started in winter..the bean patch and wild blackberries with ipomoea pandurata.
Out front there used to be a very tall cedar tree, now here is the oleander and other tropicals hanging out until Fall. Man, I miss that shade the tree put out, but the mess was horrible from the berries and falling crap right into the gutters and messing up my rain barrel water. Joe will be un-assembling this pile in Fall, and It will prolly be just grass , next.
Wow Debra, that rose is a raving thing of beauty
Hen and chicks are nice but sometimes fickle , usually setting them and leaving them alone works best , I was surprised to find they don't like all day sun or where it is super hot ,
I have two trees that have to be cut not entirely down one of them ,
A few trees are well , Difficult to mow or grow near ,
A couple today
Cardinal flower Beginning
dayily 2 and 3
yellow pear Tomato (there's more
Tuerosa (butterfly weed
Hot out now
Nice looking photo's Debra
