My Sexy Lady is putting out its last blooms. Soon all my plants will stop blooming after a riot of color all summer. I took this today, it was so overcast.
My last days of color!
Lovely, Kell...you sure have alot of color!!! A picture to keep in your heart and mind over winter, waiting until spring! Maybe even on your computer too!! I love it!!
Kell, What is the purple blooming in the background? Beautiful. Jeanette
Beautiful picture, Kell. I love the many colors.
At least your going out with a BANG!!! Love all the colors. Our temps are going down to 36F with frost tonight. I'm ready to cry. It's way to early.
Your gardens are beautiful Kell. I've been trying to mimic your gardens this summer, but mine do not look anything like yours. I think I'm a little impatient with them.
Paradise........beautiful Kell.
Awesome color Kell. I love your pictures and am always amazed at all the color you have.
That is one gorgeous picture, Kell. Boy, do you get the blooms from all your plants.
Edited to say that you must feed them all super super super duper bloom buster.
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Gorgeous Brug! Plus, all your other flowering shrubs are putting on quite a show too!
That's beautiful Kell. Do you have time to give us a virtual garden tour?
Your garden is beautiful! I love the colors.
Sexy Lady is beautiful!!!
Just gorgeous, as usual, Kell! I thought you were several weeks away from cold weather?
beautiful Kell..
My heart is breaking too having to bid farewell to my plants - we are getting frost tonight :-(
I nearly cried last night when I had to cut my 8ft Mandevilla vines (3 of them) that were still dripping with blooms. I had to bring the pots in to winter over. Tonight my brugs will go in the barn and be brought out again tomorrow. I will probably have to cut them down (into cuttings) this weekend...I sure hate early frosts...
Last night I found myself flipping through the 2004 seed catalogs from last winter - planning ahead for next year...sigh...
Diane Krny
Sexy Lady is a knockout!! Your garden is to die for. I'm green with envy!!
well if anyone finds out how to knock your age back about twenty years let me know, I just learned of Brugs, and Datura and I am soooo hooked, just wish I were younger and could get a garden like Kell, but I bet I will have those Brugs, and Dats blooming next year.even if I hafta buy a full grown plant *LOL*
Kareoke -- you should have no trouble getting blooms next Spring, considering you have seeds started already...
Kell your summer has ended too?? A hummer would be in hog heaven in your yard with all the red. It is so beautiful. What are those plants??
Hi Kell, great year of pictures that you have given us. I can't wait for Spring to see what you will have for us.
I would love to just wander around your yard!
Me too Root. It looks like a jewel box garden.
Of coarse,I think I would need my pants with big pockets and some clippers.
What a gorgeous splash!
With a finish like that, you'll really be inspired to start digging in the spring!
You are right Gretchen, we won't get a frost here till January or February (I hope). But it is getting colder, down to 60s some days and 40s and 50s at night. All my tropicals will go dormant soon or at least stop blooming. So Sad!!
Thanks for all the encouragement. I never seem to get things to match, but I love big splashes of bright color and if they clash, all the better! I love Miss Lizzy's description! LOL.
And Kareoke don't worry, it only takes a year or 3 to get really productive trees. Very special ones!!
Delecie, thanks for wanting to see more. I will take some more pics today of my courtyard. These all are in my courtyard and they are all in pots. I am hoping for some blue sky to add some great color. Here is a fuller view of my first pic.
Jeanette, I had to go look up the name of that purple tree. LOL. I always think of the name as a potato bush. It is a Solanum rantonnetii. I love it. I have 3 huge ones, each is placed on another side of my yard and one sculptured one in my front bed. They are a mass of purple all season long. The one you are looking at, I have shaped so it is a tree with one thick trunk. They have a tendency to be a bush but are easily trained into whatever you want. It is the only thing in the picture that is not in a pot but directly in the ground.
So you can see it is as tall or might even be taller now than my roof!
Kell...here's some blue sky for you!!! Just a click away with photoshop!
BTW...this is Kells photo!
Wow, Kell. My Solanum rantonnetii looks like a little seedling compared to yours. I know I need to move to warmer climate. LOL
Just beautifull, Sorry the weather getting so cold already your way. Thanks for sharing all that color, It's the way I like it also.
Kell
your yard doesn't look overcast on my screen :-)
Dick
Strever...now THAT is a beautiful sky !!!
Very pretty, Kell! I love bougainvillea, and it loves our hot summers. Every year, I promise myself that I won't bring home any more unnamed ones, and every year I manage to rescue at least one. I found one in a broken hanging basket at Lowe's this summer, marked down to 50 cents, and destined to die without repotting. It has green-on-green variegated leaves, they looked exactly like Juanita Hatten leaves, then it started blooming with white bracts!
LOL. I love those blue skies. I am going to ask for one of these programs for Christmas. Thanks Margie and Dick. So Dick which program was it that made the clouds for you, photo shop also? You really can't believe your eyes anymore! LOL
I only took a few pictures early this morning then a friend called. Then all day long I was talking to people without a break so I didn't get to take those pics. I still haven't viewed the ones I did take to see if they are worth showing. I will look in a while.
Ahelms, that tree is about 20 years old! LOL So do not feel bad!
I love bougainvillea also Ronna. I bought a new kind this year that is not in the pic that is an almost a black red. I just loved it all summer. I have another one that supposedly is the same kind as the one in the picture, but it has remained a glowing orange with pink overtones. They last so long. I also have one that is white with a hint of pink blush. If I could I would have one of each kind available. Where do you over winter them?
Here is a gorgeous one!
Kell
i use Paint Shop Pro
the newest version is PSP9
thanks Pict Lady
Kell your plants even look good at sunset :-)
Dick
In less than a month my house will turn into a jungle! Plants in the living room, bedrooms, kitchen, bathrooms. Last year I took over one room (10' x 14') in the basement, this year I'm taking the big room (16' x 20') in the basement, too. Brugs and oleanders can go in the unheated basement, but bougainvilleas are happier in the living room and bedrooms. I'm lucky enough to have big windows, although my DH grumps that you can't look out any of them in the winter. Not entirely true, I always leave a spot for Jake (our german shepherd) to look outside. The first year that we had him I didn't leave him a spot and he made his own!
Sounds like our house. This year I have to leave a spot for Callie, our cat. The only problem is that she prefers a spot that I need for hibiscus and we are fighting over who is going to get it. I think I'll win in the end, but she isn't liking it.
LOVE the sunset photo, Dick, really pretty - red in the sky and the lower right plant are so similar in color, wow, really beautiful...
So lets compare the real blue sky with the fake!
No comparison! Glad you're having such a pretty day -- its a clear, blue sky day here too. Love it!!!
Great picture. Wish our skies were blue. Nothing but clouds and rain here.
I love having the fakes as back ups when the photo is otherwise perfect, as yours was, Kell, but the 'true blue' will always make my heart go pitty pat...