This morning's rain lilies
after the rain
Yet to open
more- color is pale pink, but it is washed out in photo- these are the ones w/ very large flowers.
Pink banana- will open later this summer
Oh cool April--now I need to go check mine on the side of the house--I was beginning to wonder if they EVER were going to bloom. That first shot is fantastic!
Debbie
This is Twilight, one of The Big Sky series, next to bulbine tangerine and 1 year old Pride of Barbados seedling, was supposed to be Pink but clearly is not.
Deb it's all in the camera not the photographer- if you take 500 shots one is bound to be good!
Walking Iris
Walking Iris- I have this one and the yellow and while the yellow is more floriferous I think this one is prettier- I don't have the huge one, but would like to get one but have to decide 1st where to put it- might have to make more beds and really annoy my landowner!
Does Pride of Barbados come in pink? They are pretty easy for me to do from seed--gave all mine away at the RU--have about 7 or 8 seeds left--save me some of yours please.
That twilight looks really good--you know my penchant for echies...lol
Does the twilight, in your opinion, do better than the sunrise, sunset, or evan saul? Do you want or have any whites? At first I hated this color combination--but it has grown on me--I think next year I'll plant something "pink" around the white echies..lol
How could they ever be annoyed with what your growing--you've added invaluable worth to their property. Now I'll come help you dig all those plants up if you ever have to move...lol
Oh let me tell you this guy is a real jerk! He had this big corner lot w/ nothing on it and in the front the builders had planted wax myrtles for foundation plants- gee they only get to 20 feet! This guy had let them get so overgrown that you couldn't see the house, the front door or house number. I trimmed and prunned and hacked and cut; I added a bed on the side of the house- I guess that obstructed the view of the brick, foundation, gas meter and faucet; in the front I added a very small (2 plants) rose bed and on the long side of the lot I made a bed to break things up- yes it's awful to have to mow around everything, but this jerk tells me he's mad because I "ruined" the look! I asked what look, the look of an abandoned home? The look of a home w/ great hiding places for potential burgalers (sp)? Every one on the block has stopped by my house to tell me how great it looks since I moved in and the owner move out! He told me that he was going to have remove everything when we moved. Before that I'd hoped to make this guy an offer and buy the home when our lease was up, but since that I have no intention of staying and I will be digging up everything I can and I will leave gapping holes without a care! Some people are just ...hmm, Debbie, what's the word I am thinking of?
Coyotes.....
of course, those wax myrtles and other 'Houston landscape builders packages' plants are totally unsuited to the area. I could walk out front and take you about a million pictures of all those plants in various stages of death on my street alone.
Now here's the girl that laughed in the builder's face when he wanted to sell me a $2000-$4000 landscapers package....there was nothing but sod when I closed 12 years ago.
And here's the house across the street--just like mine, different front facade--2 years younger--$2000 landscaper's package.
And these folks directly across the street bought the $4000 builders package. Lovely wax myrtles, cypress, and hacked oleanders don't you think?
You could show your landlord this one and ask if he's prefer his place look like this on for lease....
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Coyote? Is that the best you could come up w/? LOL I was thinking of something a bit more stinging!
Gee who's house looks better...eneie menie minie moe I'd rather live in Debbies' home cause I hate the look of those stupid hacked up crape myrtles! and the other house, gee that's attractive. LOL. I have commented so often on the stupidity of landscape packages- where do they hire these guys. Actually I think they go to the growers locally and say what do you have that is really cheap because this is my budget and this is the number I need. My other house, that I loved and do not have, the builder had planted gardenias as foundation plants...of course they didn't make it, too alkaline at the foundation and of course they all love to plant Indian Hawthorne...don't get me wrong I love Gardenias but not as foundation plants, and I love Indian Hawthorne but in Houston they are nothing but scale magnets and you can tell as you drive along and see the huge numbers of them that look dreadful! Builders! What do they know?
Your yard looks lovely and lush!
It was the best the editors would let me get away with--actually those are red oleanders hacked to look like crepe myrtles? Indian hawthorne makes my alergies go bozo when it blooms.
Oh my mistake, I guess I just couldn't imagine any one planting oleanders in that setting? crape myrtle either unless it was the entrance to a huge gated estate, but then what do I know? LOL.
But you were thinking more than coyote, weren't you?
sure was...I swear your beginning to read my mind
LOL, how hard is that, it's like visiting my own. LOL.
Speaking of coyotes and good looking men--if you have cable icontrol check out 'Triston and Isolde' lots of good looking coyotes, I mean men; no, I think I do mean coyotes; regardless--watch the movie...
I love the weekends--I have the whole house to myself for 2 days--I think its a trend too, third week in a row....gives me the whole week to 'run the roads'.
See, I'm not highjacking--I went out and looked--may rain lillies look like aneorexic lirope.....
UHHH I completely missed your question about Pride of Bar... yeah it comes in yellow and also pink- at least I have seen photos, but so far can't say that I have been able to produce it. Still trying. I am not sure seed will produce it...it's a hybrid from what I understand and therefore in my opinion won't bloom true from seed yet many sources sell seed. I will save seed- I have one from same seed batch that produced all yellow flower- I killed it; 2 others which haven't bloomed -perhaps they will this year and I will see.
My daughter hates yellow and white together, me I like it, it looks clean and fresh- I don't have the white. This is my 1st experience w/ the big sky ech. so I can't say one is better. My only other coneflower is the ordinary purple/pink and I planted it last fall, it's doing very well- heck what's not to love?
Here are my yellow rain lilies- Deb sorry that your's look so bad- I did note that a couple of my variaties look awful until a bit later in the season- in fact early on they look like they are dead or nonexistent, not sure why.
Mine looks fine its just not blooming--in fact very healthy leaf growth--but I did take it out of a pot and into the ground this spring (maybe Feb).
Pride of Barbados is red/orange and yellow at the same time--bicolor blooms. Just save me the seed of what you have.
Yes will save the seed but I tell you it does come in solid yellow- I have some in the front and also there is another variety, I also have it, it's all yellow w/ bright red, long stamens and this one is more drought tolerent and has a nice fragrance-
That's a new Pride of Barbados to me--very pretty though!
This is the all yellow
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/48321/
This is one that I have a zillion of, from seed
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/2120/index.html
and the pink one on venders site (not where I purchased seed)
http://toptropicals.com/cgi-bin/garden_catalog/cat.cgi
and
http://www.edirectory.co.uk/chilternseeds/pages/moreinfo.asp?pe=CDIDFFAQ_+caesalpinia+pulcherrima+pink&cid=211
(also not where I bought my seeds.
The esperanza and the rudbeckias make enough yellow around here.
Did you buy the seed for the pink (in which case it probably will be pink) or trade for the pink (which is always a gamble in my opinion)?
I think I've got seeds for white swan echinacea I'll start for you--somebody else was saying they wanted some or couldn't get them to grow from seed. So I can probably take some to RU too.
I'm thinking of taking some cuttings from a few of my tomato plants. They look really healthy just setting smaller and smaller fruit--maybe if this trend of cooler than normal and wetter than normal summer temps continues, I can get any earlier fall harvest on them AND get them away from my rangoon creeper. Seems a lot easier than messing with the seeds on them. Any thoughts? Then I can save the seed germinating mix, etc for the really more valuable perennial seeds.
Waiting for the kid to leave for work then going out their to start some of:
1. clitorea ternatea vine (these were from trades--supposedly have) single blue, double blue, and white (doesn't say single or double)
2. Have 2 clematis vines: radar love-yellow and another clematis serratifolia (also suppose to be yellow) does this interest you? Got enough yellow here.
3. Already have solanum seaforthianum germinate in my "big seedling bed pot" lol
4. also have asarina erubescens--pink blooms...mine has not bloomed yet but is that vigourous vine behind the zinnias in my last fire ant post.
Not vines:
1. Texas Star hibiscus--I need more. want some?
2. Penstamen-native kind--want to get these good size before fall
3. plumeria hawaiian hybrids
4. look here found a pkg of african violetrs--says 'fantasy hybrids' will try them for you
5. what is toadflax? does it grow here?
6. some supposedly red heirllom amaryllus
7. may as well try some hinckley's yellow columbine
8. have some red brugs and some white belle blanche seeds. I'm not into brugs--are you?
9. shasta daisies for fall
10. got 2 kinds of coreopsis--not an exciting plant in my mind but maybe good for RU
11. echinacea magnus--I'm not seeing the white one--may have to get some seeds off this one thats blooming
Debbie
go to the propogation thread for that link to charleys
Well you are going to be busy aren't you?
I mowed the front, after flinging poo...reminds me of that stupid series of jokes from my childhood...did you hear about the book "49 Steps to the Outhouse" by Who Flung Poo- ok, juvenlie I know but can't help it, sometimes I slip back in time.
Here is a better photo of the apricot colored rain lilies
I am starting to get into brugs, someone traded me cuttings and they have rooted well and plants are a couple feet high, also did some by seed, so they are kind of small.
Would be happy to come into some yellow clematis.
I wonder which red amaryllis you have. I have one call voodo, my daughter has one called School House or something like that. Folks across the street have some they can't recall name of, that I often see- I think it's heirloom and extremely hardy- though I never have problems w/ any of mine and I bought lots of hybrids.
I can't remember what toadflax is but I think it's good for here and if I remember is something that's nice.
I bought the pink pride of barbados seeds specifically because they were pink- I like the regular, it's one of my favorites, I got the yellow w/ red stamens accidently and bought the all yellow thinking they were the yellow w/ red- my all yellows aren't all that happy I have dug them up and replanted them so many times that they are afraid to put down a tap root- LOL.
My yellow w/ red next to TS Tangerine- make sure you have a good spot for your, the cuttings have already been blooming.
Schoolhouse lily...if its the same thing (blooms about labor day-long grasslike growth until about May) as what i have is also called Oxblood lillies...they are rather hard to get a hold of and valuable....rhodophiala bifada
nice pride of barbados but even nicer piece of garden art--did you make that? what does it mean?
If you haven't ordered that rooting hormone maybe we can put in a double order and at least save the postage?
Yes that's it I think Oxblood and schoolhouse- can't remember where she found hers and not sure if that's what my neighbors have- dang those people who don't know what they plant- oops, my bad how many times have I done that?
Yes lets go in on an order!
The art means "DOG, get the %&$##* out of my yard! AND don't &&*^$#@! in my yard anymore lest the coyotes come and bite your scrawny litlle ^%$&!"- no I didn't make it, don't know how to cut metal, don't know how to weld, don't own an acetyline torch- though wish I could say yes. Have no idea what it means but am pretty sure it has nothing to do w/ coyotes.
maybe zen for coyotes?
April, I just got echie Twilight, and I selected it because the pic showed it as a cherry red (or hot pink, something like that). Yours looks like a regular one. Do you think it might be a case of first year blooms? How long have you had yours? where planted?
The tag that came w/ the plants said hardy to z8. I sure as heck hope that is wrong, or else I just wasted some money.
All my yellows are open this morning.
Vos
I don't think it's correct, it's hardy to here I am certain. I have Twilgiht, Sunset, Sunrise and Sundown and the photo that I posted was Sunset- my bad. The tag on Twilight is more cherry. All of these are new plants and Sunset is the 1st to bloom of my 4 Big Sky; the tag shows it to be more orange than Twilight and actually a deeper orange than it is; however, the flowers have been open for a bit and may have faded, also they are young plants so could be 1st year- I am sure that you didn't waste the money.
April--
Here's my contribution to the rain lily discussion--not a bloom here. It is in the swale; I thought it would be happy here---but alas, I guess it didn't like being yanked out of that nice cozy pot.
Getting kinda sticky out today, huh? The rain's got the southern magnolia blooming....
Well they look healthy! Very sticky. Glad that my work days are 1/2 days- start at nine and done by 1:00- but then I come home and work in the yard! Hey I will happily take a cutting of your Zebra!!!
Will do--hope you got a big corner for it. Also going to root Black Prince--my favorite tasting one this summer
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/99309/index.html
Would you like one of those too? I also have the Hard Rocks (roma type) that was in that bag. I'm of two minds on that variety...iut was a productive as all get out but the flavor leaves something to be desired...good for cooking chili with in the fall, I guess.
I had it in a clay pot--should have left it there. The small bulbs do much better for me in a pot. The oxblood lillies do too.
Debbie