What's Growing - Part 6

Anita - what was the large dahlia in your collage? I know you know.
The other ones are nice too.

Pixie - nice collage - did I say something about lillies ;)

Mexican red hats

I really don't know the names of any of my dahlia's - it was never important to me. I chose them for their colors. A few of them are repeats that I saved from previous years.

Not repeats!

Oh - repeats good.

One of the little big city's in his best pose

cool, that dahlia is almost as big as his head (cute kid, al. you grow them good, too). love the red hats, too. you come up with something new every day

Here are some from this morning...

Anita, a whole different look today, and every bit as pretty. the gorgeous colors in the thumbnail just grab you so you can't wait to see the big one. is that dahlia one of your wintersown ones? i've really got to try wintersowing this year.

Is the upper right hand flower a Candy Lily?

Ok. Anitabryk. What kind of camera do you use? I could never do that with my hokey little Canon. They are beautiful- what are middle right and left blue-purple?

Little Bigcity makes me laugh. What a cutie. Love the mexican red hats too.

Pixie- boy is that story the truth!

I have some golden thyme and always thought it was a non-blooming variety...not so

Al ~ Love the Red Hats and thats one BIG dahlia!
Anita ~ Beautiful pics. as usual, great shot of the butterfly!
Gram ~ I really like that thyme, cute little clusters of flowers. What a nice suprise that it blooms!!

This is "Real Wind" in full bloom today, it really catches my eye when I walk by this bed.


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Al,Does little big city share your sense of humour?
Anita, again, you are talented.

Littlecity does have a sense of humor, better than his mom that's for sure.

I can scare something up today.

calendula

Anita - your box plants are nice, if only you had more coneflowers.


so I've got 8 months to take this photo, but it caught my eye as I walked by

Pixie, the main color on your Real Wind is the color I have my interior walls painted (yep, the whole house). maybe a little paler. it was called crazy coral and the builder and painter thought I was nuts, but DH trusts my color sense (silly man). you know everybody paints their walls some shade of eggshell, ivory, off-white. it worked unbelieveably well. I admit I was a little nervous until it was done. what draws me initially to flowers is the color. works out to be a really great neutral. here's a pic I took this morning of one of my orchids against the coral wall (the color isn't true in the pic...trust me, it matched the DL)

gram

edit: whoa, just read this back and realized how boring it is...please feel free to ignore...it's like I was thinking out loud

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Gram, what makes yoiu think that was boring? I read it, and found it interesting. Silly.

Al, very cool picture! Really. Good eye. By the way, I believe that Mrs. Bigcity must certainly have a sense of humor, if you know what I mean.

Well, here's my problem. My second dahlia bloom happened. But look at it. The poor thing is a little deformed.

Jack-o-lantern

Thanks Nancy. It is always frustrating when that happens on the first flower. Dahlias sometimes have their best flower as the first or later on - it's a guessing game. You'll get another shot at it I'm sure. It bugs me more on perennials that flower more slowly.

speaking of bugs, they are everywhere

here's a new one- Haley Jane

Yes Al, Bugs are everywhere.
Candy Lily.
Andy P

Another Candy Lily. Isn't this plant also called blackberry lily?

I think they are two different plants yankee..I'll look it up...

yup..I thought I remembered that correctly...
Blackberry lily is a frost-tender bulb that needs to be dug up in the fall in Iowa to overwinter indoors. It will self seed, however, it can take 4-6 years to produce flowers from seed. The flowers of blackberry lily are very similar to a new hybrid flower called candy lily (Pardancanda norrisii), which is a cross between blackberry lily and Pardanthopsis dichotoma. The biggest difference between the two plants is that blackberry lily's flowers are larger and candy lily's flowers come in more color choices. If you are looking for an easy to grow bulb that will flower late in summer, blackberry lily can add a touch of the exotic to your garden

There is Pardancanda and Belancanda. I don't know the difference.
I have the Pardancanda. The yellow above and a few fancy spotted like yours, Yank.
Andy P

I don't have either of those. I should get one of them I guess.

this was the bug shot I wanted - but couldn't get a good focus on that squirmer.

Andy, Yankee are the candy lilies hardy for you? they're very pretty. do you have them in full sun or part? I could use some color about now.

Al, We know Mrs. Bigcity can take a joke.

So I guess mine is a Candy Lily. It is very hardy here in 6b. I scattered the seeds last fall and have lots of new Candy Lillies that are blooming this year - the snap I took is of one of the new ones. Here is a picture of the whole plant - it is about 16" tall and the leaves look like an Iris - but grow like a leek - kind of braided.

Yank, those were planted from seed last Fall?
They must be very happy, mine have never been that robust.
Andy P

Only 1 today Ivy


Catherine Woodbury

Yank, thanks for the info and the pic. I think I need to get some. that's pretty good that they are blooming this year from seed. gee, you must have a green thumb, but I think we knew that ;-))

OK, I broke down and took some pics.
Anemone getting ready.

Can someone tell me the name of this daylily?

Bob?

Or this one? Fred?

I'll look in my big book of 10,000 daylillies and get back to you.

tetra black beauty?

Back door garden

My favorite rose of sharon

Lousy picture of fishies

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I think they are great Dave. Good job!
Hey Al - you mean you don't have all the daylilies commited to memory?

I thought Pixie might know them.

If your interested, I posted more garden shots (less individual flowers) on the perennial thread about flowerbeds.

Ohmygod, Dave! What absolutely, fantastic gardens!