Nice photos turbo! I'd like to create a water garden!
Lily the triple yellows are beautiful!
What still looks good in your garden?
More beautiful pictures!
I haven't ever seen a triple datura before. Very unique.
I love looking at all the pictures. Turbo do you know the name of your Hibiscus? That is beautiful. I would love to get one like that next spring. I love the color. That would look so pretty blended in with some purple blooming plants.
I still have a lot of things blooming right now. I haven't had time to take pics. I've been in the yard all day potting up plants for winter and taking lots of cuttings.
My white Brug has buds/pods. This will be my first blooms! I do hope it will hurry up and bloom before a hard frost. I can hardly wait to see the blooms. I have waited all summer long for this show. lol
Lin
Lin I know what you mean. I lost so many of my Ecuador Pink buds that I never thought I'd see it bloom. The last 2 finally made it all the way but every time a bud fell off I almost cried!
Daturas are on my list for next year!
This is blooming, but I don't know what it is....any idea? It's about 3' tall and will die back in the winter.
Turbo,
The plant to the top left of your water garden, what's it called? I have a leggy one of those that someone insisted I adopt and nurse back to life. It has buds all along the woody stem, and I'm wondering if it will root if I cut it into segments?
Gym..I think you are talking about my Croton(Codiaeum variegatum var. pictum). Mine has done really well in the container. It gets partial sun in the morning..and a little bit in the evening..Most of the day it is pretty much shaded. I have been thinking of putting mine in the ground, but my friend did hers..and it just hasnt looked as well since. Our soil is very acidic(sp?)...so maybe that's the deal..I think I just talked myself into just going to yet another, bigger container. I have had to repot it twice since purchasing it as a small twiggy thing back in July. I am still learning about gardening, so one of the more educated folks on here can tell ya bout rooting it and all that. I have pruned mine back, little bits at a time, whenever it would start to look "haggard" to me! I do just love the different colors in it though!
Dancey..I am thinking the Hibiscus is "Carolina Breeze". Dont hold me to it..Tell ya what..If nobody else can tell ya for sure..I will call my friend at my local nursery and ask her. She keeps a log of all my purchases..what..when..how much! I ADORE the color. That was THE reason I picked it. I think my Dwarf Red Fleming is my next fave..I have 4 so far..I think they have to be one of the prettiest plants of all time!!
I had a really pretty Datura..I mean, it was just beautiful and bloomed repeatedly..but, I gave it to one of my best friends. It was trying to take too much of the "spotlight" from my water garden..LOL!
Fly great plant/flowers but I don't know what it is.
Tb, what's the Red Fleming?
April, does the Datura die in the winter?
This little Leopard plant....L. tussilaginea is blooming now
Fly that is a very pretty flower- I like that one.
You know I can't really tell you what happens to the datura in the winter because this will be the 1st winter. Mine are in pots and I will drag them into the garage should any inclement weather come my way.
That's it!!!! "my 'Fireman's Cap' aka 'Coral Tree' aka 'Cry Baby Tree'-" That's the tree in somebody's yard I have thought was gorgeous ! I used to see it every day when I took my daughter to school. One day I saw them outside and stopped to ask what it was... they had no idea. It was already there when they bought the house. I have looked and looked for what it was called. Thanks aprilwillis !
Well I am glad I could help.
Ruttyruspolia 'Phyllis Van Heeden'
X Ruttyruspolia
Went outside and took some pics of a few things still looking good outside. Here is my pink salvia, can't find the tag for this one. Don't mind the mulch in the background...lol.
Kim
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Double purple daturas still blooming strong.
Kim
These blue asters are just beautiful. I got these at the CS roundup in the spring and I love them! My green spider as moved down from where he was before to these, guess he likes them too!
Kim
And this rose bush has been blooming its head off all summer, despite my neglect. Can't remember the name offhand. It's putting out new growth all over right now.
Kim
And my thunbergia grandiflora is full of buds, just now starting to open up.
Kim
blue eyes, your pictures are beautiful. I especially like the double purple datura, that is stunning!!
Those asters are gorgeous especially with the Lynx on them.
Kim, I love that blue aster photo....and your big mama Lynx Spider seems to like it too. Keep an eye out for an egg case that she may be hiding under some leaves, or may be soon. I have a big mama sitting on her second egg case while her first batch of babies are still scurrying around her and the nest. :) Thanks for sharing such wonderful photos. :)
Melanie
Turbo thanks for the name of your beautiful hibiscus. I've got it written down so I can try and order one for next spring.
I also have a Crouton plant. Mine is huge and beautiful right now. I have mine in a pot and will have to repot it next spring to a larger pot. The bright colors are so vivid.
Kim your blue asters and rose are beautiful!
Lin
You guys are so lucky...I found a couple more lol
This is Brazilian Plume Flower
Shrimp plant...this plant blooms for a long time!
Fly your Brazillian Plume is loverly!
Blue eyes that rose is gorgeous! and double purples look more like tripples when I compare them to my doubles. Good for you, sad for me!
fly_girl, I love that brazilian plume flower. Wow!
aprilwillis....for all I know it could be a triple. I bought the seedling in the spring at the TAMU horticulture club sale. It's been blooming like that nonstop. However, there are some differences in the blooms, some will come out like the ones pictured, some will be almost all white, and some will be singles. Always a surprise!
:) Kim
Where do you guys get your plants? I'm so tired of the box stores and Houston Garden Center...they just have the run of the mill stuff.....I want some plants that are different. I know I could order online, but then I wonder if they will do well in our extreme summers.
Thanks, April!
That Thunbergia is pretty and the rose!
My double purple and white daturas (yes mine come out some what different too- single or double, darker in the beginging of the season and these last few have had birth defects, poor things) were seed I bought from some place on line.
Some I have been lucky enough to get from DGers- nice because it allows you to experiment w/o significant cost- price of postage or trading is much better than the cost of some plants.
Other plants I have gotten from local nurseries that "specialize" in natives- but always carry other things. I like Buchannans, Joshua, Another Place in Time in the Heights- Debbie knows another in the Heights that she took me to but I don't recall the name.
There is also one in Tomball that I have not been too but hear is very good. Also the Enchanted Forest/Enchanted Garden in Richmond & Caldwells in Rosenberg or Richmond are nice and usually have a good selection of interesting plants.
Occassionally I buy from Lowes, HD or Houston Garden Center, but they usually carry very little that is unusual.
Some of my older plants I bought from folks on ebay years ago- there are some interesting plants, you have to be willing to lose or pay and unfortunately I find that most of what I bought on Ebay ends up costing more than if I'd been willing or able to find it locally.
I won't admit to it publicly but I have pinched a seed pod here and there.
Also I have purchased lots of stuff from various nurseries on line- I try to figure out if they will do well here by (of course) the zone info and then asking my daughter, she knows everything, just ask her, if it will live here. Also check on the plantfiles to see if anyone in my area or zone has had luck w/ it. I first became familliar w/ DG because I was looking things up on plantfiles to find if they'd grow in the area.
A lot of the time I figure that I am so much better at growing than anybody (yeah right) or that my genetic green thumbs (sometimes I think they skipped a generation) can make anything to grow.
Does that help? LOL.
Thanks April, that helps, there just aren't many nurseries around here, that's part of the problem.
Agree, may have to move to NC, Washington or some other place that has nice nurseries.
blue eyes, My double purple does the same thing. Some blooms are ruffleyer than others and more white and sometimes a single will appear on that same plant. One of them does anyway and it is from seeds of the original just like all the others along that row. I thought it was deformed too. :)
FlyGirl, have you been to Arbor Gate in Tomball ?. It isn't too far from the Woodlands..I drove down from College Station for a seminar and really liked it.nancy
April--that place in the Heights you liked with the pond in the front and they gave us the cuphea cuttings was called the Backyard Gardener.
I plan on going to check it out, it's about 30 miles from me. I've heard nice things about it. Did you think they had some unusual plants?
Debbie thanks! I knew you knew what it was. I thought they had nice offerings- by the way did your cuttings take, sadly mind did not! : (
Buchanan's is delightful. I discovered it just this summer.
yes April.
They just haven't grown that much--left them in the shade until end of Sept--perhaps too long.
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Debbie have you posted a photo to plant file?? You could become the only source of them!!! I know I'd buy.
No; not yet. I hadn't thought of that one.