show us beginners your blooms

I get so inspired by these wonderful pics....am wondering how many salvias I could grow in zone 9?? also, notmartha, what cultivar of sweet williams grow this tall?????????

Notmartha, what a lovely setting that garden is!

The sweet williams are the reds and pinks just past the fountain
Foxglove right behind the fountain-leaning becuz of a strong wind storm
Tall seedpod is rhubarb!

Murmur thanks! I have put lots of work into the gardens.
here is a peek at the iris beds

Murmur,

That's an Agastache 'Blue Fortune' you have planted and it's doing great. Looks like you have 2 plants growing there. I love 'Blue Fortune'. I think I need to make sure mine gets more moisture than the other types of Agastaches.


Salvia 'Black and Blue' never survives the Winter each year here and I have to buy new plants each Spring.

Notmartha,

Beautiful gardens you have! I remember seeing the one that has the Iris in it from the Iris Forum! Beautiful! More work than I could do.

Hi Deb,

Glad you came over from Dave's Garden! With both Dave's Garden and Gardens.com, there are so many forums to pick from to enjoy!

So many forums, so little time!

Marilyn

Thanks, Marilyn - now I do remember - lol!!! I love your Salvia Dark Dancer.

Fabulous irises, Notmartha - I only have a few, but enjoy them thoroughly.

Salvia patens 'Blue Angel' is beautiful and a favorite of mine! Love its large blue flowers! And, I love the color blue! . I have to plant it each year, as it's not hardy here.

Cordeledawg, I just looked again at your lovely setting with your pond - I can only imagine how glorious that is going to be. You've already done an incredible amount of work, judging from your comment about cutting back all those weeds!!!!

Marilyn, I really have to check into some of your Salvia - I love my tall ones, but those shorter ones would be perfect in a number of spots. I need to make a list - lol!

Murmur,

The name of the Agastache (Blue Fortune). Sorry to be so scattered sounding!

notmartha.....i recognize them but they look like they are maybe 18" tall.....the only thing we get in the nurseries are about 6 or 8 inches tall....those are the best!!!!!

This kind is about 18in tall

painted daisy(james kelway)and lupines,allium and iris

I love Fuchsia 'Gartenmeister Bonstedt'! And the Hummers do too! I plant pots of it on my front porch every year for them. It's 'neat' watching tv and see them come up to the window to 'their' flowers! (I have the pots under the window on the porch). The get the morning sun and then, shade for the rest of the day. They are covered by the overhang of the porch.

Here is a closeup of one of the pots. I get these every year from a local nursery. I usually plant 3 to a pot, but last year I only planted 1 to a pot. Think the Hummers love the 3 to a pot, so I'll have to do that this year.

This isn't hardy here in zone 6.

Marilyn

LOl Murmur!

This is Agastache 'Red Fortune'. Beautiful! I got this locally at a nursery. I loved it so much that I got 4 one-gallon pots of it!

As you can see, I already deadheaded it some (so I can have more flowers). I might need to give it 'more moisture' than other Agastaches.

June 24, 06 pic.

Marilyn

Oh my, Notmartha, please tell me what are the short clumps of yellow flowers called? (in your Post #3141819) Just gorgeous!

Deborah♥

Gorgeous! I can see why you wanted four pots!

Cordeledawg and I posted at the same time and both used the adjective "gorgeous." Not about the same flower, but don't great minds think alike?

I have aAgastache tuti-fruity its an orangish pink
I have 2 blue Agastache kinds-one that smells like licorice and the other is more herbie smelling???

deb those are ground sedums flowering

The winding paths has inspired me to do something like that around my pond since I'm planning to make the beds deep starting from the water's edge going out into the yard. Everyone's garden shots really helps me invision the plant combinations and possibilities. Much better than a magazine. Thank y'all so much for posting, thank you for this thread. Please keep the pictures coming.
Deborah♥

Bettygail Thanks for starting this awesome thread !!

Have any of you posted some of your pictures in Plant files? Sometimes just showing the bloom doesn't give me enough of an idea of how it would work into my garden. For example seeing the picture of the painted daisies with the lupine really helps a newbie see how colors combinations work.
Deborah♥

I dont have many pics in the database just on the forums

Omigosh, Notmartha - what is that glorious Clematis? Beautiful variety of Lupine, too.

don't thank Me...I am benefiting the most!!!! You have given me so many ideas that never would have plopped into this head of mine.....I am so excited as I just received my first seed exchange and need to dmail her.
I am going next winter to try those big sweet williams...I won't forget. In the past I always grew bellis perennes during the winter months, but these Sweet Williams and all these salvias and Agastaches (for summer) have given me a new perspective on growing.
Allison, you lucky duck sitting zone 10b, those coleus are probably looking that good at this moment.....
The rain and no sun is still going on.....two more days, they say.....then I can get outside, take pics of the drab empty grounds around my house..........and get those of you on here to give me some ideas...I love your gardens a LOT!!

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the clematis is 'Dr. Ruppel'
I have no idea on the lupines! :)

here are some great cluster bellflowers that look good with all kinds of color combinations

Here is Japanese Morning Glory Hatsu Arashi from this summer.

ok last one for now-I HAVE to get busy here! Its freezing outside and I sure enjoyed ignoring it looking at the pictures!

This is the garden mid-June

I know, I'm in the middle of baking cakes. It's hard to pull away from these beautiful scenes.
Kimper, that's a goreous color of blue!

I've been gardening for the vast majority of the last 40 years - and I am constantly seeing something I've not seen before that just grabs me completely! Do you all have any idea how many plant names I have written down just from this thread???!!!

Ain't the life of a gardener just grand?

I love that color of blue also.It is hard to believe,all the different variety of flowers out there.
I have been gardening for a long time.I find it very rewarding and enjoyable.

Beautiful flowers and gardens everyone!!!

This is Lavender 'Grosso' in one of my beds. I love it! It's very fragrant too! Give it some space to look this beautiful.

Morning of July 2, 06 photo.

Marilyn

One of my flowerbeds last Summer taken July 7. I've since pulled about 5 plants out.

All these beautiful flowers amazing. Bettygail those Coleus we have had the same ones for almost 5 years. They are forever growing perris for us ! The impatients seed dropped down from hanging baskets we had for years seeding themselves growing tall in between the coleus ! Each time we moved we took a handful. It roots and grows fast. It does not always look as good in the Winter but in Spring perks right back up. We have shared it with neighbors, Mom , Mom neighbors :)) It grows bushy like shrubs !
We are lucky in five years have not seen frost, in ten years only few times we cover and have not lost anything.
This week they did say we were in a freeze warning and Hubby covered everything , Thank God we had a blanket of clouds protect us and we lowed about 45. The heat has been running most of the week though our home went to 75 today so it shut off. Next couple days 70's and rain. Rain is good were low on it.
It was amazing today , I don't get out ofetn but to see the Purple leaf Shamrock Oxlis ( real name too long for me to spel) growing and blooming away . The Mexican Marigolds I was told/Cosmos the pretty flower blooming away, Impaitents blooming, morning Glories . We need rain bad though were in a bad drought and allowed to water one day a week.
This Begonia gives us a show each year. A friend gave me a tiny peice about 4 years ago now we have a couple in garden beds and some left in our home next door we sold. Gets now special care.Loads of the prettiest pink flowers !

that begonia is drop dead gorgeous.....remember me with cuttings later on.....PLEASE...

I love these pictures when the sprinkler is on and the sun hits and glistens !
This was last summer. We don't grow as much as we use to nieght of us can do the gardening ourselves . We grow easy stuff !

Oh yes Bettygail once it gets going we only took a couple clumps when we move nov, it's growing nice next door the new owner is a plant freak he is in for a treat I can get a section with leaves and rhizome for you !

I ordered coleus seed from Jungle Seeds in the UK.....they came in today.....I will share with you sometime this summer when they get going...the new seeds I got from them are: Coleus 'Black Dragon' and Coleus "Giant Exhibition Limelight'......I also got Abutilon F1 series ....love abutilon..I also ordered two amaranthus...we will see what happens...OH....going to try "Brazilian Fireworks" , a pot plant whose botanical name is Porphyrocoma pohliana????????????????????????
Aren't everyone's pictures just the best....I have started writing down every plant I want in the salvias and other plants just from these pics