show us beginners your blooms

Still another view (closeup) of Agastache 'Tutti Frutti'.

Aster 'Monch' (I have 3 of them and this is one of them). Love it!

Agastache 'Desert Sunrise' (High Country introduction) with Salvia 'Wild Thing' and Salvia 'Indigo Spires'.

10/3/06 late afternoon.

Another view of Agastache aurantiaca 'Coronado', Agastache mexicana 'Acapulco Salmon & Pink', 'Mystic Spires Blue' Salvia, Dianthus 'Firewitch', Salvia 'Raspberry Delight' and Agastache 'Red Fortune'.

10/3/06 late afternoon.

Salvia ‘Maraschino’.

10/3/06 late afternoon.

Closeup of Autumn Sage 'Rosea' (Salvia greggii) with Agastache rupestris (Sunset Hyssop).

coral penstemon

notmartha and Marilynbeth...................what a show you have put on for us.............keep it coming............oh, the fun of gardening...

I just went back through this thread and there are so many of you who have sent in fabulous and exciting pics..deanna and all the rest....don't want to leave anyone out!!! they are much appreciated by all who have viewed!!

blue garden

veronica

another veronica with yellow green leaves

my sweetest day rock in the blue garden

spiderwort

delphiniums

bearded iris and bachelor buttons

OH I like that combination!

Beautiful flowers and bardens Notmartha.

What are the names of the flowers in your blue gardens?

What are the names of the 2 Veronicas?

Marilyn

the names are under the snow if i still have the tags-I only save names for -daylilies,hostas,coralbells,toadlilies,iris,and some of the roses!

this is a veronica gen(something) i remember that
blue flax in the background

'Gay Butterflies' Butterfly Weed in Orange. Lavender 'Blue Cushion' on the left.

6/13/06 photo.

gas plant

wisteria in Michigan! :) 9yrs from planting to bloom!!!

now im off to get busy-daylily seeds to plant

Here's a closeup of the some of the flowers of Orange 'Gay Butterflies' Butterfly Weed.

I was wondering what the butterfly weed plant as a whole looked like. Thank you for posting these pictures. Seeing the whole plant helps me visualize where I can place these in my border.

Cordele,

Here's the flowerbed that orange Butterfly Weed is in. It's on the far right of the bed. All that orange is the Butterfly Weed (it's next to the Lavender).

Marilyn





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Cordele,

Here's another view of the orange BF Weed.

Here's another look at it.

Cordele,

If you're interested in planting a Milkweed, which is a 'relative' of the BF Weed, here's one look of 'Soulmate', so you can get an idea of what it will look like in your garden.

Great for the Monarch BF's and the host plant for their 'babies'. I have it in the same bed at the other end.

This is one of my clumps of Crocosmia 'Lucifer'. It attracts the wonderful and beautiful Hummingbirds.

6/30/06.

Cordele,

Here's a 'good' look of the orange BF Weed

Closeup of Veronica 'Pink Damask'. Beautiful! I love it!

Lavender 'Grosso' is in the background.

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Another look at Crocosmia 'Lucifer'. The Hummingbirds will sometimes sit on the stems for a perch. I try to have some other perches for them to be able to sit around 'their' flowers.

A pic of some of my potted containers last year.

The 3 potted plants that are in front and to the left are different Salvias that bloom later.

Edited to add...

The tomato cage in the last pot in front to the left is not for a tomato plant. I added it for a Salvia plant in case the Hummers (songbirds wanted to use it too last Summer). As the Salvia grew bigger and taller, the cage disappeared.

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Heliopsis 'Summer Sun' among Liatris 'Kobold', Echinecea 'Fragrant Angel', Echinecea 'Bravado', a Gaura, Echineceas 'Sundown' and 'Sunrise' on July 1, 2006.

Other flowers are in this bed that aren't shown.

Here's another view of the flowerbed.

Different Salvias are in front, Veronica ‘Royal Candles’ to the right.

Closeup of Salvia 'Black and Blue' and Salvia patens 'Blue Angel' next to each other on the patio last June.

Marilynbeth.................you must have the most managed and biggest garden I have ever seen............those salvias and even the butterfly plant which we have down here seem to be prettier than 'our butterfly plants;

Gail,

Thanks for your nice comments!

We don't have a big garden and/or big yard - it's 68" wide by 110" (or 115") long and that's including the house that sits on it. We also have a side entry for our driveway (so that take's away gardening space).

It's definitely not managed. LOL, I wish!

Marilyn

Salvia 'Navajo Pink'.

Picked this up at a local store (a very large food/non food - one stop shopping store) last Summer. It was in an 8 or 10 inch pot and I didn't know if it was hardy for my zone, so I placed it into a 14" pot on the patio. When I found this Salvia, there was only one pot and only this color of Salvia left.

Beautiful!

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Gail,

Here's a Milkweed that is likely to be hardy in your garden, 'Silky Red'. It's not in mine.

The purple flowers around it are Verbena Bonariensis.

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