n2birds that begonia with the curl is stunning. Those leaves look to be huge. Do you know it's name? Is that one you over wintered? I fell for begonias last year and tried to overwinter a few a for the first time this year. I lost a couple, a couple just look plain sick and a couple look like they are doing okay. I really love the combo's in your containers.
Photos of container gardens
I like to group several pots together.
What is that gorgeous cork screwed plant? Very interesting!
OK, downscale_babe.....that is sooooo pretty......what else are you hiding????
downscale, I love your curly rush with the flowers. I use curly in my water garden.
Oh my goodness, i didn't know you could do this, revclaus....learning something new every day on DG....
oh my! i LOVE that curly one...
i have to find that in Plant Files...
No wonder my curly stuff never lived. So, it likes wet feet huh???
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Pots at Leu Gardens
I just love those blue pots....doesn't get any better than those shades of blue and yellow....haven't remembered that in a long time...thanks for the reminder, dale
Dale!...Another Cousin It??? I'm sure mine is female since I revamped her with Diamond Frost and Angelonia! OMG, what a cute couple they would make! hehe
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These have been recently planted, need some filling out! Purple fountain grass, black night canna, white petuina.
This pot has white petunia, white calla, colues tilt-a-whirl, colues florida sun splash, and SPV sweet carolina
ghia-girl, nice pots......I just love to see cannas (the dark foliage) as a center piece for big pots.....
I just returned from a trip to England and brought back a couple of hanging baskets. I just potted them up, so they're not looking very lush yet.
...and the other. They're hanging on my garage.
Europeans are so far ahead of us in the horticultural fields...not academically do I mean.....it is just that they value flowers more than we do...............each little village or town has flowers if they don't have anything else....little space and sooo many flowers in that space!!
I couldn't agree with you more, gessie!
dale_a_gardener: Do you know what kinda plants are hanging on the parking structure in Sarasota?
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Wrightie, your baskets are lovely.
Thanks, Ardesia. I don't know why we don't have a better selection of baskets in this country. These ones happen to be made by Gardman and they were very modestly priced.
They are wonderful, wrightie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hanging chair update: I was "encouraged" to enter it in the flower show first. It won a 1st place ribbon and a green thumb award. We left the blue ribbon on the chair when it was placed outside. It sold right away for $35. I'm sure it went fast because of the ribbon....and not my creative ability....
I'm making another one for the fern symposium this coming weekend. We plan to raffle it. Kinda fun!
Dale...I'm sure hoping that the Diamond frost does well. I'm so happy to see such different plants around here for a change. You're about an hour and a half north of me and you know how this climate can change so fast! I'm sitting pretty with my containers this week, but might be cursing next week. I'm sure you got some fabulous long-awaited rain yesterday like we did. About 4" here. Lots of wind and enough to uproot a root-bound oak that was replanted about 3 months ago. It's always something isn't it?
You have some fabulous photo's to share. Very inspirational! Thank-you!
Kathy
Kat, what a shame! Do you plan to replant it? We lost some Ponderosa Pines during our blizzards here this winter just like you did, toppled over because of saturated soil.
Rev...this is just the strangest thing! We've been in a drought and I really am conscious about water restrictions and follow the rules! I just can't figure out why things got so wet with just 4" of rain. This is the 2nd tree that's been planted in the same spot. The hole is full of standing water! I'm mystified! It really was a healthy little oak...which just floated out! We're about 7' above sea level here...maybe I have some wierd aquifier under this tree! hehehe.
Seriously, I don't get it! I'm going to call the landscaper tomorrow and I really don't think I'll replant this one in the same spot. Everything else is so dry and the rain just soaked into the ground...I really can't figure out what's going on here!
Sorry to hear about your Ponderosa Pines...it's really incredible what water can do!
Congratulations bigbubbles on your blue ribbon! I really liked your chair!
I missed the blue ribbon chair.....is it on this thread???
Kat, maybe you have some clay or something under the planting hole -- maybe rock? Something that would keep the water from pooling like that. Our soil is always so dry, but this year we've had a lot of moisture which normally just runs off. I guess the soil under our tree just couldn't hold any more moisture -- we have clay -- and it softened it enough to topple the tree. You're probably right not to replant the tree if it's toppled twice!
I missed the hanging chair too; would love to see it.
Bigbubbles posted it earlier in this thread. Here is a link to the photo.
http://davesgarden.com/forums/p.php?pid=3547322
Congratulations on the blue ribbon!
Janet
Wrightie,
Glad you are back home... What you and Gesssie say about England up there reminds me of villages and islands in Maine. Every possible surface is covered with nasturtiums, impatiens, geraniums... Maybe the lack of scorching heat?
xxx, Carrie
Thanks, Carrie, I wish I had gone over for more pleasurable circumstances, but so be it.
As for English gardens, etc., I think it has more to do with the culture than the weather, to be honest. Gardening is a HUGE past time for all sorts of people - male and female. Many of the garden centers in the UK not only have restaurants in them, but also have play areas for children.
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Wow, sounds like Ikea.....
xxx, Carrie
Hey Gessie and Pirl:
Pig's back in the Lanai! Planted a nice little box of trailing Petunia's/Angelonia and Euphorbia. Once that spreads out...I think he'll look really cute!
LOL, That pig gets around. He sure is pretty though - for a pig.
Wow, lots of inspiration in this thread. Keep those pics coming!