Let's See Your Garden II

I started a new continuation thread, since the other was getting quite long!

Here is an Orienpet (OT) lily blooming today - not sure of the name:

Callas are doing well

Rose of Sharon bloom

Hibiscus

Another one

You have a very prolific garden Steve!

Here's a collage of what's blooming today in my new perennial bed.
Top to bottom:
Unknown penstemon, Texas Betony, 'Goblin' GAILLARDIA, Firespike, Black & Blue Salvia, Mexican Honeysuckle with Sunny Border Blue Veronica, Texas Scullcap (s. wrightii), Drumstick Allium, red glads)

Thanks frostweed :-)

NIce collage, sweezel.....have you tried alliums before, and if so, have they come back well for you?

That "firespike" is very pretty!

Here are some Caladiums....they started off very slowly but have really exploded with the heat:

I planted those before at the old house, but we moved before I could see if they returned.

Another group from the same bed...
Pincussion flower, Copper Canyon Daisy, 'Snowcap' Shasta, Bicolor Sage, 'Theresa' S. Greggii, Sweet Pea Rose, Antique Petunias, Coneflower, Red S. Greggii

Some more....

Last but not least. Here is a collage of some of the daylilies which have bloomed in the last few days. Cool Jazz, Moonlit Masquerade, and Wind Frills bloomed too but I can only fit 9 in my collage.

Tuscawilla Tigress, Smuggler's Gold, Joylene Nichole, Red Grace, Zircon or Gentle Shepherd or ? (not what labeled), Demetrius, Jolly Red Giant, Tree Top Tom, and Spacecoast Starburst

Nice daylilies, sweezel - hmm I have Pricess Anna blooming today

Barbara Mitchell

Mauna Loa

A small hydrangea I just planted a few weeks ago

Alabama Jubilee

Mary's Gold

Lilium Regale

Some purple daylilies

Very pretty Stacey, the unnamed penstemon is Penstemon tenuis.
The Daylilies are gorgeous too.
Josephine.

Hey Josephine! That's actually what the label said, but I am pretty sure it is some hybrid. After buying it, I found another P. tenuis and bought it because it looked different. Then I researched it and found out that it starts blooming early and (the 2nd one I bought did) and the leaves looked just like the second one I bought. This one just started blooming this week and the leaves look nothing like my other Penstemon tenuis or the pics in Plantfiles. Here is a picture of the rosette before blooming and the leaves up close.

The rosette. It is much thicker and more substantial than P. tenuis. I have not had a chance to post this to the id forum, though I have been needing to.

This unknown daylily has finally started blooming!! The salvia next to it is growing like gangbustes since DH whacked it down with the weed whacker. :)

Stacey, you are right about the rosette, but the flowers do look a lot like P. tenuis, although not the form.
Josephine.

Mr. Hibiscus has brought all his brothers out to join the chorus. These are HUGE blooms, the size of dessert plates. I'm wondering if we can pick up satellite radio on them. :-)

I love your hibiscus, Susannah...none of mine ie nearly that far along.

Is that "Fantasia"?

Here is my OT Hybrid lily blooming - "Silk Road" - extremely fragrant and very tall.

I don't know the name of the hibiscus -- I bought it as a Great Big Pink Thing last year (name and capital letters mine). I installed it, talked sweetly, and it put out one bloom last year, then folded up its little leaves and pouted the rest of the summer. Not a single bloom.

It died back, of course, in winter, but it made it through our three freezes and came up this year ready to rumble, full of moxie and singing come hither songs. Crazy with blooms, and I'm not complaining. I have no idea what its name is, though!

:-)

Gorgeous lily!

Susannah, I think your Great Big Pink Thing is a Hibiscus moscheutos 'Lord Baltimore'. Otherwise known as Rose Mallow, Swamp Mallow, Hardy Hibiscus and possibly a few others. These are lovely plants, and I've just put in 2 along my back fence. I'm enjoying your photos as I'm waiting for mine to bloom.

Carla

Carla, I think you're right! :-) I saw a Lord Baltimore (bloomless) at the same nursery where I bought Great Big Pink Thing last year, so I think you're spot on.

Here's a Much Smaller Apricot Thing just opening his bloom this morning.

My Persian Markets are in bloom

"Cherry Cheeks"

Lilium "Futura"

I have gazanias in orange and deep yellow, cascading purple petunias, red salvia, and purple angelonia blooming right now (and orange honeysuckle in the back, but it's not really blooming yet, and Will Fleming yaupon columnar bushes that look like Italian cypresses.

Edited after enlarging pic to add: Lilies of the Nile are seen on the next level down and they are blooming profusely! I cut some each week to put in a vase inside.

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Very nice job Connie....very dramatic and colorful!

What a lovely shot of a beautiful garden!

I love this thread. :-) I've been oohing and aaahing all evening. Which is a little poem.

Here in the lower bed I have little orange zinnias, some salvias, bulbine in the background, oh..and some mint in the pot.

With all the rain we've had, my favorite garden color today, is green!

one tiny corner of 40 acres........butterfly garden with mixed natives and whatever else would fir.daylily, iris, sedums, salvias, etc