This plant was given me by a friend. Yellow Hibiscus ~ Abelmoschus manihot!
Let's See Your Garden II
Beautiful inspiration from all! Linda, I love the way your hibiscus contrasts with the great mulch in the background! What exactly is it?
You mean the mulch? I think it's some mulch I got from the city of Boerne.
Steve (and any one else?),
How about a quick trip to a Florida garden, cheaper than airfare, takes less time and you can stay in the AC. http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/739026/
Oh, that is beautiful and textural! Lovely.
Well, here are some pictures of my Texas Native plants garden
The curved bed with Coneflowers, Sunflowers, Carolina Phlox and a lot more,
The back bed is mostly Carolina Phlox which I love.
And a close up of the beautiful Phlox.
Josephine, that is beautiful. I love the Phlox. I've planted some twice and they didn't make it either time. It wasn't Carolina Phlox that I put out though, but I can't remember the name at the moment. Are these perennial? I may have to make a spot and try again because your's are certainly lovely.
Thanks to everyone for posting pics. I love to tour others' gardens while sitting in the AC!
Here is a bed I call "Side of the Drive" that has mostly lantana, bc the DD (* deer) can access here!
Another spot of bloom in the same bed...
And another...
This is the lowest bed in the front of my house....all plants that survived the "Great Ice Storm" of the year...
Edited to say: The orange flowers are just planted...
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Very lovely Connie.
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Crowellli, yes the phlox is perennial, and the blooms last about two months.
Josephine.
I have the C. Phlox blooming right now that you gave me Josephine. Will it self seed or do I need to save seeds, or take cuttings so that I can get them to spread?
Beautiful beds Connie!
Glad y'all posted about the Phlox. I had one plant in a pot when I first moved in (about 5 years ago) and had forgotten about it! Glad to know it blooms 2 months...it seemed to go on forever!
Sheila, usually don't get any seed from the phlox because I cut it back as soon as it is finished in hopes of getting a second bloom, and usually it does bloom again although smaller.
What I usually do is take tip cuttings in the spring, and it works out just great.
Since I have so much of it, it doesn't look good to let it go to seed, but that is just my preference.
Josephine.
Thanks Josephine. Since I missed the cuttings early spring, guess I will cut mine back for a second bloom when it finishes too.
"Distant Drum" rose -- I only wish the photograph did its gentle spectrum and translucence justice.
Susannah, that is one awsome rose! Is it a shrub? How hardy is it?
Yes, it's a beautiful rose, lovely plant, and a shrub Buck rose from 1985. It's new to me this year, but the stats seem to suggest hardiness. It's certainly disease resistant! With all the rain, we're pitching constant battle against blackspot, and this rose seems to be one of the most resistant.
Here's the plant file on it:
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/64584
Today's container garden is very happy after all the rain mixed with filtered sun.
Coleus, salvia, impatiens, variegated sweet potato vine, impatiens, lavender, bat face, mint, happily mixed in multiple pots.
And this guy visited the moonflower vine -- wingspan wider than the palm of my hand.
Susannah...VERY pretty combo of plants!
Hi Steve,your pics are all beautiful...those caladiums are just so colourful...do you have to dig them before your winter hits...or are they safe to leave in the ground? I'm guessing you get frosts there...cheers
Here's a CU of flowers from my back beds...angelonia, sage, and gazanias.
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Maybe I should start a thread called "underwater gardening 101". Last night the backyard was completely submerged. This morning the rain is slower, but we're still wading in parts of it back there.
All the blooms -- roses, plumbago, hibiscus -- are tight-lipped with shock and refusing to open, or drooping with the weight of the rain. Only the impatiens continue to spread wide and smile, which is amazing for impatiens in June, really.
Here's La Folie des Chiots, currently a little cottage in our backyard, now surrounded by a lake. Its path is still underwater.
And the trellis garden, foreground, looking across to the rose garden (stunned, shocked by all this rain, the buds sometimes falling off, unfulfilled by sun), and the butterfly garden, where only the veronica and ixora continue, valiant. The butterflies are wisely remaining under cover for the moment.
Susannah,
I love your little "folly"...but it isn't! I'll bet it holds all sorts of gardening tools...OR is it a playhouse for grands or children?
Also love your style of writing when you describe your gardens...you should write for a mag! :)
I'm seeing sun today! (hate to write it..might come a rain again just for "spite"!)
Thank you! I love La Folie, too.
La Folie is a playhouse for my dogs, for me, and for any children who happen to visit. :-)
Here's how she looks inside. I read in there, write in there, and watch my dogs wrestle in there. Technically, it's their little "getaway" space -- in good weather we throw open the doors and they run in and out of it, get a drink, flop down on the floor and cool off, etc., but they share it.
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A friend of mine has that very painting -- it's a blonde lab puppy curled up on a bed, right? It is a really lovely painting. That rocking chair looks *very* inviting.
Carla
Yes -- it's Andrew Wyeth's "Master Bedroom". :-) Almost everything in there relates to the dogs somehow. The little tin on the table is full of dog biscuits.
A moonflower opens early as we wait for the approach of another storm.
I took this pic today of a gazania that was enjoying the hours of sun we got after days of rain!
Georgeous Connie!
My gosh, that is gorgeous, Connie!
Baby magnolia bloom lifting her head to wake.
Delicate looking Susannah.
An overhead shot of another container garden -- a really happy garden due to all the rain!
More purple salvia, coleus, globe basil, variegated sweet potato vine, mint, batface, impatiens in this multiple-container garden.
No garden photos from home for awhile. I'm leaving this evening for San Francisco, not to be home again until Friday. I hope to find some pretty gardens out there, though.
I meant to post these the other day when I took them, but don't think I did. I hope I didn't post them on another thread and y'all are getting them twice. My bat face cupheas have really gone nuts and the salvias are really loving all the rain. I love the Jo Barbre yellow daylilies against the blue salvias. It's hard to believe this garden is only a year old as of last month.
Connie, your garden is gorgeous. I used to have my plants too sparse and now some beds are overcrowed. You seem to have hit the perfect balance in all your beds. Maybe one day I'll get there. My trouble is there's so many plants I want and not enough space for everything. I think I need to start selectively editing!
Crow
