I've had 3 days of glorious afternoon rains and with that comes the Rain Lilies!!!!!!!!
Just L@@K what the rains brought!
great!
"Russell" has announced his presence this year!!and my oh my ya lookin' good Russ!
More of my Crinums are raising their beautiful heads to say hello....
The Brugs are reveling from all that rain!!
My Mind goes wild thinking this is just the start of the season for these...what shall they be like by seasons end..will I be able to refrain myself from glee!?!?!
Go ahead and TOOT that TRUMPET BABY..'cause you are MAGNIFICENT to me..
If this is year one for these..I can't wait for them to multiply..I just love 'em
Somebody needs to come and take my camera away from me!@!..I can't stop taking shots of their beauty!!
I may have to move this bugger..gezzzzz..utoh..that means I gotta make a new flowerbed?..tee hee..hey I thought all pics of these should have a butterfly on it!
Another Brug?!?!..They are so happy!!
Brugs!!..Brugs!!..They are just everywhere!!
Lovely pictures Jeanne. I especially like the dee pinkish red crinum--what a beautiful color. I noticed you have cleome growing too. Don't you just love it. This is my first year to grow cleome. I have two dark purple, a couple of ligh pastelt pink, and just recently bought a deep cherry pink one. I also found a dwarf cleome at a nursery in Houston I think and it it supposed to get 18" so I bought one of those to try.
Hey if your dwarf Cleome blooms..Pleaseeeeeee save me some seeds...Mine all have reseeded from past years and in places I don't want them too..LOL..see what I mean
Will do!
Patty
Very lovely, Jean. You are really having a good year.
Josephine.
I am so glad I found this thread. Or should I say, I'm glad this thread found me. :-)
I planted many seeds this year that were unfamiliar to me. I planted many wildflower and butterfly friendly seeds.
The past few months, I've been watching to see what is coming up, hoping and praying I don't take something for a weed and yank it up. I noticed that something was getting very tall. I left it there because it was spaced too evenly to be a weed. Now, it's almost 5 ft. No blooms yet, but I told my hubby tonight that it looked like marijuana growing. HAHAHAHA The Cleome is what it is. Those blooms are beautiful! I can't wait for mine to bloom.
Thank you Jeanne for showing us your wonderful garden and thank you Patty for asking about it. I remembered that name and yet didn't remember seeing anything yet that I thought might resemble it. Now I know what I'm growing! It's not "pot" afterall! ROFL!!
Janet
Jeanne, your gardens are lovely!
Jeanne, are your rain lillies habranthus or zephyranthes?they are very nice.your garden looks a picture!
Brical..your Brug is STUNNING!!..I am growing these varieties in my garden:
Habranthus brachyandrus
Habranthus robustus
Habranthus robustus 'Russel Manning'
Zephyranthes lindleyana
Zephyranthes sp. Labuffarosa
Zephyranthes sp. Labuffarosa 'Lily Pies'
Plus they have reseeded like mad..so no telling what crosses might be where..LOL...Jeanne
Thankyou Jeanne,I love them too.We are in winter here ..and it is cold ...so it's nice to read all your posts and see pics of your lovely spring..summer gardens ...makes me long for the warm weather again!Which ones reseed more?I have both and find the habranthus are the more prolific seeders here.I have the rose pink zephyranthes which I just love....they remind me of my early childhood...my grandmother used to grow them...also white ones which have grey/green foliage and a beautiful soft perfume...she grew these too..There is an old cementry near here that is just a mass of these beautiful white flowers after summer rains....and they have survived such long droughts
and really hot summers...they really are tough bulbs aren't they?
How come I never think of Australia as being cold??..LOL..I agree the habranthus seems more prolific..but I have tons from the past 3 years..they have taken over that bed and have spread their seeds everywhere else as well...they are tough..I know they grow in hot dry places and poof ..pop up with the rains!!...Jeanne
The Ohhhh/aaaahhh factor of your garden is very high. Kudos.
Beautiful flowers. I thought I was at a fireworks show for a second there..... ohhhh...next picture..... ahhhh.....next picture....ohhhh......etc. etc.
Ok..yall best not get me going..I'm like a proud Momma with pics of her babies..when you ask to see pics of my gardens...My Plumerias are blooming their heads off this year..they love the new front beds that I planted them in
I created a new flowerbed last fall just to have more clematis,rose and Daylilies..this is one I got from the Co-op this year...Daylily 'Sidewinder oh Seven'
One of my most favourite roses in my gardens.."Heaven on Earth"
I am obsessed with Clematis and quit counting after I planted my 60th one...this is a fav..."Solina"
OK Wait a minute here! You are in Willis and you can grow those hybrid Clematis?! In Willis? Folks, she's got some witchery in her green thumb!
Thats really lovely Jeanne.Is it a david austin. Your frangipanis are beautiful too...can you grow them outside there...?Those clematris are stunning ...you must get cold winters to grow them so well?
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Brical..no..we don't have that cold of winters...they can be grown in zone 9 and 10 in shade and if you keep the roots moist..that rose is a Kordes rose..."Heaven on Earth"
Here are some more of my Clematis...Clematis "Venosa Violacea", "Empress" and my David Austin Rosa "Cottage Rose"..Jeanne
there is shade in texas? naw.... you kidding me! *giggle
Unfortunately, last fall my 2 cut back 6-7 year old plumerias had to be left outside for the winter. I had sent all my cuttings to a DGer in Florida and saved a few for DGers at the fall RU in CS. Naturally, they didn't come back .........until RECENTLY!!! Looked out and one of them had new stems coming out all over the trunks but the other was obviously dead............I thought. Today we were in the back yard and DDH was going to pull the dead one out of pot when lo and behold we discovered several big new leaves at the base of one trunk. Isn't that amazing?!!
Ann
Ann..that is amazing and congrats...the elderly couple down the road from me usually do as I do and dig them up and store them in their garage..but he left his in the ground all winter...everytime I pass by I keep seeing he has cut more and more off of them..I hope his does as yours did!!....Jeanne
Yeah, I have recently seen the ones around me that I thought dead (neighbors and at my Dad's) coming back slowly but surely. It will probably be quite a while before they have enough enegy to bloom, but at least you didn't lose the whole plant.