What's blooming today # 3

Can you smell a rat??

WOW AL! Where to start.....the dahlia is lovely, and Tom Pouce is wonderful...I have had it a few years and it's a soft scent for a lily.
The rudbeckia really stands out and would make great Halloween flowers. Now that Cosmo is extrodinary!! I'd love to see a big clumps of those.

Victor, I thought you didn't grow roses for some reason.

Don't think this does this lily justice. Again , not my usual colors, but I like it.

The weeds came from Victor's photo program.

Here is a white one

A daylily

an oriental

And to end today's lily run, my first pineapple lily. Not quite blooming yet.

Hey Al- Thanks!
That rudbeckia just blows me away-such a vibrant red! And a really lovely dahlia. Im hoping mine come up as well as yours did....

Dave-beautiful Lilies-I especially like the yellow one....
~Dawn

Nice Dave. Actually, I think it's Al who doesn't grow Roses.

Thanks Dawn.

My first cone flower of the year

Thanks Victor.
this is for Al. Just opening

Funny name.

Endless summer is going crazy. This is after I cut 2 big arrangements of blooms off it

Al is a funny name, I guess.

These are also going crazy. I always grew and liked adenophora and it always grew to 2-3 feet tall. In my new garden, these are 6-7 feet!

Here they are:

Holly's

hock's

No - 'Just opening' is.

My turn. Here's Stokesia.

DL - I think 'Janice Brown'.

C. 'Jackmanii' unfurling.

Jack and the Lamppost.

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'Elizabeth Salter'.

All i can say is "Wow!" Everyone has such beautiful flowers!

I agree with Seandor!

Victor, absolutely BEAUTIFUL!
Not sure if it matters to you or not but for some reason your Janice Brown looks much different than mine. This is a picture from 2 years ago when my daylilies HAD names before I ripped all the tags out of the garden as I was getting frustrated trying to keep everything named and my flower beds started looking like a cemetery *lol*. Maybe it's just the lighting.

Wow...everyone is posting today! I love it!!! Keep them coming...

Thanks Kim. I'll double-check tomorrow but I think it is. I have found the Daylily flowers look different from year to year also - like I have with Clematis as well. And they definitely can look different from place to place. Of course you also have different cameras, lighting, etc.

At what thread length does it become slow for dial-ups?? This one is growing quickly!

That is very true Victor and I know names are important to some people but quite honestly all that matters to me is the blooms :)

Very pretty!

Stunning, Kim! I've found the same thing as Victor and many are different in the morning than in the afternoon with Real Wind being the most obvious change in color.

This is such a nice cheery clump!

OMG - the daylilies are so beautiful - now if they could just be used as cut flowers . . .

Hey! are there many daylilies that bloom around father's day? I want our terrace to be the best terrace in the city for Father's day - three years from now. Daylilies certainly are colourful and dramatic. What do you think?

(in three years time, our neighbourhood will sponser "Illumination Night" - a kind of very large block party)

Coreopsis always look so happy to me.

What's the yellow flower, pixie? Just the common name.

Got it.

I agree pirl, sometimes R.W. is so light it's almost too pale and other times is a mouthwatering deep cantalope. It's one of my favorites along with "Beautiful Edgings" another whose edge can change dramaticly.

Not in our northern zones. Stella, always my first, started about ten days ago. That would be the only possibility, and only if you had a warm Spring which nudged it out early.

Seandor - daylilies make wonderful bouquets, especially for anyone like a Grandmother or "older" relative who no longer gardens.

Gather a dozen scapes, without any open flowers, and give them to someone in a vase but let them know they'll have to deadhead each blossom that opens every day. They'll have no idea what colors or shapes or eyes or edges to expect. I did it for a very dear friend and she's never forgotten it.

Nice idea Pirl.