What's blooming today # 3

Thanks Dawn -- it's some kind of rambler and needs no care whatsoever ... my kind of plant!

My first water lily of the season

Beautiful, Joy!

What a lovely water lily!

Thanks pirl and seandor. It is a hardy one that spend the winter in the pond with the fish and an electric heater I try to send another pic but have a hard time finding the ones I want This is my goatsbeard taken at the end of the day.JOY

Very nice, too!

My goatsbeard FINALLY bloomed for the first time - and it is a joy! I should enlarge your photo and wave it in front of mine to show it what it could accomplish, if it had a mind to (or if it had a mind!)

Do you have the tall one or the dwarf Aruncus?

I only have the dwarf and it is, by far, the very best behaved plant in the garden.

Nice shots crock and Joy. When I took my kids to the movies yesterday, one of the previews was a movie starring CZJ. I was surprised at how she looked! I think life with MD is taking its toll on her.

nder thhankyou for the compliment.I have alway been considered photographicley challenged. I have both Aruncus .the dwarf is new this year and rather out of scale in my garden. I must confess I have a weakness for Large and unrully planr as long asthey have nice flowers a attractive follage.I have to look at the folliage most of the timeThis is Henry Hudson one of the explorer roses developed here in Canada fo cild climates

oops I sent the wrong pic .This is HH .JOY

Prolific!

Hi pirl - I have the large one! I keep waiting and waiting for it to big! It's in a shady spot in front of the right side of the front verandah (apparently Americans call this a "porch" ; where I am from a porch is in back of a house and a large porch where you sit in front of a house is called a veranda")

Anyway - still waiting.

Here, I believe, it's either a front porch or a back porch though my sister called the top landing for her back steps a porch.

Anyhow, enjoy it when it blooms.

Rich people have verandas - the rest of us have porches. Just like it's only rich people who are 'eccentric' - the rest of us are just 'nuts'.

Are you suggesting I am eccentric?

That depends - do you have a veranda??

LMAO!! You guys are too much......

Of course I have a verandah - you, on the other hand, probably have a porch, Victor

I just put my feet up on the ottoman on my porch after I had a drink from the bubbler.

edited for nonsense

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Yeah, but I'm on sabbatical!

True . . . sigh . . .

Al - to increase or decrease the nonsense?

Decrease this time.


Did I post Primadonna White yet - I really like it.

I don't recall seeing it. Is there an Echinacea or Rudbeckia you don't have??

That's an echinacea - it's like White Swan but bigger.

Great pics everyone!
Jan, if your monitor dispays colors like mine, then that is the true color :) It is VERY blue, almost as blue as the delphs.
I think it's time to hit the porch and bubbler

crock, the lavender/strawberry foxglove combo is lovely...I may try that if you don't mind

joy, I love seeing the water lilies. that's a nice one. some day I'll have some. I don't have goatsbeard either...very pretty. or a verandah. boy, do I feel left out LOL

al, I like your Primadonna, too. I usually don't care for white, especially in coneflowers. I figure that's why we have shasta daisies. but I really like that one.

here's a rose blooming for the first time today...'Distant Drums'

'Double Delight'

one tiny flower on lavender 'Lacy Frills' that was planted last fall

the whole plant

'Princess of India' nasturtium climbing up the outside of the herb heart

Aged-Im loving that waterlily-its a real beauty!

Al-Primadonna White is gorgeous! Its really putting on some show!!

Grampapa-Distant Drums is a real stunner!

Thanks for posting pics all, everything looks amazing! Keep 'em coming

~Dawn

'Sunset' echie ~ pretty pitiful even for a first bloom, but it has more buds. I figure it can only get better.

I like Double Delight Jan. Sunset might get better, I will accepts criticism that echies get funky flowers sometimes - I cut them off if they are fully opened and malformed.

granpapa the 'Double Delight' is very pretty.... have a happy & safe 4th everyone!

Good Morning and happy 4th of July everyone! Enjoy your independence and your right to Garden :)

Kim

Gram, I bought "Double Delight" ......it's all your fault. You kept posting pictures of it and I kept drooling.

It's not ALL Gram's fault now...........or is it.....hmmmm.


Happy 4th indeed to all .

Al and Victor... can't believe your dahlias are blooming already.... just tons of green leaves on mine....

well, everything blooms later in my garden... so I have Irises just blooming!!!