What's Blooming?? # 6

Southern Maine, on the coast. Cute town, lots of painters (not me), the Maine coast, marginal way. Not as busy or crowded as the Cape but still some commercial stuff nearby for the kids.

I like having a familiar place to return to and I like seeing new places. Maybe summer for familiar and new for winter would be ideal.

If the Winter place is warm.

Couple of Unknowns that bloomed today.

I LOVE the color and big fat face on this one. Even if it has no name, she can stay *lol*

Another unknown in the front bed which has HUGE flowers.

Can you believe that Wikapedia already has a synopis for each chapter of the last Harry Potter book? and no, I did not peak . . . so I don't know how the book starts or ends.

Yes, I just read it - I'm not a fanatic like you people. Okay, who does not want to know and what plants do you have to buy my silence?

I've been camping again this weekend. The weather was beautiful and no Colin this time (got lots of R&R). I just quickly looked through all of the blooms and they are beautiful. I returned home to coneflowers blooming in garden #3 and a butterfly enjoying them even more than I did. Eleanor

I haven't read the book yet but I'm going to read the snyopsis. After reading a couple of chapters in any book, I always go and read the ending cause I can't wait to find out what happened!! It doesn't ruin the book for me as I like to know how they got to that point!! Eleanor

thanks for the great shots all

another lost tag special.

"Cedar Waxwing"

Love the color of this DL but I can not find the tag anywhere!

Found it! It's called "American Bicentennial"

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"Centerfold"

"Hard Christmas Candy"

I need to I. D. this one too....it's a lovely, cheery, yellow with a incredible green throat.

Beautiful pics from everyone. All those gorgeous lilies. This is crocosmia 'Distant Planet'. It is in a new bed and a new plant for me. Just starting to bloom, but I think it is a keeper.

Phlox also starting up here. Can anyone ID this one for me?

ngam, are they easy to grow? I haven't tried them as I thought they wouldn't survive our winters.

The phlox..if I had to guess I would say it's "Laura".

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Thanks for the ID on phlox, I suspected that might be it. The crocosmia is supposed to be a hardy one (zone 5) maybe. It is from Seneca Hill . I have not ever grown them either because I didn't think they were hardy here. Thought I would give this one a try. Will report back next spring if it comes back. http://www.senecahillperennials.com/index.php?page=plants-b-c


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Closer view of blossom.

New blooms today - Luna Red Rose Mallow. The blossom is huge - must be about 8" diameter. Eleanor

And a daylily blossom - Lime Frost.

Monardia - some butterfly weeds as some call them!!

And last Rudbeckia.

Nice Eleanor. Not fair - you beat me with Luna Red. I photographed it about ten days ago but have not been able to download the photos.

Luna Red is really nice, but I love that daylily and how the hosta blossoms accent it.

pixie:

Your DL looks like Lime Sorbet to me. How tall is the plant? Lime Sorbet grows about 2 to 2 1/2 feet. Just a guess.

Candyce, I found the tag...it was buried in the dirt but readable. It's called 'Dorethe Louise'

Darn! I wasn't even close!

I'm glad you found the tag though. They are created to make life easier - they just don't want to always appear when we call them!

Here's my Liatris Ligulistylis .....and it appears I've caught a tricky Monarch flying upside down, lol!

Cleomes, black-eyed susans, and Salvia

I love your shot of the butterfly, aspenbooboo1 :-) Love your flowers as well

Cleomes, black-eyed susans, and Salvia.......I love the color combo and the butterfly shot is nice too.

I like that combo too aspenbooboo1. Is that salvia Black and Blue? Do you have to replant every year or does it reseed and come back?

A little OT here but since it rained all day here I thought I would share a shot of some Christmas balls my daughter and I made recently.

There's some blooms in there if you look real hard *lol*

Kim, a little Xmas in July? very pretty ornaments! I bought one like that at a craft show. do you sell them?

everybody keep those DL's comin'...they just get prettier :0)

Eleanor, it's nice to see the first rose mallow...so striking! I started some from seed and they are about an inch tall. just hope they put on enough growth to make it thru the winter.

where's Al? I d-mailed him my first dahlia...Lucky Number

AND my first helenium...'Ruby Dwarf' (this one's new this year)

Ruby Dwarf is nice but Lucky Number is heavenly!

Nice blooms everyone!! Thanks for the comments on the daylily and the rose mallow. Eleanor

Thanks for the comments!

Yes, Ngam, that's salvia guarantica 'black and blue'. It's my first year planting them, but they are really nice plants. It doesn't get any more blue than that! Hardiness zone is 7 :-(. I'm going to mulch heavily and cross my fingers they come back next year. Also trying to find info on collecting seed so I can start some indoors in spring. I use cedar mulch in my beds. Is it possible anything could reseed considering that?

Nice dahlia Grampapa, love the colors! I have been (im)patiently waiting for mine to bloom... seems like it's taking forever! I started from tubers and had four beautiful plants, but then decided I had to move them and ended up breaking the stems on all but one plant.