What's Blooming Today? #7

I'm in love with the Pink Balloon flower.....gonna have one next year!

"Mariska"

"Siloam David Kirchhoff"

Yellow Trumpet lily

"Dallas Star"

"Prairie Blue Eyes"

"Soft Summer Nights" looks better with each bloom.

"Jedi Tequila Sunrise"

My first glad to open

Here's my one contribution for today, Lobelia Cardinalis.

I am in awe of how many photos some of you have to contribute each day ! Thank you all for sharing. :-)

"Lavender Tonic"

I like the red lobelia, it really stands out!

"Rose in Snow" FFO...just got it in May.

"Hot Town"

"Indian Giver" is still blooming.

"Heron"

Lost tag special.

There are blue glads? Who knew? Your flowers are beautiful pixie. really like the wedding band daylily.

I love your tree rose, Kassia :-)

I have been thinking about a Lobelia Cardinalis, now your photo has convinced me I need one, aspenbooboo41.

Victor - I really think you should invite us to have tea in your gardens. They must look marvelous.

Onewish1 - love your blue double-balloon flowers. (do they make good cut flowers?)

Pixie - how many daylilies do you have? Do you have one of each - or do you have acres of land dedicated to gardening? lol

"Royal Corduroy"

"Zimbabwee Sunset"

Michaela, I own 3 acres with this house and we just purchased the field the butts up to our land. It's another 12.5 acres for me to plant daylilies in!! LOL To answer your question....I have 230+ daylilies and no idea how many other perennials.

This is another "Siloam" series...just not sure which one at the moment.

These are multiplying wonderfully and I was told they were only hardy til zone 6. Wrong!! I've had them 5 years and I shared a few bulbs with Gram last year. Gram......did you plant them and did they come up??

Seandor- Can't remember the cultivar of that one.. it's about 2 1/2' tall and wide and should keep blooming til almost frost time... a very nice plant.
I also have 'Queen Victoria', new this year, and it's striking! About 4-5' tall with red/bronze foliage and scarlet red flowers. I can't remember if I posted it or not, so here it is:

I guess you just ask for gift certificates to nurseries for all holidays and birthdays, pixie. :-)

Winter-sowing is really for people like you :-)

Michaela, some people drink to relax, some people travel...I buy plants. LOL I have a handicapped son who lives with me and has seizures everyday of his life, it gets a bit stressful and my gardens are my release. So yes, gift certificates are perfect for me!

I also have a thing for mini's......little flowers amaze me!

A few things blooming here right now: gentian

New one this year delphinium 'Purple Passion'

Also new hydrangea paniculata 'Pinky Winky'. No pink color yet but lots of blooms.

Celeste:

What are those gorgeous pink flowers you show in Post #3777031? I think I saw something similar today at the park and I wanted to know what the name of it was.

oh Celeste ... there are mini daylilies???? oh brother now I am really in trouble... I love mini flowers too!!!!! wow!!!!

ngam:

That's a great photo of your hydrangea. I love the flowers on it. They look rather different. I have heard that the pH of the soil in which a hydrangea is planted makes the difference in the flower color. Is that true?

This is a paniculata hydrangea http://www.colorchoiceplants.com/pinkywinky1.htm It is the color it is and most tint pink as they age. Hydrangea macrophylia like Endless summer usually are blue or pink depending on the ph of the soil. Most of them are blue here but add lime they turn pinker.

Ahhhhh ....
that's what I thought.
Thanks

Candyce, those are Oxalis Wood Sorrel or shamrock as I like to call them. I got these little bulbs about 5 years ago as a free gift so I planted and mulched real well. Plant files says zone 5 so I was told wrong about how hardy they were.

Candyce, two other distinctions for H. paniculata. They can take full sun and they bloom on new wood so no worries about frost killing off the buds, as with macrophylla. You can also prune them hard in late Winter and will still have flowers.

Victor - is that an astrolemaria(sp)?

ngam - I like the gentian and Pinky Winky, I have lots of paniculatas - didn't get that one (yet)


Here is Chelsey helenium, Victor it fades to more orange as it ages.

Pixie - I liked the 2 purple daylilies you posted.

Calendula 'Sherbet Fizz'

Pleasant shot of a dahlia - Koral Reef

Al - I looked at a number of photos of Alstroemeria - don't think that's it.

Here's 'Luna Red' Hibuscus looking much redder than it really does because of the sun. It's really more wine or burgundy.

Another hardy Hibuscus. These blooms are HUGE.

Enjoying Oriental Lily pollen.

This message was edited Jul 25, 2007 6:22 PM