What's Blooming Today? #7

What BEAUTIFUL picture today :)
Seandor, as always....Awesome
Pixie....Wish I could live in your garden *lol* I absolutely LOVE those 2 lilies together!!!
I have a very tall apricot (see picture) if you would like to swap a couple of bulbs this fall. I will be diggin all of mine up to split and move some to the new bed. They are a very pretty Coral color when they first open and then fade to a pretty peach.
I have tall blue, double blue, and tall pink Balloon plants and will have plenty of seeds to share :)
I also have dwarf white and dwarf blue for anyone interested.
Not getting much for pictures today....been digging all morning and just took a break to get some of the dirt off before attempting round 2 *lol*
Onewish, what is that awesome plant?

Love the 'Coconut Lime' echinacea! Another plant I wish I could grow but can't. Also love the 'Pistachio' clematis. It's very clean and elegant looking.

Well a heavy rain came thru and ruined all the daylilies today, so I took a picture of my hydrangea 'Merritt's Supreme'- which turned deep purple in my acid soil, but I really like it.

Love the color of that hydrangea!! We only got sprinkles here so far, a nice soft rain would be nice, none of that hard stuff. Would save me from having to water the garden again tonight.

We had quite a downpour today. About 1/3 inch in about 20 minutes.

Gorgeous color on that hydrangea. Wish we would get some rain here, HHH that's all darn it.You walk out the door and feel like you are pushing through solid air. We better get some of this rain the next couple of days. Are ya listening...whom ever is in charge of dispensing the rain ...over her please. :)

Yeah, despite the rain it's still gross. Not too high in temp but that blasted humidity.

Hello, Northeast Gardeners! I am new to DG and am just having a ball glued to my computer. Candyce was kind enough to suggest that I hop in and introduce myself since I live in your area of the country.. Well, Here I am and I really enjoyed looking at all of your flower photos....just gorgeous! And I really love that gentian! I have closed bottle gentian that my husband "rescued" deep in the woods while checking out an old cellar hole. It spills over my stone wall and I love seeing that gorgeous blue, but Ngam's different type is really a pretty color! I planted a new garden today to celebrate a pretty Big Decade birthday I had a week ago. My husband and son took me on a surprise flower spree on my birthday and I planted the garden in front of my potting shed... which I call "Cuppatea" (because it's just my- _ _ _ _ _) .I included red and white luna hardy hibiscus....my first ever. I will take a photo of the garden when it is finished and will share it with you all. In the meantime, I will just keep enjoying "meeting" you all through your postings. Thanks for the invite, Candyce! Louise

Welcome Louise! I agree about that Gentian. Have fun here and please post pics whenever you can. Enjoy all the threads on the Forum.

Welcome to DG Louise! Your gonna love it here and im sure will fit right in. Can't wait to see the red & white hibiscus, it sounds lovely.
Celeste

Welcome to the Garden Louise....make yourself at home :)
Looking forward to seeing your pic's :)
You will love it here....one big happy family :)

Welcome Louise, I'm new too. Glad you like the gentian, looking forward to seeing a pic of yours. :)

Welcome Louise! It is great to meet you. Eleanor

Welcome to the Northeast Forum and Dave's Garden Louise!! Happy Birthday too!

Harper

Welcome to the board and Happy Birthday, Louise!

kim that is the Mexican shell flower i talked about previously.... it's not very hardy after the heavy rains the foliage looks a bit beat up.... and it only put out three blooms so far.... and i only got to enjoy one.... the blooms only last a day and the first two bloomed right before the heavy rains a few weeks ago.... kind of depressing... going to give them one more try next year maybe the more mature bulbs will be better the second time around

onewish, WHAT messy yard?! I wish my yard was that neat.

Hello & welcome Louise. Hope to see some of your photos soon!

This day got away from me.LOL

Onewish - nice dahlias!
Kim - I like your blue flowers.
Pixie - Rocky's Eye is nice.
ngam - the double ballon flower is cool. I just picked up Coconut Lime on sale.
Welcome Louise.
Nice hydrangea Noreaster.
good flowers Tommy and Seandor.

hey everyone... I have been so tired after gardening every day after work that I get to the computer and by the time I download pictures I am falling asleep!!!! so I have not read much on DG...

so much has bloomed this week... really great things.... I am so happy for gardening... today even when was pouring I was gardening... it was really great ... specially because nobody was outside with me... really great!!!!!

some veggies... and herbs....

I just ate the first zuccini and 2 little tomatoes (cherry!!!) SO GOOD!

clematis ... forgot the name...

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Beautiful Kassia!!

nice shot kassia

Wow Kassia......you have been busy! Very nice collage, such a variety of color and shapes. I ate my first 2 cherry tomatoes last night too!

This is "Hard Christmas Candy"

"Woodside Romance"

Finally an oriental Lily opened! "Stargazer"

Good Sunday everyone! My goodness - what a thrill it is to have Louise to 'talk' to on this thread. I found out that she lives only about 30 miles from me, so it's almost like finding a long lost sister! LOL!!

Pixie: How tall is your stargazer lily, which is beautiful, by the way. Anna and I think that we have a couple of stargazers in the front garden, but aren't too sure. Right now they are just about a foot tall and almost ready to bloom.

Kassia: I love that clematis! The color is absolutely wonderful. And the reds in your gardens really pop. I am amazed at the great variety of hues.

Louise: I can't wait to see photos of the 'Cuppatea' garden. My daughter and I worked on making the front yard gardens a bit larger this year, too. Well, she worked and I took pictures of the whole process - LOL! But we enlarged the garden by about 70 percent. Now it's about 700 square feet, give or take a few feet!!

We had rain, too, yesterday. Not a downpour, but a nice, steady rain. The trouble is - we really didn't need it. I'd gladly send some your way, if I only knew how!

Keep the photos coming!! They brighten my day.

Candyce...been muggy here the last week. Had a perfect tomato season until now. No sign of disease yet, we'll have a good crop without it but one week of low humidity and bright sun would brighten up all that fruit on the vine.

Lilies smell wonderful in the muggy air. These were, I thought, CasaBlanca but they don't look like the photos I see elsewhere:

David_Paul those look like "Muscadet" to me. Casa Blanca is pure white. I have Muscadet and love the smell!

pixie...that is exactly what they are! Now I remember the order...lol.

Had CasaBlanca on the mind as I kept looking at and almost purchased White Flower Farms' CasaBlanca/Fern combination.

Noreaster...this is a terrible shot of "South Sea's" but it was the only one blooming this morning and it did have a slight purple tint to the midribs that I was talking about earlier.

Thanks, everyone, for the warm welcome and birthday wishes!

Candyce - 700 square feet???!! Wow....do you have paths in your expanded garden?
What did you plant in your garden? Sounds heavenly.

Ngam - I'll get a picture of my gentian when it blooms in about a month.

Kassia - what a pretty collage of your flowers....so colorful! I also love that blue clematis! I'm envious that you are eating your tomatoes already. Mine look dreadful. Not enough sun and dry days, I think. I started them from seed in Florida, and I'm not sure I'll do that again. They look pretty scrawny compared to my bushy tomatoes in past years. I wanted to save some seeds from a yellow tomato that my winter neighbor gave me down there, so I got some heirloom seeds and started the plants down there. They don't look very happy. But then, I did put the little seedlings through quite a snowbird adventure on the drive back up here. Our 14-year old Bichon, Molly, got the better part of the back seat to keep her from getting too stiff, so the plants had less than ideal conditions.

Pixie....Your daylilies are gorgeous. I love that South Seas!

Does anyone know if dwarf hydrangea (gorgeous deep blue huge flowers) transplant ok? I dug mine up and moved it into my new potting shed garden, and it looks pretty wilted. Do they have tap roots? I got a lot of soil around the root ball, but there was one persistent root that didn't want to turn loose and it got snapped.....I may have goofed? We'll see....

And yes....I will post a picture of the Cuppatea garden soon. It is nice to sit on the porch of the potting shed to take a gardening breather and look over to the newbies right there next to me now.....I also moved my thistle feeder and my birdbath into the little garden, so it's cool. Molly the Unscrupulous, waited until my back was turned and then decided to march right in and chow down on the Penobscott Coast of Maine composted soil I used in the new garden. Big mistake....she's on prednisone for a tumor and will eat anything!! I'm posting a garden photo of Molly until I can get one of Cuppatea. She is a gardener too! She loves to get into the veggie garden.....she'll take down a broccoli plant before you can snap a bean...and she loves picking those too!

Oh, and Noreaster....I just realized that that gorgeous picture of your Merritt's Supreme" hydrangea is the very one I just transplanted. Have you ever moved one? I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will make it. It is the prettiest shade of blue/purple. Like you, I have acid soil with lots of pine trees. This guy looks pretty wilted, but maybe it will bounce back once the sun goes down. I'm so busy reading all these threads that I can't get back out there and water it!! Ha! Isn't that just like a newbie????

Donnie, no, I just planted mine last year, in mid August. I'm amazed at how big it is already...about 4 feet across. I didn't even realize it was a dwarf...guess it can't get too much bigger? I'm starting to stress out already about how to protect it over the winter- do you do anything for yours? After I bought it and planted it I looked it up and saw that it was only rated to zone six. But now that I see how beautiful the blooms are, I don't want to lose any and am willing to go to the effort of protecting it. I buried it in leaves last winter and several branches broke off under the weight of the leaves and snow, ice, etc. I was hoping to find a better method for this winter. So, no blooms on that side of it for this year...still, I got about 18 blooms, so I'm happy with that. Mine is also under tall pines, and gets very little sun. The color doesn't photograph too well, but it's really a gorgeous, deep color. I have my fingers crossed that your's bounces back. Water, water!

Pixie- I did notice the purple midribs on mine the other day after you mentioned it. It really is such a pretty daylily. I think that one actually did put up an extra scape for me this year, so I'm getting a lot of blooms.

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Noreaster - What a pretty and healthy hydrangea! Mine is much smaller, but it may grow some in its new location if it survives. I've had this one for 3 years. Just before winter we surround it and our roses with a wire mesh staked together to form a cylindrical little cage around the plant and we fill it with leaves. So far, no problems....I think the cage keeps things from falling on the branches. I took a picture of my new little fledgling garden in front of my potting shed, and if you look closely you will see it drooping in front. My husband snipped it back to help it recover, so it looks pretty small right now.

Here's another picture that gives you more context....this new garden needs to fill out a bit! But how fun to watch it grow!

I love that potting shed!

Wonderful pics everyone!! Louise - nice potting shed. It looks like a relaxing place to sit with a cup of tea and watch your garden grow. Eleanor

A new daylily - Fairy Tale Pink. Eleanor

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