Pictures of my gardens

Hi everyone. I finally posted the long-promised pictures of my gardens in my diary. Here's a link http://davesgarden.com/journal/d/t/ginnylynn/6595/ Enjoy!

--Ginny

Your flowers are gorgeous! Your new garden is gorgeous! Oh! Now you've got me all excited again about having my own garden (which I don't have yet :/). Thank you for sharing. Now I'll go back to lurking and enjoying everyone's pictures in secret. :)

Ginny the triplets are adorable :) , I WANT your shed, and your plants are looking wonderful, healthy and the surprise colour combination are lovely! Ü I really like the whiskey barrel planted with an Oleander, 3 Daturas, a "spikey thing" :-), a Purple Majesty Millet, 3 Chinese Ground Orchids, and a Calla 'Picasso'.

I love your gardens and you do such fantastic container arrangements!

Thanks everyone :-) Gardening is my passion, and I guess if you love something that much things just seem to come together for you somehow.

MoogleTree (love that name!) please don't just lurk. Come on out and tell people when you like their pictures, like you did for me. It gives people a nice warm glow to know that their efforts are appreciated! I hope you get your own garden soon so we can all return the favour when you post pictures of your own lovelies :-)

Pam and Cordeledawg - thanks for your kind words. I'm glad you like my containers. I have to confess I'm pretty proud of them this year.

--Ginny

Ginny - your plant garden diary is wonderful. It was great to cruise through all the individual pictures of your plants. That purple-colored pineapple lily is to die for! And the apricot foxglove - awesome. And those kitties! Adorable. I showed my DH - we think our grey tabby may have looked a lot like your baby grey tabby when she was a kitten.

Joanne

Hey Joanne. I'm glad you enjoyed the tour :-) Baby kitties are just scrumptious aren't they? I don't know how anyone can resist them.

Would you like me to try to save some seeds from the foxglove for you? I'm not sure if they'll come true, but you're more than welcome to try them out - that's if it isn't too late and they aren't already scattered all over the ground.

--Ginny

Thank you, Ginny. We are still in the planning stages. I was looking up information on flowers over the net and I kept going back to Dave's Garden. I thought 'this is ridiculous, I might as well join!' I've been quietly admiring agedgardener's, ggd's (stellar water lily photo), echoes', and so many others' fantastic garden pictures. The newness of your pretty garden inspired me.

And thanks about the name. :)

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Very nice Ginny!!!!

Sure Ginny - I'd love to try the seeds. Perhaps I have something you might like. I have a TON of Morning Glory seeds, should you be interested....

Joanne

Thanks Glenda :-) You know, in some ways I didn't know what I had when I lived in Victoria. I was quite young and not into gardening yet. Now though - holy mackerel, I'd love to have that zone and those growing conditions!

MG seeds would be great Joanne. I'll have lots of sunny wall space on the new shed for them to scramble up next year.

--Ginny

Nice photos, Ginny ! I can relate to the gardening in Victoria thing - I came right to Victoria from Scotland and consider myself very lucky at landing in such a great place to garden (despite all the rain last week !) I am not sure I would be up for the challenge that others can have in other parts of Canada. On the other hand I wouldn't try to cram every plant in existance into my garden !!
Heather

MoogleTree, please don't worry about getting off topic in one of my threads - our threads here seem to do that all the time, and you never know what interesting paths they might take!

LOL Well I probably would Heather! I'd be like a kid in a candy store for the first few years, then I would gradually settle down and decide what I really wanted my gardens to say. Kind of like what I've done here ;-) I can't really complain about our growing conditions here in southern Ontario though. We have a very wide variety of things that do very well in this climate, and I push the zones so regularly that I sometimes get cocky, try for a zone 7/8 plant, and then wonder what happened when it doesn't make it.....BUT.... sometimes it actually does survive, like my Freesia.

Joanne, we're in luck. I caught the Foxglove seeds just in time, and there's lots of them! DMail coming your way.

--Ginny

By the way Ginny - congrats on those baby Hostas! They are wonderful. I started a few miniature ones under lights this year but managed to murder them by spring. Sigh...

Thanks Joanne. I'm not sure how I managed to get mine to survive until they could be planted out to tell you the truth. I think, since it was my first try, it must have been beginners luck :-)

Looking good Ginny, real nice photos. I'm going to put it on watch and wait for more pics.

Your orange daylily might be Rajah. Can't wait too see lots of pics of your new kittens too.

Thanks Brenda, and thanks for the tip about my orange daylily and its possible id :-) I'm going to try for some night shots either tonight or tomorrow night to get better colour. I'll be posting those - and some new triplet pics - in a few days.

--Ginny

Sort of OT, but here's my kitty. One of your grey tabby babies made me think that's what she may have looked like as a kitten...we got her when she was five.

Joanne

Enjoyed your little summer tour, Ginny. Loved the Latvia and Landini lilies together. Yep, you are definitely a zone pusher with all the tropicals you grow! The dimensions on your new shed seem about the size I wish we would have built ours. What do you keep in there? I have to share mine with the fellas in the household as we don't have a garage that I can kick them out into. lol

Sandy

Oh, your kitty is adorable Joanne! She looks soft and cuddly. What's her name? Here's a pic of my big gray boy - Smokey.

We keep *LOTS* of stuff in our shed Sandy :-) We have shipping containers with Halloween and Christmas decorations (we're big on those two holidays), all of my gardening paraphernalia is in there - potting supplies, tools, garden decor items that aren't currently in use, and my indoor greenhouses for winter/spring seed starting. There's also stored items that belonged to my mother, pond supplies, general landscaping tools and supplies, and miscellaneous other "stuff" that has no other home.

My DH has to share his garage with me - how's that for a turn around? I like to work with wood and some of my larger tools live in the garage where hubby has cleared space for me to share his workbench. We actually coexist quite nicely in both the shed and the garage. We try to play nice together :-)

--Ginny

Ooo what big eyes Smokey has. What a doll!
My cat's name is officially "Holmz" but we usually refer to her as "Hidey Cat" as she is afraid of a wide variety of things: thunder, brooms, any loud noises, plastic bags, ceiling fans, etc etc etc. LOL

Joanne

Ginny your gardens are great. I'm impressed that you got your Freesia to bloom, outside! Love the kittens.

Linda

I also went on the "garden tour" and the plants are gorgeous! Do you have any pics of the beds...with the flowers set against one another? I love to see how people arrange them! But the individual shots are very nice....helps me to review plants and their names, since gardening is fairly new to me for the first time in a long time! I love the "Sweet William"...is it the same as phlox? Are there different kinds? My g'mother used to have lots of it, and I'd love to grow some.

Connie

LOL My two fur babies are a bit chicken about loud noises (especially vacuum cleaners) and stuff too Joanne. I think that's just a cat thing :-)

Thanks Linda. The first year I had one lonely little freesia come up, but no blooms. I thought they were goners for sure. Then last year, about 1/2 dozen came up, but still no blooms. This year 1 bloomed and 1 tried but was too late - the heat and drought kept it from flowering. Who knows what might happen next year!

I'm glad you enjoyed the tour Connie. I always tend to take more close up shots of my flowers, and I really do need to take more landscape shots. I'll probably do that over the next couple of days and add them to my diary. The plants that I call Sweet William are actually Dianthus barbatus http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/165/ and I've loved them since I was a child and my grandmother grew them.

--Ginny

For anyone who is interested, I have added new pics to my garden tour (link in the top post), dated today. I've included some landscape photos this time too Connie :-)

--Ginny

Thanks, Ginny....I'm off to the link! :=)

I'll be back later to look in more detail, but I'll bet you just LOVE to sit at your outdoor table and have a glass of tea (or whatever) with all those beautiful flowers blooming nearby! ALL your plants look so healthy!!

Later...
CW

Thanks Connie. I do enjoy sitting there at the table with a thermos of coffee or hot tea in the morning, just enjoying the peace and quiet - looking around and often planning what changes I need/want to make :-)

--Ginny

Ginny,

I was just in BC at Victoria this summer and toured Butchart Gardens...wow...what a display! I assume you have been there---I don't know the geography of Canada like I should!!...?

Ginny, I liked your landscape pics, gives more of a perspective to your overall plantings. Glad you can relax in your garden too on your bistro patio. Ha, love the name 'bistro patio'. I think I may christen our deck the 'bistro deck'. Doesn't have the same ring though. lol

Is your Japanese Maple in a pot sunk in the ground? It looked like it in one of the pics. Did you make any changes to your railroad since your last pics?

Sandy

Fantastic photos, Ginny! The canna is gorgeous. Everytime I think I won't be getting a certain kind of flower, I find one (and eventually more!) I want to buy. And now I'd like a canna. :> My husband already had me raze my flower list of 50 to a mere 13 of absolutely-want-to-get-if-possible types (with gladiola, tulips, and daffodils in the margins - so 16? +1 canna = 17? :P). Now, when I talk about a plant, he runs away! And cheers! on the Japanese Maple. I'm a big fan of them.

The macro shot of the tradescantia is outstanding.

Finally got a chance to take a peek. (Have been doing chamberfest for the last two weeks; so computer time has been limited). Lovely pics and nice garden.
Ann

Yes, I've been to Butchart Gardens a number of times when I lived out there on the west coast Connie, and they are indeed lovely. Unfortunately I'm a good 3000 miles away from them now :-(

My "bistro patio" got its name from the bistro table and two chairs set up on the small patio Sandy :-) The Japanese Maple is growing in the ground. What you see in the pic is the edging around the planting area of the tree. While I fully intended to have more done on the railroad by now, having to replace a collapsed shed in the spring and our work on our new patio now have kept me from it. At this rate it won't get anymore work done on it until next year.

The nice thing about Cannas and such in your zone MoogleTree, is that you don't have to dig them up in the fall and store the corms inside like I do - at least I don't think you do :-) And if you ever reach the state where you no longer must "absolutely have that plant" - whatever plant that is - please let me know the secret, okay?

Thanks Ann. I'm glad you enjoyed the tour.

--Ginny