What's Blooming Today? #11

Your Phlox is lovely and so is the glad!

Celeste, I planted Carol Mackie Spring '06 as a small plant. It made it through last Winter, which was mild early, then cold late in the season. I have it in average soil - decent drainage. Too young to flower yet. Rated z 5 - 9, so you may be pushing it but if you try a small one, it's probably worth a try. You can always keep it in a pot and bring it in a garage or something for Winter until it's bigger.

Love that phlox! Do you know who it is?

No idea, it came with the house.

I like the clematis Victor. Carol's nice too - I see it around, I bought a little baby of it.

Pix - yes the reseeding is the problem. Bea would be considered a LB(light blend). Fits in to the waterlily category somehow.

Hi Boojum, how've you been? I love that passionflower. I think about getting one everytime Logee's sends me their catalog. They've got a great selection. The phlox is beautiful and so is your glad. What else have you got blooming up there?

Harper

that's it i am going to have to call in sick once in a while to keep up with these posts.... my goodness .... great shots everyone!

I've always wanted to try a Passionflower too. Here's one of my Crapes. Once again, the camera has not caught the color. It's much closer to fuchsia.

Boojum,

I LOVE that glad. It's actually hardy for you??? We bought some "hardy glads", my DH planted them in ridiculous places, this year we were going to mark them and dig them up and move them together, but they vanished in that weird winter.

xxx, Carrie

For those of you who asked about the Verbena in the last thread.....I finally found the name. It is called :
Verbena 'Lanai Upright Purple Mosaic' I found it in plant files and it's hardy z8 so it's an annual.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/159893/

Pixie:

That verbena is beautiful. I'll have to look for that one for next season, even if it is an annual for our Zone. It's just too pretty to pass up!

That's lovely! I have a peachy salmon verbena I love and buy each year. Hafta keep my eyes open for that one, too.
Well the passionflower according to RUK is caerulea, not incarnata. The glads are not hardy and spend the winter in the basement. Victor aren't reds so hard to photograph?? When I was a tile mural painter, reds were the hardest to fire, too.
Harper, I have lots of phlox, butterfly bushes, rose of sharons, some dls and casablanca lilies, roses, and the asters are about to start. And then lots of orchids are in bloom. Here is an orchid that would like 'Lanai Upright Purple Mosaic!' I bought it last week in bloom.

I had a photofgraphy book that mentioned flower photography. I'll look for that chapter a little later and see what it might mention about getting a more 'true' bloom color. If I forget and don't repost about it today, someone remind me, please.

When it comes to color and the computer, it all has to do with the hex charts. There is probably something more simple.

http://images.google.com/images?q=hex+chart&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&um=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title

Yes, booj, it's annoying. I also have a problem with blue vs. purple. My last camera, Nikon Coolpix 995, was much better in reproducing color. Schick, it's the camera, not the monitor, which can be an additional problem. I can tell on the camera monitor. Would love a camera that has a manually adjustable white balance, not just pre-set values.

One of 3 Rose of Sharon's has bloomed, this one I've had the longest.

Late bloomer

Another late bloomer 'Royal Jester'

CATANANCHE Caerulea major (Love Plant)

A very busy bee.

Pixie:

Is that Catananche an annual or a perennial? It's gorgeous!!

A late lily that is washed out from the rain.

Candyce,
It's a perennial, I bought it from Bluestone this spring..we'll see how it does this winter!

I really love it. I'll have to do some research on it and see if I can fit it in somewhere for next year.

The buds feel like straw flowers, but once the flower opens it's as soft as a feather.

Pix great pics again, the bee is terrific. You have a lot of nice late lilies or maybe just that you are a little further north, whatever they are very pretty.

Boojum, tell me about you peach verbena, please. I bought something called "peach lanai verbena" that felt a luttle expensive and just fizzled, died, never bloomed etc. I forget from where.

xxx, Carrie

boojum - I love your phlox, glad and orchid....all really pretty! I would love to see the salmon verbena too. I MUST have that spotted purple verbena of Pixie's. I will see how they do in Fla. during the winter, if I can find the seeds.

Celeste - your other pics were superb as always!

Victor - the daphne is really interesting, and I love your crape!

Thanks. I'm into Crapes. You might call me the Crape Crusader.

Lol!
I took lots of pics today, a sunny hot day finally. Here's the verbena.

Just checked and it's 'Lanai peach'!

Finally, finally found the blue purple petunias yesterday to put in the windowboxes after the lobelia croaked. I've been looking for this petunia all summer for another spot. Looks soooo much better with it.

Very nice booj. Love that Verbena - wow!

here are some from me today

coral bell 'Citronelle'

tuber rose

rose of sharron from a family member

mallow.... hope to get a better shot of this one when more blooms open

celosia finally looking like something

lots of coleus

another pot