What's Blooming? # 12

Flowers are starting to wind down here but I still have a few late bloomers.
Please share your as a zone or 2 warmer can make a big difference.

Cone Flower @ dusk.

'Double Delight' is blooming for the second time.

another one blooming, don't know the name cause I hate it. It has NO smell.....useless.

Thanks Celeste. Wouldn't that make it a 'Quadruple Delight'??

'Dallas Star' going for round # 2 also.

I guess it would Victor if I looked at it from you angle...but i can't. LOL
If you ever come to my town, you won't get lost with our signs.

Pink Balloon flower...not mine. It's my DD and im babysitting it while she moves into her new house. But now I know she has it... hmmm.

I take it China is north of South China.

correct....your good!

So is the long way around to Sweden the scenic route? Btw do they still turn the road signs around to screw up the tourists? We used to go up to Swan Island and the sign for the ferry almost always was pointing the wrong way. LOL.

You take the high road
and I'll take the low road
and I'll be in Norway before you.

Just doesn't ring the same bell as Scotland.

Celeste,

I'm sending you seeds for the pink balloon :)

Nice echie and roses Pix.


Dog

Calendula Red Shades, I am liking this now later in the summer.

Now later??

It didn't do much for me earlier - I think the flowers are darker and bigger now.

Belle of Barmera dahlia

Al - I wonder if the Belle of Barmera knows Bahama Mama. They seem to be a lot alike. I'll try for a picture tomorrow.

daturas .... and more daturas.... an evening shot!!!

Enjoyed all the pics back on #11 - Shasta is beautiful and I didn't realized there were so many varieties of columbines. I have to get some more Columbines next year. Al - does Dog have a name or do you call him "Dog"? I knew someone who had a dog named "Bear" and it was a good name for him. I was taking an ice cream cake to this friend's camp cause he had a church youth group sleep over there. No one was around and "Bear" would not let me in the cabin to put the ice cream cake in the freezer!! LOL What a mess!! Eleanor
p.s. I loved all the pics on the new thread also.

pixie & al.... wonderful shots

ok now what the heck i am doing wrong with the double white daturas.... i got them in a seed swap.... they look more yellow than white.... they are staying the color of the blooms before they open... what gives ... kassia yours are beatuiful

I like your pink balloon flower Celeste. I have the 'blue' one. Sometimes it looks purple. The butterflies are busy by me too. I finally have a bud on my Moon Vine. I just went out to see if it was open, but alas, nothing yet

Pirl - Belle has the same colors as Penhill Watermelon I have - just a bit different form. Post your B. Mama.

Eleanor - dog's name is Gage.

This BB pic isn't as good, but it is a little different as he was in takeoff mode.

Hi all,
Boy did I have a strange weekend. I had a kidney stone on Sat. and spent most of the day at the hospital. I was fine as soon as they gave me the IV ibuprofen, had guests overnite, went out to dinner, and went hiking today. All that pain seems so unreal (actually worse than childbirth. I'm sure some of you know!
So here are some of today's pics. The first is Olallie Keith.

About Face came back from the dead. I'm glad it wasn't grafted. Wasn't sure till today!

My butterfly of the day. A bit beat up by life (like me).

Indian pipes on my hike.

My huernia opened but it has the wrong name.

My columbine patch in June. The seeds came from bootandall from New Zealand!


Edited for spelling.

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One more.

Boojum, sorry to hear you had the painful kidney stone.. glad you are okay! And now your huernia is acting up too? LOL Love your daylily!

Here's my one and only Dahlia again. The first few flowers were peachy orange colored, now they are looking like this, which I like better

Enjoyed all of the colorful blooms this morning! Eleanor

Al - I like your 'Flight of the Bumblebee'

Boojum. Nice pics. A hike in the woods sounds nice. I love the quiet of nature.

oops - did it again - posted the latest in the old thread since that was the one that came up in the tracker. I can never remember what number we are up to.

Here's a bouquet, fresh cut this morning.

I think we're on this one, can't be easy being your age.

Looks great Anita.

Quite excited about this. I am one of those people who throws seed down and then forgets where and what I planted. Not an organized gardener at all. I have had a stand of Balloon Plant seedlings that I planted last year that have finally began to bloom. Most of them have been the plain white balloons.....BUT......2 of them look like this :)

A pretty poppy blooming yesterday. Not sure how I feel about poppies. I think they are SO pretty, however they don't seem to last but a day or two.

First year that I grow these and I am simply LOVING them :) They have been blooming non stop for weeks now and I would say this might be their peak. The ants seem to love them for whatever reason. I don't see any "farming" going on and they don't seem to be hurting the plant any so I let them wander and pollinate. I plan to do large pots of these next year and separate the colors so that I can coordinate other annuals when I do my window boxes :) Garden Balsam.

Your balloon flower is beautiful and reminds me of the June blooming 'Splish Splash' geranium - very similar coloring. Amazing red poppy! The Balsam does self-seed with wild abandon so you'll always have them.

Kim that balloon flower is amazing, very unique!! I like Poppies too but wish they would last longer also. I planted some from seed this spring and put them in the ground at different times. I had poppies in June, July and August that way.
Garden Balsam is lovely!!! I have never grown it before and now I need to!!

Pirl and Pixie my friends :)
I was going to let the "splashed" balloon go to seed but since it's so late in the season I have decided that I think rather than letting them go to seed (I got 2 "splashed" seedlings out of 10) I will transplant them so that next year they will be stronger and I will have plenty of seeds to share.
Pirl, I'm not sure the Balsam will self sow in zone 5. So, I plan to bring them in and grow them on as houseplants until I can gather every single seed they have to offer as I don't want to lose them.
Pixie, you are more than welcome to some of the seeds. The one thing that I noticed with it is that they LOVE water so I would recommend putting in a large pot that would be watered frequently. I plan to plant some of the salmon colored ones in a pot with my Salvia "Coral Nymph" next year as they look so cute next to one another.
Already planning my "pot plantings" for next year.....obsessed I tell ya *lol*