What's Blooming? #14

love the stardust sedum.... and the baby Blue Bird ROS

Nice pics everyone. Aspenbooboo - love the sedum. boojum - the colors of your rebloomers are beautiful!! Eleanor
p.s. - glad that you have a camera Dave and I'll be watching for your next pic!! Don't feel bad, I haven't had anything new in my garden to post a pic on or to even take a photo of!!

I don't have much blooming now either. Here is a new daylily that waited until September to show its pretty face.

ECHOES OF MERCY, don't you just love that name.

boojum, your O. Keith is a nice bicolor. I don't have anything like that one.

Thanks for making me feel welcome. Pixie, how long does the African daisy bloom? I have Painted daisies but they only bloom early.
Teresa

Teresa,
I bought the african daisy's in May at my local hardware store. They were sitting there beackoning me to buy them. I made the mistake of leaving the orange one outside.....thats why it died. African daisy does not do 30-40 degree weather.
Put the yellow & purple in the greenhouse until June 1st, then planted them in the ground. I've had flowers ever since, I do deadhead the spent blossoms and it makes the plant fuller.
I know I told you on the DL forum what a beautiful DL ECHOES OF MERCY is but i'll tell ya again. It's just lovely!!!!

Teresa:

I love that 'Echoes of Mercy'. Such great colors together.

Thanks, I agree.

Pixie, if you save seeds from the A. Daisy, and have extra please LMK.
I would like to try a few.
Teresa

Teresa - very nice Echoes. Maybe what I like best is that it looks like a daylily, as all on this thread do, and not overdone with those awful garish edges or those that look like "dishrags" of olden times. I appreciate the beauty of a very pretty daylily like yours.

Hi, Pirl
Maybe I could you talk you into sending me a few Japanese iris for a df. LOL

LOL ..I love the barter system!!!

Yes! I'll dmail you, Teresa.

Great shots booj. Love the baby Monarch.

All of our Monarchs have grown up and flown away. We hatched about a dozen this year.

Was there one plant that most of them fed on?

Parsley!

More wonderful garden pics.
Aspen I agree with everybody else that 'Stardust' sedum is a real star. Also like your big clump of zebra grass.
Boojum love the monarch cat. pic and the seeds on your peona obovata are simply outrageous by any standard, very cool. All the DL pics are also great to see.
BGM your beautiful DL: 'Echos of Mercy' is very nice also.
October Daphne sedum is also a fav of mine.

How lovely, ngam. I have that one but didn't buy it with that name. Glad to know it.

Thank you, boojum! I'll be sure to buy a six pack of parsley next spring.

Well that's what they picked to make chrysalises on (also a daylily-Byran Paul). The catts were prolly born on the milkweed plants in the field.

i am delighted with my "grandpa otts" MGs - i just bought them as a joke because we have a friend named Otts (he is so not the "grandpa" type), but they are really pretty and the neighbors - and the landlords - like them a lot....

amy
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I got out my camera and took some pics. This is the top section of my BESV - bottom desn't look as good. Eleanor

This is the second set of blooms on my Endless Summer hydrangea - Bailmer. Not a very big bush yet (just planted this year) but has had quite a few blooms. Eleanor

This is Quick Fire Hydrangea paniculata with the blooms turning a dark rose - pic doesn't do the color justice. Eleanor

I planted the salvias this year also and they have really grown. Eleanor

Oh Eleanor that BESV is absolultyu gorgeous... will that come back next year??? I planted several seeds and only 3 plants made it.. and they are not not very big... but they did bloom... I love that plant!!!

Wow - where to start?? Booj - love all of your pretty pics...and that Monarch chrysalis shot is terrific!

Aspen - that red zinnia is exquisite!!! Any idea which seeds to look for for that color?

Teresa - your Echoes of Mercy DL is very pretty...and I, too, like the name a lot.

Amy - what a stunning shade of blue that MG is! Gorgeous!

Eleanor - nice collection of pics.......and I LOVE that BESV........this is the first year we haven't had one. They are so expensive to buy in the spring...I am interested in knowing if the seeds came true for you, Kassia?? I haven't been able to get them to winter over here.

Sad to say I don't have anything to photograph today........just when I'm starting to catch on to using the macro, the plants start going away........

well, I started from seeds... and I have seeds if you want I will send you some... I am going to wintersow them this year!!! I will report on my progress with that gorgeous plant!!!!

Lots of great pics. Another vote here for the stardust sedum. And love that seed head Boo. Very interesting! Here's one I caught today. I might have to reassess my previous assessment of the passionless passiflora

Here's a side shot.

A final curtsy from Tahitian Sunset

Vesuvious doing a third turn around the dance floor. If anyone wants an easy Clematis to start with, this is one.

Great shots Eleanor and Weeze!

I finally got a bee!! He was too big to get any closer. I'll leave the up close and personal shots to Al and Andy!

OK, so I'm sitting here feeling quite guilty. I cut my October Daphne to the ground and threw all the cutting's in the compost. If anyone would like the cuttings after seeing ngam's beautiful picture, I would be more than happy to go to the compost and retrieve it simply for postage. They are VERY easy to root. Scratch the surface of your soil 3 or 4 inches. Place the cutting down and cover the length of the stem with soil. Viola....beautiful sedum next year :)

venu.... love the passi.... let me know how it overwinters

How's this for weird - Columbine in bloom! Winky Double Blue something.

no weirder than my Iris

:)

Another first for me - new growth from a spent DL scape.

Honorine Jobert.

Pink Diamond getting deeper.

A bit fuzzy but the soft pink berries of Symphoricarpos 'Amethyst'.

Alpine Geranium still looking nice.