What's blooming? #16

Do your own ;)~

Can't respond to that one.

Us too - never HAVE any grass clippings! But I have official permission from the guy across the street to rescue his "yard waste" whenever I want... soon, it'll be LEAVES season, bags and bags of other people's leaves!

Bebop - what a nice display of pretty dahlias. I'm almost convinced to add a few here and there next summer. Our glads are now lifted and most of my caladiums are up as well......guess it won't hurt to dig a couple more plants next year! You've helped convince me.......along with Al and Pixie and many others whose dahlias I have just loved seeing all summer.

Seandor, if I bring my dahlias (in their pots) will you take them and leave me with the pots? To the RU or the brunch....

I'm not convinced beyond reasonable doubt that Al's Dahlia photos are actually from his garden. Maybe some Dahlia show garden or something.

That is shocking for you to say that Victor.

Here's a new one I found- I mean grewd.

Forgive me Al. We all have our weak moments of doubt! Seriously, why is it that many who are growing them in warmer regions than yours are getting blooms so late?

Wow, Al - that one is stunning! Where did you lift it from? Some display somewhere on peppermints??? LOL

Al ~ that's gorgeous!! And so different!!

Al, your newly grewd dahlia is cool...name?? I think I'm more disappointed that it may be time for a frost soon because of the dahlias than for my roses. the roses have been blooming since spring at least. Dahlias are a long wait. the species dahlia has had a total of one pretty bloom and has a bunch of little buds. I can't stand that they may never open.

bebop, I like your rudbeckia. do you know it's name? the dahlias have great colors! it's nice to see you here :0)

Candy, your phlox are really nice. how tall are they? hard to tell from that angle.

Eleanor, yes, that's Zebrina you have there, too.

Deb, cool pic. I've never been inside a nasturtium before ;0)

this is the only plant left of my Arizona Sun gaillardia. but it sure is a bloomer

one very short delph is reblooming

found a bee sleeping on Yolande d'Aragon this morning

That one is Candy Cane, nice little flower.

Yo! Lande

grampapa:

Our phlox is new this year, so it's only about a foot or so tall right now. Love your 'bee' photo!

Beautiful blooms and pics - love them all!! 20 years ago today (10-4-87) there was a big snow storm in this area. Glens Falls only recieved a couple of inches but the Albany area got 1-2 feet. You never know what the weather is going to be like in the Northeast. Today it was in the 80's. We usually have had our first frost by now, but the gardens are still producing beautiful blooms this year!! Eleanor

Yes it's been crazy warm here too. But most of all - we need RAIN!

That would be terrible Eleanor. When did Nancy have that storm last year? I know it was October.

Grampapa, the rudbeckias are Prairie Sun. They've been blooming for 2 months and still have lots of buds.

I leave my grass on the lawn. It's supposed to reduce the need for fertilizer by 50%. But it is great for composting.

I heard on TV that combined, August & Sept were the second driest Aug. & Sept in over 100 years of keeping records. Of course this is the year I stopped totally ignoring my lawn and seeded. So I'm dragging the sprinkler around.

Yeah - it has been VERY dry this year. And it started off so well with showers almost every third day in May and June!!

Surprised there has been no talk of restrictions yet in my area. They just announced a plan to build a plant to treat Hudson River water for us to drink - yummy! They promise they can remove the PCB's and two radioactive isotopes. Drink up!

I rather doubt that!!! Ugh!! Dis-taste-ful!!!!

Victor usually your comments make me smile or laugh, this is the first time you gagged me. HUDSON RIVER WATER - run for your life. Are the "they" politicians? If so, again; run for your life. In a serious vein, unfortunately, water will be a far more profitable item than fuel or gold. If we don't move forward with desalizination/purifying plants we could comprimise our families futures. While we're speaking of putrid water; I was going to order the bionic gloves when I found out they cannot go in the washing machine. I'm afraid that if I use the bionic gloves for any time, my family would not have to look for me in the garden, they would be able to follow the scent, or my hands would rot off. :)

I live on the Hudson River just north of you Victor - about 250 miles north (that's just a bad guess)!! We're just above the PCB's by a few miles and we drink only bottled water. Our water comes partly from the Hudson and a reservoir. I can't imagine drinking water coming from so far down river - PCB's, paper mill pollution, pollution from the large ships. They put so many chemicals in our water to kill the bacteria that you can't even stand the taste of it. YUCK! It has even damaged fabrics that I have washed with bleached out spots. Eleanor

Remember ~ 'they' used to think asbestos was safe!

Daisey - the 'they' are the pols and the water company. True about water. Will become the most expensive commodity and the reason for future wars, especially in the Middle East. We have a crisis in our area with water. I'd really like to see a moratorium on further development. We'll have to wait and see on the water. I have a filter now and the water tastes fine.

Stay with the filtered water Victor. We would hate to lose you, or have you turn into something wierd.

Thanks - any glowing might be useful though.

But you may sprout a second head or tail! hee hee

Maybe he'll grow hair - ouch, sorry.

Seriously though, I agree with everything you say about water. We've come back from visiting my father in Santa Fe, NM, where there has officially been a drought for two or three years, and the ONEperson on the block with a lush thick green "American" style-lawn stands out like a sore thumb since you KNOW he's either been ignoring the water restrictions or watering his lawn with pedialyte or bottled water.

Then we're planning a trip to Salt Lake City, UT, to visit DH's DS and his little family. We've been going out there once or twice a year for about 5 years. Talk about sprawl. Once there were a few stops along the highway between SLC and Provo, where BYU is and where most of the Olympics were in 2000? 2004? You know. Well, when we first started visiting, there was NOTHING between these two places. Then one time there were developments. Then they bought a tiny house in one of these developments and to get there, you had to cross miles and miles of valley? Not mountains so it had to be valley, with cows grazing and sunflowers all along the edges of the roads. But there are signs all along the way "future homes" "model house available for viewing" and they make these little prefab towns complete with at least one LDS church and an elementary school. And if you take the dirt and seed it and water it, you can have a lawn. And then you keep watering and mowing (and fertilizing and throwing away the grass clippings) and have a yard just like Mr. & Mrs. Cleaver and some crazies even grow FLOWERS, not drought-tolerant but ordinary flowers. In a few years they will be in a full scale drought! The Great Salt Lake has been shrinking, not that they're using it; just to indicate how ARID it is out there. I don't know if individual people are unaware or the government (aka the LDS Church) is unaware or, more likely, in denial, or, still more likely, planning to purchase water somewhere for these new pioneers to drink, wash and water their lawns with! Remember, folks, you heard it here first: whatever valley it is that SLC is in is going to be having a SEVERE DROUGHT by 2025 if not sooner. Of course, I have no idea what the government is thinking or how much rain or snow will fall by then, and I certainly don't know what their piece of global climate change will be. (I'm sorry if I seem to be making religious commentary; I'm only expressing my personal views on the climate as I've observed it in Utah, and my favorite grandchildren are my Mormon ones.)

xx, Carrie

I know Blooms talked about how crazy the housing boom was in Utah. I would agree that we should really think about the water more when we develop into deserts - how Phoenix can continue to grow boggles me.

All of the SW is in serious trouble.

How about before we develop into deserts? Is Utah the southwest, Victor?

xx, Carrie in still soggy New England

my town has the highest water table around; we have a French drain in our basement and everyone I know has something similar. There's plenty of fresh water in MA, it's just moving it around that's the problem.