Steph, Thank you soooo much. I'll take you up on the offer! I've seen them in nurseries but they were never in bloom. I can't believe what i have been passing up!
Here's a big honking sage, by mid day it's covered in Sulphers
The bittersweet blooms of Fall...
Here's my last photo. This is a project going on for some time now. Our house is on a hill that is slowly eroding. If you look in the back you can see nothing but bare ground. I've been adding more and more lantana every year. It seems to working and holding the soil. By the time I'm done it will a 95' x 15' bed.....that's a lot of lantana!!!
Hey, Lily. Welcome. No qualifications necessary. As on every other thread on DG love of gardening and gossip all that's required. Heck, I stay over in Tropical Gardening with those on the islands a lot. You would think I was on a island instead of middle of Texas.
Thanks for the welcomes everyone, I agree Lulu brugs they're known to be "spoileled children" in the garden. lol. I love them though. LouC. Don't you have some too? I know Pod has some, can't wait to see them via her posting.
Kim
Blue Sky Vine I've found to be hardy here in our zone. Die back to the ground at 1st frost, but faithfully sprout back and perform better year after year.
Hi Kim ~ whatcha doing poaching over here... LOL I am happy you joined us. I have been made feel so welcome on your home forum and your flower collection and knowledge is impressive! I have found after spending some time with you good folks in MidSouth Gardening that many of our plants, growing habits and interests are parallel. I hope you continue to join in. pod
BTW, I have a few older Brug pictures but shamefully they were bit back last winter and off to a slow start. Don't know if they will bloom this fall but I can assure you they will be protected this year. I have 3 no IDs a pink, a white and a yaller ~lol
David ~ I am envious of your GH connections much less your own personal GH. Lucky dog! And, I am glad those straight line winds weren't more serious. We got them here in 99. Were in the dark literally for a week. Can be wicked weather in Texas.
Stephanie ~ a delightful combination of colors you posted. All my favorites and they compliment each other so well. I was really interested in seeing your rock roses ~ they are not a true rose are they?
Cocoa_Lulu ~ I love your namesake! Charming friend. What is a night owl? A rose? Your beds are lush and green. You don't get to see mine. They are parched and brown. I keep alot of these plants potted to control water, soil and fertilizer. Heck, right now even the grass looks grim. Tell me ~ are you going to have an evergreen on your Lantana hill too ?
This is a fall bloom that fascinated me. The Rhoeo spathacea ~ boat lily, or three men in a boat or Moses in the cradle. I let this one get too cold last winter too and was delighted when it came back from roots. If you have seen this photo, please forgive me... sometimers disease. Sometimes I remember and sometimes I don't. 8 )
Tehehehe, those visits our MSF saw those. So it's first posting here. I like it. Wouldn't mind seeing them everyday in my own collection. lol
Blossom of Lavendar Lady passi in year past. Although, it survived our winter, this vine hasn't produced any flower yet. But, Pod would like this I'm sure.
Hmmm. My favorite color and I'd bet the "cats" like it too! GRrrr...
This one I like ~ it has generously put forth blooms all summer and still delivering.
Lysimachia procumbens...
Dynamite comes in small packages!!! My flora (the big dog), and her boyfriend from nextdoor, Jo Jo. :-)
This Lady in Red ~ Salvia looks a little tattered after being molested by the hummingbirds...
This beautiful annual warms my gardening soul....
The beautiful purple foliage and blooms of celosia...
My local nurseryman gave me a light pink celosia this afternoon when I bought some tattered looking brugs so I can get some pollens for my prized brug that's in fullbloom awaiting for donors.
The donor's pollen noid pink brug.
I crossed pollinated this (believed to be Suaveolens brug) white brug. My first attempt. If it does take. In couple of year I'll have a new offspring brug. I must grow more patience as I'm getting older. ...
Pod~
It's not a rose at all! LOL Just looks like one! More disease resistant than a real rose, too.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/57756/
Stephanie
Pod, I have plenty of Rock Rose to share.It reseeds, but is easy to relocate.
Oh, oh ~ let me take a raincheck ~ my gardening eyes are already bigger than my plate! 8 )
Thanks for the link Stephanie ~ I may reconsider down the road if I can remember who kindly offered... lol
With both of you growing it, the plant info looks like this is the coolest zone it will do in. Nobody has a problem in a hard winter?
Love all of the photos. Wish I knew how to post. Have a friend, Emma, that knows how to do it. She is really into Morning Glories, grows and post often there. Check her out. She is going to show me how.
On starting seeds, the tiny ones I start in the starting trays, I got from a grower friend. These are perfect. About the size of a flat but they have about 8 rows of 1/2 inch deep soil. After they pop up I move to 4" pots. Great for things like celosia (Pods photo) and cleome. Have not seen photos of it but a real beauty. Also have the rock rose and seeds if someone needs it. I like the turk's cap- have the red, pink and a var. type. The Var. wants to revert back to solid green. Also like lantana- have many colors of it -orange, red, white, yellow and one called buttercream-and the butterflies love it. I also have a plant that I call hummingbird-nothing like a budelia. It has a fuzzy silvery-green leaf and blooms that are orange trumpet shape. Does someone know the real name. I am in Master Gardeners and have several rooted flats to sell at the Oct. 20 sale here.
My brugs have been slow this year too. Bugs and worms really after them. Some are huge trees but few blooms. Think all of the early rain made these get so tall. They like food and I have not been good at feeding them. My Dutchman's Pipe vine has climbed to the top of a 15' tree. It is about to put on a show of blooms.
I have had rockrose for more than 12 years. Because it reseeds, I may have lost the mom, but I have only ever bought one and I have many plants without even trying to pot up the seeds. I gave one to a co worker.All her soil was amended very well and she didn't appreciate rockrose.
Beautyberry!!!!
Someone gave me this and called it Jewels of Opar.
Miscanthus and MG
I love beautyberry!! I want to put one of those in the corner of our yard when we get to do that part of the yard. That'll be a few years down the road, I'm sure! LOL
Banana
The photo you posted is not the same Jewel of Opar that I grow. Yours seem to be a wild ageratum (sp). The Jewel will have many very tiny pastel colored blooms about the size of a pin head. Each makes a seed so they reseed easily.
I am new here and not trying to be a smarty but check the plant file on these.
Will have lots of these too.
DD
I think DD is correct. :-)
Cocoa-lulu..............I hope you see this post...............i am dying to know which cultivar of cockscomb you ordered from seed............almost looks big enough to be Bombay?????? thanks,
gail
Thanks for your ID help.Definitely not a Jewel!You are right about the seeds. I think I have moved it 4 times and I haven't managed to kill it. It does tend to get big and fall over.The flowers remind of mist flower.
DD you are "a smarty" ~ you caught it before we did! Good going... and so glad you joined us. Hope you will soon be able to post your photos. You have many I would like to see...
Bananna ~ The pretty blue flowers are Eupatorium caelestinum, Perennial Ageratum, Blue Boneset, or Foamflower, is an Ageratum look-alike. It grows to two feet tall, and blooms from late July to November. Its' blooms can make luxurious mass. It is very heat and drought tolerant. It is invasive in full sun fertile areas so be ready to keep it in a restricted area.
[ HYPERLINK@arboretum.sfasu.edu ] I found it growing wild and love it... Very pretty Bananna! The Beautyberry is another favorite which grows wild here.
This link is the Jewel of Opar or Jewel of Ophar. It seeds freely as DD said and I got my start as a hitchhiker in a potted plant. Now, where don't I have it! LOL But I do like it for its' carefree nature and beautiful foliage. http://davesgarden.com/tools/journal/showimage.php?eid=108725
GessieGail Glad you joined us... I know you must have some flowers in bloom right now. Please post, photos are nice but not necessary...
Does anybody have a name for that purple celosia I posted earlier? Would love to know a cultivar. Have never seen it elsewhere other than getting these seeds from another DG gardener.
This is an early photo of a pink celosia that is still blooming ~ I like this type of celosia.
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That looks like Pink Castle????? they are pretty...............I am just itching to try next spring the Bombay series that all the florists in Texas use.............from a field grower in Boerne, Texas......................great big round heads.................in lush intense colors................I have the seed but just didn't get around to it this spring.................let me look and see if I have any pictures............
This cactus is in a giant pot and never has quit blooming the whole summer............is blooming right now, too................I should know the name but it starts with a P..........LOL
This princess flower or Tibochina is not mine................I wanted her so badly but I live in the country and the winds exceed 35mph often.........................but isn't she one beauty of a tree.
I have started keeping names of what i have because i can't remember...........I didn't even put a name on the picture of this ...........not mandevillea but the other tropical
P for pretty! Not a cactus fiend but the blooms are lovely.
Pink castle on the pink celosia? How about this purple celosia posted above? Ever seen it before? http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=4029191
Is that a Plumeria bloom?
BTW, is this Tibouchina fragrant? Lovely tree, I have not seen one that large.
yes I know that by heart and my 65 year old brain is failing................be back tomorrow and tell you...............i love it too................In fact, I will get my seeds out and tell you that one and the prettiest celosias in the world....................
I mainly grow in the house and on the front porch.........I had a fall cutting garden but the rains in the spring and summer prevented me from building a raised cutting garden here at the house instead of down at the veggie garden...........I will have it for spring though.............just need to get it down...................a cutting garden is the most exciting thing!!!!!!!!!!
No, it is not...........I hate getting older!!!!!!!! The cultivar i remember is 'Cherries Jubilee' but i can't remember what the plant is that resembles a mandevilla..............I will know by tomorrow
I have two 'Spicy Red' Jatrophas and one 'Baby Pink' Jatropha.........I took these last week........
I will take pics this week....................I have a Hawaiian Hibiscus Tree that is as tall as my storage building is.................she is in a pot and I just got her this summer...........beautiful...........be back tomorrow with some pics.............