Show us your bloomers!!

....and one more....

Dave - you might want to try planting the Acidanthera in a pot (or a few pots) and lifting pot and plants into the garage for the winter, near a warm wall. Then simply replant pot and all next May.

I might try that too. What other colors do they come in?

As far as I know, that is the only color. One of the things I love about Acidanthera is that it is very tough and forgiving. I'm sure the more you do, the better it is, but this is all I do. Late in the fall I dig out the clumps but don't separate them. I put them in a bushel basket in the dirt part of our cellar which rarely goes lower than 45 degrees. In late May or early June (our zone has a late frost date), I get the basket, separate the clumps, peel off the old "oniony" skin so that I can see if there is a shoot started. If I can, I pull off the hard, dead wad of stuff at the bottom of the bulb and toss it. Sometimes I leave it on. Then I plant them. They really multiply so I end up throwing the smallest ones and the ones without shoots in the compost. They come up like little grassy glads, around 2-3 feet high, and it seems like nothing will happen. But in late August they start to bud, many to each stalk, and they are still blooming now when most flowers are gone. I plant them with compost and bone meal.

bebop is right, Victor. That is the only color. They're some relative to glad's.

Dutch Gardens is where I buy mine but I've seen them at Home Depot, as well, in March and April.

oh thanks everyone!!!!

I loved the desert rose... love at first sight! they had 3 kinds... could not let this one pass!

Eleanor, I fell asleep during the Red Sox game and later I woke up to see them loose!!!! so I just checked DG!!!!

Bebop, I am not very sure how many roses I have... I am going count them tomorrow.................

Kassia - whatever amount you have is just short a few of what you need.

LOL... I agree... but Pirl, right now I am just thinking of how many can I fit into the new beds... I did one bed specially for the dahlias...

I planted a new rose by a trellis this spring. It wasn't doing anything so I added a dahlia - now they're both fighting for the space. It's always how it happens.

Same thing with women. Add a second one to the mix and...

Cat fight!

Back to the bloomers. This sedum Autumn Joy is one of my last perennials.

Our snapdragons are still going sttrong as well. We plan to let them sit and re-seed themselves, too, as we just fell in LOVE with the soft colors. And the red!!! Oh my goodness ~ the flowers looked like velvet!!

Blaze of glory ... again.... if anyone needs a good orange climber... this is one to have.... it's really a good rose....

Love sedum.... still have some pansies.... I left then under a tree all summer ... finally I learned what to do with pansies so they lasted this year!!!

another iris.... oh I am having so much fun with these irises... every day I look and there is a yellow iris somewhere...

some dahlias for Al... and for everyone that enjoys them!!!!

this plant came from Elm banks... headquarters of the MA hort. soc.
it was a gift from one of the master gardeners... this year the plant just exploded.... it's so pretty... variegated leaves ... really nice!

cup & sauce vine... I absolutly love this climber... it just takes forever to bloom but it's worth the wait!

one of the succulents I got at Lone Pine Nurseries... oh you guys, next year when I go I will bring more of these plants... such great price over there!

tiny flower... from lone pine...

great photos everyone.... and Kassia I think those nails are too clean.. better get to work

:)

Looks good Kass. I tried the cup and saucer one year - it did flower a week before frost.

Al, good to know... I wonder if I should start the seeds inside the house by Feb...

Onewish - I think that was the only clean finger I had... this past weekend I could not get my feet and hands really clean... saturday I trully had green feet... I cut the grass wearing just flip flops... needless to say I had to put tons of cream on my feet and wear socks.... but sunday my feet were black... I was laying mulch... so today I only got my hands dirty... and had to give myself a manicure as I watched CSI Miami...
lol... I love clean nails... but that does not stop me from gardening without gloves!!!

Everything's beautiful, Kassia. Even your feet and nails. I love that teeny tiny bloom!!

Very nice Kass. How can your fingernails be so clean??!!

I am picky Victor... I love french manicure ... and I am a girly girl in so many aspects... but I am very proud of all the callous I have!!! signs of a great time gardening!

That plant with the tiny flower is a Cubea ... I will post a picture of the entire plant... so cute!

This calliopsis is another survivor of a light frost. It's really a little flower, I'll send a picture of the whole plant next.

Here's a bed of about 6 plants. This was taken in August. It doesn't look anything like this now, just a few stragglers, like the one above.

sometimes my cellphone camera does strange effects accidentally that i really like.
if only they were bigger.

Nice. How big a phone do you need??!

geez. i remember my 1st friends who had a "car phone". They could bring it inside with them, but it was like a little briefcase - had a handle & everything. We thought - Wow. That is amazing - a phone you can carry with you!
i feel old.

here's a big cell phone:

Can't imagine people using that!

it could be a great item for personal safety. you could call 911 AND hit your assailant on the head, rendering him unconcious...

Assuming you can lift it.

Early technology is always funny later. The first portable computer weighed like a hundred pounds I believe.

My crazy ruffles cosmos are similar Amy.

Bebop I received some of your yellow & red flowers in a pack of coreopsis seed... that were supposed to be a solid red .... mine are still blooming on and off also... very pretty

No bloomers that I'm looking at this morning, but the morning sky is absolutely gorgeous!! The sun is throwing brilliant pink and red darts at the clouds.

These were still blooming yesterday.....haven't dared to look at them this morning.