Show us your bloomers!!

Jolly Bee

mums just starting to open with a morning glory reseeding from years past

pansies and catatanche(sp)

winding down hydrangea and early amethyst

Debilu, you still have such pretty flowers. Love the colors of the pansies and catanache together. The triple bees on the sunflower is a great shot. I've noticed that the bumblebees are really moving slowly and just sitting around on our flowers. Cold weather I guess.

I love all the colors... so vibrant... like they want to put up a final show and hang around for as long as they can because they know winter is coming!!!!

Great colorful shots everyone!! Amazing to see the sunflowers still going strong and so many other flowers as well!

Candyce - I'm just thrilled that you will have such a big friendship garden!! I would be honored to deliver an addition to it in the spring from my friendship garden!

Bebop, your bouquet is so colorful and cheerful!

I like that pansy pic Debi.
You guys don't watch football, but the funniest spot ESPN has had this year was Emmit Smith talking abuot cranesbill geranium.

I went out to look for something interesting. My dahlias are doing well - a bit ragged from some rain and wind so I didn't take any pics of them.

Weigela Carnaval

Never posted this one - Cut and Come Again zinnia - interesting color.

Miscanthus Silver Feather is fading fast - it stays up all winter though.

Self seeded rudbeckia in the garden.

No cosmos pics - can you believe it ;) The ones on the corner were splattened by the rain last night.


Queen Sophia marigold I had competing with tomatoes.

Another shot of the calendula though - they bloom hot cold whatever.

Al the calendula combo is lovely!

I think Emmit would be proud.

Thanks.

Have you seen that one Victor? It's a promo for Monday Night Football I believe. They were drafting 'fantasy' plants.

No - I'll have to look for it now. Must be funny. Cool idea.

Forgot I had to pick one acceptable photo out of the 10 I took of my fuchsia. It improved during the fall.

Back to the Fuchsia? Nice.

It's good now. Next year I'm going back to that 'hardy'LOL variety, it was less picky about the heat.

They never did well for me.

Great shots, Al! I especially love the weigela and that gorgeous pink zinnia! Your fuchsia is pretty too........do you get lots of hummers at your fuchsia?

I have seen that funny ad with Emmit and the plants.........hysterical!

Al - i love that crazy-looking rudebeckia!
i have marigolds similar to that out of a seed packet called "Disco Mix." Who could resist? And they grew like crazy.
And i'm sorry for the loss of your cosmos, i lost a bunch of mine to the dreadful wind and rain last weekend.

amy
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Sounds like a personal question ;)

Not many hummingbirds around here, we put up feeders and have a few plants they would like, but might as well be waiting for the Great Pumpkin
leads me to one of my favorite wavs:
http://home.earthlink.net/~lollyfrost/gotarock.wav

My fuchsias did not do well this summer either but they did improve every time the temperature got cooler. They never died (until I tossed them and I assume they're dead now) but kept getting really stressed looking and wilty (is that a word). At the same time they were producing new growth. I love fuchsias but after this summer I'm not sure I want to spend the $$ again. Al - you mentioned a hardy variety with a LOL. Is there really a hardier variety of fuchsia or is it a joke?? Eleanor
p.s. - forgot to mention how much I enjoyed all of the blooms since the last time I said I enjoyed them.

Love those Peanuts guys!!

Amy - I still have a few of my ruffles cosmos along the fence.

Eleanor - The hardy variety have darker feltier leaves and grow more upright. I think VB had them in their catalog as hardy to zone6, but they died with just one frost. They are less tempermental I feel.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/adv_search.php?searcher%5Bcommon%5D=hardy+fuchsia&searcher%5Bfamily%5D=&searcher%5Bgenus%5D=&searcher%5Bspecies%5D=&searcher%5Bcultivar%5D=&searcher%5Bhybridizer%5D=&search_prefs%5Bblank_cultivar%5D=&search_prefs%5Bsort_by%5D=rating&images_prefs=both&Search=Search

Victor - you blockhead.

yes - my GIANT supposedly sonata - hahaha - cosmos that have been growing and GROWING by a post all summer - and have made maybe 3 blooms - 2 were mutant deformed looking things - have suddenly started to bud and bloom like crazy - i'll upload pics later. Today there were like 7 blooms and more buds than i can count. (2 plants)
It is a new cultivar - Cosmos Masochisticus. They thrive after a beating that flattens their wimpier relations.

Al - thanks for the info. What's VB?? I'm not concerned about the hardiness with regard to cold and frost as I would grow them as an annual. I found this summer that the other temperature extreme (heat and humidity) was the problem. If I can get a hardy variety next year I may try them again. In past years I might have had the hardy kind and I just didn't know it and that's why they were OK with the heat! Eleanor

Von Bougreron(sp - LOL) a company with pretty pictures and lousy plants.

Thanks Al - I'll remember that advice for sure!! LOL Eleanor

Al, for picking on my photography when I'm not even here, you're not allowed to look at these.

Here's all the roses that are still blooming in my rose garden.

The weather has been so good this week I've been working on cleaning up the roses some every day. No frost yet...it's 71* right now. When the other shoe drops, it's probably going to drop like a ton of bricks. so I figure I better be ready for it. we'll probably go from 70 to 25 overnight with a foot of s**w.

I didn't get a chance to take any dahlia pics today, but they are all gorgeous! I'll try to get some tomorrow. Well, I do have one long shot.

Jan - you may have never promised us a rose garden but you sure do give us lots of rose blooms to enjoy!! Eleanor

thanks for the pretty rose pictures.... brightened my morning

Beautiful Jan. You must be very pleased with how things went this year.

Here is a single calendula that reseeds and comes back every year.

Wow Jan I can't believe you still have all those beautiful rose's still blooming!
Al, that's one lovely calendula, I love the color! It can reseed in my garden any day!

Eleanor, that's the name of my rose garden. It was my birthday present from DH this year and all the years we've been together I never expected to have anything this beautiful. He promised to love, honor and cherish, but he never promised me a rose garden :0)

Victor, I really am pleased. the roses have done well and 'The Great Wintersowing Experiment of Winter '07' was a success and my cottage garden is NOT empty. of course, Al's dahlias filled some very large gaps :)

bebop, love the calendula. that's another plant that is missing from my garden...is there no end to the wonderful flowers that I am missing out on?

bebop, lovely Calendula! I used to have them in my gardens in Maine - loved the fact they continued to bloom through fall and remember one year taking pictures of the blooms with snow on them in November - a really tough plant!