What's Blooming Outside Your Door, Part 2

Good pictures. Love all your iris. I think I will have to order a batik collection. They are really different.

Lots a new iris blooming today. todays favorite :)

This one comes in second place ...

This iris I acquired as a "freebie" last year. Someone in town put a lot of clumps on the curb with a free iris sign. Hit the breaks and took a lot home. They all appear to be this yellow variety, but have grown very large this first year. May have to devide already ..They are pretty and they were free!

Love this one also.

Found my first little 8-ball zucchini today. So exciting. Can't wait to try it.

And found a few scalloped squash also. Love these . Yum!
On the grill..herb seasoning..Yum!

This tread is getting to long, start volume 3

This is a picture of one of my side yard. It is filling in nicely and getting very colorful.

I chose this year to start growing vegetables again. Bad choice. They are just sitting in the soil doing nothing. It's too cold for them.

I'm with Pix-none of the veggies look good at all. The lettuce is finally starting to look like something-about what I expected to see, oh, a month or so ago. I'm still optimistic about the peppers, but all the squash and melons and cukes are pretty well done for.

Lets all hope for a Indian summer, didnt get time to plant anything yet. maybe there is still time?

Bea - your side yard is really pretty, you must love walking out there to check on it !

Nice flowerbed Bea. Border, lights, fencing and all. I have a group of buds on my tomato plants. The other one is almost showing buds.

I have direct sown seedlings up, hot peppers and tomatoes in addition to a plethora of herbs and flowers, but seems everything germinated then went into a holding pattern. Haven't seen much growth from them at all though I do notice changes when it's warm. C'mon sun...help us out here! The sweet peppers and other tomatoes I have indoor sown (a-gain...third times the charm, right?) and have them variously either under the grow light or on a heat mat under a dome. Hopefully something will happen!

Yes, I love going to my yard. Wish I was there now. Been catching up on laundry & house work today. Boring! It also just started sprinkling and I think they forecast for rain. Enough already! I did find one tiny tomato yesterday. I sure hope his friends come join the party soon. I have lots of flowers on my tomatoes, but that's about it. I agree..the veggies need some warmer weather to get jump started.
Here is a blurry picture of my tomato. It is the size of a grape.With my luck it is a cherry tomato and the girls & I will have to fight over it!

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oooh, I have veggies :o)

Artichokes anyone? Probably wont have any til next year :o( these were started from seeds in Feb.

and strawberries... If I can keep the birdies out of them!

These were started last year.... crop looks good this year! YUM!

Your squash & artickokes look promising. Your CA weather will help them along I am sure!
popped out quickly in the rain to shoot a few daily shots of pretty things in bloom today. We had sunshine until about 4pm. A few roses decided it was time to show themselves, Yeah! Sorry, but do not have identites as it was a quick trip..no time to read the names or their tags.
A yellow one..

A pink frilly one

Climbing red roses that are beautiful in person, but hard to get a decent picture of.

Midnight blue ...flowers are almost as big as this tiny new bush.

Another pink one..

This is Margaret Merrill . It has a wonderful fragrance.

Ok..now back to BI's. This one is almost a Burgundy color and velvety.

For those of you who like the purple ones..this is the one. It is purple on purple!! Beautiful!

and lastly purple & white..

Gorgeous. I'm drooling.

Oooh, love that purple on purple one! Gorgeous pictures.

Here is my Iris contributions for today...Lavender Beauty

and Mary Frances....

Foxglove Apricot Beauty

oh! I tell you... I keep seeing these Iris pictures here...and then I see those Iris co-ops going on.... I am doing some serious damage to my retirement fund! LOL! I dont even remember how many I have ordered...but I know they are all arriving in the fall! LOLOL!

This thread is becoming dangerous :o)

Hi everyone. New DG subscriber in Kent, WA. I have an Orchid Rockrose blooming today. Just thought I'd show it off.

-=Joel=-

Hi joel - thanks for sharing - mine is another week or so away from bloom. Anticipation.
But, all my Halimiocistus' are going full bore.
H. 'Merrist Wood Cream':

You all have got me hooked LOL I just order 12. 6 are everblooming and 6 are German. plus what I have and others coming, need to make a new bed just for them.

HI Joel ~ Welcome to PNW. A friendly and chatty lot you'll find here. And all enablers. Trust me, this I know from experience. I was new 6 months ago and have never looked back. Your rockrose is beautiful. It looks like you had it wadded up in your pocket, pulled it out and tried to smooth it down for the pic. Love the wrinkly look of it!

Kate ~ Love that peachy color of the Halimiocistus.

Anjl, Bea, and Carla ~ a great big GRRR to you guys with all your bloomin' flowers and veggies! They're all gorgeous! If we could have a day or two of sunshine here we'd probably get another growth spurt from the seedlings!

Welcome, Joel. Thanks for posting. Outta's right - all enablers (more like enforcers) here, so be careful.

I just noticed several cistus blooming on my way home from work last night. I do love them.

Hi Joel , welcome! My sis lived in Renton until about 5 yrs ago... so I know right where you are!

I too have zone envy... cause now all my iris and daffs and hyancinths are long gone... just browning foilage now :o(

Glads are starting to come up tho... whoo hoo! no flowers yet, but I have one glad that surpassed all the others in height....just shot up over the weekend and has buds! This guy is close to 5' tall! all the rest are still only 3'