Now she is truly open - Clematis Duchess of Edinburgh
Nearly June pix
Coreopsis Sunfire
GAILLARDIA Arizona Sun
Salvia - White - and it is HUGE
Italian Jasmine
Jasmine Sambac - Bel of India
Day blooming Jasmine
Golden Sweet Gardenia - opened all the way - love the pinwheel - and it IS fragrant
you and your weeds LOL
Beautiful pix. Honeysuckle and multiflora roses, such bad aliens but they sure smell good this time of year
Goden sweet gardenia is hardy in your yard? or potted
Love my weeds! LOL gardenia is potted it's zone 10
That is a neat pinwheel effect.
Can't wait for my first ever plumie bloom, I think I saw a bit of that in them. My stick has three leaves.
Your first wild one is elderberry, in cas e anybody wondered
Last year my contractor pointed to my perennial bed with lots of common milkweed and said "Can I ask you a question" (uh oh...) "Is that a weed?"
pause while I think, he wants a yes or no, not my explanation.
South African Jasmine - thanks to Becky!!
and Winter Jasmine
Love all the jasmines! I end up killing anything I try with the word 'jasmine' in the name.
Jasmines seem to do ok...it's Gardenias I fight with....although the ones IN the ground seem to fair much better for me then in a pot.
Here's Spanish lavender
Lilies of the Valley
Delayed pics from Green Springs....yeah, I'm cheating...not really MY yard, eh?
Was such a rich red
I just love these...realize I take their pic every year...LOL
Chantelle--OK! And what are they????
Beckie--Love all your macro shots! WHERE on earth do you see all these? Now--you know I saw your back yard and you did not have anything like this in there.
Did you stroll in the woods behind your house?
Through your pictures I can tell you are a real "softie" under all that professional exterior! Just like al of us gardeners!
Wish I had some new pictures to post......Nopt too many--and don't want to overdo the ones I have already posted....
Chantelle--we have some sad looking Spanish Lavenders at work. They are in a 5" pot and the price is--like--$7.99! If they would reduce the price--i would buy a couple--but the Bell people just throw them away.
Gotta find at least ONE picture to post here......Hmmmmmm???
This is my Rose Souvelons Brugmansia--2006.
And--this is the Tiger Lily I had all those rooted babies from. Many of you got them!
And some Wood Hyacinths. Learned at Longwood Gardens they are also called "Spanish Bluebells"....
I now have blue, pink and white. Sally and I shared what we had.
Gita - I didn't pay attention to the names....my bad, I know. The first was a clematis...but it's anyone's guess the other two...LOL The spanish lavenders must have a time of it in pots....I picked up a 6" pot at Walmart for $3.97. It was the ONLY that really looked alive still (hid under the shelf in the back. Lavender IS my favorite scent so I about died when I saw all those plants semi to completely dead....grabbed that last one and took it home ASAP. Gave it much TLC for 2-3 weeks then finally put it in the ground about 2 weeks ago. She balked a bit but now looks great - standing proud with the other 5-6 in the lavender patch. That rose brug of yours is beautiful...what was her scent like....do you remember?
My Easter Cactus (aka Star cactus) in bloom in 2006..Now almost Deceased! RIP!
There are three of these.....all somewhat similar.....
--Thanksgiving cactus
--The TRUE Christmas cactus. Never seen one!
--and the Easter cactus.
Chantelle,
Last post! have to go to bed!!!!! fading fast....
ALL Brugs are heavenly scented! The most scented one I have had is the Dr. Seuss. I have to hunt for a picture of it! It is yellow and fades into peach/orange. But the fragrance!!!! I could small it all over the side of my yard--especially at night--when they all let it go!
This one is called "Species". It only lasted one season--then got some kind of horrible stem rot and Shirley (in Iowa--my Guru) said to get rid of it! ALL of it!
Here is Dr. Seuss Brugmansia.
I no longer have it--as all my cuttings died back in 2007.
Gita, with the exception of the 3 native ones growing behind the house - they are all mine :-) Some up front, some in the back and some on the deck :-) Hmmmm, professional exterior? Thanx.......I think! LOL
I grow a plant for one (or more) of three reasons - beauty, fragrance and good photographic subject :-)
Amen Dweedle Dee....amen!!!
These are "ForeverMohr" Brugs. Shirley Mohr hybridized this one.
I can't wait till I get the ones coming in on trades...so excited....love, love a nice fragrance. Add to this a plumie Becky gave me last year has an inflo....woooo whoooo AND I think it's a red so it should be an awesome scent
Got a few pics here. I was happy to see these Geranium pratense when I pulled in the driveway. I love the leaves, and they turn colors too, like a tiny Japanese maple
Rose campions.. winter sowed last year but I didn't figure out what they were until a few weeks ago. Kind of obvious now.
Gaillardia kinda got smooshed up by the rain but plenty o' buds
peach-leafed bellflowers, lots of these coming up. They didn't bloom their first year so I'm glad to see these
Penstemon smallii (?)
The expanding side and back bed. It looked great when the azaleas and rhodies were blooming. I guess it's time to yank that volunteer Lunaria that's blocking the path. The blue jobs are clustered bellflowers (yes hart, they're purple this year lol) All the good hostas are in the shade toward the back yard
edited to say purple, NOT blue - I don't know why I have such a hard time with the colors.
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Getting way off topic here but I found a pic of the same area from last July. It goes back thirty feet more now, so the poor plants won't be quite so crowded. New camera too...
looking good there! I have a geranium Pratense I grew two from seed from Pinetree maybe, and am still waiting for first bloo, but the leaves are doing very well this year.
You know, you'll never have to 'plant' rose campion again!
Thanks, sallyg. It's funny, that rose campion was a noid winter sowed gallon jug I just plonked in the ground as-is. Now it's huge. I have no idea where the seeds came from, I thought I kept careful track of what was what.
Here's a good G. pratense leaf pic. The flowers are white on one plant, I didn't expect that.
claypa,
Rose Campion (here we call it "corn cockle") is one of those plants that--once you have it--you will always have it!
How the seeds travel around-I don't know either, as they are in these small pods and I don't think birds would get to them......And--they make a load of seeds. They are easily collected.
Cut back the plant after it is all done but leave the base be. it will re-grow next year.
What I love about the Rose Campion is that you don't really see the foliage from a distance, but your eye sure goes to the beautiful, magenta blooms.
Look for these dusty-white clumps coming up here and there later in the season. They will live all through the winter and bloom next Summer.
I just bought one of those blue, Perennial geraniums. It is my first one!
Nice pictures!!!! Gita