First Calla of the Season. A very welcome sight since the landscaper's #$*^% helper cut it nearly to the ground 2 weeks ago!
Garden Photos - Part - 20
DL Lemon something...
Datura Discolor
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Datura Discolor close-up.
Edited to correct cultivar.
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and look look Victor... Pinky Winky buds!!!!!
Datura is pretty
Hibiscus NOID
Nice shots, Allison and Janice. Yes, that is a Golden Jubilee, Allison. Great news on the Pinky - I have a few but don't remember where they are!! Beautiful begonia.
Janice - what a bummer about the calla. I had a similar incident earlier in the year. I did not plant any callas this year. Wish I had. Nice datura.
Victor, could your weed be Linaria purpurea? I bought the purple form, and when it began to self-seed in my garden, the second year, I began to get pale pink ones as well.
Thanks Cheryl - that's what Robin suggested. But the foliage looks different compared to the photos on PF. And mine are very floppy.
Great shots you guys. I will have to go check on my PW to see if any buds have formed yet.
All this wet weather has made some strange things grow in the garden. Could this be called a pinky winky?
A more traditional fungus, purple but no stripes
friend or foe?
Hee hee, Patti! You seem to get those interesting ones. I would not know, Allison.
he almost got squished either way... I was just walking to the back and almost stepped on him
Squish it, a gypsy moth. http://insects.about.com/od/photography/ig/Tussock-Moth-Caterpillars/gypsymoth.htm
Excerpted from UConn's Integrated Pest Management site:
http://www.hort.uconn.edu/IPM/general/biocntrl/notprty.htm
Purple Loosestrife is Not Just Another Pretty Plant
Quoting:
Purple loosestrife [Lythrum salicaria L. (Lythraceae)] is an invasive non-native plant from Eurasia that was introduced into North America almost 200 years ago. The largest occurrences of this species are found in wetlands in the northeastern U.S. Purple loosestrife aggressively moves into wetlands, eliminating native plants such as cattail, sedge and bulrush. When a wetland is infested with purple loosestrife, few species of wildlife are supported, a reduction in stopover sites along bird migratory pathways occurs and valuable natural resources in these ecosystems are destroyed.
Optimum growth of purple loosestrife occurs under sunny or partly sunny conditions. Plants are known to survive under a range of soil moisture from dry soil to shallow water.(...) When purple loosestrife invades land used for field crops, hay meadows or forage pastures, it reduces yields. Due to the low palatability of purple loosestrife plants, they are not grazed by livestock.
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The woody roots form a dense mat underground, up to 20 inches in diameter. The tap root is a major source of carbohydrate for the plant that is used for regrowth when above-ground vegetation is mowed, suppressed by herbicides or damaged by insect feeding. The ability to rapidly send up new shoots gives purple loosestrife a competitive advantage over other plant species in disturbed habitats.
The length of the spike inflorescence ranges from one inch to more than three feet long, with up to 3,000 flowers produced on an individual plant. A single mature plant can produce as many as 2.5 million seeds each year. Purple loosestrife seeds are very small (1 mm.) and dust like, and are easily carried by wind or water. Seeds may also be moved about on animal fur or feathers or in mud on humans or other animals.
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Gardeners sometimes comment that when they put one or two purple loosestrife plants in their flowerbeds, the plants never set seed. If both plants are of the same flower type, they are not compatible with each other and seedset will probably not occur.
However, purple loosestrife is insect pollinated. When bees, wasps or butterflies visit these garden plants, the insects carry pollen to purple loosestrife plants in nearby wetlands, adding to the spread of this invasive species in natural areas. With one purple loosestrife plant producing as many as 2.5 million seeds each year, an acre of purple loosestrife yielding up to 24 billion seeds per year, and seeds remaining viable in the ground for at least five years, even a few plants can pose a serious threat to the environment.
i don't know a lot about this, but it sounds pretty scary to me..!
Pinky winky!!! LOL - I mean, really!
Another view of my Calla. This is one of my alltime favorites. I split it this year and sharedit with a few choice friends. I am also trying and pink and a purple this year for the first time. I'm really looking forward to the blooms, but there's nothing like the freckle-faced foliage of the white.
oh well... he is going to be long gone by now... hopefully one of the birds got him... I knew they had blue on them.. didn't realize the red... thank you... now I know... they are bad this year... I do know that
a fellow neighbor that I just met a few weeks ago.... raises butterflies... as she was walking through my yard she was squishing all the gypsies... but was getting them so fast I couldn't see what they looked like
Jedi Dot Pierce.
One of my faves, but the color in this photo stinks. This is Persian Market, a gorgeous deep rose color.
Gaillardia Oranges & Lemons opening up.
Here is where I just planted three of them - among my lavender.
Astilbe chinensis Pumila. Funny how it appears orange at this point when the blooms are light pink.
Elizabeth Salter.
Sister Mildred.
wow.... all so vivid Victor... beautiful... you must have just the right light today
Green Eyes Winking - thanks Celeste!!
Thanks Allison. This is another shot of my weed showing more of the foliage.
::::looking around for Celeste::::: don't see her
but I love your lemons & the lavender
weed almost looks like a snapdragon bloom
If Celeste is around, I am winking my green eye at her. But I have to wonder about the naming of that one! The weed has come back in the same spot the past three years. The foliage is very bluish.
Geez, Victor! Even your weeds are gorgeous!!!
Cheating here, with a houseplant!
Thanks - I like the blooms and bubbly!
Got a NOID plant need help with almost in full bloom.
I think it's Indian Paintbrush but not sure
I've never had a problem with Ms. purpleloosestrife, I keep her well under control, removing babies and keeping a plant or two. Clemen
Pretty Hosta, golden color!
This is an old fountain that never worked and DH converted it into a planter, Clemen
I thought there was a cultivated (tame) loostrife that was safe to plant.
My climbing Nastuertiums (creaping)
Starsister Red and White Dahlia:
Very clever, nice combo of plants.