Garden Photos - Part 28

This one is a better shot of the true color

I think this is 'Cecil'

A nice simple white

'San Souci'

I don't know the name...as usual.

I love this yellow one.....it has a peachy over tone and is always perfectly shaped.

'Salmon Star' just keeps getting better as it opens more blooms.

Nice bright annual....I think it's' Celebration Cherry', one of the million bells series.

'Angelique' my mini oriental is all of 10 inches tall and produces all these off one little plant.

'Rosey Dawn' just starting to open.

And last but not least......Zinnia among the pumpkin blossoms.

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I actually hit KK before the Zinnia pic..but Zinnia wanted to be first! LOL

Nice rudbeckia shots, Sherrie and Evie!

Eleanor - Well, I'll be too!!! LOL

Celeste - Well, come on over and have a seat!!! If we can get our act together, we may just get some of you over next summer for an RU and you can sit there all you want! We're "chipping away" each day at the aftermath of stuff that still has to be done from the construction. It's been 4 weeks since they finished, but no visit from the plaster guy yet, so still no guest room. Ugh. And PS....your posts are NEVER boring!!!

Thanks Louise! I look forward to sitting and getting it together! LOL

That makes 2 of us!!! LOL

Beautiful shots everyone. I have a couple clethra 'ruby spice'. They aren't holding their shape well for me. They really get beaten to the ground in a heavy rain and don't really bounce back fully. Will they outgrow that as they mature or is that just what happens?

Here's a new Japanese Hydrangea. It'll probably turn blue on me though I wish it wouldn't.

Songs, what a pretty hydrangea.

Thanks - I love the double flowers.

Here's my pumila with Mr. frog

I hear if you give it Lime it will stay pink......it's beautiful!

Unknown DL (too dark to go look at the tag)

Nice shots, Celeste and Christina! I like Cecil, Celeste. Beautiful hydrangea. If your soil is acidic, it takes a lot of time to change it to neutral or alkaline. As I have said, I've been adding lime around one hydrangea for about five years now and it still is mostly blue, with some lavender/purple.

Celeste, I've considered that but I wonder if it will be a losing battle. My property has dozens of mature pines and oaks. My soil is fairly acidic. The woman at the nursery thought this one wouldn't turn blue regardless of soil PH. She didn't sound too certain though.

My first tomato!!!!! Not only for this year, but it's my first EVER (not including my parents' garden). I Never had enough sun until this year - thanks to the trees we had to cut down when we built the addition on the house.

I saw that picture you posted earlier, Victor. I think it's really pretty two-toned also.

Yes it will, Christina. Serrata and macrophylla turn. Only the white ones - paniculata, quercifolia, arborsecens, etc., are unaffected by pH.

Thanks - I'm still trying! I love blue but would like some pinks too.

I don't remember what the name was, but I saw a pink hydrangea in a nursery that stated on the tag it would not turn blue in acid soil. Maybe it was one of the whites you mentioned and it turns pink as it ages.

Most paniculatas and quercifolias turn pink. It's one of the things I like about them. Also, they take sun.

petunia parade

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black beauty

o&l

just opened last night

just love this one

can we say orange?

and another

looks sad doesn't it?

kinda goofy looking

Allison, what's the one in post 5351632?
Victor, what about the green ones like limelight?