Holly, that is so beautiful ! I'd be excited too if I had that blooming in my pond.
Glad your FIL is still coming, better to be out of harms way. Things can be replaced but not life. As long as things are secured being down there is not going to make a difference, he can make a phone call to check up on things after the storm.
August Blooms
Holly - GORGEOUS!!!
Sally - LOVE the poem...LOL. Now if I could just live it...but it seems more in my nature to prove I can grow something despite being told my areas not ideal for it i.e. the cactus patch....LOL
G.....................for it is better to try things and fail than not to try ideas in the first place. I have every belief that a failure is positive motion and places one a step closer to success.
I keep trying things or processess that are not traditionally easy to do. I share failures so that others may not need to waste time learning what I already have learned along the road to learned success.
Chantell, Do you have water lotus in your garden? They can be grown in pots. It smells just heavenly. I was out last night smelling it and I swear it smelled like licorice. It started to close back up late yesterday afternoon and then opened back up today.
This is from last night.
And this is today it is even more open than yesterday. Will be interesting to see if it closes back up again tonight. Does any one grow these???? The smell is a little different in the daytime. I think it's just not as concentrated during the day as it is at night with the partially closed flower.
Not to left out here is one of my Cannas.
Sooo pretty, Holly!!! No I haven't grown those...I assumed (my bad, I know) that you needed a pond.
Here's mine, Holly. It's blooming for the first time this year and I've had lots of blooms.
Each bloom will last for several days before losing its petals. Then the pods start to form.
Sally, I loved your version of the serenity prayer for gardeners.
Gita, I'll put up a thread for the next swap this week... I'm thinking the 20th of September. It'll be at my place, because fall is a time when we can bring plants to share with each other, and we really can't do that at a restaurant. I think the midwinter seed swap worked out well at the Chinese place, and we'll quite likely try that again... yes, you were "stuck" while sitting & eating, but everybody had a chance to mill around while swapping seeds afterwards as well as before the meal started. It seems to me I saw lots of people mingling and chatting and getting to know each other better... And during the winter, it's an easy venue for a party.
Jill - I agree - I enjoyed the Chinese place (FOOD was good including the eel ya'll talked me into ^_^) I'm going to be with my folks at the beach for a needed break 13-21st but promise to send plants w/Becky that folks might be interested in (sure she'll thank me for THAT...LOL)
Oh, Chantell, I'm sorry our schedules didn't match up better! We'll have to meet up another time...
Here's the thread for the swap, so this thread can get back to those great bloom photos!
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/892031/
Absolutely - we can share some eel together...or something...LOL
docgipe--
LOVE your philosophy of----
...for it is better to try things and fail than not to try ideas in the first place. I have every belief that a failure is positive motion and places one a step closer to success.
What can I say?? I SO agree and enjoy your philosophy about plants and gardening!
You are MY type of a GUY!
We have both lived decades and decades and gardened all of them. Honestly! We DO lose that "OH! I must save this plant or that plant" attitude.
--You try--and see what happens!
--You decide it did work--or not work! Time to move on.....
--You try to do something better/different. If it works--GREAT! If it does not--Lessons
learned!
There are NO set rules in gardening.....too many "variants" to make ANY rules! Weather..Soil...Heat and humidity...Inscets.....Temperatures and "zones" one lives in...
Thanks for your input! Gita
OPINIONS
There is one long standing opinion I think is more right than wrong. "If you have more than one garden book you are already confused all to soon". Author forgotten or unknown. Unfortunately I have been confused over and over because I like books.
Another line I like. "Copy writers and seed catalog photos produce down right lies".
Another "Buy more than one pack of squash seed and prove to all you are a confirmed fool".
Another "Double your patch size and step into the losers world".
Ah, Doc!!!
I am guilty!!!! Yup! Too many gardening Books!
I have at least 2 shelves, four feet wide, full of gardening Books......
--There WAS a time I thought I would need them all!..All the "Time-Life" series.... and the
Time Life Encyclopedias on gardening.
--There was a time I looked at them all.....Till all the basics I needed to know were in my
head anyway.....
--Now--they just occupy space--and I wonder WHY I spent all that money????
And--I realize, they will just be yard-sale books--or donated to the Goodwill....AFTER
I am gone!
,,,but if I need to--I still can use them as a reference.....However--NOW I have DG! WHO needs books?
Gita
Holly and Hart, Your Lotuses are just beautiful! When I was in China, every part of the plant would be for sale in the produce markets. The Chinese people have many recipes for cooking them. The children eat the pods cooked in honey as a treat. The Junk boats pull into the floating markets every morning just full of freshly harvested Lotus.
MY opinion (LOL) is all plants, like people, deserve a 2nd chance after that....well it depends... ^_^
I have new pictures of my Lotus but can't seem to get them out of the camera. I'll have to get Ric to look at it when he has the time.
I also took pictures of my Roses, Passi, and the new Clematis.
Hart, I forgot that you had water lotus, that is a beautiful blooms.
I meant to go back out and take a photo when it opened, but the bloom must only last a day because today it is gone...anyhow, this is what the EE bud looks like, 2 days from this photo it opened ~ it opens like a calla lily
Holly, Do your Cannas overwinter or do you dig them up? Nice Hosta garden, Claypa.
This is almost all I've taken pictures of lately. I'm going to start August part two. Please go here with your beautiful pictures
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/893505/
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