It came up and then died this year - I think it's worth having.
Gardening Photo's - Part 31
Great pic, Allison, Nite-nite.
'Pink Double Delight' is planted right next to 'Coconut Lime'
last bloom at the top of this hollyhock. I love the color
grandpapa, love your pix, no I grow my cacti inside for the winter, I am not lucky like Willie that has a green house.
Loved your pic One wish, Clemen
Joe-Pye weed 'Little Joe'
I'd like to get a few hardy cacti and try them outside (no greenhouse). I know they will need really good drainage. some are hardy to zone 4. I was hoping to get some advice.
the bees are hanging onto the last of the milkweed. this is 'Ice Ballet'
I finally got a white on my English daisies. I bought a flat of mixed plants and all that have bloomed so far have been red. I'm hoping for some pink
here's the red
'Polonaise' this is only it's 2nd bloom, hardy and it has a lovely fragrance
Thanks for all the wonderful comments everyone! I definitely got lucky with those two! I would maybe luck to post them somewhere. Does anyone have any ideas?
Grampapa.... you have so many great plants. What size of a garden/yard do you manage?
Great shot of the dahlia Al!
cmdelg... what passion vine is that? I like the bicolor flowers.
Love the daylillies dyane and pixie. i could look at those all day.
chunk missing.... poor thing
oriental dream
peppers
trollis making a come back
Dakota Reveille
double petunia
ros
another
tincoria grown from seed... (spelling?)
self seeded strawflowers
grampapa The lush growth in my last "longview"garden post is climbing Nastuerteums.
They have spread nicely over the bear spots in that new garden.
I have a few holes to fill but nat as amny as I thought and will have to move one of tha agastache's it looks like a twenty year old plant this first year.
So many beautiful shots. RC your sunrise shots are outstanding. You all have such gorgeous blooms to share!
Found this at the beach.
redchic, thanks. I have 3/4 of an acre, but part of it (I estimate about 1/5) is underwater as we live in a development with a retention pond. this pic shows some of the gardens and a bit of the water. it's much wider than it looks.
Allison, love your double petunias. my color, too. I think I'm still sticky from deadheading all of my singles yesterday and I don't even like them that much.
JoAnne, that's what annuals are for...looks great :0)
Nane, that's cool.
I cant help noticing the comparison of the back yards accross the water ,to yours ,so beautifully thought out and blooming.
Jo Ann
Took this this morning befor the clouds came.
The shade garden and"gardenstart" garden are developing nicely.
I have my favorite sections but will develop all of the sections that aren't too interesting when my 2009 garden fund refills.
cmdelg, hi neighbor!!! Did you also get hit by the hail storm? Your passion flower is so gorgeous.
Grampapa, I love the combination of the verbena and black eyed susans.
Onewish, those are some great looking peppers!
JoAnn, very pretty. 'Gardenstart'?? How I wish I had some nice shade like yours. the houses across the lake from us are what they call 'patio homes', kind of like detached condos. they have an association that governs what they can plant and their actual lot is quite small. the rest is owned by the association. ps. I know what you mean about the garden fund. I think I owe myself until 2020 LOL
here's another shot down the lake with regular homes. but they tend to just be grass lawns...no gardens. this is last year of my 'Fairy Garden'. there are a lot more plants this year.
Here is a shot of my "waterfront." :-)
You will notice at that bottom a baby cattail growing in a pot in the shallows of the pond. This area has been dubbed Bird Bath Bend, and was designed in to give the birds a place to hang without (my) fear of them drowning.
It's only about 2-3 inches deep there and usually crowded with birds bathing.
The patio home is the independant living solution for geezers who arnt ready for the assisted living,nursing home combo,the last phase.
There are a lot of those patio communities here but are always listed for sale and some have never been lived in,can't figure how they missed that marketing research boat.
Alas I have very little money so I live in a huge beautiful house with myDD#2, I get to garden and share some of the bills but they take the big hits w/ taxes and such.
I just do the gardening and landscaping.
Never had so much garden space before and a variety of conditions that run the gammit of shade,part shade,sun,part sun.
Gives me all kinds of plants to work with.
I am benefiting from the DG forums imencely.
Lucky you willy.
That feature is really entertaining,Ive been watching it since this spring.
Good morning, everyone! It's the twelfth day of August and we have had rain for at least the past twelve days, so taking photos of my gardens means (1) looking for a bit of sunshine to help enhance the colors, and (2) finding an angle where the mighty weeds don't show!!
Here's a combo that I photographed on Sunday ... This is their second season in the frint garden.
Great combo
What is Becky Towe?
Jo Ann
Jo Ann:
'Becky Towe' is a Tall, or Garden, phlox ... like 'Natural Feelings'. I love the colors together.
Here's Happy Returns and Mardi Gras ... same day
I also love colors close in value.
Really nice combo.
Jo Ann
Thank you, Jo Ann.
Here's Anna's favorite Stargazer, which bloomed on her birthday last Sunday. I can't remember if rhe Stargazer is an Oriental or an Asiatic?
Thanks, Jo Ann. I am really liking your pine garden path.
I used to have all shade, but during our Oct. 2006 snow emergency, the moron they brought in from out of state cut down one of my specimen oaks. Now I have no shade, lost all the shade loving perennials, and now can look forward to planting some sun lovers.
Grampapa: Looks nice on your plot! Maybe others will soon follow suit.
Nice presentations! Candyce.
Thought I would share with you some history, today. The photo attached shows my favorite clump of oak trees out back which form a circle. Inside the circle is a thingie you can sit on that slides back and forth. You can't see that. But, what you can see are the "steps" up the oak to a tree fort my brother and I built in that tree when I was about 10 or so. You can see what remains of the floor about half way up that oak. The kid in me wants to rebuild that and do it right!
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Candyce,'Stargazer' is not Stargazer....it's .Dizzy'.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/65706/
Stargazer has much wider petals, less white and not nearly as many spots.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/98951/
Both are Orientals... Asiatic's bloom in June & July and very rarely smell. Orientals almost always smell!
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Ahhhh ... thanks Celeste. Anna has always called it 'Stargazer', so I thought that it was one! I'll have to check out that link.
Here's my weeds, Sherrie!
Sorry if I sounded like a know-it-all...I own both so it's just easy for me to tell the difference.