The very first blooms on my Patio Dwarf Meyer Lemon (that is bigger than my non-dwarf one! LOL)
Some blooms from my Florida gardens 2
Yellow mandevilla vine beginning to bloom.......
Bougainvilleas ramping up......
White dahlias from seed still going strong......
Yellow elder bloom from the shrub I almost lost.....I hope this one makes it through the summer this time.
Desert rose with a new round of blooms starting.......
And one last one for tonight.....my petunias above one of my low sipping spots for the kitties of the neighborhood - along with a whole host of birds.....
DonnieBrook, your petunias sure loves you. That shot of the Bougainvilleas and the flamingo sure makes me want to get out of this foggy, damp, cold stormy night with thunder and lightening and head south. Thanks for the burst of warmth. Patti
Happy to share the color, Patti! It was actually a rainy day with thunder and lightning here most of the day, for only the third day of rain since we arrived in late October. We needed it terribly. Maybe now the weeds that pass for grass during the summer rainy season will green up too!
I hope tomorrow is bright and sunny for you!!! Sorry you didn't get down to Sanibel this year...make sure you come next winter!!!
donnie those are great pics of wonderfull plants and flowers wow
cant wait till my yard is a teasure of color and scents, so are you looking forward to
heading north for the summer
mona
everything looks wonderful... love them all!
WOW Donniebrook that is really lush and wonderful.
Louise that Petunia plant is beautiful and huge!!!! I love the Desert Rose.....I always lust after them! lol I tried growing it once..it died and was to expensive for me to keep buying and killing it until I got it right!! lol
Gorgeous.
Lovely, Louise. Very cheery! The colors are beautiful.
Thanks, Louise! Great photos---the petunias are so bright & lush. Looks like I will have to replace both my lemon trees----killed them with fert.----thought I bought my usual stuff----just pour it on---but after the lemons, a walking iris, & 2 strepocarpus went belly up, I found I had the fert. that needed to be diluted in lots of water! Hope the rains have helped your gardens.
oh no that is so sad, I always read directions even if it the same stuff my brain does not work as well as it use to,
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, My Friends, for your lovely comments!
Mona - yes, I am beginning to be ready to settle back into our NH gardens. It's going to be really hot this week here, and when that happens, I begin to mentally long for the cool of NH!
Allison, JoAnn, Victor and Jan - so glad you enjoyed the colors.....the Spring blooms are really beginning here now, so it's fun to see what has popped up every morning when I go outside for breakfast among the blooms. I have 3 of those red petunia baskets around the patio and they are very cheery. It is usually about now that they begin to need more water than I can give them. So far, so good as of today!
Pixie - I love the desert roses too. My dear neighbor who has several GORGEOUS ones, gave me this one as a bon voyage gift right before we left last year. She will babysit this one again this summer. If you get another one, don't give it much water. In the summer, it will do well outside. It collects the moisture in that "ball-like" thing at its base, so it can rot if it is over-watered.
Robin - I'm SO sorry about your fertilizer catastrophe. Losing lemons is terrible!!! I'm thrilled that my new one is beginning to fruit. The original one gave us pitchers of fresh lemonade for months. It was so delicious.
You are all very kind!!
You are an important link to our bloom plans for the summer.
Keep those flower pictures coming.
I cut my mandevilla last fall I think a little to short it just now starting to fill in maybe not to short lol since in another two months its going to be huge again over nine feet tall with everything tangled again so will have lots of blooms again from june to september when it will need a haircut badly just love the flowers mine is white and this spring I will look for a pink the dark one since it is so nice
Thats good to know about the Desert Rose Louise..I may get brave and try again. I'll wait and see how my attempt at Passiflora's goes!!
Mona, I love the mandevilla vines----always wanted to try one, but then I think about wintering over----
I cut mine and bring it inside into a sunny window and it does great just remember to cut it down to about three feet and cut most of the lateral growth and then spray for bugs a couple of times and water every week start with fertilizer at the end of january so it takes off and then enjoy the blooms all summer
I also have hibiscus trees and bougainvillia growing inside and I almost forgot a passion vine that is blooming right now we are restricted only by our imagination when it comes to tropicals I also have brugs in the basement that are dormant and will come up in the next couple of weeks and a fig tree that is getting way to big lol
so when you head north are you bring your tomatoe plant since it is so nice
scicciarella, great passion flower. I have one that is about to pop in the GH. I ordered 4 more on the passiflora coop and they arrived yesterday. Look good, I love them.
Donniebrook, I am ready for some Heat up here. When do you head north? Patti
Lovely passionflower, Mona---love that blue color! It's the spraying of the plants that I don't like---I have 3 young grandkids, always in & out of the house.
Yes Louise come back.
I use the soap stuff from safe and it is not dangerous to kids or animals its just that you will habe to do it two or three times to take care of everything I dont use anything that can hurt the environment and what lives in it
I cut all my vines back and then I give them a shower with the hose on a hard spray of cold water for a few minute it will make the leaves unhappy but it takes care of most of the buggies and then when dry I spray the safe soap I use it on everything that is to come inside
and now I will have a new addition since I have been trying to grow babywoodrose for years and the seeds never germinate and now a lone one has come up yes I am so happy so the question is how long from seed to blooms hahahhaah the passion vine took three years
Thank you, JoAnn! That's very sweet!
Mona - What a pretty passion flower! I'm glad to know more about pruning the mandevilla vines. We try to avoid buying plants that are summer bloomers since we aren't here. Mine is full of flowers now, and the vines are going bananas hanging down and twisting with everything. It is too much trouble to ask anyone to cut them back for me in the late summer, so they may have to be donated elsewhere before we leave.
Patti - We are leaving here at the end of the month and heading for the NC mountains for a few days of 20th anniversary adventure in a beautiful spot. Our anniv. was back in December and we observed it with a daytrip that included Molly. We were thinking that we should now do a bit more to observe it. Our adventure will include a scenic 41/2 hour train ride up in the mountains on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad one day and we'll just explore the other day. Our favorite thing to do is to ramble where life takes us in beautiful, natural places. Then on the 3rd day, we'll go to my sister's for the rest of the day and night. We'll then visit my son in CT and end up at the farm sometime during the first week in May.
Good luck with the passifloras! I think you should try a desert rose again. They are so pretty!
Robin - want a mandevilla vine or two??? LOL!!! (Of course, I'd get killed if I mentioned trying to fit one into the car!! LOL
That trip sounds wonderful.
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Jen - we agree! LOL! I have spent a lot of time in those mountains, but have always wanted to go to Fontana Dam. Now we'll be crossing above it on a railroad tressle. Yikes! Should be beautiful! We also want to see the Joyce Kilmer forest, since according to local NH legend, he wrote the poem "Trees" just down the dirt road from us. The huge maple tree that inspired the poem is still there. My husband's first girlfriend lived in the house where Kilmer stayed every summer (where the tree is).
how cold is it when you go back mine in a sheltered spot stays outside here till the end of september beginning of october Im sure if you trimmed it when you get there and bring it in it would do fine for you all winter I would trim it differently like just cut it back into a bush about 6 feet and keep watering with fertilizer it will be buding again in a short time, I cut mine back to send it into dormancy for a few months since it will get to big by the time I could put back out