Happy birthday Carrie

A closeup to make it realy truly real :O

What a beauty! Are you switching from Dahlias to Dayliles (gasp)?

I could never give up my beluved dahlias carrie :O

Daylilies are still blooming copiously. Hibiscus are too.
Carrie, this could well continue until your next birthday~
Martha

That would be silly but fun! My hibiscus is looking lovely too!

Here's one of the hibiscus on my standard. It's been covered with flowers for the past week and a half as have the other ones in my collection. One of the few plants that appreciates the water and the heat.
Martha

Here's another. Happy Birthday in advance, Carrie.
Martha

Nice DL, Cousin Nut! Congrats!!!!

Nice hibiscus, GM! I only have one of the hardy type.

Karen

I have none, Martha , and yours are quite pretty!

These are the tropical kind of hibiscus, out of doors for their summer vacation. When I put them out in the spring, it is nearly always too chilly for them so they don't leaf out right away and actually drop a lot of leaves. When the weather warms up, however, they shine!
Martha

Droooooooool! Thanks for the picture, Martha. (And for not making me feeling inadequate.)

I had my honeymoon in Hawaii, Carrie. These always remind me of it. Meanwhile, my geraniums are blooming like crazy. My son brought me two red ones home from his landscape job. His boss had a couple of extras. Can't wait to pot them up tomorrow.
Martha

Here's the vacation bench. Many of these are dwarf. several I bought because of the distinctive foliage. and you can see on the far right my 12 year old 'Vancouver Centennial'
Martha

Vacation bench? Explain, please. And how terribly convenient to have a son who's a landscaper! I do like Vancouver Centennial.

This is the bench for my indoor plants. Many of these are geraniums of various sorts. Christmas cacti, orchid cacti, hibiscus, bird of paradise, asparagus ferns, etc. everything but the big begonias and the african violets. They come outside to this bench for the spring and summer. Many of them sit on different little chair stands. I have park benches, papasan chairs, wrought iron chairs, all for the plant's vacation!
Martha

excuse me, the asparagus ferns, and Dave, the rabbit's foot fern, and a couple of others are way too big for this bench and have their own plant stands.
Martha

Ahhhh, I see. How lovely for them!

That's cool, GM! I like that idea.

Karen

Even plants need a vacation once in a while!

I only have one old African violet, Methusala, who is a houseplant. Can you put African violets outside in the summer?

LOL Methusala, you are so funny, Dnut! I've never had an AV still be alive by summer!

I think Methusala is unkillable cuz any other houseplant I've had has croaked the minute it came in the door.

Ahhhhhh. Does she/it flower?

Constantly even when I forget to water. Maybe it's an android?

Or a tribble.

Here's a pic that I took to share with Phoebes

And lookie, lookie the DLs have forgiven me ^_^

What a gorgeous AV, Cousin Nut, and that DL is very pretty, too!

Karen

Sigh. It's almost enough to want to make me want to take up AVs again. That color of blue-violet!!!