Garden Photo's 09 .........24

karen no problem on the sedum although it looks great as do all the other pics you have posted or wanted to post:)

victor thx for the heads up on the spirea - i will have to think about what to do with the dozen little guys lj sent - the fire pit is real close to them-think?

dayne i take it you just got the lady in red? mine does not have flower heads yet and i admit to being jealous:)

Dyane...love the shots of the scabiosa and anemone!
Karen.... all the pics are very pretty. i really like those two of the digitalis, near the house, in the sunset.
Robin... I love that corydalis!! You might not have planted it. It reseeds pretty well, so if one of your neighbors had it or it's possible that it came in as a seed in the pot of another plant. I acquired one that way one time. The generations kept going for a few years until the sprinkler system broke and I didn't realize that they weren't getting watered.
Victor... that penstemon fits it's name!

Jo Ann... for one of my pictures in the thread before this, you said that you'd never seen a rhody flower that looked like that one ( http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=6622191 )
It was backlit, so I figured under normal lighting it might look a little more normal. Although, it was actually pretty dim for the time of day, but light enough.

Here's a close up of the flower.

Another rhody just a few feet away from that one.

and a closer pic of 'buttermint"

deer in a yard that I do landscaping in. I chased it off as far as I could after the picture.

a poppy that Seems to be a little stressed from the mole going under the plant.

some sort of philadelphus.

Thunder clouds hanging out over the yard late this afternoon.

Hi RC
Rhodies aree beautiful.
I must have had a geezer moment when I remarked about the rhodie pix.
Backlit made the center dark so it looked like a single form flower with a dark center like a cone flower, How could I have been so off base.

very pretty RC

Lupines some are big and some small

another view

Lambs ear are going to open and some ground cover

I thought they were pretty and bought them. Tags outside

OK - I told DH to move the El Camino! This bed is planted

Last one. The stalk on this Columbine is 3" Wide!

nice lupines sherrie

OK, smart Alec DD home from college to take pictures for her for mother. Very artsy. Poppies I once knew the name of, but I don't even know which one she shot.

Carrie - tell artsy DD good job! I love the closeup. It would make an awesome B&W poster, don't you think?

I don't know - B & W never occurs to me until I see someone else doing it then I say "duh, why didn't I think of that?" I can't visualize it like that....

This is a different one, I hope.

Very pretty. It already looks similar to a Van Gogh painting.

Bill, I just picked up Lady in Red two weeks ago.

Nice Lupines, shickenlady.

Thanks Jo Ann. I thought that normal lighting might make it appear a little more normal. Although the flower that you were describing does exist, it's just much harder to find.
Thanks Allison!
Very pretty Sherrie and Carrie.

Shelley, I'm drooling over those rhodies----they probably aren't hardy here---you're right about the corydallis----I think it came in a pot with another plant. Karen---love the penstemons----I only have buds on one right now---we are a little colder here. Sherrie, I envy the lupines---cannot get them to winter over! And Carrie----very nice shots of the OP. Dyane, like Bill, I only have leaves on 'Lady in Red'---but it overwintered & I'm happy with that! Here is rhodie 'Percy Wiseman'.

Thanks Robin. What zone are you in?

robin - i've had my LiR for a couple years and only the first year was it red - it sprayed it with fast acting lime this year in the hopes it will be rd again - just and fyi

shelly really like that poppy even if a mole got at the roots - i have my first ever poopy bloom open right now need to get a pic for proof:)

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/DNJ8T85bEJWaJ2o5juAc9g?feat=directlink

Here's what's happening at my house.

That's a bunch of beauties, and soon-to-be beauties! You should be very proud!

I have a question ... the package said, 'McKana's Giant' columbine, I swear. So, why doesn't it look like any of the other McKana's in the PlantFiles?

It is a double form--look at columbines listed as a form of 'Barlow' (maybe with an e on the end') & you will see other doubles.

Ahhh ..... that explains it then. I was quite surprised to see it as a double when I was expecting something entirely different. I'll go check out the Barlow's.

Thanks

Sherrie, looks great
RC, love all the rhodie pics, mine are all done for the season
Carrie, very cool poppy close up

It looks like a Barlow, but I'm hard-pressed to find out which it may be. I see all of the layers of petals and get frustrated in trying to get a correct I.D. It's a columbine, for sure. And now, that's all I really know about it.

Its not MCkana's Giants Mix

LOL!
That's exactly the package that we bought them in. I'll bet they were mis-labeled. Now, I'll be scratching my head as the rest of them unfurl.

Thanks Sherrie

Sure looks like 'Aquilegia vulgaris var. stellata', Nora Barlow to me.
What do you think?

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/18614/

Edited to add link to PlantFiles

This message was edited Jun 3, 2009 1:14 PM

Hey, Debilu ....
Remember that Columbine you gave me in the container at the RU last year? This is what it bloomed into. I love the deep color!!!

Thank you everyone -- to me DD's close-ups look like Georgia O'Keefe! that's what college does for you. Very pretty flowers everybody.