Blooming In June

and I want to be this guy....just a fishing and nothing else...ok well some plants would have to be added .....LOL -

the glads are starting too....

bee balm is kickin in

Oh I love that ginger! My glads are running really late this year!

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Thanks X!

Red NOID glads:

Well, I planted it, but the tag is lost. From a bulb, any ideas?

I will be posting it to the ID forum.

wow Lorie that's beautiful!

Tigridia

Hydrangea `Blaumeise' starting to open:

Oh my! at first I thought those were unusual butterflies on the buds! Lol ..

X

No, just Blue Skies opening up. He's so gorgeous!

Thank you, X, it is indeed Tigridia pavonia

Susan, Your Memorial Day rose looks alot like my Rugosa Van Fleet. I have had it for many years, It is very fragrant and also very thorny. The foliage and the bloom looks very much like this but you said it is a climber. The Rugosa is a bush rose. Very old and difficult to find. Horticulturist was a Dr. Van Fleet from England. I will try to find more info and get a picture posted of mine. It is beautiful but does not have the different shades. Just the pink that you posted as the "Memorial rose". Is this the same rose in both of your post?

Thunbergia battiscombei is just getting started... it will bloom all summer. I keep it in a barrel planter that gets moved into the garage after the first frost. I just let it sit there until mid-April when I move it outside and start watering/feeding again; it quickly resprouts and thrives. This might be the kind of plant that would take over if grown in the ground in a warmer climate but for me it's been very cooperative.

Another thunbergia! I'll have to take a closer look at that genus .. it has some really interesting species in it!

Any fragrance?

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Love that battiscombei Tom. It is such a cool color to have in the garden. Everything else jus pops off it.

Here is Crinum Queen Emma strutting her stuff.

Not the greatest picture but this is my pink vitex. This was a rooted cutting of one I have in a cultivated bed that is really languishing. This one is in a spot that gets full sun and no irrigation other than rain. Drought tolerant, easy care - my kind of plant.

Crinum Mrs. James Hendry; this one perfumes the neighborhood with a very delicate and never overpowering scent.

Crinums have a fragrance? Wow, I didn't know that .. I traded my buns off last year for crinum to replace the canna in my canna bed (I got rid of most of my canna, kept the three hard to get ones .. got tired of fighting leaf rollers). Now I'm even more impatient for them to start blooming!

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It's very frustrating when flowers take days to open. My double brug has been opening for going on 4 days now. My Lord Baltimore Hibiscus has been opening for 2 days. Here is the bud yesterday.

Got up this morning and it was finally open! This flower is 9 inches across, I took a ruler with me when I photographed it.

I love red.

X

I am not sure if all crinums have a scent but several of mine do and this one is special. I can no longer dig the pups or I would offer you one. The mother bulb is tremendous (think volkswagon) and the pups come out from the very bottom of the bulb. It would take a backhoe. LOL

Oh my, I think I need to learn more about crinums than plant files have to offer .. didn't know the bulbs got huge either. After a few years they may not fit in the bed anymore.

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X, my Crinum `Summer Nocturne' has a light fragrance, too. Very nice.

I have an Ellen Bosanquet, Walter Flory and NOID pink. I hope they bloom this year, but from what I understand, they don't take kindly to being moved.

My Datura metel var. Rubra opened today. I added the plant to Plant Files since it wasn't in there. I love flowers that are bi-color with inside petal one color and outside petal another.

Here is the front.

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Here is the side view. Anyone know of the technical name for bi-color petals?

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X - The T. battiscombei does not have any fragrance (and I don't recall any other thunbergias that are fragrant either). I'd like to be able to give some of this plant to others who would appreciate it but it doesn't seem easy to propagate. For some reason it won't set seeds even though bumblebees love the flowers and I can see them getting covered in pollen on their way in and out of the flowers. I've also not had any success getting it to root.

Tom, I have the T. grandiflora and it air layers easily, too easily actually. I suspect you have alread tried this but if you haven't it might be worth it.

Tom, I could never get my T. alatas to make seeds no matter how much I hand pollinated them and others would say they have volunteers from seeds all over the place. I figured that there might be a short window of when the stigma will accept pollen or I didn't have the right insect vector.

X

Oh and forgot to add .. some flowers have a really short window for fragrance too .. some of the japanese morning glory's have exquisitely delecate and delightful fragrances that actually only last a few minutes before it goes away. It starts when the sun first hits it and then disappears 15 minutes later.

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X - I've grown T. alata before and it self-seeded and came back the next year. The bees are all over T. battiscombei from the time the flowers first open in the morning... but maybe it needs to be a different type of insect pollinator that's not native to NC.

Here are a few more pictures. Lilium regale. Actually this one is a seedling volunteer next to the sidewalk, the ones I originally planted years ago vanished (presumably they became vole snacks).

Sinningia 'Butter and Cream'

My mystery Buddleia. It's a hybrid of B. 'Honeycomb' and a pink Buddleia I used to have (forgot the name). It appeared as a seedling in a flowerpot so I decided to see what it would turn out to be. It has the foliage and globular flower clusters of 'Honeycomb' but the color is sort of a lavender pink with an orange center. I think it looks a bit like 'Bicolor' but darker.

Gardenia, Cape Jasmine "Chuck Hayes". I think !

FINALLY! It took this brug, Pink Perfektion over a week to fully open! It's actually a bit early for brugs but this one was in the greenhouse all winter in a choice spot for sun.

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Very pretty brug!

It is, but it appears at the moment that the one on the left will be even prettier because there will be more distance between skirts.

I think it's interesting how they emerge with no color (far right) and slowly become colored from the outside in as they mature. If I remember correctly, it's a group of compounds called anthocyanidins, that react with sugar produced by the plant via photosynthesis along with pH.

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I was in Dallas for work earlier in the week and managed to sneak over to the Dallas Arboretum. I have been kind of annoyed at all the new echinaceas, many don't seem to return. However, this one, Echinacea 'Hot Papaya' is one I'm going to have to find.

I've got this: