Garden Pics: 'Postcards from the Garden.'...#7

And now a few from home. My little pond calla started blooming right before we left.

My first noid siberian iris to bloom.

And this (another noid) opened for my homecoming yesterday.

Loganberry Squeeze.

And the last for right now...I wouldn't have planted the blue there if I had known what color it was, but the mix has kind of grown on me.

All of your pictures are wonderful and really appreciated. Being off of the computer for three days has kept me from more detailed comments or even getting my current pictures downloaded. Am now taking a break from the heat of laying out the watering hoses in the veggie garden and will try to share a few pics a little later. And, Trishia, take the yellow iris advice very seriously. I have one spot that I have dug them several years in a row but they still keep coming back as their location is in the watering system.

Bea - I love the Verbascum hybrids, too. I think that maybe the one you have is Southern Charm.

Really beautiful pictures, everyone!

My callas have started blooming also

A pink one

And a purple/white

Irwells, Your callas are great! I just can't get the fancy ones to come back for me. Can grow the heck out of the white ones though, and I love them. It always bums me out when they are still looking glorious in the winter and then the one darn frost comes that turns them to mush!

I had a chance to go through a few more pics and there were a couple more I liked...

French lilac is starting to bloom...icky smell, but it is really pretty.

I just love these huge poppies!

Iris Champagne Elegance

And the last one I will share from yesterday. Iris Songwriter. I just LOVE this one!

Oh..I like that Champagne elegance. On my wish list!

My Yellow pond iris lives in a 5x7 water feature in the front yard, and the other is in a galvanized wash tub feature on the back patio.....they aren't going anywhere.....

Beautiful Pictures everyone!

Beautiful colors on all those blooms. Love It.

Thanks All. I'll pass on your kudos to the Rhody. It will appreciate it. lol

RJ... Don't you just wonder what they must think of us as we're chasing them? Throwing stuff at them that seems like food to them? I'm glad that no one else has seen me when I do this!! Lovely Pics, especially the Champagne Elegance! the pond shot is especially pretty too!

Irwells... you calla's are beautiful! I'm jealous!

Bea... very pretty! Especially the verbascum. Does that one reseed much for you?

red.I haven't noticed any reseeding but it is possible. The plants have more blooms and are larger than past years.Need to take a look when I can get to them at the back of the bed. :)

Beautiful pictures everyone. Really lovely.

Julie, how can there be so many iris and each one more beautiful than the last? Just stunning!

rc....almost forgot the plant sale this weekend. Finally figured out how to get the flyer posted.

Oops!! Sorry it was so big!

It was a good size. Thanks for finding and sharing that. hopefully there will be enough people at work so that I can take a longer lunch break and go to it.

How are the skies looking there Sally?? The clouds are rumbling again here. I'm going to see if I can get some good pictures today. It has started early enough that I might finally be able to catch the show before I go to work. But, If the winds start whipping again, I'll actually have to leave so that I know that I can get to work. The river that runs by you.... is any part of it fed by streams/reivers that aren't dammed? If so, you might have fun watching it rise and drop real fast.

First iris bloom! Yay!

whatta lovely picture of it too!

Yep, it's rumbling here. Left you a heads up on the weather thread.

Lovely, pony!!

Yep, we're trading places on threads here. This is where I was originally going to post the pic anyhow, since I don't take that many broad shots of the yard.

This is the thunder cell that just passed over the yard and another one must be coming up behind me as I hear the thunder again now.

Dooooon't think I'll go watch the river right now. It's alittle nasty!!! LOL

lol..... I think that you have dams up above you right? You shouldn't see much fluctuation. But, you might. Always worth checking out!

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It's not the river, It's the lightening, that stuff scares me if I'm out in it. Love to watch, from cover thank you. It seems to have let up now.

This was the really noisey one. Both looking toward Pisgah.

RC, In regards to the deer chasing...I am really glad that I don't have neighbors around to see me in some of my finer moments such as this! Before I had my dobie/coonhound Hunter, I think that Lexy and Hunter's mom Sassy had made a pact with the deer. One morning I saw one munching on my new rose bed out front and ran out the front door in my undies to chase it off...and tripped over Lexy lying on the front mat watching it. Not even a peep out of her! At least now Hunter will put the run to them in the main garden, but the yard is so big that I sometimes run into them on the outskirts behind DH's shop. As for what the deer think...I think that they wonder why the stupid human thinks that a deer would eat rocks!

I can't believe that you and Sally are having t-storms down your way. Just hot and dry here...my water table has receeded at least two feet in the last week if you can judge by my big pond!

Sally, Thank you for the comment on my iris collection...it is hard won! I have picked up some beauties at Schreiner's clearance sale each year, and have lost about half of them to rot or slugs. I have bunches of beautiful purple and blue that came from Mom, but I am still in awe of each of the glorious and more colorful ones that actually survive and bloom for me.

Bea, When my Champagne Elegance ever gets big enough to share, I bet we can arrange a trade......I drooled over tons of your lovelies!

Pony, I love that iris!!

I have a couple new iris pictures from last night...Loyalist, which is absolutely lovely, but unfortunately very close in color to the purple (maybe even the same one??) that I already had tons of.

Love those pics Sally! Lovely colors in everything!

RJ... I think that you're right about that pact. certainly seems so anyhow. I think that if all of us would fess up, we'd all have plenty of 'not so pretty moments' caused by the things that we do for our gardens! Too bad that they're not all on pictures, that would be a great thread! I love that iris.

7b is pretty marginal for callas to return, so 7a may be pushing it, but I have some that say they are 8 or 9 that come back that I bought by mistake. I try to watch it now when I order.

OOOHHH....postings crossed and I didn't see the cool storm pics! RC and Sally, they are great! I so love thunder storms (if I can watch them from inside somewhere that is!) The colors are vivid and it always smells so good afterwards.

RC, I would love to see a thread of candid garden shots myself, but fortunately, unlike the embarassing moments as children when Mom was always ready with the camera, these are usually undocumented!

A hosta that is FINALLY starting to come into it's own, and only had one slug chew so far.

My really cool St. John's Wort shrub is finally recovering from the hard winter. I love this thing, but it got way bigger than I expected it to and reseeds itself readily. I can't remember if I put this on my "have" list for the roundup, but I have tons of babies if anyone would like one.

Cruise Control opened last night.

My golden chain tree is in all of it's glory now, but hard to get a pic of during the hours I am at home, and I am afraid it will be faded by the weekend with this heat.

One more from yesterday.....the moon over my mountain.

And I couldn't resist picking my self a floating bowl of Nora Barlow columbine this morning......they were just lovely!

Beautiful RJ, you are surrounded by it. Including the mountain.

Doesn't this look threatening!!