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

Awesome! There is so much room between the pot lip and the next "surface"! Definitely will have to try. I also love your collection of frogs and fairies!

That's what I see from where I work on the computer and do my needlework, so I keep it pretty. LOL It's right next to the bird feeders and on the other side is a fountain. Lots to watch.

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Sally, Thanks for all the info on the "tipsy pots" . I'll have to try to save that for something that I can put together in the winter. very neat and creative!

RJ... Pretty pics... but I love the Saratoga Sunset!

Sharron... your Koi pond area is looking great. Those fish have it good!

Bea.... all very nice. Does that crazy poppy grow crazy every year? that would definitely be worth the effort to propogate!

THis is my current project in the yard....getting rid of the grass here. I was working this or any of the area near it all day today and will be for quite a while. There's my dwindling burn pile at the end of it.

This mornings reminants of the rain on this little hosta

red. that is the first time I have seen that poppy all crazy. I am going to try to catch seed from that one. There are more buds on the same plant so I will observe how those bloom this week. It was a sight to see.

Sally I really like your tipsy pot tower. it seems like a good way to do strawberries. Maybe next year!

Red you have been working hard! I want to take the grass out of the parking strip in front of my house but I have been too lazy - you have inspired me to get going on it!

I really like that Cruise Control iris, am going to have to add it to my list.

My oleander in pretty much full flower

Scentimental - more pink and red than white and red now that it's getting hot

I love that oreander. Probably can't grow it here. I've seen it in Palm Springs.

Hmmm... I think I need to make one of those tipsy pots. I have a spot that it would fit in quite nicely. Thank you for the instructions! :)

And thank you to everyone for all the wonderful photos you're sharing. I'm enjoying looking at all of them very much!

Lovely Irwells! I'm so jealous about the oleander. I've never even seen it grow in the coastal areas here. I've just seen it in California.

Bea... good luck with those seeds. I sure hope that it works out! What fun

Portland... Good luck with that strip! Getting rid of the grass is definitely the hard part. Then the fun begins. Planting and designing from a clean slate. That's what I like best.

Glad that you've joined us Pony!

Thank you, Red. :)

Here's an "Art Deco" Dahlia that just opened up today:

Out the bedroom window. I went out to snap a few and got 50, so I will only do 10 at a time. My DB has been picking up on what mom needs and has taken over for me today. I'm getting a much needed break. And so is she. ^_^

That is one pretty dahlia

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The miniature rose.

The painted fern my DS gave me. There are two of them in there.

A big Iris

This is that royal lady of Landsdown

This is 'Blue Ensign'

This is one I won in a drawing of the Shelton Rhodie Society

A group of foxglove

The 'Korean Lilac. It smells heavenly.

This is the new growth on the 'Pacific Frost' and the flowers are still nice.

Where is Union? What zone?

That Dahlia is a beaut Pony.

Pretty as a picture Willow. Lovely colors.

I second everything that Sally just said!

I took these while out and about in eugene today.

I love this purple and red together.

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definitely a close up

THese are in my yard.

close up of rhody buttermint.

jasmine

my noid dwarf blue hosta

During our our warm spell my voodoo lily, "Dracunculus vulgaris" decided to bloom and I wondered why it is still planted near my patio. The heat brought out it's odoriferous aroma in a big way!

Love the buttermint rhodie.

Irwells, Union is on the south shore of Hood Canal on the Olympic Peninsula. We live directly across from the big mountain range and we are at 600' elev. I don't care what zone they say I'm in, I make sure it goes down to zone 4 before I buy anything after 21 years of trying things.

My husband's mother was from Seattle, and until they sold it a couple of years ago, had a cabin on Jackson Cove, Dabob Bay. I guess the closest town was Quilcene. His cousin lives in Port Orchard, and when we visited last summer, I was surprised to find that they were the same zone as we are? Still some things that aren't interchangeable, though.

Irwells - I think the zones are defined by low temps. We sure don't get hot the summers that you experience due to the marine influence.
I forgot how much I like Oleanders - thanks for posting. they have a nice explosion of blooms. Very cheery. Well, anything is when it's grey skies, like today!!!
It has been fun to see your gardens, so keep it up!

My rose 'Scentimental' looks very white with dark pink. The cooler weather does mess with the colours a bit.

When you're wishing you could have oleanders, remember they're poisonous - makes it less desirable!

Woah- that voodoo lily is awesome! Looks like an alien critter! :D