A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall Gardener's Chat Blooming Fine 21..........

Really nice, Loz! As always, Athena is adorable!

My gladiolas are just coming into bloom here - bulbs that I found when digging a hole, and moved to another garden. The first stem fell over and bent in half, but the flowers are still in bloom thankfully. I'll try and go out and take a picture in a while - it's sooooo hot out there!

Well the gladiola that was bent over wilted in this heat, but I did get a picture of the volunteer petunia behind the grass on the waterfall hill.


peek-a-boo!


And some of my trumpet vine in bloom


and.......... FRATERNAL twins???

those are really nice lynne. i like your "fraternal twins?" comment. good take on an odd situation!

i wish i had trumpet vine, but i don't have my yard ready. i'm hoping soon. i do love having so much longer than the rest of the world to work on it.

I posted a few pics in the single bloom topic, here's another...
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nice tam.

uhhhhhhhh - what does that mean?

You do know that it usually takes at least 5 years before you get to see the first blooms on a trumpet vine?!?

Not in my warmer climate it doesn't. And if they get water they can become a rampant weed here. I'm fairly sure that could be so for Jiffy as well.
If I plant out a one gallon poted trumpet vine in spring (winter) it will be taller than a house and blooming well before the end of summer. The only reason they haven't taken over the countryside around here is lack of water.

I ordered a trumpet vine once and it was DOA, after researching I was sorta glad because I read that it's considered very invasive. They are so pretty though--very nice pictures Lynne.

That's interesting Tina, because before I joined TGH, everything I read about trumpet vines said that it usually takes that long to bloom. It was exactly the fifth year for me - on Amy's birthday in August as a matter of fact.

I guess it is a regional thing though.

Still not sure what Jiffy meant by having more time than the rest of the world?

I forgot to comment Tam....love your pic too!!! Isn't it so nice after all of that snow and freezing weather to have flowers?

They can be quite invasive here too, Loz, but I pull out the runners as I see them growing. Haven't really had a problem with it at all.

Lynne--I was reading here trying to catch up and I too am wondering what Jiffry meant.--So
Jiffy.... will you please explain to us???

I wondered what she meant too.

Maybe I should give it another shot Lynne. Maybe plant it in a big deep pot to try to keep it contained.

what i meant, was like tina, i have more time in my year to work on my yard. our winter is barely 6 weeks most of the time, and that isn't straight through, but interspersed over a 4 month period, so even in the "dead of winter" i can work on my yard some in good 50-60* days.

and because i know how invasive they can be, i want to have the yard ready for where i will put them in a pot with a trellis. don't want anything else invasive, the carolina jessamine and wild grapes are eating my yard alive!

thanks for explaining Jiffy---now why didn't we realize that?// --surely one of us should have gotten the idea.

and yes you lucky duck, you do have longer to work out than a lot of us do!!! I am still wondering why I live in Illinois--I really dislike winter weather.-----

That is what I thought you meant, Jiffy, but I wasn't sure.

I have the trumpet vines growing in a garden on the side of my shed. They've gotten big enough to grow over the shed, which was my intent, but we do have to cut back the front each year so it doesn't cover the doors. It seems to be well contained inside that garden - I've only spotted a few runners in the grass to the side of the garden over the many years I've had the vines.

WOW - no new pictures in a week???

Here are my black eyed suzies in full bloom this morning.


Fortuntely the deer do not eat mine, like they do my friend's down the street - I've given her tons of starts, but they don't last a day in her yard!

Very nice.......We were at mcdonald tonite and they have them for decorations with the Lilys......yellow and brown ones.

lynne, those are pretty

Lynne--you have so many pretty flowers and places in your yard.

Thanks all!

Now someone PLEASE tell me how to keep these inconsiderate neighbors from allowing their dogs to relieve themselves on my garden up by the mailbox??? Last night, at about 10ish, someone was walking 2 dogs and allowed them to stop and do that - I coughed at the window to let them know I saw them - they did not MOVE!!! I coughed again, and they slowly moved on. What is wrong with these people??? I know I have complained here about this before, and people responded with "maybe they just don't know any better?" I say that is rubbish!!! It is common decency to know not to let your animal go on someone else's property - let alone on their flowers!!!!!!! These are adults, not kids!

We don't have street lights here, so I guess they thought it didn't matter if they did it in the dark this time?!?

A sign won't help - as I've said before... people here are only out for #1 - themselves!!! Next time I am going to run out there and confront them - it's just not right! (I would have last night, but I was already in my nightie!)

Sorry for the rant, but something's work here!

I seen folks in town do that right on our church lawn.. I was getting ready to go in ...

I have the problem of the neighbors throwin all the junk out of her garden on our side of the road.. It isnt my land there, but it urks me to see it happen.

SO I cant say a word..

I sure dont know how to handle that or yours..
GO out with a squirt gun an when they do it , squirt the dog.

LOL

or get you a big spot light and blast it in their eyes.

i liked that one....

Make them the center of attraction..LOL

Is this a weed? I've left it because at first I thought it was a marigold but I don't think so.

It looks a bit like a papaya...???? (but you'd know if you had one of those) they don't just grow wild where you are.

Tomato???????????

first one was petunia.

that's my thought dodge.

and lynne, i'd get a super soaker power water gun and squirt them from the window!

I've been wondering if it's a tomato plant too but it's pretty tall now without any blooms.

iTS Sterile..........

why is it sterile?

casteration

dodge, you are hilarious.

sheri, there is another weed/flower that has that kind of leaf, i'm just drawing a blank right now.

We have a weed here like that, but heck if I can think of what it's called. I pulled a lot of them this year.

looks a lot like tomato plant to me

sterile......

datura's bloomed even in 105 heat






Vinca

Beautiful Diane.

Thanks Tamara