Wrennie - I have some white coneflowers that are doing well here (don't even recall ever planting white, but it blooms every summer), and lots of baby plants beneath the one white and several pink that are growing together. I wouldn't know which babies are which, but would you like me to bring you some to summer camp?
I just potted up a bunch today to bring to the BBQ we are going to in Carmel soon, but I'm sure there will be others by the time I go up to you.
Wrennie The white cone flower came back from last year,, I bought an established one last year and planted it hoping it would come back biggger this year I believe it was a 6" pot last year. When the flowers dried up I sprinkled the seeds around where I had planted it.
"Grace without perfection is more to be desired than perfection without grace."
Wrennie - I have some white coneflowers that are doing well here (don't even recall ever planting white, but it blooms every summer), and lots of baby plants beneath the one white and several pink that are growing together. I wouldn't know which babies are which, but would you like me to bring you some to summer camp?
I just potted up a bunch today to bring to the BBQ we are going to in Carmel soon, but I'm sure there will be others by the time I go up to you.
I have a red asiatic lilly that always blooms red. It bloomed red this year, we've been in a drought, and the blooms didn't last long. Now it has a white bloom on it and more white buds. I've had this plant probably 5 years and this has never happened. How wierd.
Gotta love the flower clusters of spirea - yes, yet another [color:#CC33CC] PINKflower, Wrennie!!!
Annnnnnnnnnnd... if that's not enough PINK for you... here is my one and only peony that has ever bloomed for me in the past 5 years or so that I've been trying to grow them - I just love it! Don't know why I have so much trouble growing them though... [/color]
I love Spirea ! Peonys too. My last house had dark pink ones. I dont like the ants though. My bank has mini pink roses and dianthus outside blooming right now. The spirea is in full bud! The stella d'oros are all budding too.
Pretty nml. I think those first ones are sold here as houseplants
I love the flame violets& lobster claw.I've not tried any orchids.i'd love to be able to grow them flame violets in my shade bed like that.My substitute is ajuga.
Here's my gloriosia daisy.the seed packs say a mix.I sowed these last year& getting blooms now.there should be another 2 color varieations...if they follow the packages picture.....
I will age ungracefully until I become an old woman in a small garden..doing whatever the Hell I want!
I seen some speria and turned it down cause was over $4.I grow a peoney that teases me with one bud every year and it turns brown never bloming.Its nice seeing somebody can grow one to bloom.
Tamara when it seems to hang loading the pics hit the refresh button on browser or F5 and then it will reload and most times the pics will pop right up.I've dial-up on ancient phone lines from the 70s....ya learn things.I have problems with the larger pics loading the clickables load faster.the peoney was forever loading.I was able to refill both hummer feeders and return it barely showing half the pic.(I nuke my syrup 3 min)
I will age ungracefully until I become an old woman in a small garden..doing whatever the Hell I want!
This was supposed to have been a toad lilly But this is what bloomed instead Hmmm another mislabel on the package!!!!
Ahhhhh Ayone have Dusty miller go crazy on them?? This thing got huge this year!!!! If I cut it back will it be okay?? It is taking over the blanketflowers!!
"Grace without perfection is more to be desired than perfection without grace."
Its doing good Lynne as well as the sedum However the blue mountain coneflower hasn't made it I'm leaving it where it is tho the top of it is yellow and limp the roots may still have life????
"Grace without perfection is more to be desired than perfection without grace."
I have some daylilies blooming that I will have to get pics of to show. I would have lilies to show but the buds got so big they were ready to open and some d@rn deer came and ate every single bud off of them! I was very mad! :mad: Time to get some deer repellent I guess!
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I can try that! I have put human hair out there and Irish spring soap! I even tried a homemade deer repellent that somebody gave me the recipe for. Guess it didn't work! Or maybe I need to apply more often! I will try the dryer sheets though!
No it can't! I will let you know if it works! The ate the tops off of all my phlox too so I don't know if those will bloom this year now or not! They didn't even have any flowers on the yet! If nothing else works, I am going to get a motion activated sprinkler and put it out there at night so they leave it alone! They ate my lilies last year too but nothing else! The crazy thing is that I have heard the hostas are like candy to deer but they haven't touched them once!
diane i love your ballon flower! ya know i planted some a few years ago and they never came up, till last year! im hopin they come back for me this year. your lily looks like a ground cover day lily to me, they grow wild here, all the ones i have are from my gram. we got deer galor and they never ate them. but i gave a bunch to my friend and the deer ate all hers. i herd theirs a spray that works wonders, cant think of the name,,,, jess your phlox should come back, thats one of my fav cut flowers, cause when ya cut em more stems grow,
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