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Absolutely GORGEOUS! WTG,Lynne

I LUV your "goldflame honeysuckle"

Gmom! You should post some pictures of the plants i sent you are they still around?

~Phoebe

Those are AWESOME pictures!

Here's 2 I took today...

I hate cactus..........
...but it's got a pretty flower!








Cindy Jo

Ok, so I moved a bunch of mulch, compost, and topsoil today, that was in 40lb. bags, and had a bunch of dead looking lawn. Sooooo, I dug it up, and ran to the nursery, and got more flowers to plant..lol.

I got a pretty orange zinnia-


A "summer wine" yarrow-


A salvia "red hot sally"


And a hybrid sage


I also got 2- 4packs of little marigolds, and put them all together-


Also, one more wildflower blossom today, a "bird's eye"


Meg

Wow Meg - you done good!
Such vibrant and cheerful colors!
Aren't you glad that the bags left the deadspot in your lawn?!? You put it to great use!

Love that zinnia, and I used to not be a fan of orange flowers so much. This year I got a few orange gazanias in the 4 packs I bought that hadn't bloomed yet - I'm loving them by my bathtub pond.

Did you know that yarrow can be very invasive? I dug up a small start of a white one at a roadside years ago, and it took me about 5 years to totally get rid of it. It has a very long tap root that does not want to go away, plus the seeds scatter everywhere.

The sages and salvias will also reseed all over the place, but I don't mind that so much. I just look for the baby plants, and move them where I'd like them - or share with family and friends.

Keep sharing those great pictures of great plants!

I thought I'd read somewhere before that yarrow was invasive, but couldn't resist this summer wine color. It's got kinda burgundy colored flowers on it. When I took it out of the pot it was in, it was practically rootbound, a huge ball of roots around it. I didn't see a taproot, just the mass of stringy roots growing around the pot. Maybe it's a different variety? I could hope..

Meg

Hehehehe, we get so attached so fast. It's adorable.

no Unfortunately they didn't survive the winter,noones did

The new flowers are sooooo purdy,Meg! Ummmmm,if you decide to collect seeds from that "birds eye" I sure would love to trade you something for some seeds

G-Mom

wow gmom that's weird about the iris not surviving the winter o.O up here, the iris go thorugh a deep freeze. Maybe that was the problem. no dormancy?

~Phoebe

I was THRILLED to see my very first raspberry! It was yummy, too!



One more left on it LOL I can't wait until it starts really growing!

Mary

I posted a pic when this was buds...



and when this plant was just few flowers



and when this super petunia had one lone bloom

Thanks, Fernie - I needed the encouragement! One of these days my raspberries will be so big, I'll need a wide angle lens to get a picture

This is what I found when I went out to my vegetable garden today.

Oh, my.... I would have been running in the other direction faster than a speeding bullet - don't know how you stood there to take pictures! Hope the kitty kept a safe distance! What kind of snake is that?

OMG, That thing was HUGE!!!! RUN AWAY!!!!

woah!! that's a pretty snake it looks like a black snake to me but I'm not sure. my brother had some friends over to camp out last night and they found a snake that looked like that but it was like 3 or 4 feet long!!

Two of the zinnia are blooming, the nastrium are blooming like crazy, the marigolds are blooming and the glads are just sitting there lol. Oh well.

I planted my glads in March and they are just now starting to bloom. Hang in there

Everything else sounds just "PEACHY"!

G-Mom

Yep other than the transplant oopses everything has had at least one plant survive ... so far. I have 12 buds on the moss roses and I keep waiting and waiting and waiting but they are taking their time. lol

It's a pilot snake and it's not dangerous. I keep my distance but I don't kill them. I know I've told here before about the black snake that was living in my attic that my husband and the men working here knew about but didn't tell me. I found out when I was home alone. Yikes!!

tk, My glads haven't bloomed yet either. I thought it was all the rain but if yours haven't bloomed either, wonder what's up.

my new garden gate





this is the first time the Hollyhocks have bloomed. They come up, stay green, turn yellow and die. Maybe all this rain has given them what they need.

I've never had glads before so I have no clue. I figured my soil was probably short something or the grass roots got in there and were bothering them. I have a lot of bermuda grass and I don't dare dig it all out at one time with that steep of a slope. So I dig it up when I am ready to plant in a given area. Which means it is constantly comming up in the beds I have already cleared.

Sheri, your Hollyhocks are beautiful!! I love them, and I got seeds from my mom's neighbor, but so far, nada. Well, seedlings, but they aren't really growing. :rolleyes:

Meg

My Glads haven't bloomed yet either... But I did plant them kinda late... Like early May... but they're all nice and leafy!!! I have planted them as late as July and had blooms all the way into September...

I grew gladiolas for the first time last summer. I put them in pretty late. The ones up by the mailbox on the street were gorgeous! They did not come back this year - I was too lazy to lift them last fall. The ones I planted down by the shed did not grow last year, but have been growing nice green leaves so far this year. It's been an interesting experience so far.