A Gardeners Forum Forums Members History Forum Life 2005 What's blooming today Pt III

This string just gets better and better. I can't wait so see what gets posted next.

Yes, it does have the blue-ish tint to the blooms.
No, the tri-colors are still babies. They won't bloom till next year-- at least I hope they'll bloom next year!!!
The truth behind the tri-colors is; its just three different plants put in the same pot. Then when you set it out and it grows/blooms it looks like three different colors on the same plant...

Mini rose


Huge hosta-


Still no flowers on my glads-


Mum trying to burst open-


More to follow..

Enjoying the morning glories-


Lovin the bachelor buttons


Nice row of wildflowers-


2 closeups of some of the pretty bachelor buttons-




And I think one more post..

This isn't mine, but it's at my neighbor's fence, right next to mine, at the back side of the yard.


Another shot of the chicory, and how tall some of it's getting-


The view from my deck, of my veggie garden-


A sideways view of it-


Cayenne flowers & cucumber flowers in the background-


That's it for now! *whew*
Meg

Meg I so enjoy your photos. You are a good photographer. Thanks for sharing.

My portulaca plants are blooming multi colored and the primroses have started blooming again?????? My marigolds are going nuts. I have some more lavender to plant.....I was gifted with 2 - 4 inch pots of it. I do like lavender. Now to decide where to put it. Such a pleasant dilemma.

I love that yellow rose And the Bachelors Buttons are adorable!

I took a couple this morning too...

My first Brugmansia bloom


I laid on the ground to get this shot


Heres some Mexican Petunias for Weezie


con't

HI all love yalls photos. heres a photo of one of my daylilly beds just now in full bloom.i have a ornge canna lilly growing in the middel of the bed when the daylillys quit bloomin the canna lilly will start to bloom so i have blooms in the bed all summer.
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your friend in gardening.mike57

The "Ginger" is shooting up


I got watermelons!


"Whirleygig" Zinnias


G-Mom

Oh, those zinnias are beautiful!! Such cute watermelons too!! Hey, how's the pumpkins doin g-mom?

Meg

The pumpkins are :p I've been doing everything I'm suppossed to but

G-Mom

awe, sorry to hear that g-mom. I'm afraid to try them again..lol.

Mike, I love that beautiful bed of daylilies. Mine are so small yet. *sigh* Of course, if they ever get big, they're gonna be too big for where they are..

g-mom, that bloom from the Brugmansia, is lovely. I really like how you went under it for the shot.

Meg

Love all the pictures!

G-mom - those mexican petunias are great! Did you buy the plants or grow them from seeds? I've never seen them around here...

A few pics to share, and then I'm off to go plant some flowers for my parents.

Yucca in full bloom:


Cherry dianthus (looks much redder in the pics - is really a deep rosy pink):


Have a great gardening day everyone!

My dianthus are white and little tiny ball shaped blooms. I think the wrong seeds got in that packet lol. Wal-mart strikes again. And they are covered in little black bugs. And I mean covered stem to stern so to speak.

I really enjoy looking at everyones pictures, they're fantastic...I only had time to upload 2 pics--so here's my massive Hollyhock, it's way taller than me.....LOL

I was wondering if that was a yucca the guy had down the road. I can't believe the size of his stock it's huge. Thanks for the pictures guys.

After the rain (we got some finally!!!)
I've been having trouble taking pictures of this in sun,
so decided to try after rain.


yellow loosestrife - not invasive at all like the purple,
and the first year I actually got to see blooms in 5 years -
the woodchucks usually eat them before they get a chance.

That's a mighty pretty place to take a rest and enjoy the garden.

I'm sorry to hear your woodchucks are such hungry little fellows. But I'm glad they gave you a break this year so you could show off your pretty flowers.

Thanks, TK! The arbor is supposed to have cardinal flower vine growing up the sides and top for my hummers, but for some reason, this year the plants have stalled in their growth and are not vining at all! These are from seeds that I saved from last year's store bought plants. They look healthy enough, but just are not growing.

Here are some of today's pretty faces:

These were supposed to be the same as the baby pink lilies I posted before?!? I got them the following year - both from Home Depot, both with the same label. I guess the fact that these are in full sun, and the others get mostly shade, makes the difference in intensity of color.


More cacti blooms - wish they would bloom all summer, they are soooooooo cheery. I will only get about another week of blooms.




p.s. did you know that the cacti blooms only last ONE day?!? Such a shame!

The Cardinal vine is a red flower right? That would be super in that location.

I would definitely move them into the shade, the lillies that is. This from a person who didn't think she liked pink lol.

The seafood resturant down the block from me has the prickly pear (that is, what that is, isn't it?) has those in raised graveled beds all around their parking lot and outside dinning area. They have looked charming but are all closed up now so I guess it'll be next year before I see any more. I was supprised that they would survive in this area at all. We do get rain usually in down pours around here.

I don't have any additional blooms yet but I'm waiting and watching.

Just wanted to share a few pics I took this morning in my garden.....Everything is starting to flower and really look nice.

Here's a few more:
Got this coleous vine for a dollar on clearance at the nursery, look how nice it's getting.


I also rescued 2 wandering jews from the dollar table in the nursery....I love them! It was the very first houseplant I bought years ago.


Babys breath coming up in a flowerbox that I just threw a pack of wildflower seeds in.......

I think that's the fack coleus. It looks the same as mine. It's the first time I've had leaves that large on a coleus. I have a packet of babies breath I'm thinking of planting them next spring. That would be the right time right?

I love all your pictures. Those "frames" are so cute. It reminds me of the old pictures with the scalloped edges. I haven't seen those in years.

Yep Tammy next spring would be the right time to plant them out...

I have a really cool photo editor that came with my computer that lets me make the edges like that.....

I love the hydrangeas....I have 5 alltogether....I have so many flowers that it seems impossible to show them all....by the end of summer though I might have gotten to most of them!

Someday Loz, someday I want to be able to say that too. But today I have 16 things planted out in the garden several that don't bloom on purpose lol. Next year I hope to be able to double that and do the final two tiers of the garden. Then it will be enjoying and weeding and watering. And replanting areas that don't re seed. At least that seems to be the way it works. That falls under the heading, "Life happens while we're busy making other plans" category. lol

Well, I don't have much to report - nothing's changed.

The lobelias seem to be 'resting'.

One of my coleus has really moved along nicely though ...



All these pictures are great, everyone - yes, Meg, you are quite the photo journalist.

Oh yeah - I forgot - I have a couple of wandering jews going too. I've already hung it and it's doing well. I'm looking forward to its growth, and having a 'cascade'.

We did a couple of sprigs last year and it did well. It didn't seem to like being here in the apartment though.

Here are some of my new baby hostas

Lantana

Floribunda

Red climber

Glads

Sum & Substance babies

Nice flowers Mary.

Thanks - it ain' much, but it's coming along

My Balsams(Touch-me-nots) and Crepe Myrtles have finally started to bloom!

Balsam


Crepe Myrtles

Thornius the Balsam's are they the same as Balsam Apples? My mother had a vine ovwer west side of house which is now the wash room made a red apple like fruit she called it Balsam apple. Have not seen one in at least 40 yrs. I was just a kid at the Bosque Redondo at that time this is first time I have seen or heard of anything close to it since.

No this is neither the apple or the tree I think Balsams(Touch-me-nots) are in the Impatiens family, but I'm not sure. They make colorful blooms each plant having separate colors from the others. They also cross-polinate to form new colors. The fun things about these flowers is once they lose their petals, just a seed pod is left. Once the seed pod ripens, the slightest touch will cause the seed pod to burst with a loud snap hurling the 20 or so seeds inside it up to 10 feet away (hence, the name, Touch-me-not) where they quickly germinate, grow to maturity and start the process all over again. Once you get a small bed started you soon have acres of them. They have always been a favorite of mine. You can buy the seeds, 4 packs for a dollar, at Walmart. Just look for the name Balsam on the front of the packs.

Hey Loz...do have any pics of your portulacas?

I sure do Vanessa, they are so pretty....I just took the pictures today and haven't had a chance to upload them to imagestation yet.....I'll try to get to that tomorrow so I can post them in here....I have the sundial mix with all different colors.....I think I bought about 10, 6 packs of them when I went to the nursery....so I have them all over the place....

Thornius, touch me nots are in the impatiens family.....it's funny you mention them because my neighbor just dug some up and gave them to me and they are really healthy and coming along nicely.....she warned me how much the spread...LOL Don't you just love gardener neighbors that share their plants with you?????

except for the neighbors who's elephant ears come under your fence uninvited and pop up in the middle of your GARDEN!!!

LOL, that's not a good type of sharing of plants...... My neighbor is a nice older lady in her 70's, but she's extremely active.....and lately she's been loading me up with free plants...I just love it!

G-Mom I have to find me some of those Mexican Petunias I have never seen them around here, any ideas where you came across them?

Karrie, I have some that I'm trying to grow right now...if I can get seeds I'd be happy to send you some. PM me your info if you'd like

Karrie...I bought my Mexican Petunias at Wal-Mart last year...but they don't look like G~Mom's. Mine have pointed petals. The tag an all of them said Mexican Petunia...now I am wondering what I REALLY have!
G~Mom...did you see the pic of mine I posted when they were blooming...is it a different kind or what????????

Here are some Portulacas Vanessa.....I think they look so cute in my little umbrella planter....and the last pic is of my fav. flower--cosmos!

That planter is adorable. I don't think pretty planters would last in my garden a day or should I say a night lol. Which is probably a good thing. I'm already broke lol. Beautiful pictures again loz.

Okay...this may be a REAL stupid question, but is that not the same as what we call the rose moss?

I love that planter so much...I got it from ABC distributing from their clearance section for 4.95 or something like that.....I got my mom one too and she accidentally threw the umbrella stick part away....LOL

Just noticed that I have a stray petunia starting up in the second picture.....didn't even realize that when I took the picture...

Everytime I put out a nice planter, or statue, or even my solar lights I'm scared that I'll wake up one morning and find some of them missing...the teenagers around here are horrible for taking stuff from peoples yards....

BTW, I LOVE sharing pics with you all....

Yep--moss rose actually is what they call it too.....they are one in the same.....and it's not a stupid question...I've always called them portulacas and didn't even know they were called moss rose until I read it in my book.

Whew...thanks for clearing that up for me Loz...I thought I was missing something...well, I AM missing something but that is another story altogether!
I have moss rose EVERYWHERE!!! I didn't realize how much it spreads and goes crazy. Last year the whiteflies got everything and they ate the moss rose up...so, I just thought it was a goner. But...this spring...it came up everywhere...in every pot, in every bed...all over! I guess the seed gets carried in the wind or something....but, they are pretty and I love them so that's okay!

LOL--I know what you mean Vanessa...I have them coming up ALL over the place too....in all the pots and beds...heck if I would've known they'd spread so much I wouldn't have bought so many this year.....Last year they didn't get everywhere like they did this year.

Well here it is the long awaited bloom of the cannas. Next time I'm going to take a picture of the stop sign and maybe I'll get a picture of the cannas.



Oh well I keep plugging away. Hope when the glads bloom I get a better shot.

wow sheri that is absolutely beautiful!! I love the pic of the bouquet and the baby bird!

Wow Sheri, awsome photos!!!

Here's some of my wildflowers again. While we were gone this week, the yellow ones opened up.





2 pretty poppies




And I'm thinking, since the rest is my veggies, maybe I should post those pics in the veggie thread..

Meg

Is it ok if I share a few photos of my granny's flowers? I think she's got some really beautiful stuff in her yard! I'm kinda jealous of her flowers...





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Meg

Here are pictures I took in my nocturnal garden of all of my different varieties of Tennessee Nocturnal Fireflowers.

Hehe.. cool flowers thornius. Thanks for sharing those.

Meg

Great flowers but my puter is having a breakdown. Could you maybe only put 3 or so pictures in each post?

Ok, I posted a few photos in the veggie thread, but I think I've shared veggie pics here before too, so I'll put up the ones I just now took. The corn.. some of it, is taller than me already. I'm 5'3".

Here's a view from my deck-


And a different angle, a view from the corner of the yard-


My tent of cucumbers-


My tepee of beans (and corn)!


And a side view of some of my tallest corn-


Meg

And here's a couple of flowers too..

my purple wave got a lot of blooms on it..


one of my mums is trying to burst fully open already!


Ok, that's it, for now.....

here are some of my blooms today
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have a few more but pics came out terrible

here are 2 more i don't know what they are though
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Hey Pheonix, I have that 1st one there that you're holding & don't know what it is.. Weezie id'd it for me in the mystery section. It's Catchfly. Isn't it purty!?

Meg

oh thats catchfly!!?? it's very purty. thanks for letting me know. i love the color. is that the only color they come in,that you know of??

when i googled it, it looked like there were other colors too.. but mine was about the same color as yours I think.. a kinda, hot pink?

Meg

yes, hot pink/magenta, along that line of color.
i wish i knew what all the wild flowers i have growing are. i cant find the seed packet, that would help a little, but then i wouldn't really know what i was looking at either ah ha ha ha ha

pssst.. pheonix, that's why I posted my wildflower pics in the mystery thread!

I don't know any of the stuff that came up. Well, ok, I recognized some.. knew what the poppies were.. but I think that's it! :rolleyes:

meg

really the mystery plant thread huh i'll have to go look
yeah i know what some are but the rest are killing me just dying to know

I love this thread!!!

Phoenix and Meg... I was just about to post this picture, when I saw and read your posts about the bright pink flower - I have it too!



And here's my lacecap BLUE hydrangea this year - looks like I'm going to have to fertilize it next year to bring back the blues - it's trying to turn pink this year!


I'm so enjoying everyone's pics - keep up the good work!

Sold! Lynne, I'm addicted to hydrangeas - though I only have one for now - I think you sold me on the lacecap. Is there a specific name of it, or are all lacecaps...well, just called lacecaps? And how old is yours there? It's gorgeous!

Mary ~

I think mine was just called blue lacecap hydrangea - I got it on a 1/2 off sale about 6 years ago or so, and even then it was $16. I do keep it cut back so it fits in the small garden it's growing in.

I'll try to find the tag tomorrow for you. My tags are scattered in the garage, so I'm not sure if I actually will be able to, but I'll look.

Meg,

What a green thumb you have. That is so incredible compared with what you started with such a short time ago. Amazing. Great job!

Wow, everytime I come to this thread, there's
bigger plants and even more gorgeous....

Okay, let's test the memory...
beeeeeeeeeeeeeep, times' up...
I forgot already..
gotta go back and peak.........

****Sheri,
Your flowers are beautiful
I love the red phlox..
And the Black~eyed~Susan's.... you've got some plants there for sure..........

****Meg, love the bachelor buttons patch....
Very cute...
And you veggie garden is growing leaps and bounds everytime I see it...

p&p
lacecap BLUE hydrangea WOW WHAT A GORGEOUS plant
i'm going to see if i can find one. all the plants look phenominal everyone!!!! i'm jealous

Everyone's flowers are so pretty. Meg yours are always beautiful don't know how you do it. Phoenix no matter what those wildflowers are called they are beautiful. You all make me jealous mainly that blue Hydrangea will look for one here to send to my sister she love them. Mine this year are my first but not my last. Have a friend has some blue Hydrangia's don't know if they are the same or not but he promised me a cutting this fall.Thornius if those flowers look like that with the naked (hope I can use this word)eye I would love to have some . Would make everyone setup and take notice.
Jimmy

First calla lily of the season. Asiatic lilies are nearly finished and Stargazers (my favorite) still to come.

Stargazer, calla, canna and Easter lilies are all my favorites! :rolleyes:

Meg, your wildflowers are so pretty and that white rose is beautiful.

plants 'n pots, what is that bluish, purple flower? So pretty.

Cricket, I don't have any calla's and I don't know what a stargazer is. When they bloom please post a picture.

Hi Sheri - the bluish purple flower on the left side of the picture is campanula persificola - I got it at a plant swamp this past spring - it's a winner! I cannot for the life of me remember what the other purple flower is in that picture!

Stargazer lilies are gorgeous! I used to have some, but it seems that they didn't come back this year - or the deer got to them too much last year and they didn't return. Can't wait to see Cricket's pictures of them!

Hi Sheri and Lynne,

I will post photos of this years stargazers when they bloom but meanwhile here is photo of last year's:

Those are super!!! Do they just appear to be so much larger than most or are they super duper ones?

Mornin TK...I have been meaning to ask you if you have a place (or would even want some) Lambs ear? I have bookoos and would be happy to send you some. I love it and it is pretty maintence free (my kind of plant!) Let me know!

Cricket ~ all I can say is...


WOW!!!

lol Lambs ear. Did you read where I thought I had bought some but actually had a different plant? That was so funny. Can I ask a few questions first?

You know I have pretty much clay rather than good amended soil do you think it would survive that? And then there is the water thing. I have to hand carry it out to the garden from my upstairs apartment so they don't get a lot of water. I still can't figure out if I have sun or shade back there. That sounds dumb doesn't it. I mean how hard could it be to figure out? But everytime I think I know I walk out there and it is different. The building shades it in the morning and the shadow of the maple moves in the afternoon so I guess it's partial shade pretty much everywhere except where I put the hosta and peonies of course.

The hosta I finally got moved but I'm afraid to move the peonies. I so don't want to lose those. But then that is another topic isn't it?

And then I don't understand so good. These are seeds? I have a list down in seed exchange. Is there something down there that is of interest? And I guess I need to add the other seeds that Phoenix sent me that were originally for hinda. Since I can't send them and Phoenix did not wish me to send them back.

Here are mine that I took pictures of yesterday and didn't get time to post them.

This is my ice plant...my favorite!


One of my Petunia baskets


The butterfly bush (small blooms this year)


One of my hosta...surrounded by more weeds

I have no clue what this plant is...but this is the 2nd time it is blooming!


This isn't really blooming....haha...there are our "asparagus trees" as Stephen calls them. The asparagus is in seed right now.


Glads in front of the pump...haven't bloomed yet, nor do I think they ever will.


Daylilies


Another daylily...this one is like a triple bloom!!! This mass of daylilies always gives me multiple blooms! Last year, they were all double, but this one is triple!! Anyone ever have this??? ...or do I have my species of flower wrong?

Great pictures, Jenn! I've never seen an ice plant in a hanging basket before - what a great idea! I had mine in the ground and it hardly grew at all, and definitely did not come back the following year.

I've also never seen a triple lily before - wow!

Here's my lacecap hydrangea a few days later - you can see that the colors are coming out a bit more now. I found the tag and it is:

blue bird lacecap hydrangea

I definitely need to add some aluminum to the soil next year to bring back the blues.

Here is some nice bright yellow coreopsis to brighten up this dismal, cloudy, and cool day here today:


And... some pink spirea that brightens up a corner of my backyard:


I'll post a few more in the next post so it doesn't slow down your computers.

I LOVE the hygrangea and the spirea!!!! I think I like those purple-ish colors.

Here are some new blooms that came out today.

So...its possible for a triple bloom then??? What cuases it? Is it just that specific color? Because I have another grouping of that same plant a far corner of the bed and it blooms the same way!

My first attempt at growing monarda - got it in a swap this past spring:


When we were in Puerto Rico last summer we saw many Chenille plants growing bush sized there - the flowers are so soft and furry! I was lucky enough to find a small one here at a local farm a few weeks ago:


Here is a corner of my front porch. We just pulled out some awful evergreen bushes that the deer eat every year, and moved the hosta forward a little bit. It looks so much better without those bushes, I feel like I can breathe again!

WOW WOW WOW!
Jenn I think your hosta is a sum & substance - my favorite! They get HUGE! Oh, and the first picture, yellow flowers - could that be a trumpet vine? And, those lilies are way cool with a triple bloom - never saw such a thing! You get some kinda mutant flowers there or what? I want some!

Lynne thanks so much for getting the name of that hydrangea - moved right up to the TOP of my wishlist - it's gorgeous! Do you have it in sun/part/shade? And I looooooooove that chenille plant! I've never seen anything like it...I'll have to look out for one - do they come in different colors too?

Mary,
I'm going to have to look up a trumpet vine to see if that what it is....its not a vine tho....more like a massive amount of those clover-looking things with yellow flowers on them. BTW~~ I posted some pics for you in the pond section.

Come for a visit and take some of these lilies!!

Already visited your pond...walked back over to the yellow flowers LOL! We have a bunch of clover with yellow flowers like that...can't really tell how big yours is. Ours grows about 6" off the ground. MY SIL showed me if you pick the yellow flowers and eat them, they're kinda sweet tasting. Though I'm not recommending you chomp yours to see if it's the same stuff LOL!

Jenn, could your mystery yellow flowers be buttercups?

Not sure what Jenn's yellow flower is, but it is definitely not trumpet vine - mine should be in bloom any day now and I'll try and post a pic.

Mary ~ my hydrangea grows in full day sun - even though it is recommended not to do that, I've never had a problem with it in the 6 or so years that I've had it.

As far as I know, the chenille plant only comes in red... but then again, I've never seen one in another color, so they might exist...

Mary posted everything I wanted to say before I got here lol. I love all the new pictures. Thank you so much for spliting up the pictures. My computer goes into that out of virtual memory message and then won't talk to me for ages when it gets overloaded. I just bought seeds for several rather large house plants. Don't know exactly how I'm going to handle that but at least I have time to try and figure it out. I even found seeds for a miniature coffee plant that is suppose to supply a generous harvest is spite of it's small size 3 feet. In my tiny apartment this is going to be very funny lol.

LOL TK I think I need a coffee plant too - or 10. Wonder how many beans you'd get from one tree? Hmmm I'd probably need a few hundred

Lynne, thanks - I think it's gorgeous, and want to get more hydrangeas - have always loved them...but am lacking shade areas for them, so I'm also glad to hear it's doing so well in full sun. You mean you have a trumpet vine TOO? Gawsh girl, I envy your garden! We had one last year that I could swear opened in the fall, but can't remember for sure. Someone told us it was rare or something, I dunno...but I'll be watching for it this fall I can guarantee you that!

I will post a couple pictures of the mysterious yellow flower up in the mystery flower section.

Mary, here are some pictures of my really big hostas. The second picture is of my "beanbag chair" hosta....that's what I call it b/c its soo big. The rule on the hostas is 18 inches long.

Great hostas, Jenn!


Hen and chicks flower stalk - after it's done flowering the mother hen plant dies off - what a shame!


Cleome - gotta love this plant, even though it does smell like a skunk and has a very thorny stem!!! But... that's also why the deer and woodchucks leave it alone!

I wish I had a better camera - no matter what I do with this one, I can't seem to get a clear and focused picture.

Hope you don't mind these...

both are Nicotiana - everyone says that they smell sooooo sweet, but I have never found a scent on any of mine yet.

We have alot of deer here, but they don't seem to bother my plants. I wonder why??

Those ARE great hostas! Wow!
I had no idea the dragons blood sedum was so pretty! Or so pink? I thought that was supposed to be red? But it's gorgeous!

I've never seen hens and chicks bloom - is the pink flower in the middle of the pic the hens/chicks flower?

yes, Mary - the pink flowers are the hens and chicks bloom - the stalk is the green stem that you see from the bottom left corner in the picture.

My dragon's blood has always bloomed this pink, and I have bought it a few different places from different sources, so I know this is not a fluke. I would have also thought that the flowers would be more red - especially with that name!

great pics everybody! lynne I'm so glad that you posted the hen and chicks blooming...I have a couple and one of them has grown a tall stem and has a flower stalk looking thing....so I think it's gonna flower...yay!!!!!!!! this is my first ever time growing them :-) and I also have some dragon's blood sedum. I didn't know that it bloomed too?! how do you get them to bloom? mine are just leaves?? and I also thing that we have a ton of wild trumpet vine at the end of our road...it's orange and is in bloom...I'll take a couple pics of it when I go down there if my camera will work...I gotta get a battery charger with chargeable batteries for the dang thing :-(

Hi MissJamie ~

Congrats on your hens and chicks bloom! Don't be too upset when the hen dies - the chicks will eventually fill out where the hen was.

My dragon's blood sedum just bloomed by itself, though I'm not sure if it bloomed the first year or so - I've had it for many, many years.

Yep, the typical trumpet vine is orange, and does grow wild in some areas. I originally bought one red (orange) and one yellow - the red one hasn't bloomed in a few years - I don't think it gets enough sun where it is - it grows behind the yellow one up over my shed roof, and under some very tall trees. The yellow one blooms where it reaches out towards the sun.

Can't wait to see your pictures!