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

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??