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Wow...everybodies pics are so pretty! Makes me want to go around and walk through everyones gardens

G-Mom

ewe...Miss Jamie, I want some of those seeds! I hate to post pics because every body's gardens are so pretty and mine are just "thrown" together!

Tammy try standing alittle further away your photo looks like your focus was for a distance of about 10 ft. and a little higher up also need more sun from the side to help make bloom stand out. It is real pretty know your proud of it. I am proud for you.
Jimmy

Thanks JV,

I planted them in a 3 foot high planter had no idea they would end up being that tall lol. I'll know next year. lol It is a good picture of my a/c unit though lol.

Everyone has such great pictures of their flowers

oh your canna is gorgeous Tammy! My pink miniature snapdragons went nuts while I was gone and burst into bloom again! They are gorgeous! They are copying yours! We'll get some seeds for you yet!

I'm glad your getting more blooms. Do you have it in a shady spot or a sunny spot, I forgot? I didn't mean to rhyme but what the hey? It's bad that in order for me to get pics you have to be without the camera. I so wish I could see pictures of the snapdragon. If you get some seeds that would be great. I'm looking for the white and a cream one too that are suppose to be available. Hope I find them next spring early.

Well have a good day and don't work to hard tomorrow.

Proud mamma

Cosmic orange cosmos (grown from seed! Wahoo!)


And of course, roses

So pretty Mary!! Proud mama, I know the feeling.. stuff I started from seed growing.. it feels pretty good.

TK, even tho I can't see it all that great, I can tell that bloom must be beautiful!!

Hmm.. nothing really new to share right now. Well, not flowers anyway.

Meg

These are brightening my day today!

pink hydrangea


verbena - annual


scarlet runner bean


more in next post...

more of blue bird lacecap hydrangea as it continues to flower


not flowers, but banana peppers - so bright and cheery!


my first birdhouse gourd starting to take shape - isn't it sweet?


Aren't we having fun this summer sharing our flower children?!?

I love your little gourd that is so cute. I hope you've been paying strict attention to Mike57's posts lol j/k.

He does so great with those. Oh and the breathing mask thing when you work on making them a birdhouse. That's important.

Gee you don't think I'm counting your chickens before they are hatched do you? lol.

And your banana peppers, are they the hot ones or are they sort of mild? I don't know anything about peppers.

Hi TK - I did read Mike's post about the gourds - that's what prompted me to go out and check mine out this morning! And, thanks for the reminder about the masks - I only hope that my gourds get large enough to decorate!!!

This picture is for Mary - who suggested that Jenn's picture might be trumpet vine - it wasn't... but here is a picture of my yellow trumpet vine in bloom finally. I can't seem to get a good shot, even though the sun moved off it in this one - it still came out too bright...


and, some gazania by the pond today...

These pictures are so pretty. 4ruddy, what are you talking about? You're flowers are beautiful. plants n pots, love that trumpet vine.

Tk - forgot to answer your question about the banana peppers -

They are sweet peppers! I can't handle any of the spicey ones, and the one time I grew jalapenos for my husband and son, they were sooooooooooooooooooo spicey that even they couldn't eat them. I couldn't give them away - no one would take them, even my friends who declare that they can eat anything!

Lynne I'm just falling more and more in love with that hydrangea. And thanks for posting the trumpet vine pic - I love those too LOL What don't I love? I saw some in the OKC botanical garden that were jut like yours - but they were a bright yellow. Just gorgeous. I need a trumpet vine LOL

I may have to look into the sweet peppers. Your growing them outside right? That might be something to do next year. Hum more seeds. Even I'm beginning to realize that my wants are over running my ability to do. But it all sounds so good.

You can grow the peppers indoors too and overwinter them there. I have all kinds of hots and sweets growing and will bring several into the basement for the winter and an extended crop of peppers.

I don't know about bringing them indoors. It's getting pretty full in here and I still need to find a window planter for the herbs I like to keep over the winter. And then there is the space for starting next years flowers indoors early lol. I may need a bigger apartment. Or at least one with more windows lol.

I am with you on looking for space. Fortunately we have a basement, I just have to get it well lit and go down there more than once a month.

Oh one of our members is a whizzzz on indoor lighting. He does the most amazing things. It's expensive though. I thought about it, but once I checked out the prices I had to give it up. To bad it would have made a bunch of stuff possible.

omg, that cimifuga is absolutely gorgeous!!!! If they can grow in Indiana, I would love some seeds!!!! I will have rhody seeds to trade!


By the way, I see that you are going to Virginia Beach!! If you like great blue crab, you've got to go to a little seafood store/restaurant called The Virginia Beach Seafood Company - about 12 blocks off the beach. Its a little neighborhood place - only seats about 20 people, unless they've expanded lately. They have blue crab that's to die for!!!!! And, it's not a tourist trap - very fun, great people - they love to teach newbies how to eat blue crab!

If you can't find it, walk away from the beach a couple blocks, into the residential area and ask a local person. That's how we discovered it.

Have fun!!

omg, that cimifuga is absolutely gorgeous!!!! If they can grow in Indiana, I would love some seeds!!!! I will have rhody seeds to trade!


By the way, I see that you are going to Virginia Beach!! If you like great blue crab, you've got to go to a little seafood store/restaurant called The Virginia Beach Seafood Company - about 12 blocks off the beach. Its a little neighborhood place - only seats about 20 people, unless they've expanded lately. They have blue crab that's to die for!!!!! And, it's not a tourist trap - very fun, great people - they love to teach newbies how to eat blue crab!

If you can't find it, walk away from the beach a couple blocks, into the residential area and ask a local person. That's how we discovered it.

Have fun!!

oops, sry about the double post, I must have clicked twice -

Not flowers, but update on my birdhouse gourds and banana peppers...





Hope the peppers stay firm for the week that we'll be away - they are so colorful right now!