A Gardeners Forum Forums Members History Forum Life 2005 Blooming Heaven part 6

hmm I will try radishes next year. Though I read that one reason you can have FBs is if you had a lot of plant debris you didn't clean up - which was definitely the case here. So may be as time goes on, they will become less of a problem...but in the meantime, radishes are my friend. Geesh I've got grasshoppers too. I've never seen so many. Then again, I've never lived in the country before either

They are really bad this year Mary, the grasshoppers, that is. We have been here a couple of years now and never seen nearly as many as this year.

That's good to know. Even though the glads are done, they wouldn't look so bad if they weren't being chomped so badly. Yaknow, I never knew Jiminey Cricket was a grasshopper!

Here's what's blooming today..

And in the veggie garden...
Anybody ever seen one of these???



I should make it a guessing game...

Beautiful pictures. On the veggie, hmmmm looks like an unripe tomato being eaten by very little bugs???

LOL.. I like that guess Triss.. but by Weezie's look of I'm guessing NO.

Beautiful photos weezie!! So glad you got ahold of a camera.. I loved looking thru your photobucket album.

Meg

Sorry to jump in kinda late,but I do believe the little blue flower is an Asiatic Dayflower ,they are a member of the Commelina family. Spiderworts have a longer strap-like leaf.

G-Mom

Oooooooh, Aaaaaaaaah Weezie - I like, I like!

Here's one of my butterfly bushes after I deadheaded it yesterday.
It started out as a volunteer seedling last summer, and boy did it grow up!
Yep - that's one bush!

G-Mom... That is exactly what I have growing in my yard. Reading about it, it still is in the spiderwort family and the other pics were really close but that is exact. Thanks!

That is great Lynn, very pretty.

Ohhhhhhhhh G~mom!!
I'm cryin' now...
I had found that flower last night,
AsiaticDayflower-N looking for another
flower I wanted to post for Japanese Beatle control but I was so pppppppppoooped I just mailed it to myself cause I couldn't find the post where Mary had posted it, DUH!!!

Congrats on getting it!!!!
That is a beautiful blue!!!
Hey Lynne, whatchya think?
Is it in your growing zone?

Weezie - thanks for thinking of me and my blue garden! I actually do have a small patch of that flower - dug it up outside the place where I did pottery 2 years ago.

It really is a pretty blue - I've never really seen a flower that' THAT blue. Course I ain' been around too aweful much yet! In the spring when I saw them, I stuck about 10 in an 8" pot in my 'test garden' because I didn't know what they were - Well they became part of the landscape and I forgot about them even after I figured out what they were. In about mid July they had grown wayyyy out of their pot, and most of it was dying from not being watered and not having much root in soil - but they still flowered! It was crazy! Thanks for the ID!

great pics everybody! weezie that veggie pic is killing me...could ya give us a teeny tiny hint pleeeeezzzzeeee??? I have no clue what it is...looks like an apple or something to me lol

Jamie,
Go into the Mystery Section,
I posted it down there..
I did put one hint..

Well.. I bought these at the farmer's market this weekend. They were just so pretty! Some are already starting to fade tho..

Boquet 1


Boquet 1 again


Boquet 2


1 & 2

Ok, a few more..

Mini roses to plant later on..


A few more of my blue glads


Meg

Great pics Meg! Pretty arrangements.

Gosh, Meg, those Farmer Market flowers
are soooooooooo pretty...
What's the going price for those?
Do they sell them everyweek???

I am not sure if they have them every week, but I think they would.. it's the market in the town where I go for my labs.. I had to get labwork on Saturday, and they run the market every saturday from 10-something. The mixed boquets were $6, and if you wanted just sunflower boquets, they were $5.

I also bought 2 little containers of blackberries. Umm.. I guess I'm not gonna make anything with them tho, cuz me & the #2 kiddo have been eating them.

We have a farmers' market in the next town over
every Wednesday..it starts at like 4 or 5:00am..
for bidding on chickens, ducks, etc....
and then it' opens for assorted sales of cheese,
books, garden stuff, and in the back like garage sales, everyone brings in stuff on tables...
and it's open until 3 or 4:00pm... for the auctions that start at like 1:00pm.

I had often wondered if I could EVER do something like that....it's hard with the kiddo's... getting them off to school in the morning,
and the organic ways with all the bugs..
DUNNO?? Maybe someday..

Hey Meg what are the tall thin purple things in the back of the boquets please? Those are cool.

Thanks Weezie. It seems I always like celosia in all it's forms lol.