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I have never seen doubles like that..
Very pretty!!!

Here are my Touch-Me-Nots with Monkey Grass in front. I was hoping for, but did not get, white ones this year. My wife's grandmother had a yard full of Variegated Touch-Me-Nots. Each flower was speckled and swirled in two colors, like pieces of Christmas Candy.

Touch-Me-Nots

My favorites so far this year have been my daylilies and my hardy hibiscus.

Every bodies pictures are great!

Mary~ I do believe what you have is a Cosmos.
Cosmic Orange Cosmos

Meg~ I love the wildflower bed.

Weezie~ The name of the daylily Bestofour posted is called hemerocallis fulva flora-plena (Kwanso daylily) Kwanso daylily

Dang I am jealous of everybodies plants.

I love pictures!!!!!!! Keep posting everyone I love seeing all the pretty flowers.

I love everyone's pictures too..

**Tammy,
That is THE best to be able to see what
choices everyone's picked and how gorgeous
they turn out..

**Donna,
That is an unusual plant and flower..
Thanks for letting me know..
Are they related *more than obviously, I presume*
to the regular road side lilies?????????

**Thornius,
I have never heard of those either..
Very pretty plants though...

I love everyone's pictures too..

**Tammy,
That is THE best to be able to see what
choices everyone's picked and how gorgeous
they turn out..

**Donna,
That is an unusual plant and flower..
Thanks for letting me know..
Are they related *more than obviously, I presume*
to the regular road side lilies?????????

**Thornius,
I have never heard of those either..
Very pretty plants though...

Meg I take it you weren't too successful removing the hard @ss clay! So, next spring, I gotta do that...I have one area that needs some prettying up without too much fuss

Sheri - wow. are those common 'ditch lilies' in your area? Here are my daylilies (same as you find em everywhere here) See how simple mine are compared to yours? I'm jealous!

Thornius - my SIL was just telling me about monkey grass - I'm so glad to be able to finally see it. It looks GREAT with the touch me nots. How tall does that grass get? I don't have touch me nots (yet) so I don't know how tall that is either, for comparison... I love the contrast in leaf shapes and colors!

What a great thread - brilliant, whoever started it

Thorny, I have white Touch-Me-Nots. Would you like some? Hoping they stay white with all the cross polination issues that can arise, but I have been able to get several pods straight from the white plants.

On size, my TMN's are about 3 feet high and I think they would get even larger if they were not so bunched together.

Meg, Monkey Grass gets about a foot tall and makes a DENSE border. In late Summer you get those pretty flowers like in the picture.

Beautiful begonias, Weezie!

I am so glad you post pictures now.
I remember when I started on the forum...for a loooong time after that, you still hadn't posted any pictures. Everyone was always, like, "When are you going to SHOW us something???"

Thanks!

I know, it was like I was a hidden gardener...

Like yeah, she doesn't really garden,
she just sits at that computer typin' answers..


That other camera we had for like ever,
was really slow, really hard to take a close up shot,
let alone one at a distance... and
it was soooooooooo slow....
This one is a dream to operate.
*even for someone like me that's electronic
eliterate* and that PHOTOBUCKET is/was the
clincher for me, cause it was sooooooo easy
to load pictures, that WEBSHOTS was a wee~bit
confusing for this
ole brain!!!!

I thought for a moment those were camellias. They are so pretty and remind me so much of my Grandmothers camellias.

Here's the front bed I've been working on..
Between my house and my mom's.

Ok, here is my "best of show" as I call them. They are, like yours, common ditch lilies. Except mine did triple blooms this year!!! Talk about a pleasant surprise!!!

Gee...I'm still trying to figure out which picture to "submit" here.
I love that!!!!!

Great space Weezie. Great mix of colors!

So pretty Jenn. When they look that good it is hard to call them common!

How come sometimes those lilies do that "double" thing?
I always wondered about that.

Some years they are double, some years they are single...
...just like ME!

Those double lilies are soooooooo pretty...
Sheri has those types too!!!
Way cool!!!!
Mine have always been on layer...
But I like them still...

The camera I use is an Olympus D-580 Zoom. They cost about $300.00 and use 2 AA batteries. You get about 3-5 hours of constant picture taking off those batteries, but, I USE RAY-O-VAC 15 MINUTE RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES!!! Two batteries with the recharger cost about $20.00 but the batteries can be recharged 1000 times!!! I have had my camera and rechargeable batteries for 1 1/2 years now and take 20-40 pictures a day, every day, and haven't had to buy my second set of rechargeable batteries yet!It comes out to at least 100 pictures for a penny!! And the camera is small enough to be carried in a T-shirt pocket!

The one I've been using is a
KODAK EasyShare Z740....
I think it has something like a 10x Optical Zoom too, but not sure completely..
It's so cute, little, and very easy to work...

Thornius, I looked up your camera on Amazon and they have it on sale now. Maybe you don't want to know for how much.

Wow Weezie, that is one sweet camera! I'm wondering if I spent my money on the wrong one! It looks a lot like the one I bought (a Canon PowerShot S21S.) only it seems to have a bit more features I think, and it cost less than mine! *pout* Mine has a 12x optical zoom.. so maybe that 2x more zoom is why mine cost more than the kodak one?

The other camera I took most of my photos with this summer, was an HP 733. It was more like Thornius' camera, small, 3x & 4x zooms, pretty nice little camera. I had no reason for getting the canon, other than the fact I wanted even more close up capability.

Meg

I am really enjoying reading everyone's favorites, and am especially enjoying the great pictures!

I think my favorite this year is the gazanias that I planted around the bathtub pond. They aren't in flower too much right now, because I didn't deadhead them much while I've been in my funk, plus my daughter is away with the digital camera this week. Hopefully when she gets back, I'll be able to post a few pictures.

Thornius ~
THOSE BATTERIES AND RECHARGER ARE THE BEST!!!
Did you get the car charger for the unit? Last year, when I purchased the recharger (the 4 battery unit) they had a mail-in for a free car charger - makes traveling with the batteries and camera a dream!

I am too, I just love to see gardens look
and for ideas!!!!

l love to see and pets in the garden here are my best performers this year. My wind Anemonies also my Fatsia looking so healthy, Mitzy loves the Fatsia.
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