A Gardeners Forum Forums Members History Forum Life 2005 What's Blooming Today Pt II

Bestofour I have it in full sun. I got this in a plant swap in feb. in Ft. Worth was told it liked sun and little water. so I have in in full sun next to my Hydranea's (which I am glad I didn't post the photo's) as yours are so much prettier. This little rose has maybe 8 buds on it. Been holding my breath waiting to see the bloom as I had never seen a Brazilian Rock rose before. There sure are a lot of pretty plants being posted.

Some will remember the three dry sticks I was given in Feb. I had in mystery plant you said was Hydrangea here are the blooms notice they are not same color as posted above.
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is the color mix common on this plant? I use coffee grounds and egg shells as well as I pour my dog water with vinegar on them.

Everybodies plants are sooooo PRETTY

And,TK,you can collect the seeds from moss rose After the blooms fade it will get a little black ball. You can remove the ball and put it in a paper bag to dry,when dry pop them open. I recommend doing it over a sheet of white paper as they are TINY!

G-Mom

JV,they are beautiful! I love the shading

G-Mom

yep, pretty flowers everywhere you look. I love this string. Thankyou for the seed collecting information G-mom I'm going to try it. I may have to start making my own paper bags as well as seed packets lol. I have a couple of those huge handled paper bags but that is all. Now I am getting way to many flowers that I want to harvest from to handle lol. It's all good. Have a great day everyone.

JV, as I understand it, your hydrangea can be different colors, depending on how acidic or alkaline your soil is. It can be blue, or pink.. but I think I read that blue is harder to get because it usually takes more adjustment to the soil than can be maintained.. or something like that. I have a headache, so I may be imagining I read that somewhere..lol.

Meg

Here is my Strawberry bed.


I have Canna's planted behind the birdbath and Dill planted on both sides.

That dill plant look really cool. I like it. I like your arbor too. I never would have thought to do that.

I was wondering what I was going to do with my strawberry plant this morning after I finished watering the garden! I still have it in the hanging basket that it came in.

Thanks, Amigatec, for the idea. I will use some of our extra brick from the foundation and create me a strawberry patch!

Dianna

That's what we are doing for my moms' stuff

Take those blocks and put in nice dirt in the
planting area..
Then putting regular dirt in the holes and putting
in stuff that like it hot and dry, like Hens~n~Chicks!!!!

Finished one already, and workin' on one this week, she's getting the blocks this afternoon..

Great pictures Cricket. Have you been taking lessons from Bill. Those are really nice.

that is so beautiful.

JV, the color of the hydrangea has all to do with the soil acidity. I tried to turn mine pink year before last but it didn't work. Someone told me that because of the million oak trees I have that my soil is too acidic.

I think mine blooms on last years wood when should it be pruned?

Amigatic, I have dill coming up too. What do you do with yours?

this basket has a nest in it

Ok, what do I have to do to get my hosta like that? Mine are still little 6 leaf affairs. Do I need a different type of fertilizer something special for the hosta?

I should show you my "bean bag chair" hosta. Its huge. These are ancient. I have quite a few little 6 leaf ones. I don't do anything to these....just put egg shells around them to keep the slugs off of them.

I can't wait till mine get like that! I just split one this year, so I have 4 little lanky ones, plus the 4 babies I bought.

What's that in the hanging basket? And the purple one with the butterfly on it?

Here are my gems for the day. Well, from yesterday actually.

Of course, another rose pic.

and a red glad

I really need to do some major 'cleanup' in this bed. Next year I'll have these spaced out a lot more...assuming I can find all the corms! I can't believe how many there are!

The hanging baskets are petunias. The purple with the butterfly on it is a butterfly bush. Its pretty large...and i trimmed it pretty harshly in the early spring.

I am REALLY enjoying everyone's pictures here! Such wonderful colors, and butterflies to boot! Jenn - I can't believe your butterfly bush is in full bloom already - mine don't even have buds on them yet, and I think we're in the same zone?

It's so great to see the different choices of plants that we each have. Makes for the great personalities gathered here.

Here are a few things blooming im my gardens today.

First, my yucca flowers are beginning to open - first time for me - they are sooooooo pretty!


Next is a birdhouse gourd flower. Didn't expect it to be white, or so big. Only thing is, after the flowers wither, I don't see any kind of gourd starting to form - am I missing something?



And last, but not least, a different perspective of my petunias - hanging upside down, with a hummer feeder on the pole.


I was walking beneath my 2nd story deck and looked up, and this is what I saw. Different, huh?

I was just saying today we need some purple flowers. I don't think we have any at all. Would you recommend using the butterfly bush(es) for a hedge along a sidewalk? I've been contemplating that one. We need something to keep the neighborhood dogs out of the yard, but didn't want to put up a fence. Figured bushes would deter them good enough. Whaddya think?

Might be something to think about. I don't know if you can keep them trimmed to an actual shape...and you need to trim them for winter b/c if your limbs get too long they will snap with a heavy snow fall. Mine isn't quite in full bloom. Today was the first day I noticed open flowers on it. I'll take a picture tomorrow of how large the bush is in the yard.

Thanks Jenn, I'm looking forward to the pic. It's always hard for me to find a full grown plant pic when I'm reasearching. All the catalogues show are closeups which doesn't really help in planning. I thought about lining the sidewalk with them, if the branches grew into each other it would be ok - preferred, even. What zone are you in? Also trying to coordinate bloom times. Thanks!

Everytime I look at this thread,
the pictures and flowers are getting
prettier and prettier!!!

Thank~You everyone...

It is sooooooooooo much fun to see what all
is going on in your gardens..

(and I got no camera waaaaaaaaaaaa )

Do you want me to send you the community camera Weezie?