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Thought it would be fun to share what's blooming in our gardens today. Here are a few of mine from yesterday. Please chime in and share your pretties?
One lonely, but magnificent iris down by the rock wall:
a 2 year old clematis - unknown cultivar as I bought it on close-out at the grocery store:
free rhododendron from a plant swap in Connecticut - the nursery where the swap took place donated this plant:
I don't want to clog up your service loaders so I'll post a few more in a follow-up post.
Now get out there and take pictures! (puhleeze?)
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A few more lovelies to share with you this morning:
Suncatcher Coral Prism petunia - this is so new that nothing comes up on a google search. Wish I had gotten more when I picke this one up, but it wasn't in bloom yet and you never can tell how true a tag picture is...:
from my blue garden - centaurea montana:
and a volunteer baby Japanese maple - found it under a butterfly bush and potted it up:
Who's next?
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plants 'n pots Those are beautiful the unknown cultivar you bought at store is very pretty wish I had one.I will try to post two of mine Hope they come through. Jimmy
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Those are nice rose of sharons! My 2 are just starting to leaf out here and won't bloom until about the 3rd week in August. I also have a white one - planted it in the memorial garden for our cat, Cookie - she was white and black, so I planted a mostly white garden for her.
My father calls these nuisance plants - now I know why. I'm forever pulling out seedlings in the grass - the mower just clips them, but they keep going and going... like the energizer bunny!
Do you find that in Texas also?
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wow those are looking excellent!! I don't really have much right now but do have a rose bush (my first one!!) getting ready to bloom it's first rose! it was a little one and still is pretty small and didn't even have leaves and now it's full of leaves and buds!! even though a stupid dog had to pee on it :-( hopefully all this rain will wash it off. can't get pics of it right now but will try to in the next day or so :-) I also got some irises somebody sent me from another great gardening site (of course not greater than this one!! lol) but they are just leaves right now. :-)
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Great plants, Fernie! How great that your tomato has blooms on it already! My cherry tomatoes reseed in the garden every year - in the 11 years we have lived in this house, I've only had to re-purchase them once, can you believe that?!? But... it does take a while for the seedlings to appear, so I am a bit behind than if I were to by a sizable plant at the store. I really don't mind - we usually have a great amount of the little tomatoes just about when everything else is winding down.
My icicle pansies also reseeded themselves this year. They were another great purchase - got them on sale (2 inch pots for 11 cents each) at Lowes the first year they were open - they overbought and had way too many left - of course the next year they had NONE! I let them go to seed when the weather got too hot for them, and then in the fall I moved the plants around to where I wanted them to grow in the spring - love them!
MissJamie - so glad you can grow roses, and that they have buds on them! I tried to grow them a few times here, but the deer eat them down to the quick everytime - thorns and all!!! I gave my last 2, which were hanging on by a thread to my father - he doesn't have any critters who eat plants there - one of the bushes is growing very nicely but the other did not make it. Can't wait to see your pictures!
Who's next with pictures? Love to see them!
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hey lynne! yea I'm glad I can grow them too...I didn't even have to do anything to them and they grew! I just had to water them every now and then I didn't even feed them!! lol. I read somewhere I think weezie was talking about it here that putting tomato cages with the points up around your rose bushes might help keep the deer off the rose bushes. we have deer up here and they can come on and try to eat my plants if they want to cuz we have a whole living room full of guns and it'd help my dad because he wouldn't have to go out hunting to find them....they'd be in his own front yard!! and plus we'd have a whole freezer full of yummmmmmyyyyy deer meat!! lol
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Ok, so it's not flowers.. but this is the view from my deck, of my back/side yard..
It's raining now, so my camera's not taking the best photos for me. Or, it's the photographer who can't handle the camera steadily enough..lol. Either way, I'll take other yard photos later.
Very pretty! Love your pond - and meant to comment on how cute your froggies are in the other post. I didn't know that honeysuckle also grows in a bush style? I have goldflame which is a vine growing up one of the support beams of my 2nd story deck. Dontcha just LOVE the smell?!? Do you pull out the stamens and suck on them? I had never heard of that before, but my husband said he always did that as a kid, and showed our daughter how to do it.
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Just was given four purple Rose of Sharon will only post one as they all look alike also was given the following Katie Ewe Aralia the names are what I was told they were. Eating tomato's and peppers. Sure good to be back online. Jimmy
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Ummmmmm, G-mom would you adopt me so I can come live at your house. Promise to spend all my time in the garden.
That's an oasis. A veritable garden of eden. In another words I LOVE IT!!!!!
Would you mind comming to Virginia and working some of that magic up here?
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I've been eating radishes out of my garden this week. This is the first time I've planted radishes. They're so easy to grow, and mature fast. It's fun.
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I LUV your Pansies,Meg They are just as cute as the pumpkins
Oooooh,JV...I am so jealous. I adore Rose of Sharon!
quote:Do you pull out the stamens and suck on them?
WE sure do!!! God's purest nectar
quote: didn't know that honeysuckle also grows in a bush style
Me either. When I saw it at the nursery and found out what it was you can bet your "sweet bippy" that I grabbed one real quick!
quote:Would you mind comming to Virginia and working some of that magic up here
Man...I would LOVE to travel around building gardens Wouldn't THAT be the perfect job!
I had a wonderful suprise when I woke this A.M. My "heart-shaped" bulb garden EXPLODED in blooms! These are the "Rain Lillies",not the one I posted in "Mystery Plants" Looky,Looky...
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That is so fantastic. I loved it when it was just the green. Now of course you are leaving me without words.
That would be the perfect job for you. You would spread beauty and loving friendship everywhere you went.
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Meg ~ your pumpkins are looking WONDERFUL this year! Great pictures of really nice plants! Your hosta looks sooooo healthy, and is doing exactly what it should. Even with the deer munching on mine each year, I cut them back by 1/2 and gave the other 1/2 to my dad - he lined his entire backyard with the pieces! And mine have grown so big again after just having divided them - you can't even tell that I took any away. Next time I'll have to cut back more!
G-mom - that is SUCH A PRETTY LILY! Do you know the latin name for it? How long will it bloom for you?
Here's another flower that's blooming for me today - just one lonely flower on the bush - but boy is it delish!!! The smell is out of this world! It's a french lilac.
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How pretty G~Mom....you are making me want a pond really bad! I just have so many projects started right now...I have to get some of them done before I tackle anything else...and I wouldn't have a clue as to where to start with a pond!
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Lynne, I cut that hosta in half, well sorta half, last year. It was more like 1/3,and 2/3..lol. One plant is smaller, but still growing nice, with a tall flower stalk. The big one has multiple tall stalks, and is filling out, and up! I was so afraid I was going to kill it by cutting it in half.. but it lived! I know I was told they are hardy.. but I have generally been disasterous with plants/flowers.
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Wow, you go Meg. Heavens your going to have your entire yard landscaped by this summer lol.
Me i'm still plodding along like the "old grey mare" one square foot at a time lol. Only thing that is blooming here are the snapdragons and they just don't give up. I really like them. And I'm glad they like the clay.
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TK, alot of these were planted last year, between Mother's Day & Autumn. But the mini roses were new, the wildflower (alyssum) was a can of seeds given to me for my birthday, and the 2 cletmatis & peony of course I got a couple weeks ago, as well as 2 new columbines.
I wish I had more yard.. just so I could plant more stuff! LOL.
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Two of the zinnia had buds on them. One a can just barely see the center of. Looks like it is going to be bright red. I can't wait to see it. I've never grown them before so I am looking forward to it.
The moss roses are getting bigger but still no buds. I am impatient to see them flower they are so pretty.
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Oy, you're not gonna believe this.. but I just bought more plants at Southern States. I got marigolds to put in with my veggies. I read it's good for confusing the bugs..lol.
There were 21 plants.. I put them out, while it was thundering away..lol. I finished the last one, stood up, and saw a big flash of lightening! I went in pretty quick then..lol.
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Am I too late to jump in on this thread? We just got back from being away a few days, and was 'Surprised' by these (what I think are) Surprise Lilies! Looks like one of my yuccas sent up a shoot - not sure about the others - these guys need to be thinned out!
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Mary
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Love the lilies but I think I would be putting up a sound barrier between me and that school lol. But then I'm home all day. And have the greyhound busses comming and going from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., and school busses, and public transportation lol.
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Mary - it's never too late to post on this thread. I'm hoping it's like the energizer bunny and keeps going and going and going... Great pictures of really nice lilies too!
I was shocked and thrilled to see that my 2 year old yucca has also sent up a flower spike. I bought it with a cousin up in Connecticut 2 summers ago, and her 2 bloomed for her last summer, while my 1 did not. Here's a picture of mine from earlier today.
Almost looks like a pale flamingo got caught in there!
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LOL T, it's actually a reeeeeeally small school district, and probably less than 100 kids go to the school. Besides, they kind of keep me on task -- oh, they're at lunch? Oh, they're going home? Kind of my environmental clock LOL!
Wow Lynne, gorgeous yucca. Mine are ugly LOL! I thought about sending mine far, far away, but then read that they will multiply like crazy, just from even moving them, so fageddaboudit! They'll stay, but I plan on moving the lilies. They're kind of tucked away on the far side of the yard, and I thought they might make a great accent to the wild rose we have growing that's now completely dead (leaves and all! Strange?) but bloom before the lilies send up their stalks. Hmmm. ANYway, I never saw a yucca with leaves like that, gorgeous!
I'll be back, as soon as I get something else blooming!
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I saw a bud on the moss rose today so you know I'll be out there shortly after sunrise to see if it blooms tomorrow. I am so childish about this garden project. lol. Maybe I've started my second childhood a little early hummmmmmmm?
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Well the zinnia stem has bent so maybe tomorrow? The moss rose bud is still there and still a bud. I know they aren't suppose to like a lot of fertilizer but it is so tempting when I get impatient lol.
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OK...just 3 more and I promise I'll stop(well at least for today,LOL)
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Wow, G-Mom I love your pics! Don't stop posting them!! Can you tell me (this has been driving me crazy lately) what the flowers are in the 2nd picture, 3 posts up? I think they might be daylilies - but yaknow, i don't know. I see them everywhere here and they're gorgeous (though I haven't seen them in white) but I dont know what they are! Is it just my imagination, or are they growing in a heart shape?
I'm so jealous of your aloe growing outside!!! And your pond!!! and...and...and...LOL!
Mary
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quote: I'm so jealous of your aloe growing outside!!!
ME TOO! ME TOO!!! It looks sooooooo healthy!
Your gardens are so clean and neat G-mom! Bet your house is too - LOL!!! The more I see the pics of your rain lilies, the more I want some. Did you ever find out the latin name for them?
Please, sir... I'd like some more... pics that is!
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G-mom, your photos are just lovely. That aloe looks cool!! I've never seen one flower before. And I thought those other flowers were in a circle, but now that it was mentioned, I went back & looked again, and yea, they do look like they are in a heart shape! You are so imaginitive!! I love all your photos.. and the storm cloud looks awesome!
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Yep...it's a heart shape. I had a gazillion mini bulbs and tossed them all together in a heart shaped hole. Turns out there are 3 different types of bulbs.
quote: Your gardens are so clean and neat G-mom! Bet your house is too - LOL!!!
quote:the latin name for them?
Zephyranthus
I love out-of-the-ordinary stuff...I have Willys peeking out of hanging plants,a ceramic pig laying on the edge of my green bean bed(smiling of course),froggies and turtles hiding in different beds and I just put a mirror(one of those that you put on a bedroom door)on the lattice in one corner of my yard,it reflects back the pond and all of the plants and makes it look like a private path to another garden
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A few flowers from my gardens today in the blasting hot sun! It's hard to take good pictures in the heat and humidity with this cheapo camera, but these were the best I could do.
honeysuckle - lonicera heckrotti goldflame growing up the support beam of our deck
some verbena that needs to fill out some
some gazania that also needs to fill out some, but looks mighty nice by the bathtub pond
who's next?
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I gave my last 2, which were hanging on by a thread to my father - he doesn't have any critters who eat plants there - one of the bushes is growing very nicely but the other did not make it. Can't wait to see your pictures!
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Great pictures of really nice plants! Your hosta looks sooooo healthy, and is doing exactly what it should. Even with the deer munching on mine each year, I cut them back by 1/2 and gave the other 1/2 to my dad - he lined his entire backyard with the pieces! And mine have grown so big again after just having divided them - you can't even tell that I took any away. Next time I'll have to cut back more!
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