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TK - thanks so much for continuing this thread!!! I have been sneaking peaks at all the wonderful pictures in all of your gardens and loving it! Just haven't had much time to comment or post more pics this week what with school ending for my daughter and finals, and state testing, etc and all the running around driving her here and there...
not the best picture, but "In the Pink" today:
on the left is Mexican evening primrose - VERY INVASIVE!!! Thought I had pulled it all out last summer after I planted a few stems from my cousin's garden - it had sent out runners and was coming up all over that garden - even in the grass around it - no chance that I got it all! on the right is Cheddar Pink Dianthus - one beautiful flush of blooms, and then maybe a flower here or there for the rest of the summer - oh, well...
keep posting those terrific pictures everyone!
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I saw my first bud for the dianthus today while I was wondering around the garden. My package shows a somewhat different bloom so I'm waiting to see what comes up. The ones on my package are very lacy. "Rainbow Loveliness" does that ring a bell with you perchance? Well I'll know when they bloom lol.
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TK - I have not heard of "Rainbow Loveliness" but it sounds gorgeous! There are many many different kinds of dianthus. The cheddar pinks are perennials here. The other types are more annuals, though some of them do return for a few short years, but never as large as the pinks. They are all in the carnation family.
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That's good to know that they have a short life span. I killed most of them during the transplant. But I have a few left. Hopefully I will be able to save the seeds. So that I can have more next year.
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Wow, nice dianthus you got there! And I feel guilty admitting I love the mexican evening primrose, but as soon as I hear 'runner' I 'run' myself! I've got greenbriar all over that is impossible to get rid of, on a runner...and it makes my stomach churn thinking about adding something like it to the yard...though at least those are pretty!
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Alot of times, when you hear of bad plants and their runners... If you have very nice, soft, pliable dirt/soil... those bad plants aren't soooooo bad after all if you keep an eye on them..
With the softer more pliable dirt, they are wayyyyyyyy easier to pull out when they start to get out of hand...
How ever, if they get into the hardpan soil, it's then it's tough to get rid of them.... Just an FYI.. (**Well, it' also makes them bigger cause of the nicer soil too...so you got to watch them that way too!!!!***)
I absolutely LOVE your picture Lynne, very pretty together...
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hard pan. Are you talking about me Weezie? With the absolutely fantastic ideas you all came up with to whittle my garden expenses down to nothing, I am thinking about renting a tiller next year. That and some gypsum and that clay is a goner lol. And just watch me do some weeding then lol.
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G-Mom - what a great butterfly habitat you have created! And how can you say no flower pictures today? I see nice and sunny yellow flowers in all those shots - great job!
Meg - WHAT A GREEN THUMB YOU HAVE! I'm so jealous that none of your vegetation has holes in them - all my ornamental beans and a bunch of flower leaves look like swiss cheese now! I don't like to use chemicals, so I'm waiting it out for a bit...
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I LOVE PICTURES. Great butterfly shots G-mom. You all have revitalized me, so it's time to go strip somemore branches for my edging. I'll be back in, in a little bit. Wish me luck.
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Lynne, I didn't take closeups of my holes. They're there, really! But yea, so far, I'm mostly thrilled with my results! We'll see if any of this stuff actually grows veggies on them, that are edible even!
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TK, it's all looking great!!! Hey, how's that compost coming along? I'm waiting to see how it works out for you, before I decide to kill a trash can...
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It's working great. The stuff really shrinks fast. That load of grass clipping is about half the size it was and the newspaper is pretty much carbon. I've got to get some more in there.
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Thanks G-mom and Miss Jamie. I keep totting the water and crossing my fingers. You all keep me motivated or there would be some really bad days.
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I think that primrose is beautiful! Wish some would work their way in to my neck of the woods! I just orderes some online along with a dwarf daylily collection to plant along my side walk next year instead of the alyssum I have been putting in! Thought I would do a prennial since most of the front is done now! I hope my daylillies fill in the border quick next year! I will be planting them this fall! It was quite a pretty assortment!
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Thanks T! This is the yellow one - bout the best shot I could get. I dont know if it's the sun or what, but the pictures keep coming out and the roses are 'glowing' - like the 2 roses on the right side.
And finally a glad bloom Wahoo!
Hey, if you all get tired of my roses tell me ok? It's about the only thing I've got so yaknow, I'm thrilled when they bloom
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Look at that glad. wow!!!! I hope mine look something like that. If they do I will consider the wait worth while. I don't even have a stem yet. They aren't biennial are they?
Nice looking yellow rose. Texas A&M has put out a lesson plan for breeding roses if you want to learn more about getting seeds it tells you that too. I liked it, it was easy to understand. Those cutting directions were scary.
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Yellow roses are my favorite also!!! I planted a new rose bush this year (it is tiny) but look what I found this morning... and this is one of the crepe myrtles I planted last year...I planted 4 red dynamited this year...can't wait til the bloom! This is that 30 ft row of cannas I planted The stuff around the flag pole isn't doing so hot...I haven't been able to work on it all week Opps, this turned out a little dark...but I was trying (before I malfunctioned last week) to re-do the bed around the porch I will have to try to get a better shot..the pots on the porch are these... [IMG] http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/4ruddy/Garden/IMG00016.jpg[/IMG] I posted some garden goodies under the fruit & veggie thread...my blackberries are doing so good! Everything is looking a little more "undone" than I like because I couldn't get out last week...but...hopefully by the week-end I will be able to clean stuff up.
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oops...don't know what happened there..this is the last pic I TRIED to post...
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Hey T, you gotta link for that texas A&M article?
Dianna - what was your mom's name? I've successfully lost the names of all the roses we planted, so I'm going to rename them LOL I'll name it after her
Great pics Vanessa! Are those moss roses in the last pic? That table is my next project with some scrap wood I have...I need something outside to work on instead of leaning over and working in the wheel barrow!
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You need some of those freebie programs to run it I think but they give the links for those too so no problem. Wouldn't that be great. Breeding roses.
My outside work table is the top of the dumpster lol. Oh my that's funny. I think I'm losing it. I so want to get out there and finish the two beds I'm working on. I'm digging one lower and building one up higher. It got so hot out there the neighbor brought me out a pepsi. I don't have enough sense to come in when it gets too hot for me. So he comes out and distracts me long enough that I realize just how hot and shaky I am. Then I go inside. But I really want to be outside NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thanks for the link. I know exactly what you mean about not knowing when to say when and come in and sit down. I get the 'hint' when I start seeing spots and my head is buzzing. I wanna be outside now too - and I'm heading out! LOL!
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Mary...yes those are moss roses. I have 2 long containers that assorted colors but the coral, red & dark yellow are my favorites so I did the pots in solid colors. I have to have them because my mother (whose name was Helen also) always had the sidewalk to our house lined with moss roses..so they are a present reminder of her. That table is my FAVORITE place to work! It was here when we moved here, my bro-in-law (now deceased) made it and it is so heavy you can barely pick it up! Man is it nice having a place to work and not have to BEND OVER!!!! It has spoiled me!
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I love mixed moss roses. All the colors are terrific. I have a little tiny patch of them this year but you can better I'm going to make it bigger next year and the year after that and the year after that lol. I just think they are terrific. And they don't like mulch which means they save money, and they are drought tolerant and that saves my back. I couldn't ask for a better flower unless it was big enough to do floral arrangements with lol. BTW can you collect the seeds? And if so how please?
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Hhhmm.....mine are growing in mulch! And have bigger blooms than last year. All of my babies sprouted in mulch and I transplanted them like crazy. I have never heard that they don't like mulch before....
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I thought I read somewhere that they didn't like it. I'm probably wrong again. It happens a lot thanks for setting me straight on that one Vanessa. I have some of the moss roses that are a really pretty color but I don't know what to call it. Its sort of a dark hot pink? Is that the coral color? And I have two shades of yellow. The paler one seems to have more petals. Does that sound right?
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Coral is a darker "peach" or salmon color...in the orange family. I try to stay with the oranges, reds & gold/yellows. Purple is fine but a lot of the time purple turns out to be PINK...can't do pink...especially Pepto Mismal Pink! YUCK!!! But in the assorted flowers, you can't get away from the pinks...just gotta live with them!
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Oh...forgot what I was posting about to start with. I ran out & looked TK...I have 3 different shades of yellow ones. A real light lemon yellow, a pastel yellow and a deep gold. They all seem to be about the same size to me. I think the petal thing may just be an individual plant thing...not really assosiated with the color so much.
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I don't have a deep gold one yet but I'll be looking for one. There are still bunches that haven't bloomed yet. My light yellow one has a white edge when it is folded up for the night. But I can't see it when it is open. Needless to say the camera will not get a shot of something that small. Otherwise I'd take a picture. I love pictures. Just not very good with a camera.
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Wow Meg that's a heck of a bright pink!!! It's cute for your daughters room though....
My humungous 6 foot hollyhock is opening up--pretty shade of pinkish red.....My foxgloves just finished flowering, and my dianthus, ageratum, portulacas, cosmos, and tons of other plants are all growing well.....
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Anyone who likes primroses that can be so invasive should consider trench planting with 18 inch hard plastic walls buried. Or potting them up. Lots of plants, including mint, can run amok otherwise.
I had a very pleasant surprise today in my yard. I rolled out on my ramp to greet the morning and saw that my landlord had left a very handsome oval shaped planter on my picnic table that he had filled with pansies! It is lovely.
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Thought I had pulled it all out last summer after I planted a few stems from my cousin's garden - it had sent out runners and was coming up all over that garden - even in the grass around it - no chance that I got it all! ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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With the absolutely fantastic ideas you all came up with to whittle my garden expenses down to nothing, I am thinking about renting a tiller next year. That and some gypsum and that clay is a goner lol. And just watch me do some weeding then lol.
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Rock Rose Bloom closeup 
The bloom looks very delicate and starts to close around 6:00 pm
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