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Have your Tri~colored one's bloomed yet?
Yes, it does have the blue-ish tint to the blooms. No, the tri-colors are still babies. They won't bloom till next year-- at least I hope they'll bloom next year!!! The truth behind the tri-colors is; its just three different plants put in the same pot. Then when you set it out and it grows/blooms it looks like three different colors on the same plant...
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Meg I so enjoy your photos. You are a good photographer. Thanks for sharing.
My portulaca plants are blooming multi colored and the primroses have started blooming again?????? My marigolds are going nuts. I have some more lavender to plant.....I was gifted with 2 - 4 inch pots of it. I do like lavender. Now to decide where to put it. Such a pleasant dilemma.
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I love that yellow rose And the Bachelors Buttons are adorable!
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HI all love yalls photos. heres a photo of one of my daylilly beds just now in full bloom.i have a ornge canna lilly growing in the middel of the bed when the daylillys quit bloomin the canna lilly will start to bloom so i have blooms in the bed all summer. your friend in gardening.mike57
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awe, sorry to hear that g-mom. I'm afraid to try them again..lol.
Mike, I love that beautiful bed of daylilies. Mine are so small yet. *sigh* Of course, if they ever get big, they're gonna be too big for where they are..
g-mom, that bloom from the Brugmansia, is lovely. I really like how you went under it for the shot.
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My dianthus are white and little tiny ball shaped blooms. I think the wrong seeds got in that packet lol. Wal-mart strikes again. And they are covered in little black bugs. And I mean covered stem to stern so to speak.
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I really enjoy looking at everyones pictures, they're fantastic...I only had time to upload 2 pics--so here's my massive hollyhock, it's way taller than me.....LOL
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After the rain (we got some finally!!!) I've been having trouble taking pictures of this in sun, so decided to try after rain.
yellow loosestrife - not invasive at all like the purple, and the first year I actually got to see blooms in 5 years - the woodchucks usually eat them before they get a chance.
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That's a mighty pretty place to take a rest and enjoy the garden.
I'm sorry to hear your woodchucks are such hungry little fellows. But I'm glad they gave you a break this year so you could show off your pretty flowers.
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Thanks, TK! The arbor is supposed to have cardinal flower vine growing up the sides and top for my hummers, but for some reason, this year the plants have stalled in their growth and are not vining at all! These are from seeds that I saved from last year's store bought plants. They look healthy enough, but just are not growing.
Here are some of today's pretty faces:
These were supposed to be the same as the baby pink lilies I posted before?!? I got them the following year - both from Home Depot, both with the same label. I guess the fact that these are in full sun, and the others get mostly shade, makes the difference in intensity of color.
More cacti blooms - wish they would bloom all summer, they are soooooooo cheery. I will only get about another week of blooms.
p.s. did you know that the cacti blooms only last ONE day?!? Such a shame!
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The Cardinal vine is a red flower right? That would be super in that location.
I would definitely move them into the shade, the lillies that is. This from a person who didn't think she liked pink lol.
The seafood resturant down the block from me has the prickly pear (that is, what that is, isn't it?) has those in raised graveled beds all around their parking lot and outside dinning area. They have looked charming but are all closed up now so I guess it'll be next year before I see any more. I was supprised that they would survive in this area at all. We do get rain usually in down pours around here.
I don't have any additional blooms yet but I'm waiting and watching.
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Just wanted to share a few pics I took this morning in my garden.....Everything is starting to flower and really look nice.
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Here's a few more: Got this coleous vine for a dollar on clearance at the nursery, look how nice it's getting.
I also rescued 2 wandering jews from the dollar table in the nursery....I love them! It was the very first houseplant I bought years ago.
Babys breath coming up in a flowerbox that I just threw a pack of wildflower seeds in.......
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I think that's the fack coleus. It looks the same as mine. It's the first time I've had leaves that large on a coleus. I have a packet of babies breath I'm thinking of planting them next spring. That would be the right time right?
I love all your pictures. Those "frames" are so cute. It reminds me of the old pictures with the scalloped edges. I haven't seen those in years.
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Yep Tammy next spring would be the right time to plant them out...
I have a really cool photo editor that came with my computer that lets me make the edges like that.....
I love the hydrangeas....I have 5 alltogether....I have so many flowers that it seems impossible to show them all....by the end of summer though I might have gotten to most of them!
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Someday Loz, someday I want to be able to say that too. But today I have 16 things planted out in the garden several that don't bloom on purpose lol. Next year I hope to be able to double that and do the final two tiers of the garden. Then it will be enjoying and weeding and watering. And replanting areas that don't re seed. At least that seems to be the way it works. That falls under the heading, "Life happens while we're busy making other plans" category. lol
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Oh yeah - I forgot - I have a couple of wandering jews going too. I've already hung it and it's doing well. I'm looking forward to its growth, and having a 'cascade'.
We did a couple of sprigs last year and it did well. It didn't seem to like being here in the apartment though.
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Thornius the Balsam's are they the same as Balsam Apples? My mother had a vine ovwer west side of house which is now the wash room made a red apple like fruit she called it Balsam apple. Have not seen one in at least 40 yrs. I was just a kid at the Bosque Redondo at that time this is first time I have seen or heard of anything close to it since.
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No this is neither the apple or the tree I think Balsams(Touch-me-nots) are in the Impatiens family, but I'm not sure. They make colorful blooms each plant having separate colors from the others. They also cross-polinate to form new colors. The fun things about these flowers is once they lose their petals, just a seed pod is left. Once the seed pod ripens, the slightest touch will cause the seed pod to burst with a loud snap hurling the 20 or so seeds inside it up to 10 feet away (hence, the name, Touch-me-not) where they quickly germinate, grow to maturity and start the process all over again. Once you get a small bed started you soon have acres of them. They have always been a favorite of mine. You can buy the seeds, 4 packs for a dollar, at Walmart. Just look for the name Balsam on the front of the packs.
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Hey Loz...do have any pics of your portulacas?
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I sure do Vanessa, they are so pretty....I just took the pictures today and haven't had a chance to upload them to imagestation yet.....I'll try to get to that tomorrow so I can post them in here....I have the sundial mix with all different colors.....I think I bought about 10, 6 packs of them when I went to the nursery....so I have them all over the place....
Thornius, touch me nots are in the impatiens family.....it's funny you mention them because my neighbor just dug some up and gave them to me and they are really healthy and coming along nicely.....she warned me how much the spread...LOL Don't you just love gardener neighbors that share their plants with you?????
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except for the neighbors who's elephant ears come under your fence uninvited and pop up in the middle of your GARDEN!!!
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LOL, that's not a good type of sharing of plants...... My neighbor is a nice older lady in her 70's, but she's extremely active.....and lately she's been loading me up with free plants...I just love it!
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Karrie...I bought my Mexican Petunias at Wal-Mart last year...but they don't look like G~Mom's. Mine have pointed petals. The tag an all of them said Mexican Petunia...now I am wondering what I REALLY have! G~Mom...did you see the pic of mine I posted when they were blooming...is it a different kind or what????????
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Here are some Portulacas Vanessa.....I think they look so cute in my little umbrella planter....and the last pic is of my fav. flower--cosmos!
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That planter is adorable. I don't think pretty planters would last in my garden a day or should I say a night lol. Which is probably a good thing. I'm already broke lol. Beautiful pictures again loz.
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Okay...this may be a REAL stupid question, but is that not the same as what we call the rose moss?
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I love that planter so much...I got it from ABC distributing from their clearance section for 4.95 or something like that.....I got my mom one too and she accidentally threw the umbrella stick part away....LOL
Just noticed that I have a stray petunia starting up in the second picture.....didn't even realize that when I took the picture...
Everytime I put out a nice planter, or statue, or even my solar lights I'm scared that I'll wake up one morning and find some of them missing...the teenagers around here are horrible for taking stuff from peoples yards....
BTW, I LOVE sharing pics with you all....
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Yep--moss rose actually is what they call it too.....they are one in the same.....and it's not a stupid question...I've always called them portulacas and didn't even know they were called moss rose until I read it in my book.
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Whew...thanks for clearing that up for me Loz...I thought I was missing something...well, I AM missing something but that is another story altogether! I have moss rose EVERYWHERE!!! I didn't realize how much it spreads and goes crazy. Last year the whiteflies got everything and they ate the moss rose up...so, I just thought it was a goner. But...this spring...it came up everywhere...in every pot, in every bed...all over! I guess the seed gets carried in the wind or something....but, they are pretty and I love them so that's okay!
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LOL--I know what you mean Vanessa...I have them coming up ALL over the place too....in all the pots and beds...heck if I would've known they'd spread so much I wouldn't have bought so many this year.....Last year they didn't get everywhere like they did this year.
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Well here it is the long awaited bloom of the cannas. Next time I'm going to take a picture of the stop sign and maybe I'll get a picture of the cannas.
Oh well I keep plugging away. Hope when the glads bloom I get a better shot.
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all love yalls photos. heres a photo of one of my daylilly beds just now in full bloom.i have a ornge canna lilly growing in the middel of the bed when the daylillys quit bloomin the canna lilly will start to bloom so i have blooms in the bed all summer.
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My neighbor is a nice older lady in her 70's, but she's extremely active.....and lately she's been loading me up with free plants...I just love it!
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