A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall Gardener's Chat Blue Flowers of 2009

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Diane here is mine......about 7 years ago..Lady in Houston sent it an she called it TEXAS BLUE BONNET??????

nOW THAT SHE MENTIONS IT.. OUR LUPINES LOOK LIKE YOURS .. BUT I WANT THAT PLANT ..LOVE IT .
YOUR PAL .DODGE

did you take that picture dodge?

Diane, did you start from seed or plant?

Yes i did take the photo years ago.


I think the lady sent me the Plant from texas.
Cause I didnt know how to do seeds at that time.. She taught me how to do seeds, her and Arkansas lady.

It was taken with my older cameras, not canon.

However I use my canon to take a photo of the photoo>lol
It is in my plant room..With my tag posters.

b

I've never seen the plants for sale but I've seen seeds. I'm going to try and find the plant. Does it spread a lot?

Up here it didnt but in your climate it probably will..

PS......
My mistake .. I didnt take that photo with my old camera.
I layed the blossom right on my Scanner and scanned it in the dark..

LOL

I love the scanners for tricks in the trades.........

It is 37º today an snow flurries all day.
I have seeds I ordered for texas blue bonnet..

Want some?

Diane do you want some seeds of my type of texas blue bonnets?

Barb

Sure, I'll take some seeds.

that's a great picture however you did it.

Those are so nice.

ok..

Dodge that is the same as I have,, Exactly,, Sometimes they will hand down when they reach for the light that get taller and then they are top heavy so they lean,, BUT YEP same plant!

Sheri I started with a 4 inch bought plant,, and it self seeds heavily! so now a have a whole area full!

Diane ,

THen dont send it .........I thought it was different..
b

My Lowe's does not have them and don't generally care them. Interesting I thought. Maybe they don't do well in my area.

They should Do excellent in your area Sheri,, We pretty much have the same type of weather,,

I'll look at Home Depot or a nursery tomorrow. Our Lowe's sucks.

First time I've had a look at this thread. I love your blue flowers, angelblossom. Is the pericallis a kind of daisy? (Please forgive my ignorance). My daughters have a little garden bed, and one of the plants still has some blue flowers; I might get some photos and post them here.

Please do ....We are flower lovers here.

I didn't find any Texas Blue Bonnet plants anywhere. The places here say they haven't ever carried the actual plant.

Your seeds went out today.......I think that they plant them in the fall in your area..
Ask Diane.

b

I had forgotten you were sending them. I've been looking everywhere for seeds or plants.

Yes the fall! they need to get cold!

$7000. will make folks forget lots of things.. Even seeds>LOL
I put them in the mail today.......by friday they should be there.

b

See she knows ..LOL

beats me how I did them before?

b

phooey. Then I won't have them growing this year.

Diane , they only bloom in the spring an quit?
What do they do the rest of the year? Get laid off?

Ask sheri.

b

good ? dodge. Wonder if they die back or stay green.

I arent sure???????
Maybe it quit , cause all i have is a photo now.

b

Here is a little plant in my Daughters' garden bed called 'Forest Blue'



Another shot with more background. The vine behind grows purple trumpet-shaped flowers. The little plant to the right of it grows purple flowers late winter until summer.



And I'm cheating here by throwing in a yellow one. I took this in Perth last month while visiting my parents. Please don't ask me what it is, because I have no clue!

Forest Blue is gorgous.....So is the rest of the layout..

Now the Yellow one......Perhaps it is the GOLDEN CHAIN TREE.....They are gorgous and i cant start one..

Thanks, dodge. I put that little section in the garden for our girls, to get them interested in gardening. The Forest Blue is apparently a native of China. There are a few other plants in there and other beds that belong to the girls. Our 5-year-old in particular often asks for a plant if we are at the nursery or hardware store. Of course, I get to do most of the maintenance!

You may be right about the identity of the golden tree. Perth has very sandy soil- is your soil well-drained? It could be these trees love well-drained soil. I noticed that with frangipanis; there are many growing in Perth, but not many here, as we have clay. My frangipani is in a large pot, so it can be well-drained and be brought inside in winter.

very beautiful.

Stevie - that blue flower looks so familiar to me - could it be in the plumbago family?

And I think Dodge is probably right about the yellow flowering tree being a golden chain tree. I think we had a thread about that a couple of summers ago, because I remember seeing one at a nursery in Connecticut shortly afterwards, when we went to visit my cousin up there.

Wish I had both of those ..
I am trying hard to germinate golden chain tree seeds......No results yet.

I love blue flowers...........
Rare breeds here.

Plants 'n pots & dodge- the latin name for the Forest Blue plant is Ceratostigma Willmottianum if that's any help (it's no help to me). I don't know much about plumbagos- arent they those things you drive around in when you retire? This is a fairly new bush in our garden; just had its first summer, and nearly finished flowering. Once it finishes, I will prune it a bit, and expect big things next summer!

plumbago

I ride around in a 4wheel 450 Bombadier in my retirement......
It isnt spelled Plumbago..

Thanks Stevie! And yes - I'm good!!! It IS Chinese Plumbago!

And you 2 remind me of my husband - whenever he sees a Winnebago, he calls it a Win-a-bagel!

then you must like us ???????

4wheel,plumago, win a bagel...............

I'm impressed that you picked it! My plant knowledge is very limited. I just buy things I like and plant them!

About male humour, it becomes more corny once we have kids, or so I'm told by my younger work colleagues. Whenever I tell some kind of joke, they tell me that's a 'Dad' joke!

You are so lucky. I should have been a farmer. But then, it hasn't rained for 11 years, so it may have been a bad career move.

Should of , could of, would of.

NOt without rain..........
Not luck the got me here.........Hubbys work at at Steel Mill did it all.
I stayed home and tended cows..
Not luck........

I was cleaning up some flower beds today - much earlier in the year than ever before, but it was in the 50's and not raining as they said it would be - and I uncovered some scilla in bloom under all the leaves - I always love the sweet blue of these tiny plants, and they are very welcome as a first flower of the year.



Most of these have not opened yet, but they are still a very welcomed sight!