A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall Gardener's Chat Blooming Fine 2009 #5

look under the bed

this tiny cosmos is only about 2 inches high

Sheri - are those rudbeckias? The pictures are so pretty!

yes Lynne. I've got a yard full this year.

Beautiful

Some flowers in the rain today

ranunculus - these are actually much brighter yellow, but this is the best job my broken camera would do.


This is the "end of the driveway garden" in the rain.
Some centaurea montana on the left, gaillardia oranges and lemons in the back, and orange calendula in front. The calendula is MUCH brighter orange than it looks - not yellow like that at all.


I had accidentally dug up these gladiola bulbs early this spring and didn't have a garden to move them to. Carol suggested potting them up in a pot. They are doing very well so far, don't you think?

the ranunculus look like they're made of paper. They're so pretty. Great about the 12 pounds.

your flowers are beautiful, Lynne, simply beautiful!!!!
it makes me envious--- esp the oranges & lemons--mine are about 4 inches high, if they are in fact O & L---
remember they ended up blooming burgundy last fall.....

Thanks Sheri! I wish you could see the ranunculus in person - they are so vivid! I have them on my deck so I can see them everytime I am at the kitchen table, or looking out the back windows. I have read that they are a short lived flowering plant here, but there are a few more buds still so I hope they last at least a little while longer. And thanks about the pounds - it's not easy but I am determined to do this!!!

And thanks so much Carol! I hope your oranges and lemons bloom nicely for you this year - it's early still and I am glad your plants came back. As you know, mine did not and I had to buy all new ones this year.

bee on the lavendar




red hot poker

and here is my black snake. One of the front, one of the tail

oooooooooooooh Sheri - keep him down there, 'K?!?

I am envious of your red hot poker - I've tried growing it twice and it never survived.

it grows wild in our field Lynne. I didn't plant it.

Me too,, I even Bought one already started and it didn't make it!

Lynne your flowers are gorgeous

evidentially red hot poker likes poor soil, blazing sun all day, no watering or fertilizer because it is in our field. Nothing goes on in that field that nature doesn't provide.

okie dokie,, I'll give it another try In a place I can't get anything to grow

Zinnias....




1st Bloom on bleeding heart vine,, It was in a pot last year,, I thought maybe it had died. I started cutting back the old dead vines,, and cut into some green,, so i took it out of the pot and planted it in the back corner of the yard that gets enough shade under the crape myrtle,, it's now about a foot tall and starting to vine out again,, and bloom

loving the zinnias. Wonder if Cindy has planted zinnias again? Remember how she had such tall, thick ones in KY before? None even about to bloom here. Pretty bleeding heart.

These were blooming yesterday in the rain.

lilac


lantana


ornamental chives



YEP - I still like my pink flowers, even though I've moved on to brighter colors for the pond gardens!

That Pond Chive is beautiful--not that the ohters aren'y. I have never seen a multicolored lantana before---that is very nice as well.


if I had the ability and Rod would let me, I think the entire yard would be flower beds...

Carol - most of the lantana for sale around here is multi-colored. Not all in those colors, but most have around 3 colors to each flower head.

I know what you mean about an entire yard of flower beds - I would too, if we didn't have such hard dirt and boulders to dig through!!!

My hostas started blooming.

Now that I know that works, here's some foxglove pics I took today. I was trying out the macro on my camera.

awesome!

beautiful Cheryl simply beautiful.

Love Foxgloves Great Picture!! Cheryl. My hosta's are blooming too,

Carol all the latana's I've posted on here were multi colored I don't think I've seen a solid colored one, yet,

Lynne your ornamental chives looks like my Pink sea thrift is it the same thing with a different name??

All these flowers are so pretty!!

Diane, you have soooo many zinnias just since I was there!! Very colorful too!

Cheryl - that last picture is amazing!!!

Diane - I do not think they are the same - my ornamental chives are in the allium family, and it says online that the pink sea thrifts are in the Plumbaginaceae family?

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh Wow they sure look a lot alike,,

Thank you. I don't have as many different kinds of flowers as all of you but it's still fun to experiment with the camera and share.

it is funny how different areas have different flowers---around here all I have ever seen is the solid lantana----'funny'.

you did a good job with the camera, Cheryl.

another thing I like about your pictures is that I can see them at work!!!!

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good deal, Sheri

Gold Flame honeysuckle - the hummingbirds LOVE it!!!

That is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!! Yes I yelled Beautiful!!!!!!!!
I remember when you posted that either last year or the year before and have been looking for it to be posted again,, I LOVE that Honeysuckle!

Here is My first lily of this season,


and The coneflowers around the tree in the front yard grew extra tall this year,, They are usually only about 1/2 this height Wonder why that happened?? If you look close in the center of the closet bunch of cone flowers you can see buds,, that is usually their height of growth, I guesstimating these are close to 3 Ft tall.

Thanks Diane. I need to hack it back this year - after it blooms - it has gotten very leggy and out of hand. I had wanted it to grow up onto the deck railing, and now that is has, it looks very unruly.

That lily is very striking! I've never seen one with that kind of coloration before.

My coneflowers grew to about 4 feet last summer. I think the older they get, the taller they get too. I won't know about this year, since they have been eaten to the ground more than once now, and are only bare sticks about 6 inches tall now.

All of them or just the latest few? Curious about whether or not it's the image hosting site.

Lynne, I don't think I've ever seen honeysuckle before, it's really neat looking.

Diane, love the lilies. I need to get me some more lilies, they're kind of turning out to be my favorites.

I can see all your pictures Cheryl - it's the hosting site. I can see picturetail too, that's where I post. I can't see Diane's or Lynne's.

Diane, I'll have to post a picture of my solid yellow lantana. Mostly around here we have solid ones.

Diane that lily is BEAUTIFUL!!! I'll shout it too!! The colors and patterns are so pretty!!!