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I was thinking it was, tamara.


Dodge, below is the curly hosta that you sent me a few years back.


below is my June Hosta



here is my Patriot Hosta

Lovely..Patriot has the green center and white edges...I have them also.

Thanks tamara--all fixed now.
but did ya notice that something is eating the patriot hosta?
Val's "boy" says it is slugs but I have seen no evidence of them??

Yup, it'll be slugs..you can buy slug traps at the dollar store.

Also some people lay a roll of copper around the rim of their plant, slugs won't cross copper

thanks about the traps--DH has copper,- not that he will let me have any......

well you don't ask..you just help yourself.

it appears that you DO NOT know my husbamd do ya????

I'd really love to meet this man..but then I'm not sure he'd like to meet me

if you met him which is a lovely idea, he would be funny, charming & would say not one thing wrong. you would l;ike him I am sure. but to me, he says what he wants & when, ya know??/

but honestly if I gave him a good reason of why I wanted the copper, he would likley give it to me, but me just take & use it, not a good idea.

Sure looks like cleome to me. I dug up some babies that sprouted this year on the walk to my driveway - odd thing is I haven't had plants near there for at least 2 summers now - those seeds kept for that long - wow! I potted them up for my deck - haven't grown them in a pot yet. The first 2 days they wilted, but now they are looking nice and firm and upright! Go CLEOME!

Carol - your second hosta - June Hosta is GORGEOUS!
Very nice pictures!

Yes, that is cleome. It's so pretty.


Pretty hosta JunieGirl.

I too love teh cleome. one day I am sure---I will plantt some

lynne thanks for the complement---

Look Everyone !!!..... I took this picture the other day, & forgot to post it.
This is a purple coneflower that I have kept going since my 30 yr old DD was 15. I even made sure I had starts when we moved. :wink:

She brought starts home from a nursery that she was working at---saved them from the compost pile.

I was so afraid that they had died out last year, but nope--they were just slow to come back. I will be sure to save seed from this bunch in the fall, for in case they do die out in the future.

So very pretty and what longevity!

Pretty Carol..too funny though you are trying to save yours and I dig out mine by the handfuls..

WOW,, that must NOT be a hybird for it's life to be soooo long,! I'm Very happy for you Carol
My Texas Star Hibiscus had greeted me again this summer

Wowee.

Beautiful, Diane--just beautiful !!!

Here's whats blooming here...
Lupines


Daylilies


Pincushions

Bees Jubilee Clematis

Beautiful, Tamara.

very pretty Tamara. All of them.
I especially love lupines, but they do not wish to grow here.

I loved looking at yours, so thanks.

Thanks gals..

You know so far I can only over winter purple lupines

purple is pretty.................

here is my Hosta "blooming fine"........ignore the slug holes, please.....

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here is the first bloom this year for my gaillardia from years past: It is teh one that was yellow-goblin-turned burgundy--turned this. Or was it the other way around???
(now I hope some of the ones still in buds are my oranges & lemons)

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This is a photo of what "was" some purple and white coneflowers that lynne sent me--well some are purple but then these seem to be a " light pink"--so I am assuming that my white starts got cross polinated with the purple??????
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Lovely as always..



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