A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall Gardener's Chat Bloomin' Fine ***7****

very pretty njoynit, wrennie!
i have seashell cosmos bloomin, ill post a pic later,
heres my hosta in bloom.

i have a huge one budin up now, ill post a pic later

My allium are in full bloom. My rudbeckia plants are enormous! They are probably going to get split this fall. They are kind of crowding my knockout roses and shading my purple salvia a bit too much.

I've been enjoying all your flowers, now finally I can post a few of mine.

Here are my stargazer lilies, the ones whose color was off at the start, now they more beautiful then I thought they'd be.


This is the rose bush I got for Mother's day. I hope to keep it going over winter in that container.


This is a flowering cabbage. Something new I tried this year.


One of our little kittens, which we named Zoe.

ooooooo iheart i love your alliums in with your rudabbeckia! colors look good togetherhu? i have the drumstick alliums in with calendulas, makes the alliums stand out.


rose your sooo lucky, i havent got blooms on the staregazers yet, thats my daughters fav flower the pink starcazer!!yours is very pretty!
love your roses too
that cabage is neat! cant wait to see the flowers on it lol looks like zoe is keepin gard, what a cutie!

Very pretty gals. My stargazers are only making their bulbs yet.

That lily is so showy! Love the rose, beautiful red.

I am so excited, I am pretty sure we are getting rain today, it's so dark, they expect heavy rainfall thank goodness, everything is so dry around here, it's been at a little over two weeks without a drop.

Yup, I took your sun and sent you rain.

My 'big' garden from the garage side facing the house:


and from the house side facing the garage:


remember it in early spring? :LOL:

and my poppies were being visited by bees this morning. I wonder if they're honey bees. Seem a bit big for honeys but I'm not sure.


caught him in flight {lower left of the bloom}

I love snapdragons!!

OHHHHHHH is right so pretty, and what a change from spring time.

ok...whats the gray foliage with pink flowers?possibly the stems sticking up in spring?
I like the darker pink daylillys too.I just love your bee balms.I need to cut mine so they'll rebloom.
I never can seem to grow poppys.I'm just stuck looking at every1 elses.I grew some in the fridge once.they died when tried to let grow outside the fridge.I do faithfully wintersow them every year.

In the second picture, right? It's rose campion.

Gorgeous! Green with envy!
:)

Note: Your bee friend is technically a "she".
(just jokin with ya)
hee hee.

How can you tell a he bee from a she bee? And does anyone know if its a honey bee? I think so.

Wow Wrennie , that fills in beautifully.

By the way, that doesn't look anything like the honey bees here.

From TV bits on National Geographic and Public TV, worker bees are female, drones I think sit around and wait to mate with the queen and don't do any work.
Here's a bit I found on the web.

From birth, males have certain advantages over females (workers). While emerging workers have to climb out of their brood cells all by themselves, baby drones are helped out by nurse bees; and they don't have to do a single thing around the nest. But there are distinct disadvantages to being a male. When food supplies are low or when winter approaches, workers do not hesitate to kick drones out of the nest, where they inevitably perish. And a male who is lucky enough to score with a queen pays the ultimate price. During mating, his reproductive parts get ripped out of him, and he dies.

beauitful wrennie! big diffrence fron spring
love the bee pic!

glad im not a bee! lol

Holy cr@p.

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Our bumble bees are furry like this one. (Golden Northern one)

Our Bumble bees are fuzzy like that too. I've ye to get a picture of one.

my cosmo bed is starting to bloom cant wait till it fill out!

So bees are from the 'Bobit' Family.must be close realitives of the praying mantis...she EATS her male.
Alamo vine(I love it)
I caught a shot of that yellow sulpher fineally,now to get a closer shot...lol

everything at my house has dried up. We had about 10 minutes of rain on Sunday and that's the first in over 2 months now. I've given up on watering.

I'm getting my flower fix from this forum.

Hi Penny. I need a million of those watering worms you sent me. Do ya think they'd work for my squash plants? HaHa.

I'm sorry to hear about your garden.I got plants that get that dead look too.like my marigolds in full sun,but least got some in shadier areas& I did re sow their seeds to hopefully resprout and bloom when not so hades hot.


The yellow butterfly is a southern dogface sulpher.


Here's a hummer moth last night. he's intrested in them 4 pms.

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Don't think they can handle flash too much.He started missing flowers& really was loseing his seance of direction.

In the town perrenial border:
delphinium



a cool-o daisy

Very pretty.

Texas Star Hibiscus are beginning to bloom for the season,,, 'lots more buds to go!!

Pretty!!! I wonder if my growing eason is long enough for them....

I'm still waiting for my hibiscus to bloom. It keeps getting bigger thou and the buds are ever growing upward. We haven't had rain in three weeks except for a tinkle last Sunday, enough to make it humid.

Sending you all my rain, a few pics for ya's.

and the last for a bit.





and my light hosta, someone wanted a close up and I can't remember who, sorry...

Verrry Pretty Tamara!!!!!!!!!!! I like the hosta !!! Glad you could get your pictures loaded!!!!! YAYYY!!!!!!!!

My second clematis is blooming. It grows in the same spot as the white one that blooms in early spring

here's JMG Akatusuki Mersaki.the 1st shot is after 3 pm.



It gave a deformed flower yesterday(it looked like it was 2 flowers out one bud& shredded looking.weird)


the culprit eating my canna leaves.I caught one and went fishing.fish took my hopperbait.
hawkmoth.I'm trying to catch pics of the babies and another type of hummer.

I love those dark ones.