Blue Heaven Morning Glorys Busting out all over I really love these . They stay opened most part of the day and have grown into the white moon flower vines they look really nice together, I'll have to get a picture of them combined..... Tre' My grandson took these pictures today
"Grace without perfection is more to be desired than perfection without grace."
That 4 pm looks awesome.you'll get some with pink stars in centers and some will have more splashing on them.they are neat.I don't know your yellow flower.does the foliage smell?how tall?
I like the gazania. Saturday morning I think..got 1 pink red centered gladiolus in bloom.I love these JMG its asugo blue with white edge.they lighten in color as they age.In the background behind garden can is a wild purple Mg thats perienial here and its branch got broke so kinda cascades.its lower half got ate by catterpilliars.Don't hurt the blooms at all. flowers/aug42007morningglorieslookinawesome.jpg" alt="[Linked Image]" class="post-image" style="height:auto!important;max-width:100%!important;"/>
I will age ungracefully until I become an old woman in a small garden..doing whatever the Hell I want!
I ACTUALLY seen my epi strictum flower open in front of me last night.I don't know if the flash caused it.One was already part way open and when clicked shot of it seen one open on other side of plant.shame video don't work in dark.Both plants have bloomed now.one once the other twice.all thanks to David Letterman(He had AJ the bird on....I had to see it.The putt was awesome!)
I will age ungracefully until I become an old woman in a small garden..doing whatever the Hell I want!
diane that yellow flower looks like a variety of bartonia [blazing star] soooooo many pretty pics! njoynit i love your epi strictum!
Ohhhhhhh Thankyou Christy I had no idea where to begin to do a search for that mystery!! I'll check that out!
Njoynit~ I haven't gotten a bud yet on my epi But I'm hopeful . Yours are soo gorgeous! I bet you get up early to catch them in bloom Huh!?? I know I did last year!
Here is the C.Grimaldi Blooming again This time with 5 Blooms and I counted 7 more buds about to open or still developing!!
Different view
I have the Unnamed Pink Brug just starting to open today with 6 blooms and I have counted at least 17 more bud to open or are developing, that picture is in the Brug Thread under plants and flowers!! I will post it here when they (6) are fully opened!
"Grace without perfection is more to be desired than perfection without grace."
Only 1 sunflower has bloomed and a zinnia showed up in what was the cucumber garden where I didn't plant it. The place I put out the seeds NONE came up. Cindy, did you take your zinnia seeds with you????
Sheri, it is maddening isn't it? Here we can't go two days without rain. For awhile everything was dying from root rot, too wet. Wish I could send some to you.
Sheri ~we had rain here too for weeks on in and Now We are getting 100's and above with no rain in site . I'm experiencing the same thing to I guess TX is back to the typical summers we're used to. My hostas are getting scorched and they are under trees and awnings , and so are the blackeye susans ARRRRRGh . Funny thing is the Brugs are hanging on as are the 4oclocks The sedums are good, BUt geeeez the extreme of temps from low 80's and moist to 100 and dry, alot of my flowers are looking like they saying "EEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!"Even my lawn has screaming brown spots .
I just water @ 4:30 AM and give a deep watering to the plants I can't replace, and I even put some lawn chairs in some areas to provide some kind of shade, Looks rediculous BUt it's helping a little. The Moon flowers the heat isn't effecting at all.
The Brug I posted above that bloomed yesterday has now changed to a darker color to it's true color today,, I also posted in Brug thread the opening of the unnamed pink( Not all the way opened yet)
True color of Charles Grimaldi Brug.........
"Grace without perfection is more to be desired than perfection without grace."
Sheri your container plants are beautiful, sorry to hear about the others. I know what the heat can do, we also have the hot wind that dries everything out even faster.
Here are some of my container plants, but they are in my greenhouse.
Gazanias
My flowering cabbage....
These are only nice inside the greenhouse, the ones in my flowerbeds were eaten badly by worms.
Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
My charles didn't turn when it bloomed.They only lasted 2 days.Its hotter now than then.Mine grow in shade but it gets some sun filtered through the leaves.It don't droop as much as the one in more sun. A spider resting on Nil Cornell jmg flower(which blooms decently in shade with morning sun) flowers/Aug132007nilcornellwithspiderguest.jpg" alt="[Linked Image]" class="post-image" style="height:auto!important;max-width:100%!important;"/>
That victoria salvia farinacea I bought.Its white.and their is a white strain. flowers/Aug132007salviawhitevictoria.jpg" alt="[Linked Image]" class="post-image" style="height:auto!important;max-width:100%!important;"/> Now I have to go back and get the blue.
I sunk my plumeria in the ground in its pot.right behind Dr Suess.we'll see how this works for 3 months. flowers/Aug132007plumerianewhome.jpg" alt="[Linked Image]" class="post-image" style="height:auto!important;max-width:100%!important;"/>
Its hot.
I will age ungracefully until I become an old woman in a small garden..doing whatever the Hell I want!
Njoynit IT is the Nil Cornell JMG I have The seeds you sent me! I posted a picture a while back of that JMG I knew you sent the seeds but forgot the name!! I love it the color is so vibrant!! It started out slow But has gotten good size vines on it now!! Thanks again!! WOW I just realized I have soo much of You and Lynne and Loz and Triss in my yard!!!!! !
My GH area got turned into the poolroom when added 9 feet to it.My gardenshed has been moved....so the GH can be made.I have 3 slideing glass doors but will use only 2.We had started this once before 3 years ago.Brugmansias go in laundryroom. I have alot of Tammy in my yard.I have alot of sheri too(I can still count dried up marigold..lol)Out of all that cleome in the fall/spring swap....only the white came up.I think I had one single pink plant till the dog stompped it.Nil cornell is at end of porch in the 25 gallon tub.The verbena& petunias died out.It only gets morning sun now(cause of pool room) so they stay open into the afternoon sometimes.That spider...he was just sitting there chillin.I have a JMG I need to grow out its got this color.Its called Bold ms.piggy.
I got this dwarf picotee pink.I'm trying to grow it UP the brugmansia.
It don't seem to have got the hint of climbing.Its bloomed about 8 times though.It is getting bushier.
I killed this lil guy saturday.I'm thinking he's a copperhead.I beat him to death with with my flip flop.
Then showed my prized kill to everyone.sis said I should have preserved him in a jar.
I will age ungracefully until I become an old woman in a small garden..doing whatever the Hell I want!
Here is the Brugmansia Njoynit sent me cuttings of! this pic was taken at 4:30 am to beat the sun ( 105 degrees today) before it sucks the life out of the bloom!
This first pic is as big as my hand and I have Big hands!! LOL
several blooms
This pic is after I got off work !!!!! The sun is oh soo good in many ways but not with brug blooms at 105 degrees!! I will give it lots and lots of water and it should be okay!!
"Grace without perfection is more to be desired than perfection without grace."
I mentioned in another post that my camera won't get fixed. It is still blurry - sometimes. I'm going to have to get another one. I don't have much blooming with the drought and twelve thousand degree weather every day so I thought I'd post blurry and all.
you can always say its the heat causeing the blur............
My friend here in the woods Matt.His mom came to visit from Sacremento.Here's some pictures from her yard before she left.she grows dalhias& daylillys mostly.She's sending me a bunch of crosses from her yard& some divsions I pointed out this fall & I've now had a crash course on container gardening.
Donna will leave soon shortly for her 9 am flight.I was able to help her through her garden withdrawls for the week,but she prefers to not sweat this much& think she really missed playing her disc golf.
creatures this week.
Duke-AKA master of destruction....asleep with a fry. I'm so glad that spider ate that june bug...it kept flying into me.I thought the green spider was like an alien from mars.I don't know what the bug is on hummer feeder,but he was eating another bug.
Last edited by njoynit; Aug 23rd, 2007 at 05:45 AM.
I will age ungracefully until I become an old woman in a small garden..doing whatever the Hell I want!
Tonya...I know that pink wildflower.I have some growing down road side.It DON'T transplant well at ALL.I've tried.I sowed a bunch of the seed in my wild area but don't think see any growing yet.I don't think i wrote down anywhere what the name was either.It could be in archives in mystery plant though...about 2 years back. I like your pink ROS also.If you snip your tips you'll get a fuller plant.snip once and it sends 2 sprouts up or more.I'm going to do my larger tree this year too...while collecting seeds.I had more blooms on tips as well.
I will age ungracefully until I become an old woman in a small garden..doing whatever the Hell I want!
Gardening in March
Gardening in April
Gardening in May
Shop at Amazon and Support AGF
Are you shopping online? Click this link first and A Gardeners Forum will receive a commission for your
referral at Amazon.com (shopping through this link to Amazon will not have any impact on your prices at Amazon).