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Well, I'm happy to report my hardy hibiscus is FINALLY blooming! The flowers are bigger than my hand! Pretty white blooms with a hint of pink at the edge and a bit of red in the center.

The buds look like white cuban cigars!

Cool. Sounds really pretty!

Yeah it does !!!!!

thats awesome iheart! i started seeds this year hopefully ill get blooms next year, i love how huge the flowers are, they are sooo pretty too!

Very pretty.

Pretty! Here are a few more of mine!

Cleome


Double Cosmos



Lots of things...touch me nots, zinnias, lilies, allium, Hollyhocks, sunflower, toms at the very back.



More in a bit.

Very pretty,loz! I really like that first shot of the cleome - it never occurred to me to take one from the top of the flower like that - terrific!

Thanks Lynne, I thought it looked especially nice from the top like that.

I have more pics but I will try to be patient and wait until the next page. Patience isn't exactly a virture of mine so you may all see them before the next page.

loz, i love your cleome....there is a house that burned last year, they are starting to rebuild, just the foundation and a cedar fence is all that is built. but just beyond the fence is a HUGE bed of those just swaying in the breeze!

Iheart--that is so pretty. I have one kind of like that--do you know the kind?

Loz--beautiful...I've never seen a cleome.

Everything looks so healthy Loz. I've got quite a bit blooming here but it's been raining again.

I also have red astilbes that bloomed pink this year and a pink day lily that bloomed orange. There has been some 'jumping of the fence' so to speak.

My nasturtiums are FINALLY blooming!!!
I planted them waaaaaaaaaay back in early May - can't believe it took this long!





and with some impatiens in the same container after some rain

Pretty pics! I love nasturtiums. The leaves are yummy in a salad. Blooms too just pinch out the pistil and stamen first. Kinda freaks people out to watch me eat a flower! :LOL:

Pssst Loz, we're on the next page you can post more!

Love the Nasturtium.....I have some growing out there somewhere.

flower of the sun!



Pretty perfect Zinnia!



Trumpet Vine and Purple Ornamental Grass pluming.

LOZ - I just LOVE that flower of the Sun - got any seeds, pretty please???

I have more pics to post, after I shower - it's soooooo humid out there!!!

I'm so excited, my stargazer lilies finally started to open! Seems like they've been taking forever on purpose just to drive me crazy.

Humid here too, I hate it!

I reckon' I can save some seeds from them! I usually do each year---the goldfinches like them of course but I manage to get a good many.

What nice pics. So bright and cheery.

Phew - that feels so much better after showering!

OK... some more not [color:#CC33CC] PINK flowers for today...

prickly pear cacti flowering a second time this year!
I am so thrilled to see more - usually it is just one flush and then it's over.




It's such a shame that these brilliant flowers only last ONE day! [/color]

Ihearts hibiscus looks like the The clown one.

Loz.I love that sunflower and purple grass.did you grow the grass grom seed?I want flower of the sun seeds too.Fall fling?

P&P.I've fineally had sucess with my nasturuims,none are variegated.i've had those same colors but my canary vine is a pale yellow.I really hope they set seed for next year.I seem to do better with containers than in ground.all my inground ones are dead now*well....one is struggleing,but is shaded.


My cat found some catnip growing outside the cage.He showed me he found it.


Formosa lilly


A Strapeliad/carrion flower/huernia



Brugmansias.shot of flowerbeds/Dr Suess/charles G/unknown pink flowers.







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Loz Pretty ingenius taking a picture of the top of the cleome! I like it alot!!!!

Pretty flowers everyone!!!!!!!!!!!

Gorgeous! Love the sunflower, they are such happy plants! Mine are pretty much bloomed. I was shocked at how large my rudbeckia has gotten in two years, it looks like a bush!

The nasturtiums are just beautiful!

OHHHHHHHHHHH PRETTY, Tonya!
Did you plant the canna and gladiola, or were they there?
They both look very healthy!

Pretty!

So.....ummmmm... Wrennie...
Why was it that you thought I only grew [color:#CC33CC]PINK flowers? ;)

Black eyed suzies up by the mailbox


Gazanias and 1 BES that snuck in the picture
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Oh, so very pretty.

I dunno'!

I have gazanzias at work that are healthy. Someone ate the 2 I had here. Not sure if it was Bambi or Thumper. I have to walk around the yard and see whats bloming now.

Ok... not to disappoint...

Here is a rose of sharon bloom 2 days ago.


And the white rose of sharon - right after I took this picture I got stung on the back of my arm - there are hundreds of bees on these plants this year - they are just loving them, but didn't like being interrupted by my picture taking! YOUCH!!!


An oriental lily down by the rock wall

Those are awesome.I love the canna also.I don't have that one.I'm growing a white ROS from seed.They are still small.

Okay, I finally remembered my camera today so I can share some!

Hardy Hibiscus
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Crocosmia I believe...Alankhart sent me these last year!
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Coneflower - have to look at the tag to see what one
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Some phlox
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These are wave petunias
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These are trailing petunias
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That's what crocosmia looks like! Cool! I got some from Oregon in the early spring. I assume they;ll bloom next spring. Pretty! Hey I have a tub like your white waves are in. I may have to drag it out next year.

I love all your pink flowers Lynne. Is there one spot you can tep back and get a wide shot of lots blooming at once. I like the close ups, but also the 'big picture'.

The waves in the tub actually are a really light lavender with a little darker throat. The color didn't show up that great in the pic though. I planted waves in that tub last year and I just love it! They fill in their really nice. I will continue that every year!

I thought the crocosmia were spring bloomers too but those just started blooming a couple weeks ago for me and have been going strong since. Alan sent me the bulbs sometime last summer. I planted them last fall and I was so happy when they came up! Good luck with yours Wrennie! Can't wait to see them next year!

Me either. Theyre only a few inches tall so unless they give a late bloom I dont think I'l see them this year.

Ya know, Wrennie... most of my flowering "plants" aren't all that impressive as a whole... but I can usually find one or two really nice blooms on them to share - that's why I don't post pics of the "big picture"...

Now here's a horse of a different [b][color:#FF6666] color!

Trumpet vine flowers growing over my shed
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I love those Lynne! They are very pretty!

Beautiful ladies, love to walk thro this part of the forum.

My blackberry lillies are putting out blooms. They're so little and pretty.

beauitful flowers!!!
i have hardy hibiscus n rose of sharons, there both lil seedlings! cant wait till they grow, just started there seeds this year.

WOW Wrennie - what a pretty, different looking flower!
And I really like the bee balm as the back drop to it - perfect!

Love that color.

I think that ones needs to be a card too.

I WS some blackberry lilly seeds from fall/spring fling.The cups still empty.They sure look nice though.


Blue blizzard JMG.I love its colors.

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

wow! those are soooooo pretty njoynit n diane!!!

my morning glories are just now growing good n a few bloomin! wish i had your warmer weather

tre did a good job takin the pics diane!:}

Thanks Christy ~ Tre' is developing a good eye for pictures!



Here is the white w/pink speckles 4oclock ~Njoynit sent me the seeds



and this is the result of a mystery thread I started a while back never did get an ID on maybe now that it has bloomed?? It is close to 3 ft tall,

Those are great pictures of some very pretty flowers, Diane!

Here is my verbena today


And a different looking gazania


and yet another cactus flower - I just can't get enough of these -
they are so bright and cheerful - again, what a shame they only last ONE day!

I love the color Wrennie! Very pretty!

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.
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JFK rose


Crown of thorns with purple passion


pink/yellow 4 pm



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!)

Hawkmoth


Butterfly on turkscap


Sunrise in Tx

diane that yellow flower looks like a variety of bartonia [blazing star]
soooooo many pretty pics!
njoynit i love your epi strictum!

Oh, so very pretty.

I think Loz sent me these touch me not seeds

about the only thing I've got going now is my container garden because of the drought. It's so sad to see everything dried up.

more containers and some stuff in the shade

I water and water but the hosta leaves are still turning brown. The heat is just too much even in the shade.

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.

Pretty flowers by the way.

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.........

sedum must not need any water because that's the only thing surviving in my sun garden. My 4'oclocks have bitten the dust. Your brugs are sooo pretty.

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.

These phlox are my favorites this year, their smell is wonderful, I've been cutting them for my vases inside for some time already.


My silver mound. This picture doesn't do it justice. Wish you could see it for real.

I need a green house. Your plants are gorgeous.

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)
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That victoria salvia farinacea I bought.Its white.and their is a white strain.
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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.
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Its hot.

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!!!!! !

Rosepetal Your phlox are gorgeous!!!!!!!

Sheri you and I BOTH want a green house!

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.

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!!

No words are necessary.

Last year these were lavendar or purple. Is it the heat that has caused them to be white now?

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.

Very very pretty gals.

Beautiful flowers!

Very pretty, Tonya! I especially like that color of the gerbera daisy -
it's GORGEOUS!!!

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.

is that first flower spider wort?

Beautiful flowers, love to watch this post.

In the perrenial border today at work:

Ohhhh Wrennie What a beautiful Picture!!!!!!!!!

ooops almost forgot Friday my one volunteer sunflower the deer couldnt get to because its smack dab in the middle of my fenced in veggie garden.



And a bloom on my mallow

That is a STUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNING picture, Wrennie!!! WOWZERS!!!