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Gardening Flowers & Foliage

Discussion in 'Hobbies and Interests' started by bogieb, Jun 24, 2018.

  1. Woodwidow

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    thank for sharing your slice of paradise with us. It is quite colourful and takes quite a bit of work to keep it up.
     
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  2. Horkn

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    Here's a quick pic of my patio wall of plants.

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    The hibiscus isn't flowering at the moment but everything else is going crazy. See my dwarf banana trees?
     
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  3. Horkn

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    I love the rose of Sharon. Hard to find around here, and when in stock they are gone ASAP
     
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    Everything looks great and that hydrangea is obviously quite happy where it is.
     
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  5. bogieb

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    This has been a hard year for flowers. We get 4" of rain, then nothing for weeks. Since I water by hand, I can't water as deeply as the plants would like (and not sure I want to since my area is in a mild drought anyway). Most perennials are haphazard in their flowering but the echinaceas in the roadside garden are un-fazed (wish that were true in my driveway garden - but it is what it is).

    Sombrero Flamenco Orange

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    Sombrero Granada Gold with a bee
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    I can rarely get the perspective I want, and this is definitely not what I was trying for, but it does shoe the abundance of echinaceas in the roadside garden. The pinkish-red echinacea next to the Golds are Double Scoop Mandarins
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    This is is a good perspective from the other side but the focus is a bit off from where it should be. The red echinacea in the foreground is Sombrero Baha Burgundy.
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    American Revolution Day Lily
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    Gayfeather (liatris/blazing star and a whole bunch of other common names) just starting to bloom and apparently this Monarch Butterfly finds it tasty. There is a white gayfeather just behind that is getting ready to start too.
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  6. MikeInMa

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    Thanks.

    Happy, yes.
    Beat up by downpours a few weeks ago, definately.
     
  7. MikeInMa

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    A few shots around the yard. When pointing the camera up, it can't handle the light/dark contrast. So,pics get a bit washed out. I tried to avoid the sky.

    Looking down the side of the house, towards our screen house.
    Oh. Look, a glimpse of my wood racks in the distance
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    From down in the middle of the yard
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    Looking up, from in front of the hydrangeas
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    And, from the screen house deck
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  8. fishingpol

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    Great pictures everyone. Summer is slipping by quietly. I'm trying to enjoy it sitting outside under the trees when I can. I'm seeing a progression of plants bloom and trees and bushes fruit and it will eventually pass by to the fall season.

    Here are a few pics of what we have in bloom.

    Rose of Sharon.
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    The septic field wildflower patch is taking off. Doesn't look like tall weeds anymore. Well, a little. Lots of bees, butterflies and birds taking advantage of it.

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    View out the kitchen window.


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    Driveway side flower patch. I haven't weeded it, and I won't have time this year. I do like the informality of it

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    Hummingbird moth on the butterfly bush.

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    Japanese Beatles are tearing my place up!
     
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    I hate those things.

    We use Bayer spray to kill those buggers.
     
  13. MikeInMa

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    There's new color in the yard this morning

    Tiger lillies are opening up, in the lily bed.
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    Another clump of stargazer lilies are popping open.
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    Rainbow Rhythm day lily. If you look close, you can see pollen marks on some of the petals where I assume bees, or another insect landed before going for the goods in this flower

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    Very pretty.
     
  17. MikeInMa

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    The rose of Sharon is in full bloom.
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    In that same overgrown, perrannial perennial bed, are some sweet William, I think. IMG_20200731_070441449.jpg IMG_20200731_070456362.jpg IMG_20200731_070421632.jpg

    The stargazers continue to have the yard smelling like a funeral parlor. Strong scents, which I like.
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    I like "overgrown" gardens. and all those purples look great next to the Rose of Sharon.
     
  19. Midwinter

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    Those flowers in the middle are phlox.
    bogieb I'm drooling over those echinaceas! I'll have to troll the garden centers before the season's over. I've been digging up a dry patch where they would be happy.
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    You know I like the spidery ones? I treated myself... IMG_20200801_1290.jpg
     
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  20. MikeInMa

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    Ah yes. Tall phlox. Thanks!
     
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