Had many blooms on the water hyacinths today.
Garden Pics: Braving the HEAT to Save our Blooms!!
Lovely pinks Bea - my favorite color in the garden.
I really love that cherry parfait. So pretty!
Beautiful pictures Bea.....I don't like the banana slugs, they are ugly. Those flat brown ones have a face.
A face only a mother could love.
What is the hydrangea? So pretty!!! I would love to have a cutting.
thanks Lynn.... It's 'Hanabi'. And it's definitely my favorite! Also a favorite of the deer if I'm not right on top of spraying. It's considered a white flowered one, however I have found that I can turn it a very light pink or light blue with enough additives. I prefer the blue!
I feel sort of silly for asking this... but, do you mean that you mean that you want me to mail an actual cutting without roots to you? I've heard of folks doing that successfully in the winter. Or do you mean a cutting that I have rooted already? I have never had luck with cuttings, so I don't do them. But, I do have luck with layering them!
How sweet! whatta friend!
Great picture, Pony!
A two-fer!! Great picture!
Thanks! Those little guys are all over my dahlias lately. Don't know what kind of moth they are, but I think they're very pretty. :)
Pony..your little friends are called skipper butterflies. They were always one of my favorites when I was a child. They were all over the garden. My brother and sisters and I alway had an insect "cage" every summer and we would see who could catch the most. Of course they were always released soon after capture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipper_(butterfly)
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Well whattaya know... I thought they were moths. hehe. Thank you, Bea! :)
That Monarda is kinda cool looking, in an alien spore-shooting kind of way... LOL
I only planted Chianti sunflowers this year, and they grew too well. Got taller than the eaves they are under... oops! I'll have to put them somewhere else next year. Speaking of which, I have nylons over some of the spent flower heads now- seeds will be ready before long for those who want them. (I've got Bea and Judi on the list so far...)
I find that my Hummers like the Monarda more so that the feeder, but then again the yellow jackets chase they away for the feeder. Funny to watch a Hummer and a Jacket go face to face. Jacket wins Hummer flyes away. No foul No gain.
Great Pics
Bea.... great pics! as always! I'm glad that you knew what those skipper butterflies were called, I've always wondered what they were. They're generally not to afraid of people it seems! What kind of glad is that purple one?
I'd like to know, too- that's an incredible purple. I'd love to plant it with my red ones next year if I can find it.
red & pony..sorry..but these Glad came with me from CA. I have no Idea of the name. I can dig in the fall and see if there are additional corms if you would like some. Let me know. The Skipper butterflies were easy to catch as kids. I remember gently pinching their wings together and putting them in those insect cages. Sound aweful now..but as kids it was great fun. They loved all the Dahlia we had then.
No worries, Bea. I can always cruise the web looking for purple ones. I do a huge amount of web-window shopping. *grin*
Will do, Red. :)
That's a cool photo- it looks like a painting!
Tiki Torch is definitely one of the best performing of the new echies that I have, but this is a color combination that I really don't like!!! I'm thinking that I'm going to move it in the fall.
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