Share your yarden?

Some nice late idea suggestions from me are anemones, tricytris (toad lilies) and hydrangeas like 'Limelight'.

Do the toad lilies and anemones come back every year?

You bet they do. Toad lilies like shade and anemonies are good in part sun. They make late summer not so sad around here ;)

Mags, are yours blooming yet? Jap. anemones I mean. I noticed the blossoms coming yesterday when I was out setting up that dang sprinkler again!! AGAIN AND AGAIN.

Ok, one more.

That looked so good, will post another. Hope you don't get bored?

Maxine

Whoops, posted the wrong picture. Now its up here twice.

Maxine

I think hot chocolate rudbeckia

Max, I don't think I could ever get bored looking at your garden pictures. :) Or anybodys garden pictures in here for that matter! Of course, I may "borrow" ideas from all of you. :)

Diann

Love the late garden pics. With only a few zinnias surviving the bunnies, I can always use ideas.

Wanda, just tell the girls that if you felt like hearing the pitter-patter of little feet, you'd put shoes on the dog.

Max,
enjoy your pictures

Moby, great answer!!! :)

No flowers on those yet, but in the next couple of weeks, yes. I think they are wonderful plants and they are nice color as everything else starts to bite the dust.

Hey.... is anybody growing tuberose? Sue and I got some this spring at the Garden Show where we sell lilies. I started them early indoors and have tons of foliage but that's all.

I been reading your posts and would love to see open spaces and wonderful gardens like you all have.
I live in the woods and not much to see very far with all the trees
But I have just found Lily's and have gone nuts over them. This is my first year and soooo in love and wanted to share from western Washington

Tilly, I like your garden!
Where is Poulsbo, Wa.?
My Mother when alive lived in Waitsburg, Wash. She is also buried there. Not far, maybe 20 miles from Walla Walla.

OOoooh, Tilly nice garden and you've come to the right place. :) We all love our lilies. :) More pictures please. :)

Here's some tuberose.

close up to tuberose -very powerful fragrance

I am on the peninsula about 4 miles from the Hood Canal Bridge.
I don't know where Waitburgs is. Give me a big town then I will know.
This was my first bloom this year.
Tilly

Shoes on the dogs??? LOL great idea. Lord knows I don't need grandchildren yet. 4 great neices & a great nephew were over for a bit tonight for a family thing--they about wore me out! Cute kids, but waaay too much energy!

jmorth ~ do you fertilize your tuberose? I'm eager for those fragrant blooms!

inquiring minds are waiting to know because I have some in pots and they all look the same as you describe moby. The potting soil has fertilizer in it. Too much nitrogen maybe?

Moby,
Miracle Grow is poured over them every two or three weeks till they bloom. I've had two large pots of tuberoses for several years. Some references say to discard after flowering but mine keep throwing up flowering scapes each year, probably the scapes in subsequent years are from new tubers. The fragrance permeates the air for yards around them; I read somewhere that it takes over a 1000 grams of flowers to yield 1 gram of the essential oil used in perfume. The Aztecs used the oil to favor chocolate (Manual of Bulbs).

Thanks for the info and the lovely bit of trivia. I think I could handle some chocolate infused with tuberose.... :)

now why in the world would they want to do that to a piece of chocolate??????????????

I prefer my chocolate pure and dark, naughty me........... I introduced my 2 and 3½ year old grandkids to dark chocolate. My daughter is going to kill me! They loved it.

Why would you NOT want to do that to chocolate? I think it sounds delightful. This sounds dreadful too but 1 Hershey's Kiss in a bowl chili ~ yummm.

For anyone that saw my yard/en last fall, this is the area under the Magnolia tree that I had stashed my few remaining shade plants.

Cute, Moby. You guys and you organized gardens. TDF!

Very nice Ms. Moby. :) I want to see more of your Yarden. :) Please?

Sure looks great moby! Looks like it is pretty high shade and maybe some late afternoon sun, so I'm guessing your plants are happy. And so weed-free, I'm jealous!

Here my lily patch of a few years ago. Now all moved into the city and now moving around into diff. neighbour's gardens to make room for iris.

And another

How can you stand to move them away from you? That is sooo lovely.

Inanda, how lovely. Did you say you moved to away and left them??? or did you take them with you? I would find it harder to leave my gardens than my house...

Those lilies are so beautiful it makes you want to pull up a chair and stay a while.

Mags, I don't know if I'd call it an organized garden, it just where I put my stuff in an unplanned way. This garden is always in half sun / half shade. I just happened to have a very overcast day and was finally able to take a decent pic.

This is what it looked like after moving a few things last fall. I pulled all of those bricks out of the existing border and located more here and there to finish to the far corner of the house.

Beautiful lilies and I like how you placed the colors to offset each other.

I can't believe the gardens in this whole thread! Sooo pretty and inspiring! I can spend hours studying the photos!

But I am sobbing....I haven't been on the Lily Forum for months because all of my bulbs got eaten up last winter!! I miss them so! So no pictures. Just zinnias where the lilies should be!

Oh no!! What got to them?

Oh Tabasco, I'm so sorry!! Like Moby said, what got them? Please, you can still post pictures of your yarden anyway, sans the lilies. I'm sure it will be beautiful!

Quit sobbing over the lilies.

Didya grow any cool zinnias? My favorite for cutting is still the old Persian Carpet mix.

Tabasco,
If it's any consolation, I just had one eaten today.... :( I bought a lot of mine this May and they were already sprouted. Most are doing well and blooming now. Several got their sprouts chomped, but I kept watering them despite that, figuring there was a chance for next year. A couple were planted in pots because they'd sprouted. One had actually resprouted a little bit so I moved it to where I was going to plant it, and it got completely "disappeared" today. Arrrgh! May be time to start bribing the squirrels again.

btw, did you know that Buggy Crazy has a lily she calls "Taco Sauce"? Seems someone who goes by Tabasco ought to have that one-and it's only $2.....;)