I travel 24/7 so going home is aways a surprise.. I got home this past weekend and guess what I found.. :) Unfortunately, I also found I missed two other flower that I had to dead head..
Buds and flowers..
I also found a bud on my hosta here (toward the top left on the plant)
and another bud on my mockorange too..
What nice gifts to come home to!
Harper
Yeah.. but I'm thinking I'm gonna miss the hosta and mockorange bloom. **poo** But at least I got to see this dahlia in all it's glory, even if I missed her other two sisters..
Bummer! My MIL has a night blooming cereus that she truly believes waits for her to leave so it can bloom. She comes home to see the spent blooms drooping too often!
LOL.. That's too funny. I'm not sure about the flowers waiting for me to leave but I have my blueberries that blooms and fruits whenever wer're home but when it's aways ripens and drops when I'm gone. So my fruits are doing that.. :)
Oh, no!
Very pretty! I love that shade of pink!
Thank you.. I was surpised. I bought it in a container gardening kit and it wasn't labelled.. I thought it was going to be some sort of washed out yellow or white. Boy was the color a pleasant surpise.. :)
Very pretty. Is that a little leaf miner damage?
Victor. Good eye. I didn't even notice that. When I get home next week, I will get rid of those leaves. Hopefully, it doesn't take out the entire plant in my absense.. :(
They make the coolest patterns though.
Victor, you would think that way.. LOL...
Yeah, you could. I'm giving up on my Columbines after this year. The leaf miners destroy them.
Sofonisba, I had leaf miner problems with my colombines last year too. They recovered fine after I picked off the bad leaves. But I still lost them to the deers. Apparantly, colombines are not only liked by leaf miners but also by the deers. They didn't survive the deer attack..
I did pluck the leaves this year. The poor plants were naked! Last year, there wasn't one leaf without the dreaded leaf miner mark. Ugh. I'm still giving up on them, even though I don't have deer. (keeping fingers crossed about that last one!)
Sofonisba, if it's such a bad problem for you, check out this website. Parasitic wasps are suppose to be a natural enemy of leaf miners..
http://www.eartheasy.com/grow_garden_insectary.htm
Thanks Icosden. I bookmarked that site. Wonderful!
I get them on mine - but usually after the flowers are on their way out.
Victor, I always get them in July and August. Gee, I guess that's like right now.. I usually just pull off the leaves though.. I am thinking about doing an insectary garden to get some beneficial insects to my place...