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My first Stargazer is open : )
Late Summer - What do you have blooming?
Here is a collage of new blooms throughout my gardens.
Thanks Meredith! Gorgeous blooms. Your Stargazer is such a yummy color.
Our back bed if finally getting lush..I love this sunflower..I don't remember planting any in there, so it must have been a gift from the birds.
Thank you staceysmom : )
Artemiss, Your back bed is very pretty : ) I've noticed sunflowers from the birds here too! Mine aren't anywhere near as pretty as yours! I have a little sunflower fort started for my DD. She keeps asking me when they will flower? They are only like 6" high right now so it's going to be a while I tell her. lol
My first tiger lilies opened.
A caladium in bloom
I think the leaves are prettier.
Wow that caladium has some cool leaves! What a nice tiger lily too1 Very pretty!
I feel a "post-spring letdown", thinking my garden is rather dull right now, but I was surprised to see how much actually is blooming here in coastal NorCA. Going L-R and then down:
1) garage driveway wall
2) closeup of lantana, santolina, and agapanthus flowers from #1
3) sunny side yard, with red cannas and in the background, a white-flowered oleander standard
4) part of the backyard, pelargoniums, canna and solanum vine in bloom
5) 'Tropicanna' canna
6) closeup of those beautiful 'Tropicanna' leaves
Here's another collage, again L-R, going down:
1) Aeonium and Shasta daisy
2) CA fuchsia 'Firecracker'
3) lacecap hydrangea with JapMaple 'Emperor 1'
4) Red mini-dahlia
5) Daylily 'Evening Enchantment' and spoon-petal osteospermum
Collage #3, L-R and going down:
1) 'Priscilla' glads - these pop up everywhere!
2) 'Double Delight' floribunda rose
3) 'Intrigue' rose
4) 'Sun Goddess' hydrangea - beautiful chartreuse leaves
Collage #4:
1) 'Delany Sisters' floribunda rose
2) very late CA orange poppy hanging on, next to convolvulus groundcover
3) Oxalis siliquosa flowers and variegated plectranthus groundcover
4) Pink variegated leaf dwarf canna
Last collage:
1) Tibouchina urvilleana
2) Pink cestrum
3) shrub rose 'Ladies in Waiting'
4) agapanthus and throatwort in a vase
WOW that's a let down!? You have so much blooming, everything looks beautiful! : )
I second that I would gladly take that ""let down''
Beautiful display.
Wow! Beautiful! Love your combos too.
Breathtaking blooms, jkom51!
Pat Austin burst into bloom this morning, thanks to the edge of Hurricane Dolly --
as did morning glories
and marigolds.
Very nice pictures from everyone today.
These yellow pansies keep on going. Looks like they were lining up for a "family portrait.
The white ones also! Reminds me of a choir singing..
Lavender cleome
Meredith, thank you! It didn't turn out quite as I had planned, but in the end, I am pleased.
It is funny about the sunflowers..I planted this bed in honor of my late grandma and great-aunt. They were sisters who passed within a few months of each other when I was 13. Were it not for them, i would likely have never had the love of gardening I have today. Everything I planted in there was either something they grew, or let me grow.
Your daughter's sunflower fort reminded me that they also used to grow those for me..and I had forgotten all about it! Now I see those "surprise" sunflowers in a different light.
Here is a "seashells" cosmos from that same bed..
That didn't work so well!
let me try a different shot..
Liatris from the front island..
I love your cleome Bea. I planted some this spring, but they either never came up, or were pulled by accident as weeds.
..I am surprised your pansies are still going, mine pooped out long ago..(although I have a few larkspurs that are just now blooming..go figure)
This is another fun two-toned petunia..I have a couple of plants that have had the neatest blooms like this..no two are alike beyond being lavender-pink and white..
Artemiss, more beautiful blooms!
Sounds to me like gram and auntie noticed you needed some sunflowers in there : D So they had a little birdie help you out : D
jkom51, that photo of your with the throatwort is one of my absolute favorites! I have it in my garden journal too for inspiration :))) http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/54308/
I started a few from seed and just planted them yesterday. I really hope they make it. What kind of exposure is yours in?
These delphiniums are so soft in color and sweet looking.
This a mini rose called Bee's Knees
Another mini- Busy Bee
Oh, BeaHive, those are just lovely!
These are the prettiest sweet peas. I love the red edge.
What zone are you in, BeaHive? My sweetpeas are LOOOOOONG gone.
Buddleia with a bee
Beahive, beautiful as usual! : ) I especially love that Busy Bee rose it is such a pretty color!
I also have a delphinium to share. I grew it from seed last year so I am excited to see it flowering for the first time.
It's Delphinium exaltatum.
adenophora potanini
Meredith..that Delphinium exaltatum is beautiful! On my list for next year...
Rose America in bud
Dahlia's
