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My first Stargazer is open : )
Late Summer - What do you have blooming?
Thanks Meredith! Gorgeous blooms. Your Stargazer is such a yummy color.
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
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
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.
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..
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?
Oh, BeaHive, those are just lovely!
What zone are you in, BeaHive? My sweetpeas are LOOOOOONG gone.