Blooming in August

elephant ears are getting big. the illustris are blooming now

red dragon flower Huernia schneiderniana.... great plant i love it. roots very easily

whole plant

trent - what size pots are the plumis in?

that one is a 5 i think and it will stay in it for a while. that one was a large 3 tipped cutting so thats whay the pot is so big. my other ones coop ones) are in 1-3 gallon pots. they all have about one more year in those pots until i repot them.

ok cool thanks - I had been thinking about repotting a few of the plumis as about 3 of the 12 seem wayyyy ahead of the others and they are all in 1 gal pots...

well if they are reeeaaally rootbound, then you might want to put them in larger pots, but othrwise you dont have to

Here's Platycodon blooming today, as it has been for some time now.

Some rudbeckia that moved into my garden a few years ago and decided to stay, but moves around from place to place, depending upon her whim.

Leucanthemum. My very well behaved Shasta daisy stays put.

And dependable Impatiens for shady spots and planters always excels.

Must remember to make sure my feet and camera strap are out of the view finder!

lol happens to me all the time!

Trent, that Red Dragon flower is pretty cool looking. I bet my cats would leave that alone,lol.

The Swamp milkweed looks happy. When in the season would the Monarch larvae be feeding if it did? Nothing feeds on my orange butterfly weed but those bugs:( Bronze fennel is munched without fail though.

Hemophobic, I think that's my favorite Rudbeckia triloba.

Abutilon megapotamicum

thanks. actually its not prickly at all, if thats what you're getting at. those points are just soft extentions of the leaves and it blooms a lot... very easy plant

Heartleaf Ice Plant from Tropicanna at the Garner RU.

Aptenia cordifolia

Darn, maybe they would dislike the texture? My cats are terrible for grazing on houseplants. I'd love to have that on my desk. The room gets plenty of light.

chamthy, I love that stuff!!

this water hyacinth I have been keeping in a fish bowl for redyr for over a month now because I left it behind for the RU

when I visited tigerlily she had heliconias blooming.....I don't know all the names

and this one...

bad picture, but another one...lol, they're so cool

big ol crinum asiaticums

and ....yeah, there's a lot of cool stuff here, but those huge hibiscus were pretty awesome

chamthy:
hmmm stapelia gigantea? might not like the smell of that...

nice water hyacinth trop! lol....

I think the Monarch caps are out now, although the only time I've noticed them was when there were a few clinging to the stems of milkweed that blister beetles had stripped. However, there's few blister beetles around this year which makes me very happy. Lots and lots of butterflies. I'll check the common milkweed patch by the horse pasture -- if there are Monarch caps they're sure to be there.

I've never seen a monarch in real life

I never know whether I'm looking at a Viceroy or Monarch butterfly. Looking at field guides hasn't helped either because I haven't been able to look at a feeding butterfly long enough to tell the difference.

The only time I've seen monarchs here is when they fly by on the beach. I think its in the fall when can see hundreds of them fly by going South. I don't think they stop here at all.

My memory is a little foggy on that. May be that they are flying North in the spring. One way or another there was a lot of them flying up the dunes.

oh maybe i'll keep an eye open. the closest thing ive seen to a monarch is a gulf fritillary, whose caterpillars have completely defoliated my blue passion flower

I didn't see any Monarch caps this morning, but the common milkweed has been heavily nibbled on.

Helenium 'Mardi Gras'

I just love that Helenium! Have you had it long? I have a Helenium that never has any petals on the flower. It's interesting but I like yours better,lol.

Shari

Leadwort

Chamthy- it's a 2 year old plant purchased at a local nursery for $12. I finally got a baby off of it and here is it's picture. This is year 1 for the baby.

I think my "eyeball" one has reseeded. Maybe I'll get better flowers from the seedlings. I think Helenium likes more moisture than I normally can provide but we had enough rain this year to get decent "bloom".

I love that Helenium too.

I have one patch of Carolina Bog Mint left after last year's drought.

Closer look at flowers

Sweetbay: I am embarrassed to say that I've never heard of Carolina Bog Mint, but I'm sure going to look it up. Very pretty!
Chamthy: Chuckling about your "eyeball" plant. :)

NOID daylily. Pretty apricot color and I like it so I'm going to have to go look and see if I can remember where I got it. :)
Deb

Cool pics.

Chamthy- what's your secret with the abutilon? I've killed most of those you posted pictures of before. ;*>

Here's a pic of my spiral ginger that's blooming.

Here's a pic of the fighter squadron (aka hummingbirds) outside my backdoor. We have a few more feeders out there, too. You can't believe the noise. Good thing these guys are so tiny or I'd be dead- boy are they aggressive!!!!