Gardening, anyone?
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My clematis is just 2 flowers pretty scrawny looking, yours looks so healthy.
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bloom du jour, cholla cactus now starting to bloom
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Such pretty blooms. I would love to see them in person someday.
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jazzygirl- what a stunning flower. The color is unbelievable.
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it kind of looks like silk... very pretty
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Jazzygirl - That bloom is so beautiful, it does not look real!!!
Gumdoctor
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I dug in two of the pavers in the rose bed to the right depth, weeded around them and mulched this morning. My back is done with this project for today but I am so looking forward to continuing. I absolutely love this look. I spend alot of time on my front porch overlooking the view of the valley, the rose bed and birdbath. Such a wonderful place to be. I am very grateful
Gumdoctor
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Up close inside the cholla flower and also the prickly pear cactus yellow flower
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It’s coming along, Gumdoctor.
Jazzy gorgeous blooms. Maybe I should put my hubbie’s cactus outside for the summer. I would love to see blooms.
I saw a hummingbird so I purchased sugar at the store since I never have sugar in my house and now I can’t find the Hummingbird feeder! Ugh.
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My neighbors spectacular century plant bloom
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jazzygirl-I have never seen pics of the century plant bloom. Gorgeous
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jazzygirl-I have never seen pics of the century plant bloom. Gorgeous
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So love all your wonderful photos !!!..Here's a pic of my new "baby " I bought this week ... succulents and cacti are my passion 🤗
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lucy-very pretty.
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Jazzygirl,
I am not fluent in cactus because I live in the midwest. But I took a walk in my neighborhood (Yay Me!!!). I saw a yellow flower bloom looking nearly identical to your brilliant pink cholla bloom. Do they come in yellow also? (I know...dumb question from non-cactus person
Gumdoctor
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Gumdoc- I think they do. I have prickley pears that bloom in pink and yellow.
My pink prickley is blooming now
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jazzygirl- what a beautiful flower. I love the color
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One of my new favorite additions, a yellow primrose. They do really well here in the south west and my mexican primroses have gone invasive in the back yard. They like the heat!
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Jazzygirl - Love that primrose. I had a deep magenta one indoors for a few months. It did not last long inside but I loved it while it lasted.
This photo below is not the highest quality...but as I was coming inside from the front porch tonight, this view of the roses took my breath away...so blessed and grateful to live here...
Gumdoctor
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gumdoctor- beautiful roses. No wonder they took your breath away. After my run this evening I worked in my garden. With all the rain my hibiscus and allamanda bushes were out of control. It was time to significantly cut them back. I've been rather unhappy with the thunderstorms over the past week but I have to admit my palm trees and flowers are thriving.They bloom 10 months out of the year but I never tire of looking at them
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Jo6359 - It must be so amazing to enjoy your plants and flowers so much of the year! I am in the midwest and have approximately 5 mos to enjoy everything.
I believe I am having beginner's luck with these roses. This is my first big flowerbed ever and the first roses I ever planted. Stage 4 makes this even more meaningful to me because the planting was so difficult/painful last fall. Now they are fairly effortless and I can actually sit back and really enjoy them. I fuss with them alot just to make them look more perfect but it makes no real difference. They pretty mcuh take care of themselves.
It does give me a positive, beautiful focus to think about besides MBC.
Gumdoctor
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Hoping the birds don't get my berries and figs before we can.
Scottie
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Scottie - Those are both so beautiful!!! Have you ever tried netting? My husband just bought some for his blackberries and is ver optimistic...
Gumdoctor
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scottie-beautiful. Good luck keeping the birds away.
Gumdoctor-In south florida, roses require a lot of work. I have never had success with roses or gardenias. I I'm so glad your roses are giving you so much pleasure.
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Jo6359 - Thank you. I too am very pleased they are doing so well. I truly need some success in something...some kind of progress...I miss my work so very much...
I think I am cheating with these Knock Out roses though. They require hardly anything compared to classic hybrid tea versions. Do the knock outs not do well there in Florida? I was reading an article about them being the most popular flowers in the south these days. This does not mean it is a true statement...
Gumdoctor
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gumdoctor- I don't know. I haven't attempted to grow roses and over 10 years because of my lack of success. I will check into the knockout roses
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Hybrid tea roses are a lot of work and frequently aren't fragrant. I go for perfume first, then color, then longevity in a vase. Of course, there are always surprises.
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It definitely pays to have newer varieties of plants. My yard had tons of roses when we moved here but I eventually took them all out. The tea roses were finicky, always had black spot and the shrub roses were hardier but hard to control, hard to weed under. I noticed that after this harsh winter cold that we had, all my neighbors boxwoods are dead or half dead. We bought a new variety that was supposed to be more cold hardy, and thank god , they are. However the hedge that the former owners planted is pretty much dead. It is just barely coming out so we may have to take that out next year.
The good news is I declared to my husband that I am solidly happy with the front and side yards after11 years of working on it. LOL. Now onto the back yard!
Scottie, I have been shooing the birds out of my cherry tree, which I know is pointless. If they eat the top, I will eat the bottom. They are just getting barely ripe. Usually I get enough even having to share.
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Two Hobbies, My niece, an artist, had been shooting crows with a slingshot and cherry pits away from her cherry tree. Being an artist, she had painted her car with roses so it was very distinctive. One day her DH was driving her car. A crow swooped right down over the windshield and dumped cherry colored poop. We're all sure the crow thought she was driving. So beware.
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Oh that is so funny, Wren. I tried a fake snake one year. I tried a motion sensor dinosaur that my son had. Nothing really works except one year we had the 17 year (?) cicadas and turns out the birds like cicadas better than cherries.
A slingshot you say, hmmm...
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