Gardening, anyone?
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Found this lovely bouquet of flowers today at the growers market for $5. I cannot think of anything better for five bucks!
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You couldn't spend $5 better. Well done! Lovely
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Beautiful! $5 well spent. I can't wait to see what our farmer's market might have this weekend.
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Really pretty. Makes me want to look for some myself.
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Jackbirdie and Jazzy, thanks for the welcome.
My yard right now is a hotbed of hummingbird activity, so I had to share. They are so entertaining! Makes me wish I had a better camera than just the one on my phone, so I could do their colors justice.
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Kiki- I absolutely ADORE hummingbirds. It's a beautiful shot and it made me smile. When I was recovering from BMX surgery sometimes the only possible thing that could get me out of bed was the chance of seeing a hummer at my feeder. They have become special guardian angels to me.
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Kiki- love your feeder and hummers. My yard is filled with them too, they like to buzz around my head and so close sometimes that I feel the breeze from their wings. One of my cousins says when that happens, I am being kissed by the divine! I like that!
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DS family has a feeder that's attached to their dining room window. They come right up to the window to feed and you can get a really close look at their colors.
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Love the hummer photo and all the others! I'm sending a few of natives that are surviving on day 6 of 100 degrees. I'm making myself get outside and enjoy the beauty - glad since I caught this butterfly hanging around the Mystic Spires. Jackbirdie I felt the flutter of its wings on my face -more divine kisses. Linda
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what magic, that butterfly! Beautiful
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Gorgeous Booklady!
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Booklady, What is the name of the yellow flowers on the tall stocks? I have some but don't know where they came from or what they are. I suspect they're a wildflower by the way they spread.
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thank you! The yellowis Esperanza, or yellow bells. It's a native - really showy and grows 6-8 ft tall and spread then dies back in the winter. Hummingbirds and bees love it and it lives through this horrible heat.
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Teka- love the photos. LOL on the cat nip. Water lillies are some of my favorites!
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Ha ha! Catnip photo a good start to this day. Love the Water Lilies too - I envy you! Linda
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Book lady what is that lovely orange and red flower? Something I'm sure that won't grow in Chicago!
Kiki are your daisies blooming now? Do you know what variety that are? I have some early bloomers but I see some that bloomed here later and I'd like to have some later bloomers too. They are a favorite.
Jazzy there is never a better buy than a bouquet of flowers. Those are gorgeous.
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My limelight hydrangeas are blooming!
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beautiful hydrangea
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So pretty TwoHobbies. I love hydrangeas, but cannot grown them here (too hot!)
My flowers from the farmers market are still really beautiful! I love buying flowers for myself on occaison!
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It's funny because I see you growing a lot of the same plants we do Jazzy , but then there will be something totally different like your cacti. These are a little more heat tolerant but actually I was noticing I need to water them. Ugh! It finally turned summer here with upper 80s and no rain for several days so now I need to water!
Here's some wildflowers from my walk today. I walk around a lake and I do enjoy the changing seasons of wildflowers.
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TwoHobbies- yes, many things will grow here in the high desert that I was able to have in gardens in other places, but some things just won't make it with the heat (even if you water a lot). Our TX friends here know about that too!
I love your wildflowers. We have many of the same wildflowers here, at least the purple asters and yellow black eyed Susan's. So pretty!
What part of the country do you live in?
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Hi TwoHobbies - your limelight hydrangea is gorgeous, and so are the wildflowers! The variety in my photo is "Polaris Shasta Daisy", and they have just this week finished blooming. It's Zone 3 - Hardy (I'm in the Rocky Mountain region). I'll bet a good local nursery could find you something comparable for your region.
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TwoHobbies- the composition of your wildflower photo was just striking. Just sayin'
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Jackbirdie most of the time I take a photo and I can't get it to look as it looks to my eye. Of course I'm usually using a cell phone. Thanks for the compliment though.
Thanks, Kiki for the daisy variety. I am in zone 5. I will look into that one.
Jazzy I'm in the Chicago area. Hot summer, cold winter. In the spring you had a picture of salvia, creeping phlox and thrifts and I almost fell over because that is what I have along my walkway! And we have a wisteria too! Although those thrifts have been a bit of a challenge. Our soil is too clay like for them really.
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TwoHobbies- the salvia is doing great, does really well here and the phlox is doing well too. Thrifts are trickier though.
We have had a ton of rain this year with El Ninjo and monsoons so everything here is doing so well this year. I lost two trees with the drought, and replanted a couple and my big ash tree has been almost half dead but has rallied this year with some pruning AND all the moisture. We may get a snowy winter, which is more moisture for the dry earth here.
AZ, NM and TX are coming out of there multi-year droughts. I just wish CA could get more moisture, they are still hurting.
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Geraniums are loving all the rain.
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I turned to gardening on my balcony. I go out there and sit everyday and feel transformed and forget all about the big "C". I'll include a few pics. Most of my seed came from Burpee and most did not thrive. Contacted Burpee and they told me my planters were not deep enough and the plants I sought to grow were all wrong for a balcony garden. Great !! where in their manual did it say not to use for a balcony garden. They will be helping me put in a winter veggie garden with recommendations for my area and next summer helping me design a new garden. Fortunately they have credited me for all my seed and plants I purchased from them.
My Indeterminate tomatoes are not 7 feet tall, I only have 8 tomatoes just sitting there not turning red, the determinate early girl never produced anything and the cherry tomatoes (semi-determinate) are also stalled. I lost my cucumber plant to a virus. Still waiting on the pepper plant to produce ... something. I do have nice flowers though. Was hoping I could eat from the produce I am growing this summer. Burpee told me maybe Fall when it cools down my tomatoes may turn red, LOL.
Between the planters, soil, fertilizer and pest control I sent a fortune and so far nothing is growing very well.
Will enclose pics of some of the success, LOL.
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Took a quick trip to Home Depot this morning to get just a few things to spruce up the gardens. Did not find any mums, but added some lantana's to my front pots. They do well in the heat and should be nice into the fall. We usually don't get a hard freeze here until very late October or even in to November. So whatever I plant now will hopefully continue to be good through the fall!
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Lantanas are another of my favorites. Because they are multicolored. I think I see a pattern here.
djol, I don't know where you live but we have had such a cool, rainy summer here in the midwest that I would not have had one tomato had I planted any. Strawberries were weak this year and very late. We just got real warmth and a break from the rain the last couple of weeks and finally my petunias are filling out. Even my planters on the north side didn't really thrive. Only the marigolds and zinnias looked good. The south side ones are fine. I'm trying to grow sunflowers in containers to outsmart the chipmunks. I have a few that are just starting to get buds so I may see a few after all, but I was starting to think I wouldn't even get one sunflower before fall.
I'd have been happy to share rain with California or anywhere else that needs it!
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My russian sage in the back yard got pruned tonight as all the rain has made it grow out of control and it is now crowding everything in one corner of the garden. Shoots are growing up everywhere around the area, between the cacti, etc. Sage gone wild!
I was always told not to water them much as if they get too much water, they explode with growth. Now I have seen it with my own eyes! This is the wettest summer I have seen here at the house, and although many things have grown in/filled in nicely this year, some things have needed to be pruned back a couple times.
Such a problem to have in the desert, eh?
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