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Post by lugg on Jul 15, 2012 6:22:58 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2012 9:34:52 GMT
Outrageous blooms Lugg!! The water droplets on the alstromeria make it an even more beautiful pic. I understand that you folks across the pond are getting more than your fair share of rain this summer.
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Post by lugg on Jul 15, 2012 16:12:43 GMT
We certainly are
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2012 23:36:03 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 17, 2012 3:37:30 GMT
Such happy & beautiful flower pictures, Lugg! Love the gazania against that deep blue and the alstromeria ~~ *swoon*
Love your lush tropicals, Casimira, & can almost smell the ginger from here.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 17, 2012 19:32:15 GMT
This is the main bloomer in my yard right now. I've been calling it "Wild Aster" all these years and just found out it's really "Showy Fleabane". Ya learn something new every day!
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Post by Kimby on Jul 17, 2012 19:33:28 GMT
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is the other, though less showy, main bloomer now.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 17, 2012 19:35:24 GMT
But a week or two ago, you should have seen - and smelled - the Mock Orange My favorite of the native shrubs around here. A reliable bloomer around the 4th of July.
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Post by lugg on Jul 18, 2012 17:41:15 GMT
Fabulous Casi and Kimby
I love the smell of Mock orange , I had a huge bush in the garden of my previous home. I should plant one here.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 20, 2012 0:00:03 GMT
Fabulous pictures, Kimby! That last one of the mock orange is a real knock-out. I loved the yarrow one, as well, & not just because I'm quite fond of yarrows.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 23, 2012 2:44:31 GMT
The yarrow at the lake cottage is thriving, growing in huge clumps like nursery cultivars, when it should be struggling to regain its footing after the bulldozers got done rearranging its home!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2012 10:07:05 GMT
Lovely yarrow. I'm partial to the white one. Too wet for it here I'm afraid, It gets to looking limp and the foliage positively withers in the humidity.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 24, 2012 2:08:56 GMT
Tuberose & Salvia - - -? GORGEOUS.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2012 23:12:21 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 25, 2012 2:37:10 GMT
So pretty! I don't know what it is, though I'm sure someone does. The park picture is like a song.
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Post by lugg on Jul 25, 2012 3:50:52 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 25, 2012 5:31:24 GMT
I ADORE your flower pictures, Lugg! What a beautifully thriving garden. What's the plant just beneath the kniphofia (?) & the mallow?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2012 5:48:12 GMT
Everything is in bloom! We'll need to create extra room on this thread.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2012 10:14:45 GMT
I ADORE your flower pictures, Lugg! What a beautifully thriving garden. What's the plant just beneath the kniphofia (?) & the mallow? Yes!! I need to know what this flower is !!!
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Post by bjd on Jul 25, 2012 11:26:22 GMT
Almost nothing is in bloom in my garden -- too dry and hot. We haven't had any rain for weeks.
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Post by lugg on Jul 25, 2012 17:58:08 GMT
K2 - just looking at your pics again - is that a pond in the bottom left ?
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Post by lugg on Jul 25, 2012 18:06:58 GMT
Hi Bixa - the flower is a close up of a Hosta ( Twilight) Yes it is a kniphofia above ( Sunningdale Yellow) Or I call them Yellow Hot Pokers.
Casi - I love this shrub . It was very popular in British gardens in Victorian times , much less so now, in fact hardly seen . I love it because it needs no care - seeds itself but is not aggressive and easily removed , the birds adore the berries andthey can feed them well into Winter. (I will post some later in the year) I know it as Himalayan Honeysuckle but the correct name (which I have just googled) is leycesteria formosa
- I guess that has its ups and downs bjd - whereabouts are you ?
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Post by bjd on Jul 25, 2012 18:32:47 GMT
In Toulouse, in southwestern France.
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Post by mich64 on Jul 25, 2012 18:39:32 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 25, 2012 19:35:31 GMT
Wow...you do love your gardens don't you I got a few pics too... dahlia tahoma star cornflower delphinium chinensis blue butterfly rudbeckia cherry brandy veronica spicata icicle night scented stock gazania kiss bronze tiny astilbe great big astilbe cleome violet queen
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Post by mich64 on Jul 25, 2012 20:40:49 GMT
Cheery, I love all of your new additions but especially the cornflower, that is my favorite... my grandmother always had so many varieties.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 30, 2012 8:04:01 GMT
Thanks Mich...my sister gave me the cornflowers ;D she'd grown them from seed...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2012 8:22:52 GMT
K2 - just looking at your pics again - is that a pond in the bottom left ? Just getting back to this! Almost the entire background is water -- one of the little side pools in the Tuileries.
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Post by mich64 on Jul 30, 2012 16:53:46 GMT
Cheery, my grandmother and mother had always grown from seed as well. My mom used to have envelopes of seeds in the crisper in the fridge or in the cold room. I had not thought about that in years...
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 1, 2012 15:17:28 GMT
Aw...it is a nice thing to do, growing from seed. Not necessarily cost-effective but satisfying.
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