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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 4, 2019 15:56:03 GMT
I don't think Houzz is exactly showing the norm. Do none of those people have to work within a budget? But yes, the ideas shown are wonderful in how they inspire us to try things in our own settings.
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Post by bjd on Jul 8, 2019 9:33:10 GMT
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Post by bjd on Jul 8, 2019 9:39:47 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 8, 2019 10:05:13 GMT
Great show bjd!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 8, 2019 17:45:37 GMT
Oh, I love the flowers you've chosen, Bjd, so many romantic classics livened up with the hot pop of crocosmia and that wonderful bronze-leaved heuchera*. What is that lovely white flower in the second picture? It sort of resembles hydrangea, but ... ?
*I recently found out that heuchera attracts butterflies.
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Post by bjd on Jul 8, 2019 19:07:10 GMT
It is a hydrangea, Bixa. It's called Hortensia Vanille-Fraise (vanilla-strawberry) because the flowers start off white then become pink during the blooming season. It was developed in France. It's got more flexible branches than the traditional hydrangeas.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 8, 2019 19:22:17 GMT
It is really a super plant! The most beautiful hydrangea displays I've ever seen were in France, with England a close second. One of the reasons I doubted it was a hydrangea was because I thought I remembered your saying somewhere that you didn't care for them.
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Post by bjd on Jul 9, 2019 5:41:47 GMT
You're right, Bixa, I didn't care for hydrangeas when they were those common pinkish bushes. But there seem to be new kinds around, and the advantage seems to be that they bloom for quite a long time and are hardy in this climate. A house around the corner has a white climbing hydrangea, a hortensia petiolaris. Also, the acidic soil around here means the common ones tend to be purply blue rather than faded pink.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 9, 2019 11:33:48 GMT
That hydrangea is gorgeous...too big for our small space...but one day...when I win the lottery...
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 9, 2019 11:37:09 GMT
I'm having a sit down after gardening for an hour...clearing the faded early summer stuff...look what I found behind the big clover thingy....so chuffed. It's been in for years and usually only has one flower....it must be very happy...as am I
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 9, 2019 17:18:37 GMT
That really is thrilling, Cheery -- and so striking!
Bjd, you are lucky to have acidic soil, as too true about the indifferent pink of hydrangeas otherwise. Are you going to try gardenia? They languish in the wrong soil, but can turn into spectacular large shrubs when happy.
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Post by bjd on Jul 9, 2019 18:28:11 GMT
No gardenias for me, Bixa. I have tried a few times -- in pots -- but with no luck. They just turn brown and die. I'll just stick with things that grow well. My garden yesterday, from either side of the house looking toward the street.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 9, 2019 19:59:21 GMT
So very, very pretty, Bjd! It's doubly impressive that it's so established looking already. You all must have worked like fiends to get that soft, lush look so soon. And the fence is even more wonderful now with stuff growing in front of it. How did you all think of using two colors? I would have been leery of doing so, but it works beautifully.
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Post by bjd on Jul 10, 2019 6:27:32 GMT
Ha, ha --the two colours. As I mentioned somewhere, the colour was absolutely not what I had expected. I thought it was going to be gray and sort of blend in. So I started painting and then gave up after about 5 panels, thinking the blue was just too much. A few weeks later, my husband thought we may as well finish the paint so he painted what he had enough paint for, alternating panels and doing those where nothing big was growing.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 10, 2019 6:29:42 GMT
I am not kidding -- you absolutely ought to send that in to Houzz!
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 19, 2019 18:38:35 GMT
Calla lilies
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 22, 2019 19:03:10 GMT
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Post by lugg on Jul 22, 2019 19:22:42 GMT
Such beautiful blooms all , really enjoy seeing your photos.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 22, 2019 23:34:23 GMT
Love calla lilies. Those are lovely, Mick.
I know I sound like a twit, but you really do have the dreamiest flowers, Cheery!
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Post by bjd on Jul 23, 2019 6:52:18 GMT
Oh, you managed to get red gaillarda, Cheery! I once bought what I thought would be red ones and they turned out to be the yellow ones with a bit of red. They did last for years.
What are the flowers in the 3rd and 4th pictures?
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 23, 2019 8:57:26 GMT
Thank you...the plants do all the work!
bjd...#3 foxglove illumination flame, supposed to be perennial but needs protection from frost
#4 achillea the darker one is cerise queen but not sure what the other one is.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 23, 2019 19:54:47 GMT
All of this is lovely, but will it look as good after the current heat wave? Maybe you can show is if anything bad happens.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 23, 2019 19:59:08 GMT
I'm watering early morning and evening...until we get a hosepipe ban...then it'll be watering cans
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 23, 2019 20:12:10 GMT
Me too...
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 3, 2019 9:39:20 GMT
Green flowered Kniphophia
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Post by amboseli on Aug 3, 2019 14:16:18 GMT
A lot of our flowering plants have died from the two heatwaves. We still have a lot of colour in our garden/on our terrace, though. Here's what's in bloom today ... tuin by M & M's travels & trips, on Flickr
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 3, 2019 14:39:15 GMT
Gorgeous, Amboseli! Everything looks so fresh that I wouldn't have known your garden & terrace were under heat attack if you hadn't told us. Your hollyhocks are wonderful. Is the first picture a hollyhock also? Great color combination on the dahlias. I am thrilled to see coneflowers in pots, as I didn't know they could be grown that way.
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Post by amboseli on Aug 3, 2019 15:17:02 GMT
Thanks Bixa. We've had some rain these last days. Good for the recovery of the plants. I've had to throw away the bacopa, verbena and the violets. The first picture is from a big hibiscus syriacus (garden hibiscus) shrub. And, yes, our coneflowers seem to be very happy in their pots.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 3, 2019 16:05:17 GMT
Great show Amboseli!
My sweet peas got burnt but look like recovering.Pot tomatoes stopped flowering.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 3, 2019 20:31:34 GMT
Glorious flowers amboseli, beautiful.
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