|
|
Post by lugg on Jul 7, 2024 19:18:44 GMT
The iris gets more beautiful every day. Its lovely - I have never seen one so multi coloured |
|
|
|
Post by lugg on Jul 7, 2024 19:26:41 GMT
Mick that Australian Violet is lovely, so delicate
|
|
|
|
Post by lugg on Jul 7, 2024 19:48:13 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by Kimby on Jul 7, 2024 21:33:24 GMT
Gorgeous plant portraits! Finally I have some to share, now that the irises are cooperating with me. Cimarron Trail iris has now got SIX blooms!  Pink Boogie  Celebration Song  |
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Jul 7, 2024 22:17:07 GMT
Your garden is all old-fashioned glory and abundance, Lugg -- just beautiful!
What are the flowers right before the passion flower, please, and what are the ones in the last two pictures. I love them!
|
|
|
|
Post by htmb on Jul 7, 2024 22:56:43 GMT
Beautiful blooms, Lugg, and super sharp photos!
|
|
|
|
Post by lugg on Jul 8, 2024 19:09:43 GMT
Thank you
What are the flowers right before the passion flower, please, and what are the ones in the last two pictures. I love them
Alstroemeria - I think Indian Summer but not sure
Then a close up of a Hydrangea -- I do know what but will have to go look it up
The last two are of an shrub most popular in Victorian times .. Leycesteria formosa became a popular plant in Victorian shrubberies, grown because the berries were relished by the pheasants raised as game birds on country estates – whence the English common name pheasant berry
Leycesteria formosa ...Himalayan Honeysuckle/ Pheasant Berry ...birds certainly do love the berries in the Autumn and they see them through early Winter.
|
|
|
|
Post by lugg on Jul 8, 2024 19:10:18 GMT
kimby love your Iris .
|
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Jul 9, 2024 3:08:34 GMT
Oh! The alstroemeria I'd recognized, but did not recognize the hydrangea that close up. Leycesteria formosa ...Himalayan Honeysuckle/ Pheasant Berry I waaaant this more than words can say! Kimby, you sneakily edited your post to add more pictures. Your irises are indeed magnificent. |
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Jul 10, 2024 0:10:30 GMT
Tod's croton & bamboo-leafed plant posts have been moved to Foliage. |
|
|
|
Post by bjd on Jul 10, 2024 18:54:10 GMT
It's nearly 9pm and I stepped outside to take a picture of some liatris. It's the first time I have planted any.   |
|
|
|
Post by lugg on Jul 10, 2024 20:00:36 GMT
They are just lovely bjd
|
|
|
|
Post by tod2 on Jul 12, 2024 13:13:40 GMT
What a delightful shade of pink Bjd.
|
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Jul 12, 2024 14:21:33 GMT
I've never grown them. Looks like an interesting landscape addition & they're beautiful in those last warm rays of sunlight.
|
|
|
|
Post by bjd on Jul 12, 2024 15:57:42 GMT
What a delightful shade of pink Bjd. It's obviously a camera problem, they are in fact light purple.
|
|
|
|
Post by Kimby on Jul 13, 2024 4:59:31 GMT
I've never grown them. Looks like an interesting landscape addition & they're beautiful in those last warm rays of sunlight. Butterflies love them! I have some that have been blooming every year for decades. They get no care. |
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Jul 13, 2024 6:29:25 GMT
Seems perfect for a classic prairie garden!
|
|
|
|
Post by Kimby on Jul 13, 2024 12:22:07 GMT
Kimby, you sneakily edited your post to add more pictures. Your irises are indeed magnificent. Not sneaky, just a time lag between posting the text and switching to “desktop” mode so I can add photos. |
|
|
|
Post by mickthecactus on Jul 14, 2024 16:44:17 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by mickthecactus on Jul 14, 2024 16:45:09 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Jul 14, 2024 17:34:09 GMT
Absolutely gorgeous, Mick! You have a wonderful array of colors & textures. The white hydrangea has stolen my heart.
|
|
|
|
Post by Kimby on Jul 15, 2024 2:50:14 GMT
I love Mick’s penultimate flower. Is it a Gaillardia?
|
|
|
|
Post by bjd on Jul 15, 2024 5:56:45 GMT
It might be a helenium.
|
|
|
|
Post by mickthecactus on Jul 15, 2024 8:03:03 GMT
Mrs Cactus bought it at the market and thinks the stall holder said Helenium.
|
|
|
|
Post by tod2 on Jul 15, 2024 9:21:43 GMT
Wonderful blooms Mick! Yes the little Violas? did it for me with a close second of the white hydrangea..
|
|
|
|
Post by mickthecactus on Jul 15, 2024 9:25:40 GMT
Sheer serendipity. I didn’t plant them.
We used an old pot of used compost for the solar light and up they came!
|
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Jul 15, 2024 16:38:09 GMT
Ohhhh -- that's a solar light! I thought it was a gazing ball. How lovely!
|
|
|
|
Post by lugg on Jul 16, 2024 19:31:29 GMT
They are beautiful blooms Mick - your hydrangea leaves look so much healthier than mine and yours is in a pot too . What do you feed it ( if anything) ?? I have had it for 3 seasons ... the first year it did really well, last year nada blooms and looked almost dead , this year it is making a comeback . Any tips most welcome live.staticflickr.com/65535/53860444087_0a4d1db66b_c.jpg |
|
|
|
Post by mickthecactus on Jul 16, 2024 20:32:47 GMT
Thanks lugg.
It gets Miracle Gro once a fortnight, always well watered and in the shade most of the time.
|
|
|
|
Post by mickthecactus on Jul 16, 2024 21:01:11 GMT
Oh, and pruned. And I thought I’d overdone the pruning at first.
Actually I’m not a hydrangea fan but I saw locally a mass planting of white hydrangeas in the front of a house from about 1850 and it was magnificent. The other colours don’t do it for me.
|
|
