Southern Spirit Hunters
Gardening => Posies => Topic started by: kratz7 on Jul 20, 2007, 07:34:52 AM
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Hi everyone,
I thought I would share some of my pretty flowers for this Summer, I've had alot of fun doing all kinds of seeds this year.
enjoy,
Kratz7
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Pretty pictures!
I love the one with the butterfly!
Is the first one a Double-Lavender Angel Trumpet?
G-Mom
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Great pictures!
I was wondering if it was an Angel Trumpet, too. What is that pink flower? It looks like a pinwheel...;)
The butterfly looks like it has a head and shoulders shot of a person down by it's tail! Very cool! 8)
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You guessed it, I found a new love with this flower. I have alot of photos posted in my photobucket account......
This Love Lies Bleeding is an awesome addition too.
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Here's a closeup of the flowers.....It's just a fascinating plant.....
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:Wow: Is that a tree? That is rather an odd-looking plant. I love how the flowers just drape over...
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COOL plant!
I love how the flowers drape down like that :ThumbUp: Are they hard to grow?
G-Mom
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It is becoming like a tree, I hope it will Winter over.....if not I'll be collecting seeds from it this fall anyway... I planted a few seeds for Love Lies Bleeding and so far I got 1 plant. lol.
The pink flower in the 1st set of photos is seashell cosmos I believe. I have a bunch of cosmos all approaching bloom time....
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You have some nice garden bed areas. Very pretty! :)
Are the spider flowers "cleomes"?
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Thank You and yes, the spider flowers are cleomes, I should have posted that name too....lol :goofy:
I have been doing alot of edging of flowerbeds this year. We used to have landscape ties in the yard, but we took them all out this year as they made the landscape look dated.
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This is a castor bean plant, you have to be careful with this plant as it is poisonous if ingested....but then again who ingests dangerous seeds? lol.... You shouldn't have it in a house with children and or pets
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WOW those are some great flowers Charlotte!! It is charolotte right?? I am horrible with names!!
I really love the Love lies bleeding what a cool plant!!
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Hi Rita,
Yes my real name is Charlotte...... :SlapSelf:
The love lies bleeding plant has me totally fascinated too..... I wish I had a few more. I will be trying to save the seeds this year for seed swapping this Fall. And next year I would like to have a few more. They are totally cool the way they bloom. I'm also going to try and dry the flowers, I hope the keep their color as it's such a pretty red...... :Wow:
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These are pretty flowers too, I only wish I could remember their names.....lol
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The middle one is a black eyed susan in a harvest color ... I have some of those they are pretty...
I think the last one is a coricopius sp?
Top one looks like a purple cone flower but the middle looks like a sunflower?? Wierd but I am sure someone else will know for sure!!
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Maybe the bottom one is a coreopsis........I thought I had everything labeled....but you know how that goes........Hubby just laughs when he asks what something is and I have to say I don't know.....lol
I still have alot to learn........
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and zinnias are soo pretty too.........
What flowers do you have blooming? I would love to see :smile:
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Sure I have to go get some pics!!
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my zinnas almost like yours
Beebalm
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Fern leaf bleeding hearts
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my Favorite stargazer lily this is taller than I am .. I am 5'4"
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red astilbe
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Purple cone flower... Does not look like your purple one :unsure:
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these are what I have planted right in the middle of my veggie garden
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Hi Rita,
I LOVE ALL of your Flowers, they look marvelous.....I love this time of year when all of the flowers start putting on their show of color.......
The star gazer lily sounds really coo.... I have orange tiger lillies and they are about 3' tall. I also have purple datura that is getting to be a really cool plant.....the blooms don't last real long, but the flowers are gorgeous
this is the datura flower when starting to open....
our 4 in oone apple tree has apples on it this year, I hope they go all the way
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Ohhh cool I would love to have an apple tree!
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What other plants do you have blooming?
We have a third of an acre, but we seem to pack alot of punch into it.....lol
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I really don't have that much blooming right now :LOL: I have a few getting ready but not quite there...
this year I focused more on my first veggie garden I ever had :) Cause I like to can stuff!!
Do you have veggies too?
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My hubby had a vege garden for years, but he gave it to me this year to try alot of new seeds for flowers. I have done some swapping of seeds and got alot of really cool plants....So that has been my Summer Project along with all of my other flowerbeds...lol :Glee:
Here's a photo I took a little while ago.....
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What kind of veges did you plant?
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Those are some gorgeous flowers, Charlotte and Rita!
Does the desert rose bloom, Charlotte? I saw one at Wal-Mart the other day and nearly took it home with me. :smile: I love that butterfly/lily picture... :ThumbUp:
Rita, that is so neat that you put your flowers out in the middle of the veggie gardens! Does it draw more bees to the garden to help the veggies with pollination? :SmileyQmarks: That is an awesome close-up of the zinnia! :ThumbUp:
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That was my thought Dianna.. I was hoping they would help with polenation but with the male flowers and female flowers seem to not be blooming at the same time :SlapSelf: I have had only 6 of the summer squash so far this year and that is because I hand pollenated them :idea: I think this next year I better plant 2 of the plants instead of just 1!
Charlotte I planted
12 roma tomatoes
27 hot peppers
12 bell peppers
3 Cucumbers
1 summer Squash
Garlic ... not doing well :Whis: Should of planted in the fall
onions
and corn
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PS great Picture of the butterfly!! I love it when you get that perfect shot!! :ThumbUp:
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:Wow: So many beautiful flowers and different colors, it's like opening on of my garden catalogs. ;) Great job, Charlotte and Rita. :ThumbUp: Charlotte, is that a 'Stargazer' Lily with the butterfly on it? :ScratchHead:
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Thanks Patti!! I think it is a stargazer... Same exact color as mine!!
Ohhh here are is an updated pic of my garden this week
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Got lots of hot peppers popping up too!!
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:Wow: Your tomato plants are awesome, Rita! I only have 5 planted in the ground and a bush one in a pot. Actually, I had started two bush tomatoes in pots, but about 6 weeks ago when we had high winds the cherry tomato one snapped off right at the bottom. :SmileyFit: I was really upset because it was doing so good. :Crybaby2:
Here's a picture of them. The cherry tomato is the one of the right. This is the first time I've ever tried growing them in pots and it's kinda exciting. ;)
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Wow Patti they look great being you just planted them 6 weeks ago!!
Are you going to try and grow them indoors or do you have a green house??
I was doing some reading and some people actually get them to fruit indoors..???
I am just happy cause this is the first time I have ever planted a Veggie or fruit as they say hahaa
I didn't think I would have ANY luck at all!!
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Sorry, Rita, I guess I wasn't clear in what I said. :dunno: I didn't start the plants six weeks ago. It was 6 weeks ago when we got the strong winds that snapped off the cherry tomato plant. :Crybaby2: Actually, I started these sometime back in April from two tiny plants a friend gave me.
No, I'm not going to grow them indoors and I don't have a greenhouse. I guess I just did this for an experiment and I didn't want the plants I received to die.
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Yes, I believe so...I plant all types of flowers and then promptly forget what half of them are....lol
I Love flowers and all of the colors there are.
Rita, your garden looks great Do you plant the whole garden in a strip like that? That"s a really cool way of doing things. You certainly have alot planted...and it looks great. I miss our vege garden this year, as my hubby decided to take a year or two off and focus more on the flower gardening. Lucky for me..... He actually gave me the garden patch this year....I've done some seed swapping and recieved some really cool seeds to try. I've been having a blast.
Dianne,
The desert rose should bloom and yes the flower with the butterfly is a stargazer.
I love taking photos of butterflies on flowers, it;s the perfect match. :applause:
I actually had a website called gardening123 use one of my butterfly photos with an article they were doing.....I was pleasantly surprised when they e-mailed me about it. It was a 6 month timeframe between e-mailing them the photo and them using it. I had almost forgotten about it.lol
here's the link to the page...... I thought this was quite an honor..... :Wow:
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Ohhh that is awsome Charlotte!! It is a great honnor!!
Well I used to have a pine tree where the little maple tree is now... well it blew over in a storm... The area was pretty useless because of all the salt and sand from the winter, as well as from the pine needles.. Sooo I hauled in some top soil and decided to plant some Veggies... I didn't want to dig a big area at the time... I was not really sure if anything would grow very well... Sooo I did the strip and did my best at companion planting as I could..
Next year I am going to expand it a bit and plant a few more different things in a different manner..
So far I am thrilled with the results!!