2022 flowers & garden

Trila said:
Thank you....that is one of my favorite plants. I have been dividing and replanting them for years....I probably have at least 5 dozen orange glory plants around the house! They attract humming birds and butterflies.
Here are some more, on the other side of the house....
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Thanks for sharing your photos, @Trila. Beautiful! I will need to check these out. I've done the same with my pastel purple irises - I've also divided them and planted them around the property! But I love the color of these Orange Glories!! I also like the idea that they attract hummingbirds and butterflies!
 
palides2021 said:
Thanks for sharing your photos, @Trila. Beautiful! I will need to check these out. I've done the same with my pastel purple irises - I've also divided them and planted them around the property! But I love the color of these Orange Glories!! I also like the idea that they attract hummingbirds and butterflies!
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(Shhhh! I'll tell you a secret....)
Orange Glory grows wild where I live. I got my first plant from along side the road! 😁. Now, the wild ones are usually thin and small....I never dreamed that once they were in more of a garden type environment, they would grow so big and full! Since you do not live in my area, you can look them up online. I have seen them for sale in the plant catalogs.
 
Trila said:
(Shhhh! I'll tell you a secret....)
Orange Glory grows wild where I live. I got my first plant from along side the road! 😁. Now, the wild ones are usually thin and small....I never dreamed that once they were in more of a garden type environment, they would grow so big and full!
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Love that story, and the way you told it, too. (y):D

It's great when one enjoys maximizing a wild natural plant, in your own area, and then, to see it thrive. ☺️

And, Don't worry; we won't tell anyone! 🤫🤗😁
 
Well, well, well. About two weeks ago there was a bunny in the garden. About a week ago most of the blooms disappeared from the impatiens. I sprayed the impatiens with Critter Ridder. A couple of days ago the blooms disappeared from a couple of the gerber daisies. They and the rest of them got sprayed with Critter Ridder. I swore that the bunny was going to turn into Hasenpfeffer!

I didn't know if the bunny was a mama bunny or not but yesterday saw a tiny bunny flailing around under some plants and was afraid it wandered off and lost its mama. Figured out that the flower-eating bunny was a mama bunny. This morning I was watering and discovered a tiny bunny hiding in a hole near the flowers. Hm. Water. Where do bunnies get water? I put a little bowl of water near their nest.

I was just outside and saw three baby bunnies hopping around close to where I saw the first one. Wut wo. Need to stock up on Critter Ridder! There's plenty for them to eat without eating my flowers.
 
Kaila said:
@Trila
Zinnias in a container like that, must need very frequent watering, to look so beautiful and healthy! (y) Wonderful colors!:D

I also love seeing your meadows, and the butterflies,
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@Kaila
 
MountainRa said:
This is a picture of my 4‘o’clock plants that I took tonight. They are so named because they close up in the day and start opening around 4 o’clock . Problem is I usually forget to go look at them after dark.

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I love 4'O'clocks! They have many different color blooms, and even variegated petal ones. I have grown them, in years past.
Have not had any recently. Thanks for reminding me of them, and it's nice to see you, @MountainRa :)
 
We planted Lantana and Pygmy Impatiens in the pots in our courtyard in May. Our gardener put in "drips" that keep them watered.

This pic was taken at that time. For some reason, the flowers on the Lantana plants went away. I thought maybe it had gotten too hot, but now the blooms are coming back big time. Maybe they just needed time to take root?

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dseag2 said:
We planted Lantana and Pygmy Impatiens in the pots in our courtyard in May. Our gardener put in "drips" that keep them watered.

This pic was taken at that time. For some reason, the flowers on the Lantana plants went away. I thought maybe it had gotten too hot, but now the blooms are coming back big time. Maybe they just needed time to take root?

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Beautiful ! That looks like such a nice, peaceful place to relax and have some cool drinks. It reminds me of the remodel a friend of mine and her S.O. (in California) did in their backyard.
 
More flowers from other parts of the courtyard. The bottom picture..these were planted by my neighbor-friend and her husband. They are visible from the master bedroom window and I pass them on the way down to the laundry room. Can someone please tell me the name of the flowers in the middle photo?

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dseag2 said:
These are beautiful! It would put me in a good mood just seeing them every day. (y)
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Thank you (on behalf of our Garden Committee). I truly feel blessed that I live in the heart of the city but can look out of my window, patio door and see an abundance of flowers, bushes and trees instead of a concrete jungle. This is the view from the parking lot. The tree on the left is actually our cherry blossom tree.

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Like I said earlier, our Lantana plants were full of blooms when we planted them but lost the blooms for almost a month. I thought it was because of the heat, but they are going strong again! Maybe it just took some time for the roots to take hold.

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I'm gonna try to post a picture. If it works, I'll post more. >le sigh< Guess I've already forgotten how. Again.

Somebody (@Trila ?) tell me step by step? Pretty please?
 
Georgiagranny said:
I'm gonna try to post a picture. If it works, I'll post more. >le sigh< Guess I've already forgotten how. Again.

Somebody (@Trila ?) tell me step by step? Pretty please?
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I may take the long way home when doing it, but I take a picture on my phone, send it to myself in email and then click on the arrow to download it onto my laptop. Then when I'm posting I click on Attach Files at the bottom left of the post. That takes me back to the Downloads on my laptop and I click on the appropriate picture. You then have to choose between Thumbnail and Full View. Click on Full View.

I hope you can follow my directions. I hate reading directions and would have given up after the second sentence. :ROFLMAO:
 
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