Share pics from yours, a friend’s or a public garden you enjoyed visiting

[MarkD]

I decided I don’t like making a diary thread only about my own garden. I’d much prefer sharing those pics with others who like to do the same in a thread like the one called A Nice Walk. So if you see something of interest in a garden you’d like to share, please do.

Just this weekend I noticed flower stalks emerging from some of my Brunsvigia bulbs. These are large African bulbs which usually bloom first with the leaves coming later. Naked Ladies are a popular example.

Here are the first couple of Brunsvigia littoralis flowers starting to come up for me this year.

Pleasantly surprised to see my Brunsvigia josephinae also might have a flower coming up for the first time.

My friend Bart received this very old, extra large blooming Brunsvigia josephinae bulb from an aging friend who’d received it from a deceased collector. It bloomed for the first time this year for him and I got to see it on a recent visit.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

The first 2 photos were taken on the way to my parents house. The first is hollyhocks

The 2nd one is wild sweet peas

The next three are from my neighbours house when I was garden sitting. They went away and asked me to look after their garden

The first is a bumble bee buzzing around a sunflower

The next 2 are Dahlias

 

[MarkD]

The first 2 photos were taken on the way to my parents house. The first is hollyhocks
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The 2nd one is wild sweet peas
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The next three are from my neighbours house when I was garden sitting. They went away and asked me to look after their garden

The first is a bumble bee buzzing around a sunflower
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The next 2 are Dahlias View attachment 361955View attachment 361956

I love that hollyhock and the orange flower and I used to know the name of what I think is that orange flower at the end. I love a garden with a wild vibe and I definitely get the feeling that nature is holding its own at your mom's garden. Hope she is still going strong.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

These lilacs are from my lilac garden. The garden has 8 different lilac bushes.
These next clematis are from my garden lot.

 

[MarkD]

You Lilac garden must have smelled heavenly!

 

[MarkD]

Is this one a clematis or a lilac? Just gorgeous whatever it is.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

You Lilac garden must have smelled heavenly!

I didn’t open my windows often but when these lilacs were blooming, I did. It WAS heavenly.

Is this one a clematis or a lilac? Just gorgeous whatever it is.

Lilac. The first 2 photos are lilacs.

 

[Ronni]

 

[RadishRose]

These lilacs are from my lilac garden. The garden has 8 different lilac bushes. View attachment 361989View attachment 361988
These next clematis are from my garden lot.
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Fabulous, @PeppermintPatty !

 

[Kadee]

We normally travel to Queensland each winter for 7 to 8 weeks to “escape” from the South Aust , chilling winter winds we get here

This year we traveled above Brisbane ( Capital city of Queensland ) to an area we’d not been to before
This area is near Noosa a 3 hours drive from our favourite destination in QLD (Coolangatta)

back yard of home we stayed in ….which backs into the golf course ( pictured ) most parts of QLD is normally like a spring day in winter…. However it was very cool/ cloudy / wet this year

 

[Kadee]

 

[Kadee]

 

[MarkD]

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Just a lovely spot.

 

[squatting dog]

Out front, banana tree's are coming along.
Also, potato, carrot, radish, tomato and Rosella.
Out back, more tomato's, Rosella, sugar cane and out latest addition, a fig tree.
So, remember......................................

 

[MarkD]

We normally travel to Queensland each winter for 7 to 8 weeks to “escape” from the South Aust , chilling winter winds we get here

This year we traveled above Brisbane ( Capital city of Queensland ) to an area we’d not been to before
This area is near Noosa a 3 hours drive from our favourite destination in QLD (Coolangatta)

back yard of home we stayed in ….which backs into the golf course ( pictured ) most parts of QLD is normally like a spring day in winter…. However it was very cool/ cloudy / wet this year





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Love your native plant palette. Many plants that do well down under also do well in coastal California. The arboretum at Santa Cruz which has an extensive collection of Aussie plants is where I got this lovely thing, a low growing plant.

That is a US penny for size comparison with the flowers which I mostly love for the flower color. Bloomed for many months nonstop.

 

[MarkD]

I didn’t open my windows often but when these lilacs were blooming, I did. It WAS heavenly.

Lilac. The first 2 photos are lilacs.

That orange one from your first post made me think of large Zinnias I've seen elsewhere. I've never grown on yet but I am tempted.

If I'd never seen one I would've guess dahlia too. But like the dahlias these seem to come in pretty diverse and beautiful colors. Not my photos:

https://flic.kr/p/2xxQLb

 

[RadishRose]

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Beautiful pic, flowers and both of you @Ronni . Are those coreopsis?

 

[Kadee]

Not really gardens ….this the New South Wales / Queensland boarder the line is right up the middle of the medium strip of lawn / trees …..QLD of left NSW in right

 

[MarkD]

Out front, banana tree's are coming along.
Also, potato, carrot, radish, tomato and Rosella.
Out back, more tomato's, Rosella, sugar cane and out latest addition, a fig tree.
So, remember......................................


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That is such good advice for keeping some perspective.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

That orange one from your first post made me think of large Zinnias I've seen elsewhere. I've never grown on yet but I am tempted.

If I'd never seen one I would've guess dahlia too. But like the dahlias these seem to come in pretty diverse and beautiful colors. Not my photos:

https://flic.kr/p/2xxQLb

Oh wow. Thats it! Zinnias. I know they grow from bulbs. I wasn’t good at growing bulb flowers, except for canna lilies. I had hundreds of those.

 

[GoneFishin]

Niagara Parks Botanical Gardens

 

[Paco Dennis]

Our garden this year. Volunteer cherry tomatoes, and a zucchini plant. We are getting about 10 cherry tomatoes a day now. Zucchini will be a bit late...about 3 weeks.

 

[Pepper]

Always enjoyed schlepping over to Brooklyn Botanic Garden for the Cherry Trees, but it's gotten much too crowded with humans lately!

 

[GoneFishin]

Floral Clock Niagara Parks

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Love your native plant palette. Many plants that do well down under also do well in coastal California. The arboretum at Santa Cruz which has an extensive collection of Aussie plants is where I got this lovely thing, a low growing plant.

That is a US penny for size comparison with the flowers which I mostly love for the flower color. Bloomed for many months nonstop.

These little mauve umbrella cups are the cutest. A good thing you used your thumb as a comparison. How long have you been growing ‘professionally?’


Various flowers grown from my gardens.

Always enjoyed schlepping over to Brooklyn Botanic Garden for the Cherry Trees, but it's gotten much too crowded with humans lately!

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Cherry trees are beautiful. Then again, I like most fruit trees. My husband uses fallen cherry trees for the wood. He never chops his own fruit wood. He waits until it’ falls on its own. Cherry wood is especially great for turning to make bowls or wooden utensils like salad forks or spoons.