HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?

[Prissy]

Monica,

Beautiful yellow lilies!  Love the closeups.   That is a very nice bed you created, too.   I know you are enjoying seeing the baby geese.  What are they called?  Goslings?   

[aikenismyidol]

Not sure, That sounds right.

love you

[KSChristian4Clay]

Here is a sample of my flowers ....

[Prissy]

Welcome to the Garden Thread, Meesa.  Beautiful pictures of , I believe, irises, and a pink rose.  I hope we will see more of you around here! 

[KSChristian4Clay]

You will! I've always lurked here but never posted in this thread. My irises all seemed to bloom this year. I'm hoping to get more colors planted for next year. And my pink roses are just starting to bloom. They're right by the front door.

M Sis - Love your flowers! I know you have been working hard on them. 

[dudley5]

I HAVE BEEN GATHERING PHOTOS OF MY FLOWERS FOR AWHILE BUT WAITING TO POST UNTIL SHIRLEY COULD SEE THEM AS SHE REQUESTED THESE SO BEWARE....I HAVE ALOT....

[dudley5]

PINK KNOCKOUT












MY EVER BLOOMING IRIS

[dudley5]

THIS IS MY ROSE SHRUB AND A DON JUAN THAT HAVE BEEN FLOODED UNDERWATER TWICE THIS YEAR AND HAVE DROPPED THEIR LEAVES BUT KEEP ON BLOOMING...





















ANOTHER DON JUAN

[dudley5]

YELLOW KNOCKOUT ROSES THAT JUST FINISHED BLOOMING WITH WAVE PETUNIAS IN THE SAME POT



ONE OF MY MANY BIRD FEEDERS HANGING AROUND THE YARD

[Prissy]

Dudley/Linda,

 

I feel like I've been on a garden tour.  Your flowers are lovely;  so many roses and hibiscus and irises, too.  I really like what you did with the curved edging.  We had some around our trees in front, then made the circle bigger and used pave stones.  Now I have an idea what to do with the curved edging.  I especially liked the bed you made with several curved pieces!!



This is my favorite of your pictures,  I love the peach colored gladiola? with the deep red flowers around it!!  (If our sweet Debi were still here, she would love this picture...and all the others, too!)

[Pepe]

LINDA, thanks so much for posting your yard and letting us enjoy all your flowers.  I can tell you have been working your fannie off as I didn't see one weed in  your yard.  Like the way you used the edging in some of the flower beds also like the flowers on the fence.  Lucky you having all those blooming roses, my favorite flower and mine keep dying here with the severe winters.  I see  you have tons of potted flowers, don't know how you can take care of all of them.  Loved seeing t he Don Juan roses they look like velvet even on the computer screen !!!!!!!!!!! 

[lucrezianoine]

Dudley~I see you have a hydrangea! I love hydrangeas. Love your garden too. We can tell you put a lot of work in your garden.

I had lots of potted flowers myself last year but after I got pregnant, I was not able to take care of them as much as I could and they all dwindle away So hopefully when I get the time I'll make my way to Lowes or Home Depot and pick up some new flowers to plant and enjoy this year.

DH and I are in the process of making the yard more presentable as well. Just like how you have all that red mulch surrounding your roses, that is how we'd like to do with the border our backyard by the fences. Its going to take work and who knows when we'll get it done. I may look into having a landscaper who won't charge an arm and a leg fee to do it.

Jules

[Sasha]

Frankie:  I will  miss Debi here also, I just went back and looked at all her posts...    Graet flowers Frankie....  When i was in Hawaii we toured some gardens  they had Chocolate Orchids they did smell like chcolate to. 

Prissy:  is your pond done.....?    I feel like ive been on a garden tour also... it was a great tour...

Linda:  great pictures of your gardens.

Monica:  love all your flowers.

Meesa:  love all your irisis.


Cant wait for some flowers to bloom my peonies are getting ready to open soon.


Sasha

[fhmmany2]

 

I have been away from this thread too long.

Monica, Meesa, and Jules - good to see "New Blood" here 

Linda - I love all of your flowers, but like Pepe, I enjoy your roses the most!

Prissy - I saw your greenhouse in the OCD thread - I'm looking forward to your getting it up and running. You will enjoy having it so much.

Jo - as I told you privately, "Your" hibiscus are up about 2 feet high and are full of buds - I'm looking forward to their blooms so much. As with everything here, we are watching the bugs - they eat everything!  I knew that debi had a type of cancer that most people do not survive - I was just praying that she would be in the 5% who could beat it. I had Lewis plant extra Okra in the garden this year so that debi and Carol could make more Santa ornaments - I think about her every time I walk into the garden. I bet she has a beautiful garden where she is now. My little orchid plant is still putting out new shoots, but it has still never bloomed!

[Mary]

Hi, everyone. I didn't fall of the face of the earth!

I love all the pictures of the flowers and gardens.

Linda, I can't believe that you have gladiolas blooming already. Here in NJ we just planted them about 2 weeks ago. We have to lift them in the fall as well as Calla Lillie's and a few others. I stopped buying plants that have to be lifted in the fall.

My peonies are blooming so, Sasha, yours shouldn't be far behind but the weather in the northeast has been so stinking rainy and cold.

I made an impulse buy and bought sunflower seeds because they reminded me of Debi and planted a few. Norm saw the packet of seeds and planted the rest of the pack.

His vegetable garden is planted. He will put in a third planting of green beans and corn next weekend. We finally decided on our surprise crop for this year...potatoes. They will go in next weekend also. So many of our surprise crops are now planted every year like pumpkins, corn, carrots and watermelon. Zucchini, Mellon's, acorn squash and a few others never were planted again because they took up so much room for the yield or because they were so inexpensive in the stores.

I have my one tomato in a pot on the deck as well as rosemary and flat leaf parsley. I have enough so that I can start clipping some to dry for the winter months.

Tim took two tomato and one pepper plant back to Philadelphia to start his first garden. We also gave him some root blast to mix in his soil. He called and asked how to plant them. He never paid one bit of attention growing up. He knows how to pick everything and how to water because he watered the garden a lot growing up but I reminded him that he did have to water.

[Pepe]

MARY, so good to see you.  I haven't been posting much due to health problems but I sneak in here when I am doing my lung treatment until my husband catches me on the computer.     We are having 20 degree below normal temps with highs only in the 50's, you can't grow anything in weather like that.  To think I waited all winter for this!!!     I have grown potatoes when we lived in Tennessee for a while and I think it is the most fun thing to grow.  After the plant flowers and the vines start dying back than the fun begins digging with a pitch fork for those wonderful potatoes that taste wonderful. 

 

[Mary]

Pepe, I've had asthma all my life and my lung capacity is only about 30 percent of normal so I know what you have to endure.

With watermelons you have to wait until the vines start to die back before you can pick them but I didn't know about potatoes, so thanks for the heads up.

My lilly of the valley and allium have come and gone, peonies are in bloom and the roses and delphinium are almost ready to bloom.

My tomato has blossoms!

[fhmmany2]

 

Mary - our potatoes are almost ready to dig! The plants began blooming this week, so the vines will soon die, and the potatoes will be ready. (Lewis  dug a few already to cook with the English peas).

I have been cutting grass all day - just finished, and took a few photos. Click on photos to enlarge:

Carol - I am looking forward to seeing  the vegetables you are growing in pots. Lewis put two posts in the ground, since  most of our trees have no low branches, and hung pots of tomatoes and cucumbers from the bar on top of the posts:

[fhmmany2]

The "No Fun At All" part of gardening - we have lost 3 huge trees so far this Spring ( and hurricane season begins this Monday  ). We spent Memorial Day working on the first tree - we finally took a vote and decided to wait until the kids and friends are here to help with the large trunk that is left:




The very best part of our house remodel - the deck. I have never been able to really enjoy my plants before - now I can sit and enjoy them - not just see them when I go out to the greenhouse to water them. Lewis gave me the patio furniture for Mother's Day/Birthday/Anniversary 



This year I planted ornamental grass, begonias, and wave petunias in my double flower pot:
 


As anyone who grows herbs knows, they really grow a lot - last year one little sprig of oregano dropped into this pot from my herb garden - it is on the coffee table on the deck this year. I need to cut some and freeze it to use later:



Assorted plants that I brought from the greenhouse:



 There is a dogwood tree just off the deck - I built this little flower bed around it - with impatients and spider plants:

[fhmmany2]

When I walk out of our bedroom and look left, I see the garden. It is really not a large garden, but it produces a lot of vegetables. There are also pots of tomatoes hanging beneath the pear tree (I hope the pear tree gets some dead limbs trimmed this weekend!):




And when I look to my right, I see the patio, which may get finished some day!: