pics of my garden lots of pics

16 years ago

Just thought I would share

mix of salvias. I think I need to deadhead them will that make them busier and prettier or can these be considered dead.

razzle dazzle gaillardia from seed. One is about to bloom

My ws mix of hibiscus

This is surpose to be "summer morning" delphinium but it is more white than pink.

Thats all for now folks

Paula

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medontdo
16 years ago
ohhh they are so pretty!! :`) i do love all the beautiful beds!! hmmm i need to do all that mulching next year!! LOL
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proudgm_03
16 years ago
Beautiful flowers. Your picture of the satellite dish reminds me of one I saw the other day. The person had planted a tall shrub like plant in front of it and all you could see was the dish sticking out!
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shasta_2008
16 years ago
Beautiful! Did you WS the hydrangia? If so how do you get seeds from them?
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tiffy_z5_6_can
16 years ago
Drool, drool, drool! Hydrangeas blooming now? What a treat!
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vera_eastern_wa
16 years ago
So beautiful!

Were the Hibiscus sown this year? On the Salvia, I say pinch out those flowers...it appears they started blooming too early before they made enough vegetative growth. I would suggest pinching out the top set of leaves too, but doesn't look like you have more than 2 set of leaves, so if you do that let more leaves emerge and then give a pinch :)
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paulan70
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16 years ago
The Hydrangeas were store bought 3 years ago. and this is the first year I got it to bloom since I bought them. I did an experiement that the wind helped me with. I have 3 Hydrangeas so I had dh build me a little round cage out of cicken wire and then we placed over the Hydrangeas and then we covered them with the fallen leaves. Well in the middle of winter somehow one of the cages got blown off off one of the plants so I decided to leave it to see if the plant would still flower. Well needless to say it did not but the two that were covered has flower heads on them. So lesson learned.

Yes the hibiscus were winter sown but now I am not sure which if any is pereinnal or annual.

The salvia were store bought so who knows how they were treated.

Thanks ladies.

Paula
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vera_eastern_wa
16 years ago
I'll take a stab and say the Hibicus with Maple like leaves would be the annual Abelmoschus manihot, the other's look like H. I believe as it matures the leaves become more divided, but that's what my leaves look like now on those, but on smaller plants.
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carrie630
16 years ago
Wow - you certainly have a wonderful variety of flowers/plants - and I agree, love the hydrangeas.

Thanks for the photos - keep us posted

Carrie
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