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Some goings-on in our yard (photo heavy)

16 years ago

From our humble cottage garden here in Tampa...

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cindeea
16 years ago
OH MAN Tampafred!!! What sweet dreams I will have tonight. Everything is just BEAUTIFUL!! And those puppy eyes, I am feeling fuzzy all over. Your photography is awesome! Thanks for sharing your joy of gardening.
msmarion
16 years ago
TF you have been missed!! Glad to see your post. The fur babies look great...I've been missing their cute faces. The more Doxies I see the more I think I'd like one. The gardens and flowers are outstanding as always. Those yellow roses is just stunning. Please share the name.
Marion
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Thank you all very much! Jerome- Larmarque has always been very top favorite rose. Like Audrey said it has such nice clean blooms and the smell is a wonderful sweet citrus scent. I also just love the green apple color of the leaves.Very well behaved climber. Krista- Duchess de Brabant has grown very quickly for me. Always covered in blooms. Denise- Thank you for the complement...I too just love that birdfeeder, got it at our Flowertown Festival 2 years ago but I wish I spent more and got the larger birdhouse instead as now that vendor hasn't been there since...got to remember to go with your gut and just buy it when you see it. Audrey- I have Ducher too but I got lucky as she was sent by accident so they told me to keep her and I love her. Very clean, nice rounded shape, and a citrus scent similar to Lamarque. I love white roses but they are hard to get full bush shots as the white seems no matter the time of day is bright and it just doesn't show up very well. Here is mine... Here is a link that might be useful: hennypennyrose cottage
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Hey Annie, Thank you for the compliments, just got done looking are your roses and I would have to say the same! I got the carnations at Lowes I think a few years ago. I love them! They are my birthday flower and I was so excited to find them as I didn't think they would do well down here but then again those places tend to buy things that don't do well for the area. Turns out they have done wonderfully. I do remember you telling me about your daughter living in Columbia and your someday visit down here which I am still looking forward to! :O) Yes, it is too bad she doesn't live closer as I would love to help her out. Mabe when you do end up coming to visit her we can all meet up at the zoo. Then you could come down to visit Charleston. I have a membership to Magnolia Garden and Plantation and I could show you around there and have a picnic there perhaps, I love it there. Maybe you could bring your daughter too and we could have a nice time. July and August are hot and humid though so be prepared. So far it really hasn't been too bad heat wise. We have actually had a nice long cool spring with a few hot days lately but not too bad. Looking forward to your visit! Congratulations grandma! ~Meghan
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Jade Scepter sounds familiar (I bought this plant a long time ago...before I cared to remember plant IDs). And internet pics are matching it well. Thanks! Thanks for verifying Francee for me too! And there's nothing like getting positive ID on a weed! LOL! I suspected it was....thought I had the garlic mustard going on in the backyard already and that looks different. But either way, it's a weed. It'll get pulled. Thanks again! Hoping to get more IDs on the others as well! Kristy :)
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I have a similar room, built for exactly the same use, but on a smaller scale. Your wall on the right side (with bed headboard leaning against it) looks as if it would be perfect for a couple of built-in beds. I built ours so that they can be easily used for closets, if the room is used as a bedroom, and also for resale--in that case there will be existing closets (albeit short, under-eaves closets), a requirement for listing it as a bedroom. The decks can be removed, leaving more room for hanging clothes, on the ends, and curtains can hide contents--the curtain rods are already in place in these pics. The other bed, before shutters were added: The room is considerably less cute/girlie now, because my DD and her new husband have moved in (I'm happy I planned ahead for this possibility), jettisoning all of my cottage decor. The beds are his and hers closets. Adding a pic of the other side, the full-size bed. Also adding, I think if my children were still small, I'd prefer the bed closest to the door, so that if they were sent to bed first, I wouldn't need to walk by their beds when I entered. And if they left the room during the night, they'd need to walk by my bed--I'd want to know why they were up. I like AnnieDeighnaugh's idea of curtains for privacy. This would be a great room for slumber parties. With a queen-size sofa-sleeper, I can see space for up to 10 kids. I deleted most of my saved pics, but I always loved the colors in this one: And the style of these built-ins:
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manature
16 years ago
Hey, hey, heeeey, TF!!! Good to "see" ya! Man oh man, your yard always looks so neat and clean and colorful and lush and beautiful, and...and...and FANTASTIC!! Great photos! And of course, I always love to see your doggies. Penny and Buckley, right? (I'm old...I forget sometimes!) But they look so cute and like they are doing great, too.

Thanks for sharing!! I'll have sweet dreams tonight, too!

Marcia (btw, Marion...dachsies are the BEST. If you don't believe it just ask me and TampaFred. We'll tell ya!)
atreelady
16 years ago
Beautiful flowers. Say what is the blue one in the 3rd picture. I love blue flowers.
treefrog_fl
16 years ago
Nice tomatoes, TF!
Oh and btw everything else looks wonderful too!
Especially your two buddies.
manature
16 years ago
Atreelady, I was admiring that one, too. I think it's agastache Blue Fortune. TampaFred, did I guess right?

Marcia
atreelady
16 years ago
Yep Marcia - It sure looks like agastache Blue Fortune when I google it. And it says it is a perennial that self seeds - Also a plus in my book. :) opps.. it says "Not tolerant of Humidity". How does it do here in the summer Fred?
nytrinigemini
16 years ago
gorgeous...and I love the puppy :-)
katkin_gw
16 years ago
TFred, oh yes, good to hear from you again. Your photo's are beautful. The roses look so healhy. And is that lavendar? Wow. I am so jealous. Glad to see the pups look healthy too.:o)
annafl
16 years ago
Tampafred, as always, wonderful and incredibly vibrant combos. Love those red geraniums against the deep purple petunias! Your pups are the sweetest looking things.

Anna
solstice98
16 years ago
Nice to see your garden! Nice to see your puppy pictures!

The purple/white plant in the first picture - I have it and am crazy about it. The hummingbirds love it too. But of course I can't remember the name. What is it?

Kate
tampafred
Original Author
16 years ago
Everyone's kind words and compliments really mean alot, so thank you all very much!!

Marcia/atreelady, agastache Blue Fortune is right on the money! I bought it from my favorite local plant shop, Bloom, in south Tampa. I've been lucky with it staying alive for me and with the humidity over the last year or so. I think it is more of the spot I have it planted in more than any skill on my part!!

And Marion, you asked the name of the yellow rose bush and I am embarassed to say that I am blanking on the name right now. I want to say it is Honey something, but I could be completely wrong...it will come to me eventually.

Kate, that is Mexican Sage...kinda smelly, fast grower, velvety soft blooms and a magnet for the butterflies, hummers and bees. That is 1 tiny plant that I put in the ground over 2 years ago and I have to work really hard from keeping it from overtaking the yard.

Buckly and Penny are doing great. They are, as always, full of attitude and stubborness but that's what makes them so endearing. They are our little monkeys and are our loves and our lives...we'd be lost without them!

Katkin, that is one of my Provence lavenders. I have about 8-10 of them planted throughout the yard and the smell is just amazing. I like to trim the plants and dry the branches to hang upside down on our potrack in the kitchen. I would grow lavender everywhere if I could!
olyagrove
16 years ago
Beautiful pictures of beautiful plants!
I got inspired by your Provence lavender and bought one from HD yesterday...thanks for the enabling :)

Olya

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