OBF JUNE SWAP " BEST FRIEND"
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brittneysgran
6 years agoBeth that daylily is beautiful sitting on the plate.
Susan-Ouch that rash looks itchy, awesome pkg you sent Lisa.
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beth_b_kodiak
6 years ago
ishareflowers {Lisa}
6 years agoishareflowers {Lisa}
6 years ago
skyblue52
6 years agoGood Morning Achy Breaky today. Raining hard and the Air Show parade starts at noon.n Lets start with Beth's full sized package. I ran them out side last night because it started raining after midnight.
I got
Lacy Peach lily . She sent a bloom.Just closing I thought I smelled it
Double crazy Daisy
Firefly coral bells
Stormy Seas Heuchera
Achillea Terra Cotta I smelled this also
They will be fun to have in my garden. Great box of plants.
beth_b_kodiak
6 years agoskyblue52
6 years agoBeth I thought it was. very pretty. Here are some of its friends. in the garden. . I will enjoy it for years
my lilies grow with tomatoes, watermelons and cukes.beth_b_kodiak
6 years ago
ruthz
6 years agoBeautiful flowers everyone. Lisa, love your gardens. I don't think I could grow most of those. Hosta attract lots of slugs and just doesn't do well me.
I would love to work in the yard today but our temps are 92, feels like 104. Don't know how long I would last out there. Early mornings when temps are lower, humidity is higher and everything is wet.
Susan, I have sympathy for your rash. I've been having random rashes all over, but mostly arms and legs since the 13th. I thought I knew what was causing it. An herbal spray to keep mosquitoes off horses was recommended to my daughter for using on our dog. She sprayed the dog in the house that night. That's when the rash started. She tried to clean the area where she sprayed and hasn't used it again. The rash continued until Sunday and has been almost gone since. Today, rash on my arms and legs again. I just don't know now.
Sharing a few things blooming now.
beth_b_kodiak
6 years agobrittneysgran
6 years agoDaylily Hoity Toity Truffle
I love double daylilies and am on a hunt to find all the truffles.
Lisa the pink daylily above is 'Bogie and Becall'.
Daylily Terry LyingerRuth-Oh no I sent you two hostas I just bought. I will say the slugs in the past
ate so many holes in my hostas I would just cut them down to the ground instead of looking at them like that. Three years ago I decided to try some in pots and I love them that way and the slugs don't eat them now. I can even move them to another shady spot if I choose. Please try the pots and see what happens.
brittneysgran
6 years agoCan you believe my little man is 9 months old! Where does time go?
He is the sweetest and happiest baby I have ever known, he never cries.
amybabyboy3
6 years ago
sandlapper_rose
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoruthz
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoToday we got 3.84 inches of rain. The most on record here for a June day.
Adorable baby boy Shirley. Aren't Grandkids wonderful.
Amy, Shirley and Susan, love the lilies and beautiful roses.
I love everything in the package I received today. Hostas, Forest shadows and Rainbows End. Westbourne daylilies, Hurricane Lanterns and Seafoam Candy. And that beautiful prize lily.
I do love hostas but it's been a while since I tried to grow them, so I googled growing hostas in Texas. A lady in the Dallas area said what works best for her is growing them in terra cotta pots. Shirley, you said pots also. Do you find a certain kind of pots works better and do you leave them outside all year?
Thank you so much Shirley for a wonderful "Best Friend" box.
ishareflowers {Lisa}
6 years agoruthz
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoLisa, my MG's used to all be named. Most of the ones that I have this year were reseeded from last year. And they are obviously crossed. I didn't even have MG's in this spot last year. I like this one also, and don't remember having this color pattern combination before. I used to try to keep them separate but as long as they are pretty I'm okay with what I get now. Here's blooms today of another next to that one.
ishareflowers {Lisa}
6 years agobrittneysgran
6 years agoRuth-that MG is gorgeous. Hope the hostas work for you in pots. I always scouted yard sales and thrift stores for my big nice pots. Last week Eddie said a Guy pulls up
in the yard and offers to bring us nice really big ceramic, terra cotta and etc., pots...free. I'm like REALLY, sure enough the next day he brought them, said his wife had passed away and she loved them but he had no use for them. Now I have to buy buy buy to fill them up. LOL
Thanks for the compliments on Mason, he has been a true Joy to our Family.
Some of my daylilies as far as the eye can see. I never tire of looking at them.
Lisa-I did get my fabulous Friend box and what a treasure I found in that box..White citrus lotion, pocket Kleenex in a carry bag.
Faith, Family and Friends Hand Towel
Plaque-Friends are the flowers in the garden of life....so true
10 pack labels
Polygonatum Humile
Epimedium Sweet Hearts
European Ginger
Ligularia Osivis Cape Noir
Daylily Steve Trimmer from my wish list.
Lisa you are truly a very best Friend and I can't wait to get these planted.
skyblue52
6 years agoishareflowers {Lisa}
6 years agolast modified: 6 years ago
faerygardener z7 CA
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoHi ladies, the Morning Glory is Mt Fuji. You used to be able to get it by certain single color choices (and I LOVED the purple! from Park's or Burpee). Now, I can only find it as a mix - I got it from Remy's The Sample Seed Shop last year. So far, it seems they've gotten rid of the really murky-ish brown one that would periodically appear, but you still also get a lighter pink and lighter purple that looked a bit washed out. The deep purple and deep pink are beautiful. I'm cutting off the light blooms but still don't know when I save seed if I'll be able to get to a more brilliant seed saved collection. I only have a few vines in a pot (two, perhaps we'll have 3 solid weeks over 100 and DRY - they don't care for that out in full sun plus large vine-y anything isn't safe near a home for fire-scaping). Ruth - you should save seed from that one - if it's not near others (you mention not in that spot last year) you might get a repeat next year. Editing to add - when I grew them years ago, they had huge flowers. Now, not so much. Could be me or this year - but they were in pots and here. I still like the colors but miss the size of the bloom.
faerygardener z7 CA
6 years agoruthz
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoShirley, how lucky to get those pots. I do the same thing, always looking at yard sales and resale shops for large pots and trellises. The big ceramic and terra cotta pots are so expensive new. Love your beautiful gardens.
Amy, I took a few pictures of the cannas that I wanted to share with you.
Australia, not sure my camera does this one justice.
blooms are shorter than normal this year.
Green leaved and Tropicanna
I'm not fond of green leaved ones, but my brother gave me this one.
This is probably Yellow King Humbert
Tropicanna
I'm trying different red zinnia's this year. First bloom today on meteor. I love the magenta color.
amybabyboy3
6 years ago
canyonwind
6 years agofaerygardener z7 CA
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6 years agoI went for vertical gardening. Move all cukes to a vertical lattice. The 5 small white pumkins to a cinder block square area . With 2 planted in the block holes. Then moved 5 big max pumkins in nto the watermelon area. . Still have 6 . Hoping someone around here wants them. Moved everything around with plenty of distance away . yea.
The blue mouse ears are showing off under the plum tree.
canyonwind
6 years agobrittneysgran
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6 years agoSusan - looking good! I went with the jumbo pot for my extra pumpkins, we'll see what happens. Your set up looks perfect. The mouse ears and daylily are delightful (no hostas for me!).
Ruth - your cannas look great. I don't have a tropical look here BUT have found that canna are the only thing that will survive in pots on my back porch (house is directly East West situated with the front of the house getting the rising sun and the back of the house getting the glaring horrid afternoon sun from noon-ish until it sets close to 8:30. Everything I tried there crumpled and died except the cannas. I grow them for the foliage, not sure if it's the hummers fighting, but the flowers always end up bent and a bit ragged. Here it is - 2 plus weeks of well over 100 (to 110) and they are happy troopers even though I lost a lot this last heat spell. (the pickle pots are a nice sedum, they should be on pot feet but I hadn't finished arranging and moving all the summer pots before the heat wave hit). It's a raised porch (bit higher than 2nd story), so generally just light plastic pots or small ceramic ones. Don't want the weight of my large ceramic ones back there. Just 6 large pots alternating red and green leaves.
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