SoCalGardenNut, Beautiful La Reine! Yay, 5 blooms! She has tge most girgeous blooms & fragrance! Don’t forget to smell her fab fragrance! That’s so exciting that you have a Mme Isaac Pereire! I draw designs of whete ai wish to plant my rosrs so I can look at the design and know which rose is planted thete when I first plant. I keep plastic labels on them, too, if they have them. Eventually I memorize them. Your La Reine doubds very promusibg with 5 blooms! She has really beautiful blooms! I live La Reine & Isaac Pereire! Berry, A 4ft La Reine is wonderful! I am really thinking Zi want to move mine out of it’s pot! Next spring! My La Reine had about 15 blooms first flush. However a ”larger La Reine” will probably have twice as many blooms!

millworkman, this is a Michigan Rain Garden Class that I am participating in this Spring. Sigrid, I am not sure what plants were originally installed. The class has requested that I work on a personal rain garden and not one for the town for my project. So I am switching over for my project and will tackle this one later after the class is complete.

Thank you all! I am in love with this rose! Diane, o yes, this rose is different every month! Hope Ben is OK with posting me so many pictures of AL. Same rose, last year, 2 yo. May End of July (No June pictures, was fighting with rose midges!) September October Still October, like the dark pink line! November, my fav picture November 25, last blooms

Everything looks so good, PM2! Yes, it does seem early for tomatoes - lucky you! I've got a few green ones but only a few cherry tomatoes have actually ripened. Nice looking lilies too. Here's one of my Orania lilies from a week or so ago. Thrilled to have a few (maybe half a dozen) blooms with no or little beetle damage (you can see the damage on the leaves). Of course the plants are terribly stunted - these used to look me in the eye and now they are only about two feet tall. And the blooms aren't quite as vibrant or substantial but I'm still glad I got these few this year. First time in years I have blooms with no damage. My first Fleurel dahlia bloom. LOVE this dahlia - although I see in the photo some black spots, and I believe I now see an earwig trying to hide. Guess it's always something! Speaking of black spots, once again I'm having an issue with my calycanthus. It blooms earlier in the season and I thought I had bypassed the issue this year, but here is a late bloom, maybe last week (rain-drenched) And here is the same bloom this week. Almost every year the blooms and IIRC, the leaves as well, get these black spots. I'm guessing it's a fungal thing. I did send pictures to the Ag station in 2020, and they couldn't identify. Asked for samples. I didn't bother that year (pandemic) and haven't since either - kind of still trying to figure out how they ask you to mail plant material (that's been cut) to study. It's almost 90 degrees - any cuttings would not last in the mail for a day, never mind longer. But, whatever it is it doesn't seem to affect the health of the shrub at all. A just-opening Frans Hal, early in the morning Think these might be Chicago Apache, but they don't seem as "wow" as when I first purchased them (they stopped me dead in my tracks in the parking lot at the supermarket of all places - and I don't even really like red! So I had to buy them!) and they also seem shorter. Plus the camera doesn't capture their true beautiful red Early morning phlox. Every time I walk by my phlox, the fragrance reminds me why I grow it! I have reseeded larkspur everywhere and I love the color. Tried to get some photos with nice combinations but my camera isn't really cooperating in my wild mess of a cutting garden Daylily Big Blue? Blue something lol Cosmos Cupcakes. Or wait... perhaps Purity? So delicate and airy! LOL gardens don't look half bad from a distance! One of my part-shade beds Middle lfar eft, a ligularia that I may need to move, as the late afternoon sun wilts it daily. The hosta in front is an Ivory Queen - usually prefer green/chartruese variegation but LOVE the way this white pops! To upper right of ligularia is a 2-year-old symphocarpos which has grown nicely this year and I'm looking forward to some nice berrying this fall. The puny shrub to the right of the ligularia is a callicarpa Pearl Glam which is living on borrowed time lol. Three years old and not doing much of anything. Should have gone with an Early Amethyst - my experience with them includes MUCH faster growth and gorgeous berries. This Pearl Glam is starting to tick me off. And it's not just this plant, as I have two others in differing situations and they are similarly runt-y. The white hydrangea is a NOID, gotten at a swap. Potted dahlia to fill space where I ripped out reseeded feverfew, and a new small azalea in front of it. Just behind the pot I have a new Lyda Rose which is doing well, and then a way-too-big possible Limelight. It was plopped there years ago without planning and now is too big to move so I'm living with it lol. But I'm hoping the planing I've done since the plopping of the hydrangeas will come to fruition - if Pearl Glam cooperates lol! :) Dee