WHAT'S Growing in your GARDEN

I was out at 7:30 am taking pictures of my flowers...elephant ears, forget-me-knots, lungwort, snowdrop anemomie, icelandic daisies [I think that's what they're called...short & yellow or white], and of course my beautiful baskets which I'll have to water today b/c it's warm, sunny, & windy again.  But that's my perfect kind of day.  I really should take advantage of it & go sit in my lawn chair & read.

My irises, hostas, lilies, delpheniums, lupines, lily of the valleys, monkshoods, ferns, hens & chicks, yarrow, perennial geraniums, autumn joy sedems, as well as other sedums are all up & growing.  I know there are others but I can't remember their names.

What flowers are in bloom & growing in your gardens?

 

CDN Angel, sounds as if your garden is lovely. You must attract a lot of birds. We'd love to see a picture. Enjoy sitting out in it and have a sip of tea for the rest of us. My flowers aren't blooming yet, but I'll be getting daisies, lilies, and columbine, and hollyhocks. I'll be hanging wave petunia baskets, and planting begonias, and a few bedding plants.

I have 5 window boxes, 3 planters of herbs and 7 potted plants and they will be history when they get around to my balcony. LOL I love tons of flowers on my balcony. Normally I would also have 4 hanging plants but took the hangers down while I had someone to do it. Don;t get much notice when they are doing the balconies.

Crea 

columbine...that's one of the ones I couldn't remember.  Thanks.

 

Where do you live?  I have a lot of early-blooming perennials or flowers that just seed themselves.

 

I wish I knew how to post pics.  Can you help?

 Let's see...where do I begin?  Petunias, impatiens, dahlias, geraniums, dianthus, marigolds, portulaca, salvia, celosia, coleus, bacopa, licorice, lamium, biddens, osteospermum...I could go on and on.  Did I mention I have a greenhouse?  LOL

Not a darn thing in my garden...except grass...no time for planting elsewhere except the greenhouse so that will have to be my garden!!

What's in my flower garden...

 

Hmmm.

 

Let's see... tulips which saw me coming last fall and gave up their will to live.  Weeds.  Daffodils which are making a valiant effort.  Lilies and two daylilies which are making an equally valiant effort... and God Bless the Freebie irises from my Aunt, which keep spreading and thriving in spite of me.  I'm sure they're so happy because I didn't spend money on them.  I'm happy to see them so happy!  Not only are the flowers gorgeous but for the entire summer the remaining green foliage stays green and healthy looking.

 

I also have some maltese cross and several volunteer delphiniums.  I used to have columbine as well but I'm not so sure if they survived the influx of the volunteer delphiniums!  Also some bleeding heart, an adorable dwarf iris that blooms VERY early in the spring.

 

The last couple of years I've regarded annuals as, you might as well dig a hole in the ground and just bury your money directly.  So I've been investing a bit of extra coin per year in perennials.  It's been worth it for the most part.  However this year for pots I've gotten some kind of tall spikey skinny leafy thing, and an ornamental pepper ("Black Pearl"), and put them in two separate pots and surrounded them with lobelia.

 

I also have some desperate looking calla lilies in a pot, and some delias that aren't holding out much hope.

 

No, my thumb isn't very green... why do you ask?  :P

Don't feel bad Lynda- I'm no Ms. Greenthumbs either. I do have a couple of big pots that I planted some wildflower seed in them. More to follow!