Flowers 2021

[AlainK]

Last year, I didn't have any, but I found back some 3 or 4 year-old seeds in my garage and some of them germinated. I'm very happy because I've always seen these poppies in my late father's garden. The seeds are not good for traditional Easter cakes, but the flowers are beautiful (photos of 2013 and today, different light).

 

[atlarsenal]

 

[Housguy]

 

[atlarsenal]

 

[Lutonian]

More rose opening today floribunda hybrid

 

[Lutonian]

Unknown rose camilia ish type flowers

 

[Lutonian]

Dwarf Rose cultivar mothers day

 

[Forsoothe!]

 

[atlarsenal]

 

[Flowerhouse]

First flower on my bench. Dwarf iris.

Currently blooming: the lady I was collecting with back in April was certain that this was a ninebark lol. When foliage appeared it was obviously a potentilla. Just the one flower so far.

 

[Carol 83]

 

[Carol 83]

Good God, that is a spectacular photograph....as in blow it up to 18 by 24, print it and frame it.

Thanks, it's hard to get a picture of the blooms, they are usually high up on the tree and only last for a day.

 

[JoeR]

Mountain Laurel shohin...


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Wow, never seen one of these in a container. Did you collect this, and if so how? Always wanted to try them as bonsai

Native passion fruit

 

[Forsoothe!]

Wow, never seen one of these in a container. Did you collect this, and if so how? Always wanted to try them as bonsai

Native passion fruit
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As a matter of fact, that is number 3 of 3, as in 1 for 3. And it's that small because it died back in the landscape to bonsai size, then died back again in the pot to a mame stump, and has grown like a banshee for the last 6 years to be about 8". The others just died back, period. So, you see I've obviously got this species down cold, or something like that...

 

[Paradox]

Love to know the names of some of these

 

[Carol 83]

Just a weed, but still pretty.

 

[TinyArt]

Epiphyllum oxypetalum -- Night Blooming Cactus -- finally caught it flowering low enough to really see:

First noticed buds on May 27

which grew to be longer than my hand;
two began opening evening of June 5...

open @6:45 AM June 6

...and done by noon (third bloomed that night)

fruit & spent blossoms fell off June 14/15

 

[atlarsenal]

 

[Flowerhouse]

The natives are all the red/yellow type. At least I've never seen a wild one that wasn't red/yellow in the local woods.

...and if the rabbits can get onto my deck which is 12' off the ground, they can have it

...but thanks for the warning...I was not aware of that!

Any pics of your natives? I had the red/yellow type at my home in McPherson, KS years ago. I loved them, would love to have them again.

 

[Flowerhouse]

Gaillardia. When we bought this house, there was a small patch of fanfare-type growing on the sw corner of the parkway. I added a couple of Burgundy into the garden the next summer. They have cross-polinated and generally spread well since then. Deer eat them, but not all of them. I leave the seed heads on because the little finches love them.