This is the last Little Italy bloom of 2009. :(
My Siloam Reds are also nearing their last buds.
You can see You Are My Sunshine's last bud on the left here.
Strutter's Ball is still going strong, for the moment. It bloomed like crazy!
In other news, I have several glads gearing up for their turn! This one is being climbed by those petunias on steroids.
And here's one next to the dahlias in the side garden.
They're kind of wet from being watered, but you can see how much my Ultra Rose petunias have filled in the windowbox. :)
There are several different pictures, each from a different angle, of this bunch of Las Vegas irises, but it's because every one of them turned out well.
The Jacob's Ladder to the left and the hostas to the upper right look almost like mirror images of one another in this picture.
So many of them!
Look at all the Shastas!
Princesse Caroline is just too beautiful...
...not to be featured often and from every angle.
This little baby that's coming up behind the irises is a glad!
And about a foot away is what looks like a dahlia or two coming up? I don't remember planting any there, but they're definitely not weeds, and they look like dahlia foliage.
Three other glad shoots coming up through Firebreather's roots.
Look at Sarah Bernhardt!
Granny's dianthus. It's growing straight up a lot more than last year. The other dianthus, which is less than a foot away, grows out more than up.
I think I counted seven or eight simultaneous blooms on this baby. :)
The whole caboodle.
It's really blurry, but you can kind of see the buds coming up from the Stella d'Oro.
Again, kind of blurry, but the exotic geranium's shoot is starting to show some color!
Anyway.
I'm sorry I've been lazy for so long about updating. Like I told Mom tonight, it's been kind of a "bloom lull," so it's been hard for ADD Girl to get excited about posting. Terrible.
However, that hasn't stopped me from taking pictures. Here are some older ones that I just couldn't pass up sharing.
The lisianthus is now blooming again from this new stalk that's grown up and pushed out the old one. I was wondering why it was tipping like that. ;)
The last stalk of my Wine and Roses when it was budding. So pretty!
Kind of blurry, but sooo pretty!
The last of my little Siloam Reds. At least that's what I'll call them since I don't know their real name.
These pansies will definitely make a reappearance next spring. I love the color.
Now we're up-to-date.
This is the succulent that Reba gave me before she left. It's doing this crazy reaching thing. Not sure what to make of it.
My pink African violet is blooming again. They've been taking turns. The white-with-purple-edges is recuperating now.
And the girls. Eating some wet cat food. So funny! Elphie just doesn't seem to be growing too fast anymore. But then, I see her every day.
Playing around with the manual focus on my camera. Finally you can see a gladiola bud! :) This is one of the taller red ones.
There are my beauties! Aren't they breathtaking?
I just couldn't take enough pictures of them!
My petunias, still going crazy.
While messing with the manual focus I obviously messed up the autofocus. Oops. Well, this is a picture of my last 2008 Little Italy bloom! :'( Till next year, my friend!
My Wine and Roses glad is opening! It's a dwarf or something, because it's much, much smaller than my red one. Sorry about the blurriness.
The girls are thoroughly enjoying their 9 Lives wet cat food. :)
That's a band Dan and the girls created. Coming soon to your hometown.
Glads!
Glads!!
My container plants had to embark on a pilgrimage to the yard, because Dan wanted to powerwash the porch.
But now you can get a good look at my Twist and Twirl coleus!
I didn't get a "before" picture, but here are the steps after the powerwasher came through. They look new! They were almost black before.
Basement window #3! (Someone at some point in the past 100 years decided to try the very thing that Dan's doing, and their cement screwed him up, so this window only has room for 2 rows of glass blocks instead of 3. Oh well.)
The garage now has two sides of new siding done! You can see that I've been painting the trim white and I couldn't quite reach the top of the doorframe. I'll work on it later with a stepstool. ;)
I went out today with my camera and made Dan show me how big the peaches are getting (and they're getting some color, too!).
Then I got a picture of my little red lilies. I think they're a siloam variety -- very small blooms.
Then I was looking up onto the porch at my Mona Lisa and I noticed --
MY GLADS ARE BLOOMING!! Just the one so far, but I have a few buds on another plant up in the sedum garden. EEEEK!
I skipped around the garden and screamed at Dan to come look and basically almost hyperventilated. I had given up on them, hoping they only needed another year before they'd bloom. Yay! Oh yeah, and here's the pretty pot with my nemesia (going crazy) and the pink New Guinea impatien.
Four blooms on the Mona Lisa! I just love how I always smell it when I go in or out the front door.
My little clearance Sarah Bernhardt peony is getting bigger. Slowly.
I bought Granny this gorgeous pink picotee dianthus for her birthday, but it didn't do well inside, so she asked me to nurse it back to health.
A distant shot of the glad.
This Twist and Twirl coleus is going nuts.
And this wee small thing got a bath the other day. Then sat like a person in her towel. Barely long enough to get a picture. ;)
