Showing posts with label sedum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sedum. Show all posts

Friday, June 19, 2009

Up North, Take 1

We went up to the hunting camp for our "weekend" and Dan made a new friend. He picked this guy up in the middle of the road and brought him back to camp to meet me.


Unfortunately, he wasn't too happy to meet me.


And we got home in time to take some garden pictures. I had given up this cyclamen, but it's doing better with a little TLN (tender loving neglect).


They look droopy because it rained all day, but look how far up out of the windowbox these petunias are coming!


Dan's little crabapple trees look like they're doing well.


My Bordeaux petunias and tuberous begonias.


My precious little highlighter dahlias!


Mom, you asked for a picture of the flowers on my exotic geranium, so here you have it!


That's Vince, my birthday garden gnome, behind some lilies that look ready to bloom.


I think this is a lily. But it's weird-looking.


Kerry sedum, violas, peony, and lemon zest petunias.


Serrated sedum.


I was so surprised and excited to see that my Lysimachia is blooming!


I really don't know what this is.


This is either my Siloam Reds or my Little Italy sending up buds!


This is what I think are my dahlias. Though I don't remember planting any.


My Secret Rose, with a little new bloom and a bud in the foreground.


My Stellas are going to town!


This one is ready to roll.


Another Stella.


This is Happy Returns, getting ready to bloom.


That's Happy Returns in the front, and all three of my dianthus behind. :) Left to right, we have the Unnamed Picotee, Telstar Picotee, and Apple Spice.


My pink Oriental lilies.


My orange common roadside lilies (hemerocallis fulva).


We're making another bed in the corner, and I got three shade-tolerant plants.


Baptisia, called False Indigo.


Helleborus, called Blue Lady.


And my first Astilbe, called Deutschland.


And poor little Ginger couldn't decide what to be more afraid of, the thunder overhead or the meat slicer Dan was using.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Mrow

Look at my sweet girls. Remember when we had to guard little tiny Elphie from big mean Ginger?


Awwww.


Elphaba did some exploring on top of the shoe shelves.


And got caught black-handed.


We decided to get some action shots of me in my garden.


The weeds like to hide in the irises, because they know I don't get in there very often.


Dan got a little artistic.




An awkward sitting position, and Princesse Caroline is on my head.


I didn't count them, but get a load of this patch of irises.


Another view.


We went to a new nursery and they had these kind of pitiful-looking creeping phlox half off. I kind of cut it in half and stuck it in two different spots.


The grape hyancinth has these little pods on it.


I love these lemon zest petunias!


My Kerry sedums are so happy.


Princesse Caroline de Monaco has three blooms!


Look at my dianthus!


Neither is covered like the creeping phlox is, but they're so purty.


I planted that Portland rose, Comte de Chambord, and look at this...


...A BUD! It likes me!!


Here's what I usually refer to as the "other" side of the porch. From front to back, you can see the hostas, the very happy and bloomingful bleeding hearts, creeping phlox, coralbells, and Las Vegas irises.