Your property must be a sight to see. How wonderful it must be to drive down your street...and see the view.
Your blooms are eye-candy indeed. Some of your lilies can be grown here. Most daylilies won't do well in my garden because of too little sun and warmth.
Thank you aaall! Well Droopy, I am tired of extra-hot and extra-dry summers. I'd like as summer with at least a nice rain a week...
Wowie Zowie!! It all looks great! One or two of those day lilies sure look familiar You really do have a green thumb!
AS we had a religious holiday last week (and we were off work) I had some time to really look around my garden and take a few pics. Despite the really hot and dry days (and weeks, months actually) I can still find a few joys in the garden. Last lily to bloom is... Lilium speciosum. Love it! New to the garden, planted in spring. A couple slow Delphiniums This is actually potted, and on the balcony (in the apartment). The stinky Typhonium divaricatum. Another potted one, but out in the yard - Achimenes. I got the common purple one, and a few red ones, but this is the first to bloom this summer. Huge Crinum asiaticum - blooming a couple weeks earlier than previous years. Another new one! Calotropis gigantea - looking gorgeous even in this harsh climate. I think I even saw a couple tiny flower buds. I wonder whether I should pot it in the fall and take it inside. Solanum sisymbriifolium - all covered by sharp spikes and looks like what we call Colorado beetles/bugs love it. I wonder if planted with the potatoes would save these??? Berlandiera lyrata - chocolate daisy - and indeed has a chocolate fragrance. Plants don't look so good - probably because of the nearby bigger plants, casting a shadow over it? Here it is in all 3 stages - flower, after flower, seeds Hibiscus moscheutos - never been so huge! And all the buds on it! Lycoris squamigera - supposed to bloom after a good rain? Guess just lost patience. Only one in 5 bulbs to bloom now. And a few bugs I love! And... something I have no idea what it is. Quite a few. All in the daylily patch.
The lily is gorgeous and so are the other flowers. How stinky is the Typhonium divaricatum and what does it smell like? Your Crinum blooms are so different than what I have. They remind me of a spider lily. Those pics of the Chocolate daisy are so interesting... the one of it gone to seed looks like a flower of it's own. Love that Hibiscus! I have some still blooming but just one flower here and there. Are those mystery things some type of mushroom? They look like something from out of space.
Sorry for the late reply. Typhonium is quite stinky. I was in bed, it was about 5 m from me, and I could smell it. I don't really call it a bad smell, it's acceptable. Those are some puff balls, and it seems they like it in my garden. I keep finding more and more. They are cute. Not sure if they harm plants, though.
FALL is here... don't you wish you had just a little more time? I have two plants I wish I had a chance to see their blooms... Hardy Hibiscus (still no idea what the blooms should be like) Calotropis gigantea (from Teo- where is he???)
Really the last blooms... and these are nice spotted surprises, never expected for these to bloom this year!
