Pix of your Garden and gardening tips!

aerwin · Number of posts: 1043 Location: Georgia Registration date: 2008-08-09

Sky wrote:

Aerwin, I love your roses! I love yellow roses. What are the purple flowers?

bachelor Buttons. They are wonderful . and can stand up to the Southern heat. I start all mine from seed. I have Cosmos comimg up too . They are a beautiful pink color. I love Delphenium and Foxgloves , but they don't do very well in the south.

All of my roses are David Austin English Roses. They all have names. They do very well in spring and fall. In mid summer they are not so happy. I like English style of gardening so that's what I TRIED to do.

horselaydee · Subject: Re: Pix of your Garden and gardening tips! Mon Jun 15, 2009 5:46 pm

I am also a big fan of English country gardens. That is what I am trying to go for as well in my Perennial garden anyway.

Sky · Number of posts: 4925 Registration date: 2008-08-10

horselaydee wrote:

OMG!!!! What beautiful flowers! Sky, I love those unusual Iris varieties! Especially those blue and yellow ones! I love you

Your delphiniums do look fantastic with the calla lillies! How much sun will they tolerate?

Aerwin, your property looks so beautiful with the hills off in the distance! Love those pink peonies!

FC...You had me going with that first photo! I thought that was Sky's yard and just abut shit!!!!!! Is that from Disneyland or something?

I have a question for you rose gardeners...Do roses die out after a certain age? My older hybrid teas seem to be getting more affected by the frost each year.

Thank you. I love the iris too. I have my calla and delphiniums in sun, almost all day.
I only wish my yard looked like the pic that FC posted. Wouldn't that be wonderful, I could get lost out there! I don't know that much about roses, I struggle with the one that I do have and it's in a giant pot on the deck. If anything gets aphids, it will be the rose.

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Sky · Number of posts: 4925 Registration date: 2008-08-10

horselaydee wrote:

Oh forgot to ask!

What is this Sky? That is so unusual and love the color and shape!

LOL......I had to look up the name because I can never remember it. My friend and I just call it the "stinky flower". It is a Dracunulus Vulgaris - "Stink Lily".

Stink Lily (Dracunculus vulgaris)
This is a big plant that grows a bit like an Arum Lily. When it flowers it sends up a big dark red spathe with a sticky spadix that smells just like rotting meat. It can be smelt from a long way away. Blow flies are attracted and crawl over it looking for the dead body to lay their maggots in. As they move about they transfer pollen from flower to flower and this means that the flowers are fertilised and are able to produce seeds.

It's really not as disgusting as it sounds in this description. It is beautiful, but I have it planted at the back of my garden and it only stinks for 2-3 days. I love it because it is so unusual.

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Sky · Number of posts: 4925 Registration date: 2008-08-10

aerwin wrote:

Sky wrote:

Aerwin, I love your roses! I love yellow roses. What are the purple flowers?

bachelor Buttons. They are wonderful . and can stand up to the Southern heat. I start all mine from seed. I have Cosmos comimg up too . They are a beautiful pink color. I love Delphenium and Foxgloves , but they don't do very well in the south.

All of my roses are David Austin English Roses. They all have names. They do very well in spring and fall. In mid summer they are not so happy. I like English style of gardening so that's what I TRIED to do.

I scattered Iceland poppy seeds, 2 packs..........I think maybe less than a dozen have come up! I do have some bigger poppies and they reseed themselves everywhere, so maybe the few of the ones that did sprout will reseed for me.

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horselaydee · Subject: Re: Pix of your Garden and gardening tips! Mon Jun 15, 2009 7:33 pm

I love poppies Sky! Those beautiful pink ones were from seeds?

Sky · Number of posts: 4925 Registration date: 2008-08-10

horselaydee wrote:

I love poppies Sky! Those beautiful pink ones were from seeds?

No, not those, they are Oriental Poppys you can find them anywhere. Icelandic poppies are the shorter ones but in varied pastel shades of yellow, salmon, red, white. The ones that reseed freely, and I mean freely are the Bread and Butter Poppies, actually they are the ones that poppy seeds come from and I think opium! Shocked

I have some beautiful ones, but they haven't bloomed yet. I'll have to post some pics from last year.

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Sky · Number of posts: 4925 Registration date: 2008-08-10

Is anyone growing tomatoes in the Topsy Turvy?

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Firecracker · Subject: Re: Pix of your Garden and gardening tips! Mon Jun 15, 2009 10:28 pm

I'm only growing grass right now shrugging

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horselaydee · Subject: Re: Pix of your Garden and gardening tips! Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:55 am

Nope-but I sure considered it! Is that topsy turvy photo yours Sky?

So the beautiful dark purple poppies are from not from seeds right? I serioudly need some of those! Can you tell me the variety of the pink and purple ones? I have a few of the icelandic ones and they are not my favorite.

Sky · Number of posts: 4925 Registration date: 2008-08-10

The dark purple are from seeds as well as the red/black. They are Papaver Somniferum (Breadbox Poppy or Opium Poppy). The name of the red/black is Bouduior Red....I cannot remember the name of the dark purple one. I will try to find it somewhere. I do have some seeds, I'm not sure from what year. If you'd like some seeds now I can send you some of the purple or of the red/black or you can wait until my seed pods from this year are ready to open. I initially bought these as plants at a plant sale, you might be able to find them at a nursery. They just come up everywhere, if you don't deadhead them. They are different than any of the other poppies, their foliage is a grey/blue. If you plant 2 different colors of these only, close together, they will come up differently as a mix of the two.

The pink one is just an Oriental Poppy, it blooms at this time then the foliage dies back a bit, so you would want something in front of it to cover it. It doesn't really reseed, but it will multiply. It's available in almost any nursery center in spring or possibly even now. If you buy it in bloom you are sure of the color.

The topsy turvy is mine. I'm growing grape tomatoes in it and so far I am impressed! It's right on the deck for handy picking and eating!!

I don't think the Icelandic poppies will be my favorite either.

Another flower to look up......Painted Tongue.......it's gorgeous in all different shades. Grows really well in a pot and if left undisturbed will reseed itself there then you can transplant to the garden. They don't seed well in the garden. I found all this info by accident, when I couldn't remember what I had planted the year before in a pot that had lots of seedlings, so I let them go.......

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Firecracker · Subject: Re: Pix of your Garden and gardening tips! Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:07 am

Goodness Sky - you are a fountain of flower info!!

All of your flowers are so gorgeous!

I feel so ashamed at my lack of gardening skills and knowledge Embarassed

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horselaydee · Subject: Re: Pix of your Garden and gardening tips! Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:31 am

Don't be ashamed FC! It is never to late to start dabbling in gardening. But, I know I don't have the time to do as much as I would like, and my interest level ebbs and flows based on how much help my husband is willing to do. Luckily last year he finally offered to help redesign my perennial bed because it got totally overygrown and did look that great. He is a landscape architect so you would think he would really be into the plant selection and planting, but on the contrary, he prefers the design and hardscape installation.

I wish I had tried one of the topsy turvy things now! It looks like the plant really thrives in that!

Sky, I would love some seeds of the purple poppies if you have any to spare and fall would be great! I have never seen the painted tongues, they are truely spectacular!

Sky · Number of posts: 4925 Registration date: 2008-08-10

A landscape architect.................oh, how lucky for you. My hubby mows the lawn, that's it. I don't have the time anymore to be out in the garden like I'd want to. I have a hard enough time just getting the beds weeded. FC, I'm not that knowledgeable, but some of these plants I've had a while so you learn. I buy what I like and sometimes that means taking a huge risk. I've learned that I don't HAVE to keep something that's not doing well, or I don't like, or any divisions of plants! If I like a plant, I look it up so that I know what it wants to thrive. The Painted Tongue I found at one of our Grocery stores nursery section and fell in love with the colors. I had never seen or heard of it before. The following year when I had so many little seedlings in the pot, I knew something reseeded itself, but I had no idea. So when it bloomed I posted at a gardening forum to find out what it was.

HL, I can't wait to see pics of your gardens.

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aerwin · Number of posts: 1043 Location: Georgia Registration date: 2008-08-09

I love that painted tongue. That is gorgeous. I wonder if I could get poppies to grow here. What do you think Sky?

I 've not tried the topsy turvy. I just have a regular veg garden. Peppers,Heirloom tomatoes, Basil, Cilantro, squash and zuchinni.