PAINTED TONGUE

WOW!! Everything looks amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OOOH What is that purple flower? That is beautiful! Oh I planted some poppy seed and they are coming up!

Do you mean the third from bottom? I've added the name, it's the common name, Painted Tongue. They are gorgeous and come up in various different colors. There is a dark purple that is gorgeous but it doesn't photograph well, colorwise. They reseed themselves freely and when planted in a pot they will give you all kinds of seedlings to transplant. I find they don't reseed well in the garden as prolificly.

Some Fall pics.............

The watermelon was the little kind and it was good! The golden leaf tree is in my yard but the red leaf trees were at a park close by and the delphinium is the second flowering!

Gorgeous!! Fall is so beautiful!!!

OMG Sky! How did I miss your gorgeous garden photos you posted back in August???? Your flowers and garden are to die for! Those sunflower shots just brought the biggest smile to my face. You are an excellent photographer!

I grew Roma tomatoes too and man what a prolific, everbearing variety it is! The tomatoes were so flavorful too. Definitely will grow them again next year. Now that I have some more time off, I am definitely going to have a small garden. I grew tomatoes and started blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries this year. Got any vegetable gardening successes you would like to pass on?

Sometimes mine doesn't do to well, it depends on our weather. My parsnips always tend to grow really well and I sometimes can't pull them myself, it's like pulling a tooth! Yes, the Romas did really well but next year I want to plant the little grape tomatoes. I love the yellow sunflowers the most. The lighting on some of them just turned out really good! Thank you for the compliment, but not all my pictures turn out as good. Watermelon, I don't usually grow, the season just isn't long enough but we were lucky to have such a warm/hot summer this year.

Gosh your leaves are already turning?! They are gorgeous.

I had a great garden this year. Basil was unreal and blackberries coming out of my ears! Basil seems very easy to grow and you can make Pesto and put it up.

Our leaves have turned and some trees are bare already because we have had such cold temps and wind! We have already had frost two nights in a row and all the flowers in the buckets are now dead.

We used to have a garden in our backyard of our first home. Once I started daycare and had the boys and kids always playing in the yard - we just never did it again. We did grow grape tomatoes and they were awesome! We grew green beans (had some problems with bugs) lettuce (not much luck), eggplant (yummy) and leeks (didn't get a whole lot) Don't really think we have the greenest of thumbs

IDK, sounds like you did okay to me! Lettuce is a cool weather crop so even in the summer it doesn't do well here except in late spring early summer.

Well, other than the tomatoes and green beans we didn't get as much as we had hoped. It was fun though.

No, I haven't grown beets. I've thought about it though except hubby doesn't like beets. They would be a breeze to pull because they don't have a loooong root.

My sunflower seeds were of two varieties given to me by a friend, harvested from her plants the previous year. They didn't all come up the same as the parent plant! I'll buy a packet next year of the pale yellow ones as those were my favorite.

I've always grown basil, but I didn't this year. I love the red basil and the large leaf basil the best. I do grow rosemary, parsley, garlic chives, and a couple different kinds of thyme.

I love to roast beets and put them in a nice arugula salad with French sheep cheese...yummy!

I did'nt get a hold of the large or red leaf basil. The ones I grew were small leaf which was'nt quite as good, but they did well in a pot.

I also love the light yellow two toned sunflower. Definitely, going to plant some next year.