Picture of Gardens
Nosila 
Jenn 
Calico696 They are beautiful. Do you know the names of these flowers? I think the pink one is dianthus and the blue - morning glory. Don't know the yellow one or the purple one.
copygirl 
The purple is definitely fox glove. I'm not positive but is the yellow one hellebore? I can't stand morning glories. They're invasive and you won't get rid of it, and then it starts to strangle and pull down other plants or even the whole fence.
GC 
Christine 
riverat I will have to look at the tags tonight...the yellow one is like a bush can't believe how big it got
GC- I'm happy to hear that about the Morning Glory because its not by any other plants...I planted it to cover Salem's chain link fence
I love Sunflowers...I will have to try them not sure how they would do in our yard :(
Iris 
realitycheck 
LVMomOfBoys 
These have spread amazingly considering the roots seem like nothing when you transplant it.
You guys have inspired me to go home tonight and take pictures of my flowers. I don't have anything too exotic though. My stargazer lilies should be blooming soon.
Tracy 
One of these on the one side is almost all yellow, this one is typically shaded from yellow to full red.
The rain has almost taken all the petals off these, the only reason some are left is I just have so many. Weed-b-gone and a mud slide wouldn't make these go away.
ianimal 
Tracy - 12:21 is Red Hot Poker. That's come out exceptionally well this year. My mom has exceptional star gazers that come out every year. She planted a couple in my yard but every time they get close to blooming, they get eaten. A deer one year, rabbits the next. I'm not sure if it's the star gazer or a white easter lily I planted but I think this year I'm going to have one in the front yard that will actually live long enough to open. In the back I've already had one fall to the rabbits even though I sprayed to keep them off that. They got a white phlox right next to it as well.
Nosila - "its not by any other plants". Not yet. It'll spread, and it can take down that fence. I'd suggest honeysuckle instead.
ian - I see you've gone the "hydroponic in the basement so the cops don't get me" route. Watch out for the electric company - they always catch you that way... ;-)
Mich
Hey gardeners, does anyone know the variety of tree that blooms these little ivory pinwheel shaped flowers? I think they're so cute. If anyone knows what I'm talking about, let me know. I'll try to find a picture.
Nosila the yellow one looks like st. john's wort it's like a bush it will get huge 4' hight 4' wide but you can prune it in spring for size. get a butter fly bush they smell really good should a guy know all this about flowers?
tombo 
Tracy - a quick web search on pinwheel flower tree results in "jasmine". Could it be something like this:
http://l.yimg.com/g/images/spaceball.gif
Tombo - I've got something growing that was in the garden before I bought the house. I looked it up and it seemed like it was St John's wort, but it's not a bush like you describe. All the pictures I've seen of it don't really show the foliage and body of the plant - would you have one. What ever it is I have growing comes up in scattered individual stems with an individual yellow flower, but later in the year so I don't have a picture now. It has an odd growing habit that the leaves as they first grow are vertical until the leaf is big enough and then spreads out horizontally as a new vertical leaf forms above it. If that sounds familiar to anyone, let me know.
GC- you have some really pretty flowers...
I just got my wisdom teeth out this morning but I'm hoping I feel better because I want to hit the green houses.
Where does everyone get their "different" perennials?
Also, does anyone know if perennials do well in pots?
So sad I do not have a garden and miss having a balcony.... I have a nice area in the front by the walkway and plan to do something soon or even start next year.... I love walking by all the balcony's in complexes and in and around gardens in the area. My boyfriend says I am like a "peeping tom..." I just say it is one of my "hobbies!" lol
Nosila - IMO the best places for perennials is either GrowRite or Flowerland. They have good prices and good quality plants. I've always bought my stuff there and haven't had any problems.
Flowerland's sale today and tomorrow is 10" hanging baskets $9.99 each, buy one get one free! 6" annuals $2.99 each 3 for $9.99 and 8" zinnias $4.99 each. As advertised in the Riverbend.
Their annual selection is dwindling there though. I went a couple weeks ago because I had to replace my marigolds as we had a slug invasion in one of the planters, and there wasn't all that much left of annuals.
Maybe I will take a ride out to Growrite today....I always seem to want to go there on Sundays and they are closed on Sundays so think I will take a ride out there.
I need some flowers that bloom all summer....most of my garden is spring bloomers so I need some more
This picture isnt the greatest but I love these
What beautiful pictures you've all posted, hanging my head in complete shame. I've never been a flower person but love seeing what you green thumbers can grow. Thanks for sharing.
Bessie 
Having just bought my house in November I'm in my first year of garden attempting... I don't have perennials that I've planted just annuals, but I'm working on it. Actually... that's a lie, I did put in some hostas that are doing nicely, I transplanted them from my parents house. I have tons of plants that I don't know what they are.
Njchia 
realitycheck - spectacular double iris there
nosila - For "regular" perennials a little closer to home I'd suggest Godlewsky's. They've got all the usual suspects plus some scattered "different" varieties as well. Their weekend specials are very good, plus they're one of the few where you can buy first year perennials by the flat of 3 packs. For $15 you can get 36 plants that way - they need another year to be bigger, but the variety that way is good. And with the way some of their plants are, you sometimes get things in those first year ones that look more like other place's two year plants. This year their mullein, foxglove, bleeding heart, and veronica are all huge even in the small 3 packs.
But if it's really "different" varieties you're looking for, then it's Well Sweep all the way. They were showing off some chocolate scented plants at their open house. They have colors you don't normally think of like bright red cone flower or two toned coreopsis, they have lavender that has leaves as silver as elephant's ear, or dwarf balloon flower that's like 6" tall. All sorts of unexpected varieties - some are more like $7-8 per one gallon pot because they're premiums. But if it's just a slightly different color, they're often the normal $5 ea.
For things that bloom for just about the whole summer, I've had really good luck with coreopsis, heliopsis, bee balm, and blanket flower. Day lilies are also really easy to grow, each flower only lasts the one day, but they have so many flowers for such a long time you usually get them off and on through the whole summer.
And yes, there are lots of people with patios in a condo or town house with limited space who grow things in a container. My mom besides her garden has lots of things inside, and I know she's done that with phlox, cone flowers, obedient plant, yarrow, and some others.
Godlewsky's - Alphano Road in Allamuchy - www.godlewskyfarms.com
Well Sweep - Mt Bethel Road in Port Murray - www.wellsweep.com
GroRite/Flowerland - Route 519 in Belvedere - www.grorite.com
I have a question for all you flower folks.... I have this plant growing in my garden, I thought it was a sunflower as it started growing. I had a bird feeder above where it is growing and when it started coming up like I said it looked like a sunflower, but now I am not so sure. Here is a picture... it had just one big head on top to start and now has several growing below it....
Cherie 
suzique 
Sunshine : ) KK that is an amazing tree!!! I am looking to add trees to our landscaping, and I'm going to put that one on my list. Don't believe I've ever seen anything like it. WOW.
Rebecka 
cowgirl1 Yes YKW: very cute pic of the horse...and a fine lawn mower too, if I may add, lol.
Nosila,The yellow flower at beginning of this thread......Looks like one there was an article on. NJ.com, Sussex go to July 1. That it is rare and they found couple acres of it in a pasture.
I have something that the leaves looks so much like it,but thought it was a weed and pull them before or IF they flower. If you have them,did you plant them ? or just appeared as mine did. They are close to wetlands.....
since '66 since '66 - A good question for Nosila is how big those flowers are. That rare trollis flower and the hellebore I was thinking based on the flower center are fairly big flowers. And the trollis would have arched petals forming a big round bowl. If the flowers are small, then potentilla is probably correct. Based on the foliage I'm pretty sure it's not the trollis, those leaves looks like a may apple if you've ever seen one of those.
GC,Thanks for the info. Iam going to let the ones here continue to grow for now and see if they flower. I just love flowers but don't know alot about them.BUT....I have a miserable problem with Thistle growing in a beautiful well establised pachysendra{?}. For every one I pull 6 more grow back by the next morning. Now they are 4 ft tall and purple flowers on them.I just got too overwelmed and no time to keep up with them.WHAT can I do besides wacking everything and spraying weed control ? that would kill my good plants....Would appreciate any suggestions.
since '66 - Pachysandra is usually in a really shady spot, often around big trees. I don't think that's usually a spot for thistle. Was there maybe a tree that got cut down? If so, putting a replacement in would probably help because I don't think the thistle will do well in the shade. Otherwise I think thistle is also like a lot of other weeds - they actually like bad soil. Some nice compost or fertilizer might make it tougher on the thistle. HTH.
oldman 
Nosila, I was just excited it bloomed at all this year. We bought it at Lowes 2 years ago and I planted it. Last year it grew leaves but never flowered. This year it grew more leaves and one little bunch of flowers bloomed. If I remember correctly, though, it was blue when we bought it. Is it normal for it to have changed colors?
ianimal, there is a cute little gelato place at the Foxwoods casino. Yummy chocolate hazelnut.
Tracy- Yeah it's actually normal for it to change colors and actually you can play to soil to do it
http://www.hydrangeashydrangeas.com/colorchange.html
Tracy - Your hydrangea is probably a mate to mine, my mom bought it as a present for my birthday two years ago at Lowes. What you describe is perfectly normal. They don't bloom when they're small, they need at least a year to get that size. Unfortunately mine my mother also decided it didn't look so good and cut it back all the way to the ground. So I've got another year or more before mine's got a small bloom. New growth comes out of the old bits that look dead, but arean't. So don't cut it back if you want the blooms.
A natural hydrangea definitely changes depending on the soil. It's got a special chemical that switches from pink to white to blue depending on the pH level. They've bred some plants to always be pink, always be blue, or the white that's exactly in the middle. The chemical is extracted for laboratories and used as a pH tester.
Wow, thanks Nosila. I guess the soil it was potted in had more aluminum than the soil in my garden, thus the change from blue to pink. Cool!
Awww, crap. Well, having never been to Italy, I'll have to just imagine what the real thing is like until I get there someday. :o)
PS. I hate to say it, but Foxwoods gelato comes in on a Haagendazs truck. Not at all a competitor to the real thing across the street from Boboli Gardens... Or off a corner of the Grand Canal at midnight... Or along the cliffside in Sorrento... You get the idea. ;-)
Tracy- I think I will have to add a hydrangea to my garden this weekend
I may have to spend a little more and get one who is already blooming I dont have patience to wait 2 years for it to bloom
Nosila, mine was blooming when I bought it. But I guess as GC said, it takes awhile once it's replanted into the ground.
Nice job with the impatiens, Calico. I have white and pink like that in a planter, but they're all mixed up. Yours are in nice little rows. Very pretty.
Klee Klee- I use a Sony Cyber Shot....awesome pictures and even better price...I think
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Sony/13432968
Old Sony's were crap. But the newer ones uses really nice (East) German Zeiss lenses for great optics. My Olympus has always had great optics, was even cheaper in its day, but has a bit of an issue with auto color detection. It wants to auto-correct between inside and outside light and doesn't do it well. There are some settings I can play if I remember, but I don't always.
Nosila - Nice pic. Get yourself a darn avatar will you Girl! That square gray face is killing me!!!
k it said it could take ten minutes...i will try in a little while just for you Calico!!!!!!
Calico, thanks to the picture of your Rose of Sharon, I finally know what that very large bush is outside my house. An elderly couple passed by yesterday and asked Derek what they were, he of course called me outside because he had no idea. I remembered your picture and told the woman I think it's a Rose of Sharon and she said she thought that's what it was. I felt so smart, Thanks. By the way, I know nothing about flowers at all but she mentioned they were native to Texas and love the heat, do you know if that's true? Mine has just burst this year, I've never seen it with so many flowers and buds that continue to bloom.
Nosila - oops, not "with a D". I've got lots of those, they're "phlox". There are two kinds, the creeping 3-4 inch tall ones that spread like weeds and bloom in the spring. And then the 3-4 foot tall ones blooming now. The previous owner of my house where I used to live planted a ton of phlox and it was always something everyone commented about. I transplanted a ton of those to my mom's house in PA and they draw the same reaction there. Unfortunately, I didn't grab many from the old place when I moved to H-town, but luckily my mom's bumper crop of them has been enough to be a source. Over the last 3-4 years they haven't done very well, crumpled up leaves and few blooms. I've thought some kind of mildew or fungus has attacked them. But this year they're as healthy as can be, and out in force. Yours are the same as my picture of July 16, 4:24.
GC- they prob didnt do well last year because of too much rain. I have just always called them pink coneflower thats what the tag said on them....I hope they do well. This is the first year for us to be in this house so trying to plant call kinds of perennials...
Nosila - Sorry I think I confused you. Tracy was asking about the flowers you posted at 7:26 July 25. That's what I was saying is phlox. The one you just posted with the butterfly is the purple cone flower. Lighter coneflowers do look pink, and I've got one that's been grown to be so light it's actually white. I also posted a cone flower too - June 18 9:38 - but that's not the white one.
The phlox haven't been good for probably three years running. I don't think it's the water they get because the leaves have tended to get shriveled which looks more like something attacking them.
Nosila - Amazing at this time of year.
This went from nothing but a little stem, to a long vine. I thought it was just going to be a huge bunch of new leaves. But it turned out they were buds after all - didn't know it was going to be like that in the fall. Maybe it's the dwarf variety that's fall instead of the usual spring. It'll be quite surprising if it ends up blooming twice. This is the first year so it'll be next year to find out.
Not really a garden, but this plant FH got me is so freakin' cute. It's a succulent and it has these bright orange flowers that open and close. Today they're all open, face to the sun!
Sorry it's a bad picture too, I only have my cell phone with me.
THE MAN Great photos, Tracy and THE MAN. I think that's a good shot, Tracy.
THE MAN, where is that? It looks like Williamsburg, VA! So pretty.
Hopeful in H-town 
I have always wanted a secret garden...old fashioned English style garden I am such a dreamer. : -)
Firefly Firefly, if you want your garden to be a secret, you really shouldn't tell people about it (-;
Hello everyone,
Your flowers are just BEAUTIFUL!!! there is nothing comparing to nature...
For the last 5 years I have been planting hostas, tulips, lilies and many other perennials and annuals however they keep disappearing due to hungry deer in the area....could you be so kind and give me some advice? I know there is nothing deer proof but at least a few perennials that will give me some color, and will fill my small flower bed but survive the deer?
Thank you !!!
E. T.
E. T. E.T. - Besides this thread with the pictures, there's another one called "Gardening Tips". It has a discussion of how to keep the deer/rabbits/etc away.
Try here:
http://www.hackettstownlife.com/forum/280050
Mosting our suggestion is to use some of those spray products. However you've got to keep away from two specific plants or you're going to get deer no matter what you spray - hostas and hydrangea.
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