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YaY! It's June and I have my first blooms on this, the only variegated daylily I have. The double flowers look just like my other Kwanso. I love the variegated leaves, which are quite long and will make a large mound in a few years. It's in the center of one of my beds because of its tall height of about 32 inches. My starter clump was from Alana (poisondartfrog), to whom I say "Thank You Very Much".

It's mid-June and on time this mid-seasoner has started blooming. I got the plant as a freebie with an order from Gilbert Wild & Son in Spring 2017. Records say it's an old faithful variety from the 1940s.

I started my plant from a cutting 7 years ago. I passed this tree often and admired that it was ever-bearing so stopped and asked the owner if I could get cuttings. He gladly shared and a couple rooted. I have a small yard, so by the 3rd year I moved the larger one I kept to a 32-gal. Rubbermaid trash can I bought and drilled holes in the bottom. It's stayed under 5 feet in the container, but has gotten branchy & produces loads of figs I pick all year. The smaller plant was given away.

Mine has its 1st flowers of 2018 now, on June 15th. They are a beautiful blue rarely seen in the plant world! I grow it in a large pot in morning sun, but with filtered afternoon light. They fainted every afternoon in full sun no matter how much water they got. They will bloom most of the summer on new growth. I bring them back and forth in my garage in winter when temps drop below 38*, but put them back out on mild days because our zone 9 winters aren't too bad. They are hardy with no noticeable diseases. Only an occasional snail nibbles on the leaves until I find and destroy it.

This is a pretty houseplant that loves a morning sun or filtered afternoon sun location. The brighter the light it gets, the deeper the red stem and new leaf casings are, as well as the larger and darker green the elongated leaves get. It grows about 2 inches a month and adds a leaf in that time. In lower light it grows faster but has smaller and lighter green leaves and less of the pretty red stem its name implies. I keep the soil evenly moist and spritz the plant twice a week for humidity lacking indoors. I will take a picture to post here since there are none of this lovely houseplant.

I love the pale pink raceme flower of this evergreen plant here in zone 9. It can spread fast by traveling roots and makes a seed so can be invasive. I just pull them when they get out of bounds. They are wispy plants that can get to 3 feet tall, so they look good growing mixed with tall plants and short plants. They flower all summer, then get dormant in winter, but never die back here. In April I give them a haircut that causes more compact new growth.

I've always known this as "Hidden Lily" ginger. My grandmother, mother, I, and now my two daughters grow it for the neat, wide, light green, 3' tall leaves and summer colorful hidden lily. I cut the pretty pastel flowers and they last a week in a vase indoors. I have used roots in cooking, but that's not why I grow them. Mark the spot where they grow because in winter they die to the ground, with no sign of the rhizomes below ground. They sprout late here in April in south Louisiana.

My plant is 4 years old and in a hanging basket in the filtered sun of a Vitex tree. Presently it's in the growing season and each branch gets about 1 inch longer a week. The pot is full of branches that got over 2 feet that I've broken and just thrown back in the pot. They root very easily. Here in zone 9 I only bring it into my garage for protection when winter temps drop below 38*. It's only bothered by an occasional snail that makes it up the tree to the pot and gnaws at it. It's not pretty, but interesting just the same and part of my succulent collection.

First bloom of 2018 opened June 15th. The plant is in a hanging basket in a Vitex tree just off my patio where it gets filtered sun all day. The plant is climbing up the hanger part of the basket 24 inches and now grabbing onto the branch it hangs from. This is the 4th year it has returned from tubers after dying back in winter. It usually travels 5 feet into the tree before cold weather arrives in Dec. here in zone 9.

I have these plants blooming this week, June 15, 2018. They are 6' and growing near my red ones by a wood fence where my neighbors can also enjoy their tropical look from their pool just over the fence. They'll bloom most of summer and grow to about 7 feet tall here in south Louisiana, zone 9.

I'm in south LA., zone 9, and my 7-foot-tall plants have their 1st flowers this week. I planted them by my back wood fence so my backdoor neighbor could also enjoy the blooms from their pool just over the fence.

I bought a 10-inch plant last fall from Almost Eden Plants here in Louisiana. It has grown to 15 inches this June and is setting buds now. I started collecting double syriacus varieties of all colors 3 years ago. Many gardeners have sent me cuttings of pinks, reds, lavenders, blended colors & some with variegated leaves. Most are "named" varieties. It all started with a family heirloom one, 'Lucy,' I've had 8 years. Several will have 1st blooms this summer, so it will be very exciting and rewarding.

I started my 2 hanging baskets from seeds I got in the Jan. 2017 seed swap here on garden.org. They were hand-labeled "Bolivian Begonias." I noticed early on that the leaves of some plants were medium solid green, top and back, but some had a speckled bronze back. Flowers and growth habits are identical. They seem to be different varieties. I separated them into 2 baskets, hoping someone can ID variety names by this description.

A local gardening friend gave me a starter plant in a 6-inch pot in May 2017. It was 10 inches tall and was in bloom. I had never seen anything like it and fell in love at 1st sight. The top died back to the soil this winter and I hoped the plant hadn't died. June 7, 2018 I was delighted to find a 3" tip coming up. If it gets bigger this year as it's now established, I'll move it to a bigger pot. It grows on my porch, where it gets filtered morning sun then bright light in afternoon. I keep the soil a little on the moist side, watering every 3rd day with rain water I collect in a barrel.

The little cutting I got from Nancy in a trade in Feb. 2018 has rooted and is now (mid June) a 6-inch plant with a couple of new leaves. She called it Wightii and it does look like Polka Dots. The slender leaves are quite different from the large leaves on my Cane Angel Wing Begonia. It should make white flowers whereas Angel Wing blooms are medium pink.

I got seeds in Jan. 2017 seed swap here from MrsBinWY. Planted in Feb. 2018 here in south Louisiana zone 9 & enjoyed them all Summer. I collected a lot of seeds but many fell. About May 15th I saw volunteers coming up all in that area. It's June 13, 2018 and they are now 6 inch plants. I'm very happy for these free beauties.

I started mine from seeds Feb. 2017. They grew well and bloomed last summer. I collected the seed heads in Dec. for one of the seed swaps here. Those perennial plants returned early this spring and are blooming their hearts out now in June. They are growing in a hot, dry area on the west side of my house and doing beautifully. I want more colors for next year since they are so durable.

A neighbor gave me a 12-inch plant 3 years ago when I admired her bush with its cherry-size red fruit. They aren't edible, but that's what they look like and they're very ornamental. She keeps a few plants that came up from the seeds that fall around her 6 foot bush. Mine's in a 4-gal. pot and is now 4 feet tall & 3 feet wide. It flowered in May and the cherries are forming now (June). The shiny green and bronze leaves make it an attractive evergreen patio potted plant. So far, no bugs or diseases bother it.

In Feb. I received a 4" plant in a trade from someone who started it from seed. She didn't know the color. I've never grown these, so it's a learning experience. I have it on my porch, where it gets filtered morning sun and bright light all day. It must be happy because it's now 6 inches with 4 leaves on top. It has spurred my interest because I want to see what color it ends up being. Anyone have advice for success I need to know?

For the 2nd time in 8 years I thought I may have lost my plant when we got low temps of 21* & 22* this winter. It was a beautiful plant, about 4 feet tall and wide. To protect it, I covered it with an old discarded canvas patio umbrella cloth I had saved when the structure broke. Then I put a large box over it and then a large plastic tablecloth in case it rained. That's more than I've ever covered it because it's on the south side of my house. I just didn't want it to get hit as hard as it did 3 years ago. Even with all that protection it died back to the ground. I was heartbroken, but that wasn't the end. As soon as it got warm here in zone 9, about March 1, it started sprouting new leaves. It's June 12, 2018, and it has lovely new leaves that are about 2' tall. It was a setback, but I hope it will bloom.