P.s. I donated sedum Autumn Joy and South Seas daylilies to the sale. 😁
They had a daylily called Chinese Scholar there that was a red double and another yellow double as well as Blueberry Candy. Not many but there were none last year so at least there was something. They sold them for $4, like the iris. I didn't buy any.

You weren't wrong, K!

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⬇️Are these wishbone flowers, K?
I didn't get any at this nursery... didn't buy anything actually as things weren't watered that well and no pricing and also no one who greeted me or asked me if I needed help etc. 🤷🏻‍♀️👎🏻



They had this "Campfire" coleus which was nice, too! 🔥

Wow, SummerBee,
Are those first 2 real photos? They look like AI-generated artworks.

‼️ Avert your eyes, Diana! 😆 ‼️

Hosta quartet with Frances Williams in the bottom middle


Some others 😍


Yellow Polka Dot Bikini (reminds me of K's story/painting 😆)


Brother Stefan


NOID


Variegated Hakone grass


Horrible pic but these cats are everywhere!! 😣


More scapes (seedling... usually my first to scape but not this year)


First scape


Finally, Victoria Falls bloomed today and she's upright!


Yes, all real photos, Orion. Taken on my 💩 Motorola cell phone. 😉

Can't wait to get these in a pot once the pansies are over.

A pink lily I bought last year at our local botanical garden. They told me it was a no-name, probably a happy accident.

Diana, I felt the same way about hostas. I also did what Summerbee did. When a tree came down, shade turned into sun, put hostas out front for free. Big box store plain green and green and white ones mixed. I hated them and that area.

But, a few years ago I discovered a few mini ones that were different that I liked and started incorporating a few of those into the landscape. Then, probabably someone here's influence, (won't name names but it's my favorite season of the year), I bought a non-mini one last year that I love. Just ran out to take a quick pic so ignore most of what's in the pic, ((work in progress)



I like how the bluish gray foliage contrasts with the colors of the Heuchera. The middle lime green is one of the small hostas, wiggles and squiggles or something, that will be moved and a lime Heuchera will replace that. It will look much better when I do that. Oh and of course, plant that bluish gray hosta that I got last year that I'm talking about.

That wiggles lime colored one, about 5 years ago I put one in a hanging basket.
Last year pic


Each year I just take it down for the season and hang it back up in the Spring. I also usually stick purple wishbone cuttings in it, but otherwise do absolutely nothing. Don't water it, no fertilizer, same soil etc. My kind of hanging basket. Photo not great but it does look nice when the purple wishbone annual fills out and hangs over the basket. But then I like the contrast of colors, lime green and purple.

I also never thought much of ground cover, boring blah. But I like the look of combining different colors. I also like using it in perennial planters.
Last year, Cedar Waxwing with purplish sedum/ground cover. Not the best example, (not filled in yet and one color) but it's the first photo I found.



Summerbee, yup, looks like a pink Wishbone flower. And I'm with Orion, beautiful photos. I know I wouldn't have left there with nothing.

The salmon/coral African Daisy (?) is a plant I actually DID buy somewhere else later this morning. Also got a couple of lantana. 😎 I really didn't need it but couldn't pass up the color. I think I planted my purple one in the ground last year and it didn't do so well? Might try it in a pot this year. Yesterday evening I also bought some dill to plant in the garden and hopefully attract swallowtail butterflies.

Nice photos, K! You're very adventurous with your plant mixing!. That's good thing!

I have Hosta curly fries and party streamers. And I just ordered Wild Imagination which is a crazy one, too. But I think it's more blue.

Nice heucheras, too!! 🤩

@Newyorkrita , beautiful banner photo! How goes the tomato crop?

hawkeye_daddy said: Newyorkrita , beautiful banner photo! How goes the tomato crop?

Little tomato seedlings are growing well.

I suspect it was my resident foxes who left me a "present" of a bloody rabbit leg on my patio. I know rabbits feet are supposed to be lucky (yuk) but I could have forgone this gift

Oh, yuk.

Yes, SummerBee,
You might want to bank that pic of the daisies somewhere memorable for submission to the 2024 photo contest in fall. Sure to be a contender.

I encountered the Eclipse hydrangea that some of you got this year, today at Home Depot.
I am pretty impressed. No space for one, but my gosh, so lovely.

Mine today 😍


Which one was the hydrangea you mentioned last year that you were looking for? 🤔 I think we may have been giving Dianne suggestions?!

Also...make space!! 😁 I dug out a vanilla strawberry hydrangea and put it in a pot so I could plant the new eclipse one. Did you say you had stuff out front to dig up?? You have to mark your eclipse experience with this plant. 😎 Plus, it's such a good deal at HD!!

I don't do photo contests but thanks, Orion. I appreciate the suggestion.

Thank you Summerbee. "Adventurous" I just like easy, no care, set it forget it.

I really need to venture beyond my local big box stores. They stink. You guys find such amazing plants. Haven't seen an African Daisy in that coral color or a Hydrangea like that.

Pretty no name lily Nan.

Jill, yuk is right. I'd be horrified.

Found that coral African Daisy at a very small road side stand. Never know what you will find or where, K!! Just have to take a chance. ☺️
I used to mostly shop big box but I like to talk to plant people (wether they like it or not ). Often big box garden center workers know very little about the plants. Especially that most all of them need water regularly or they'll surely die. 😉

Return to sender, Jill!! RETURN TO SENDER!!! 🦊🎁🐰

Watching The Judge again on Netflix. Many of the scenes are shot in the area of the Bridge of Flowers that I visited last year. I may have to make another trip out there again soon since it's unexpectedly open when it was supposed to be undergoing renovations this year. Such a happy place. Everyone there is smiling and awestruck. 🌞 A couple there last year asked me to take their photo and I took so many the woman said "okkkaaayyy, that's enough!" and took her phone back.
Wanted to make sure they got a "good one". Just trying my best.

ETA: went out to quickly take some more pix. There's a tag I hadn't even realized was there.... Coral Magic.. fitting name. 😌






This one I saw last weekend in NH looks similar?


The place with the wishbone flower was in VT, just FYI.

K, Google suggests High Society, Touch of Class, or Magic Island for that beautiful hosta you posted. Any idea on the name? I have Touch of Class ordered. 😎
Not like I need any more!!!

We had an unexpectedly beautiful day today!

First bloom on a new Peony, Butter Bowl, love this one.


This is supposed to be Sorbet, photos in the database are quite varied so really can't compare it to be certain.


Flowers on this Siberian Iris (Purplelicious - love the name) are chewed and look dreadful, but it's nice to see it blooming.


And my poor deer munched rhododendron are blooming. They look like lollipops because the deer eat all the foliage around the sides and bottom.




They are planted way too close to the driveway, need to be cut back and thinned, which I may do in the late Fall this year. They are far too large to move, else I'd try to move them to the inside of the fenced yard. They may have to go entirely and plant new ones out of the reach of deer.

Donna, if you want blooms on your rhodies next year I think it's best to prune them right after they finish flowering. Bummer about the deer.

Beautiful photos!!😍
Can't wait for my peony show this year. I thinking I have sobet too but it's probably 2-3 years or more until it blooms. Thanks for sharing!

Apparently a lot of you are anti link but there is such good segments today on YouTube from CBS Sunday Morning! 🌅
Especially loved the Tie Dye and Weathervane stories. There is also one about Wordle, Building a Castle From Scratch 🏰, Jigsaw Puzzles, Marth Stewart Garden Tea Party tips ( 🥱) etc.

https://m.youtube.com/@CBSSund...

Where did you find/buy your new Eclipse hydrangea from @Legalily ??