Julia, is that one picture Salipglosis? The second one. Love those flowers.

I grew that from seed this year in the greenhouse.

So it IS salipglosis?

Oh, yes it is.

Great. For sure I will get some seeds. I may have time to grow them this year and they should return next year Thanks.

Mary you may want to start in the spring and I have never had them return, annual.

Oh. I thought they were perennial. I will double check. Could be perennial elsewhere but not here.

Blooming today.
noid lily

noid Phlox


Helenium Red Jewel

All gorgeous. The noid lily looks like Conc 'dor which is about 4-5' tall with huge 9" blooms. An orienpet.

Could be, I just buy bags at Costco in the spring. At 12.99 a bag you can't loose.

A few pictures from tonight. So happy we had a cooling trend. Going back up toward the weekend.
planted this up last week. Heuchera zipper, loropetalum 'jazz hands mini',and, trachelium 'hamer pandora.








Asarinia violet grown from seed


Asarinia Victoria falls

springcolor, I am glad to see someone else growing Trachaleum careuleum 'Hamer Pandora'. I grew it for two years and lost it two winters ago, I thought that I had not protected it well enough, but later learned that it is a short-lived perennial. I purchased a new one from Annie's Annuals a month or two ago and have planted it out. I will take cuttings to ensure that I am never without it again...I love that plant

Good plan about cuttings. I bought this one at City People Nursery in Seattle. Love the color. Have you ever seen seed on the plant?

I have heard that it is sterile. I tried to gather seeds from dried flower heads, but I didn't get any. I could have been too late. I also never had any seedlings appear in the garden, so it very well may be sterile. I will watch it more closely for seed this year. I really want to keep this plant in my garden, I love the foliage color, and the flower color is amazing too

about the color. never grown this plant before so appreciate the tips. I will look for seed as well.

What wonderful rain yesterday. Plants look happy this morning.
Sedum starting to color up.














Heuchera Paris

A Cerinthe major yellow gem I grew from seed.


Dragon wing Begonia also grown from seed


sedum lime zinger just about to open it's blooms.


'thunderhead'


hydrangea 'little lime'


Daylily seedling.


container filled out with coleus and million bells.

A few pictures after the rain.
Sedum, they have names but didn't want to tramp through the garden.

Beautiful! I haven't been on in a while. Such a busy year. I spent 2 weeks in France this summer and then 2 weeks in Pennsylvania. My garden wasn't quite as insane this year, and I avoided planting a lot of vegetables since I was going to be gone. Now that the weather is cooler, I'm enjoying being outside again. I started my own blog---I think I can post it here, since it's not a business (I do not have ads or anything), and it's just my personal journal. Check it out at www.poppiesandthistle.com
I named it Poppies & Thistle, as poppies represent the beauty in life and thistle represents the challenges.

So great to see you post. Sounds like you had a wonderful summer.