Did you check Caladiums4 less website?It might be there with the Fancy Leafed ones

I think Miss Muffet has curlier leaf edges.

Thanks, Jo Ann, I'll check that site.

JoAnn, my Larkspurs self sow from seed simply falling to the ground. That gives me the impression that you should sow on top of the compost. All I've ever done is scratch the seed in a little and tamp the soil down. So yeah, I'd say they're a lot like annual Poppies in that respect.

Okay I did the photo upload............. I had pictures from July on there still not uploaded. My bad................

Here's a few pictures of my stuff beginning mid July or so.











Enough with July now....................

Those are just lovely gardens.

Cherie, Beautiful garden!! Lilies and a pickett fence... charming!

Now a few from this month................

My nightly and early morning visitor. I found one evening that I CAN move fast if I need to.



Rose of Sharon




Hardy Hibiscus












This guy was in my neighbors tree. My son said he thinks it was a juvenile Coopers Hawk?

Thanks ladies. I enjoy my flowers so much.




No name daylily. It was free so what the heck who cares if it has no name here.



A dahlia bloom from a package of Dahlia bulbs I picked up on impulse

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Why these are blooming now is beyond me. All my other lilies are long done now.





Brugmansia 'Delta Dawn'

Very nice, Cherie. Thanks for the photos! Everything still looks so lush and green up there in Zone 5.

We have those Coopers Hawks here ... they sometimes eat the smaller birds and rob the nests. So sometimes I like to see them, and sometimes I don't.

Gorgeous, Cherie! Do you know the variety name of that late Lily? I'd like to add a few more late varieties, I so miss them when the majority of the Lilies are finished. Still have a few blooms on the Rubrum (L.speciocum rubrum) now, but they're just about done.

I am not sure. I think I still have the name on a metal plant tag out there by it. In a bit I will go and see if I can find it.

Gorgeous Cherie! Is the purple a phlox? I'm just getting to know phlox, and want to have more of it for the butterflies... so far all the ones I've gotten have been much shorter than I thought they'd be.. need a few 2-3' tall ones I think...

Yes Kelly it is a garden phlox. If memory serves me it is Franz Schubert........

O h Neal, I forgot to check on that for you............sorry (adult) ADD. I'll go look right now before it gets too dark.

Nope went to look...... tag is missing; must be where the other 20 or so have disappeared over winter. I honestly think the squirrels get mad because there is no peanuts and dig them up and hide them on me.

Cece ,you have been holding out on us...great Photos girly... Pepe Lepew Huh...Not A really good thing... Im thinking I need some Hardy Hybiscus Seed.

with the just scratch the Larkspur seed in. I had really good luck trans planting those that wintered over, I did it very early.








so how much sun can a caladium take or need ??mine is not nearly as beautiful as others here I could Read up a bit...

Alright now how do I get the photos all loaded up Like CeCe did....LOL

My caladiums have been uneven this year. Some varieties just didnt happen. Might be the long cold spring.

Those Cleomes above? I didn't plant them this year and planted only the two I got at the round up last year............pays to uh not be johnny on the stick weeding hey? How many years now have I been weeding those things out.

Ready for a little more?

Purple coneflower.


from my front door. This is where the cleome is.


Bluebird Rose of Sharon


Large pink Brugmansia noid.


Brugmansia 'Delta Dawn'


container with a miss mass of things I had left over from a shopping spree at a local greenhouse.

This bed gets several hours of direct early morning sun (enlarge photo). The pink colors in front are a bit washed out in the photo.




These get no direct sun at all but do get bright light.




The thing with Caladiums is that the different size bulbs produce a different size display of leaves, as everyone probably knows.


Very nice gardens, Cece. Tam, you have nothing to be ashamed of, that's for sure!

Such beautiful gardens, everyone.

Karen

Thanks for sharing all the super photos and great color.
I found a website in the spring which said if you cut off the center eye on a Caladium tuber you'll get a lot more leaf growth. I didn't save the site but I found this one which states the same thing.
http://www.plantanswers.com/ga...

Look a bit past half way down "Want to try something sadistic on your caladium bulbs this year?..."

This makes perfect sense but does this agree with your experiences?

Beautiful pictures everyone. I'm a bit of a coneflower novice, but I've finally got a few nice established plants, and a bunch of new ones from volunteers that should bloom next year. Now, I need to know how to take care of them? I think I've let mine go too long before deadheading this year, though the birds are happy Do you deadhead them aggressively to keep them blooming? How about fertilizing?