Nice, healthy plants and gorgeous flowers, Kabby.

Spiderworts (Tradescantia) are still blooming in some spots where I haven't dug them out of beds to plant something else yet. Zinnias from scattered seeds are starting to show off! A pretty color combo, IMVHO.


A cutting of dragon wing Begonia placed about a month ago is recovered & blooming.


An Easter cactus (Hatiora/Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri) that's in the ground for temporary summer vacation is blooming.


Same for these Ledebouria socialis (scilla/squill) bulbs in the ground for temp summer vacay. The lighter foliage between is from L. kirkii.


A volunteer pumpkin vine is blooming!

All volunteers in the photo below.

A small sample of a great Caladium mix from Happiness Farms: They were fabulous to buy from.



Kathleen from ClassicCaladiums.










A volunteer white vinca, I love.



The Yvonne Salvias below are 5 foot tall.





Earlier this season. A mustard green plant among a geranium.


Plenty of monarchs flying around.

Beautiful spaces!!!

Really pretty, @bobjax.

By the way, please take a moment and go to your "Profile" and update your public profile, showing your location. City/state is most informative, but even your USDA zone would help.

@bobjax, your pix are wonderful. Where did you get your Yvonne salvia? I have black and blue salvia and think some Yvonnes would look great growing beside it.

Just found some seeds for sale!! Guess I will try it next year.

Hillsbough, NC
Many blooms coming to an end except for plumbago (just starting), clematis, and butterfly bush. Dianthus holding on too and a wallflower. There were more annuals blooming but the deer trimmed those good. One coneflower. A few in bud. Rue has buds.. Autumn joy just coloring up. Sedum uniformly happy. Rudbeckia maxima has immature noses...rather small this year -- too shaded by grandfather's beard ....bee balm in bud. Gaura doing real well. Heat has hit. Humidity too. No predicted rain until next Thursday ..and pitiful chance at that. We are on a well...and so I water...but not crazy water.

Here Is gaura to left of stream and the white in separate photo..not as unruly as pink ( <next to last photo )
And my one lonely coneflower ( last )
Also 2 photos of the wildflower garden along the riverwalk where I walk in Hillsborough. Loaded with bees. DH is dangerously allergic and so I avoid large plantings of wild bee loving stuff. But lots blooming in there.

Pretty stuff there, Rosie.

In another month it will be the wild wild west!

I have CALADIUMS coming back from last year. Never had that happen before. They are in a shaded bed that a fig tree protects. I guess the mild winter plus protection helped.

I am so glad your caladiums are finally coming back, I bought a box this spring and they are popping up nicely.

Mine usually come back too, Kabby but if we have really cold (for us) weather predicted I do throw on a couple of extra bags of mulch over top of where they're living. In this picture the ones with red veins (White Queen) are from last year and the others are new this year. We had a very mild winter, too.


Another surprise bonus daylily, don't know the name, but I'm pretty sure it didn't bloom last year. I'd have remembered those extravagant edges.

Wow Elaine that's a heck of a surprise daylily, those edges are practically dragging the flower down. Beautiful! I would have thought in zone 9b that there wouldn't be a need for mulching your caladiums, that they would automatically come back.
I bought a box from Bill last year, I just thought it would be no different than other years, caladiums gone from winter temps.
Larry, the caladium are in the bed where the pink rain lilies are. There are going to be at least a dozen blooming tomorrow, the most I've ever seen at one time. Where is that camera??!! Jerry called himself cleaning up!

Just bought yesterday, so pretty!

Love that color

It's pretty.

Things are on the decline. 98 degrees today and still no rain although it is all around us it seems.

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As usual a hundred years to upload

Guara..kaleidoscope abelia, a few purple and white clematis, plumbago, sickly dianthus, rudbeckia maxima, autumn joy sedum with some color...ONE magnolia bloom that I can see..rue..butterfly bush, rare poppy, angelonia, phlox in bloom and taller getting ready, coneflower, walking stick..red hot poker almost ready...shasta in bud...

Even with the heat and dryness, things are still looking good, Rosie.