Oh, these are so beautiful! I miss mine so much...as soon as I got close to this clump, I could smell that sweet honey scent. Bex is going up to the wholesale nursery in Coos Bay tomorrow and if she asks if I want her to pickl up anything for me, I'll have her get me a romneya. I found one here last year and planted it in a bad spot...it was not a very robust plant that I bought (only one she had) and it didn't make it through Winter, either drowned or hit with the VW. These are at the Botanical Garden in Brookings....

These are thanks to seeds from Dee.....I always sow some seeds in good soil to make sure I have seeds to save from here on out....









'Persian Blue Poppy'

Hypericum / St. John's Wort.....









Aesculus...

Oh your poppies look spectacular! I put out hundreds of seeds, I liked the "Persian Blue" so much I tried several other colors. Only two came up, and they were in the greenhouse! Probably tracked in on my shoes, LOL. Oh well, there is always next year. I don't know if the birds and bugs ate the seeds or if the weather has just been so funky is why they never germinated.

One of the many Epi's blooming

Glads (All my glads seem to be going off at once, it's pretty wild.)

I gave away some of my sown cups of poppies and kept these for seeds......also have some red ones that came from piksi in Tx.....

Sherry, can you grow the Romneyas from seed, or you talking about something else? As if I had room for them...

Thanks for the show. I like Sherry's Persian Blue Poppy and Dee's Epi bloom.

Romneyas CAN be grown from seed though I think it's rather difficult....some say you need to seed the flat and then set the top layer on fire to get them to germinate.....I do know one person, Amy Winslow, I've lost track of her now, she had Moonrise Nursery in Thousand Oaks and she said she was having success from seed grown without resorting to fire....generally, roots are dug in Nov-Dec for propagating. Some of the garden club members in Fb were digging the just before their garden club sale (another time of year, I believe Spring) and said they had success....but I don't know if anyone followed up on that with the buyers to make sure the plants lived.

Blooming in June, you say?

celosia flamingo feather pink


cleome


Small Leaf Sage 'Orchid Glow'


salvia 'Primrose Pearl'


And I still have a gabillion seedlings that need potting up. I did some, but apparently good intentions are not enough.

Love everyone's blooms!

My epis have winded down for the season, glad it is now the turn of my noid rescue orchid to bloom! I know it is of the Oncidium alliance and my best guess it is some type of Miltassia. Happy it endured our heat wave last week and continued on to bloom today:



Spider plants busy with its cute, white little blooms:



Editing to add, forgot about my Euphorbia milii:

Beautiful orchid, tarev....

Carol, me too on the seedlings...and still planting seeds...we have a short window of opportunity up here...

My seedlings have to get done by Monday because I'm tired of worrying about them. Maybe I need one of those procrastination badges.

Yep....I have things I would be getting in the ground today...BUT...surprise, surprise...it's raining lightly, started last night.

Finally got the name of my noid orchid..it is called Brassidium Fangtastic 'Bob Henley'..yehey, no longer a noid!

just some more photos of same orchid, after the long wait..just relishing the show!

A third bud prepares to open, looks somewhat ike a jellyfish


two's company!

Winter here
Flowering now Brunfelsia lactea Princess of the Night

Oh...so lovely. I brought one up here with me but it did not make it through this last Winter...sigh. This last Winter= the dividing line. Much came through Winter before last just fine only to succumb to hard frosts this last year.

Seems like my slow to bloom plants have talked amongst themselves and finally decided it is time to start blooming finally this June! Not a profuse bloom, but I will take what they can give! Ironically, temps are rather cool, in the 65F to 85F range. Maybe they just waited patiently for the week long heat wave last week to pass:

Mandevilla


Adenium obesum



Noid Plumeria



And just another shot of Brassidium Fangtastic 'Bob Henley', more buds have opened

Nice shots, tarev!

Thanks Sherry!

My Patriot is starting to bloom: