Great photo Tarev, I hope you will add it to the database! There are currently no photo's of the blooms for this plant: Moon Valley Pilea (Pilea mollis)

That's one of my favorite houseplants, tarev! I've never seen mine bloom, but then I may just not have been paying attention.

Nice photo of Saphira there beside you, Larry.

Beautiful plants, I love the crinkled foliage, too.

Salvia Indigo Spires......

Here are a few recent shots of color.

Louise Clements


This is Vesper, planted next to a coprosma shrub that I thought would compliment this rose which usually is more apricot in the warmer months.


This is a new bidens for me called 'Goldilocks Rocks', they are such wonderful long time bloomers here for bed edges and as spillers in pots. Nice delicate looking lacy foliage too.


My favorite bacopa, don't know the cultivar name though, larger blooms that the usual ones. I have it planted in a salvaged clay pipe (as shown in my blog) and it's been blooming non-stop for months now. I plan to get a lot more of these to scatter throughout the garden.


This is Cafe, an unusual colored tannish rose that changes it's shade with the weather, sometimes it's shows a lot more apricot as seen in some of my other database images.


This is Helichrysum 'Monster Fireball', a straw flower than has been blooming non-stop since I planted it in early summer.


and of course, pansies are hitting the nurseries, just picked up a flat of these "Frizzle Sizzle Mix'.

Oh, I love that Helichrysum 'Monster Fireball'! So that's what it is called! In the northern mountain region in the Philippines, it is locally called Everlasting, simply because it does not seem to die off, even after plucking them and stringing them into a lei, lasts almost forever as a dried flower with very rich colors. Usually, the lei adorns the statues or images of saints inside the church or in one's altar at home.

BEAUTIFUL photos

very nice!!!

Larry: I agree with Sharon, that is one beautiful canine in the photo next to you!

Sherry: Love that Salvia ... gorgeous color!

Sue: Oh my goodness, what beauty ... it would be heaven to meander around your garden!

Thanks for all your comments and gorgeous photos!

Y'all should know that Sue has uploaded thousands of photos--as in 7,000--to our ATP database!

Thanks also for the kind comments about Saphira. She's a rescued Afghan Hound who's registered with the AKC but can't be shown because she's too tall. Sharon has met her in person (or should I say "in dog" ). I named her after a famous belly dancer in Washington, D.C. Here's a better photo of Saphira and one of her namesake. (I hope you won't think that the latter is too risqué!)

Saphira is much more beautiful.

And which Saphira would that be?

The one with the waggly tail of course!!

See, Sue knew exactly which one I meant.

Sue's photo's are better than Godiva chocolate and don't add any calories

I agree, the four legged Saphira is indeed much more beautiful ... and too tall or not, she can be "shown" here any time! I don't think I've ever seen a more beautiful Afghan Hound!

Saphira told me to thank y'all for your support! (She was too busy at the time to do it herself.)

Get it Saphira!!

Dig Saphira, Dig!