Baja_Costero said:

How easy is it to attach pics from your database photos? Is there a tutorial somewhere?

Here's what I do. I have all my plants inventoried in My List, so in one window I open My List and scroll to the beginning of the alphabet letter for botanical name. For those I have a decent photo for, I open that plant listing, then open my particular photo, then copy the photo. In the second window, I open a response to this thread and then paste the photo. Easy peasy.

I did it a more laborious way since I don't use My List... just scanned down the page on my profile where the images are listed, opened up the "B"s, and copied the address from my browser window to paste in this thread.

https://garden.org/plants/brow...

Good morning Soupniks. I am really liking all these Bs. Here are a couple of Bees we all love, and need. ...

Bee on Allium,



Bee with full saddlebags headed for a Verbascum chaixii flower



Bumble bee on Centaurea montana

Love the bees, especially that middle photo!

Here's my "B" for the day.
Bindweed. This little native Texas morning glory is considered an invasive pest by many. Sometimes gardeners refer it to as "the thorn in my side". Not me. Any plant that is willing to grow voluntarily and produce pretty flowers without any assistance whatsoever from me is welcomed in my garden.

yours is so much cuter than ours Char!


Love the bees Kat! absolutely you need to join us over in the 'gardening for butterflies, birds and bees' forum with them
The thread "Bee Friends And Other Garden Guests 2017--Chapter-10" in Gardening for Butterflies, Birds and Bees forum

I was gonna quit, but I didn't...




I think Triteleia replaced Brodiaea in above pic. Liatris, 2nd pic above, aka Blazing Star.

Thank you jmorth for searching through your amazing collection of photos for these additions to the Soup pot.
It's great to see so many plants that are new to me.

I thought I was done, too - - - then thought of the Hemerocallis or Daylilies, and checked through my 'B's and found I hadn't added photos to the Database for quite a few. So, here goes.






Yikes - How could this have turned into a two hour project? Maybe I'll add some A's tomorrow,

My inclination would be to go with either a botanical or common name and not a cultivar. Kind of muddies it up for me to see a slew of daylilies in the B section. Just a thought.

Butterfly Vine (Mascagnia macroptera)

Evergreen vine with yellow flowers that produce paper-like seed pods resembling butterflies - if you use your imagination.

Thank you everyone, I WILL try to get round to the room on Class Insecta. As Deb says above (cant seem to get up the courage to call you Bonehead, lol), the use of varieties as ingredients in the Soup was the topic of lively discussion when we used to do this for Canadian Gardening Magazine, now alas defunct. It was not something I considered including as a hard fast rule, because I assumed people would stick to Leading Common name or Genus and species, mostly, except when they havent much in their collection for a given letter, for example, I, U, X, Z V often gives us trouble..Let me say this... It does make it difficult to find particular plants when you go back over the Soup looking for that one you saw so many threads ago, and only remember it as a Columbine or an Aquilegia, for example. You may never find it in the Soup, and that is actually one of the main things the Soup is good for; nourishment in the way of garden planning... Ditto re taxonomic synonyms. If y'all do this again next year you might want to consider this, some thread, C for example, will get very large. And it becomes almost not an Alphabet soup at all but a mish mash of everything from Soup to, well, nuts. No offense, Dear Botany People out there. I love all your photographs, so lovely. So beautiful. So...

Balsamorhyza sagitatta (Balsam-root)



Begonia, this one I have lost the name for.

When varieties of Lilies were entered, I thought it must be okay to do so, and followed suit.

I debated about the pros and cons of adding the Daylilies by name, and then decided, since it is a Soup mix, and since there would be a split up between the D's for Daylilies and the H's for Hemerocallis anyway, that I would break them into the first letter of the blossoms. That way we wouldn't be faced with a glut of 1,000 or more under D or H. (But wait for the Irises - we might have more than that in that one category!)

I thought that part of the exercise was providing Eye Candy for the bleak winter months. So I worked hard to do that - trying to pair up my Daylily shots in a pleasing colourful way, instead of doing it alphabetically, where I would have had five yellow varieties next to each other. If I'd known that this Alphabet Soup was to be a reference tool, I would have done it differently. Sorry Kat, I didn't mean to screw it up. What should I do now?

Bishop's Hat or Barrenwort:



Virginia Bluebells and Betony:

Butterflies and Bees on Boneset, a 3 B title for the letter B:

Bees
Bees


Butterflies
<Monarch <Skippers


Checkered Skipper> American Snout>


<Summer Azure <Sulphur


Eastern Tailed Blue>Buckeye>

HemNorth said:When varieties of Lilies were entered, I thought it must be okay to do so, and followed suit.

I thought that part of the exercise was providing Eye Candy for the bleak winter months.
Yep....it is, and thanks for your thoughtful arrangements!

So I worked hard to do that - trying to pair up my Daylily shots in a pleasing colourful way, instead of doing it alphabetically, where I would have had five yellow varieties next to each other. If I'd known that this Alphabet Soup was to be a reference tool, I would have done it differently. Sorry Kat, I didn't mean to screw it up. What should I do now?

Hemnorth, I think your day lilies are amazing. I think you probably have enough photos of the different varieties to feed the Nation! I don't think you've done anything wrong, just keep posting generic or common names, for each letter, as we go. Maybe if you don't have very many photos of plants with a certain letter, then you can delve into varieties if you like. Howzat sound? In some years the former Soup mavens tried limiting the posts to six per person, but I think that's going too dark. I'm looking forward to what you come up with!

I think that sounds great Kat
Glad you're not a dark maven

and variety is the spice of life and all that--I'm thinking for the collectors among us that have multiple cultivars of the same Genus species it really shouldn't be necessary to include each in the alphabet soup somewhere, maybe just a few faves here or there, because, yes, who in their right mind could ever use the threads as a reference otherwise

meanwhile
I do have a begonia that wont fit anywhere else

and this was the best pic I got of my bougainvillea this year, when I was sweeping the floor


and here is a buckwheat and a bumblebee

because I won't put all of my buckwheats in when we get to E

Basket Flower (Centaurea americana)
The beetle bug is an added bonus 'B'.

KatEnns said:

Hemnorth, I think your day lilies are amazing. I think you probably have enough photos of the different varieties to feed the Nation! I don't think you've done anything wrong, just keep posting generic or common names, for each letter, as we go. Maybe if you don't have very many photos of plants with a certain letter, then you can delve into varieties if you like. Howzat sound? In some years the former Soup mavens tried limiting the posts to six per person, but I think that's going too dark. I'm looking forward to what you come up with!

Thanks Kat for your suggestion - sounds good! I'll only indulge in Daylily fever if I run low on my own photos for a certain alphabet letter. And thanks again for setting this exercise for us to latch on to. Its delightful to see what people come up with!

Brazilian Rock Rose (Pavonia braziliensis)



Name correction: Pavonia hastata