Jim, no thanks on the fragrance. We're enjoying having you grow that monster and show it to us. Good thing it has nice foliage!

Ursula, lovely woodland tour there! That deer is just smiling for the camera . . .

My first Gloriosa lily is open, and the plumerias are just starting to bloom, too. They smell really nice . . . like a flower should, may I say.

Elaine, that lily is beautiful!

Jim

Jim, that is the most repulsive looking 'flower' I have ever seen..and add the smell of rotting flesh to the package....
Ursula, what wonderful pictures you've got there from your visit to PA...all gems! I'm kind of partial to the telephoto myself.
Nice gloriosa , Elaine...mine are just inches high out of the ground..I love them , and yours has great color!

Pretty Lily!!

Thanks.
I think I need to grow a Gloriosa Lily!!

Me too but it would break my heart if the lily beetles got it.

Do they bother the Gloriosa's as well as the other lillies?
The tubers are completely different...smooth cigar shaped items... or do the beetles eat the flowers?

This pink Azalea always blooms a bit later than the others in the area ( and my red one)


The Bletillas are now happily blooming together with Coral bells and Buttercup ( Buttercup carried in from Pennsy)


And the Jack in the Pulpit managed to multiply in the Bog.

Wow! Love your Jacks, Ursula!! Nice coloration!!

The buttercups are so pretty with the orchids!

Thanks Janice

Beautiful color, Ursula. I didn't know you could grow azaleas up there.

We just received a nice rain shower but we need lots more to support the onset of the 90 degree days. I put in some edging, landscape cloth and mulch this morning before the sun began to melt my shovel.and forced me inside. The only way to accomplish any landscape work is to be ready to go at daybreak and have the project wrapped up by noon. By the way, I brought home yet another rare palm today. It's an Arikury palm (Syagrus schizophylla). I must have a reputation as a rare palm collector as growers are calling me when they run across something weird.

Jim

Not a bad reputation to have!

Regarding the Azaleas here in NJ - pretty much everybody has them growing in front of their houses around here, they provide nice color in the Spring. This pink one came with the house, I always liked it.

oh joy another Palm Jim!!

I think that will be 32 different varieties of palms in the garden. This place is getting full.

Jim

'Tis a scarry night in Odessa as Mr. Stinky has opened two blooms simultaneously. It is a great party for the flesh flies. I think I can hear tiny live music coming from the garden.

Jim

I snapped a couple of other pics while I was out there. It is harder when i have to hold my breath.

Jim

Daylilies:



Bird of paradise:


Crinum lilies:


Datura:

Fantastic there, Jim!! What a beautiful shot of the Datura.

Bird of Paradise lovely!

Mr. Stinky is really going to town.............. Or clearing out the town.

Beautiful! I love the Datura and the Bird of Paradise.
Your stink bombs look awesome. You mentioned it once before I think, but do you have a name for this Amorphophallus?

Agrostemma today


Lychnis

Yes, Ursula. It is Amorphophallas paeoniifolius 'Jungle Night'.

Janice, beatiful picture of the pink one!

Jim