Photos of Plants Other Than Dahlias 2025

blown_dry · 2025-01-07T21:27:53+00:00

Some wild columbine from May of 2023 to get the thread started. 🙂

MissyWeitzel

Justafewdahlias could the curling in be heat or other stress or are all the flowers on that plant doing it?

SO funny you post this because I posted on my FB and IG the other day wondering if the frilly white cosmos flowers here are a new form. I have been saving and growing my own seed for a few years now but always also buy apricotta cosmos. The frilly white ones look like the shape of apricotta but I don't recall seeing that in a white cosmos and wondered if I should try selecting for it. Does anyone here know?

Justafewdahlias

MissyWeitzel It has been every flower I’ve cut off that plant. Just one plant is looking this way and it’s been like this all season. They joys of saving your own seeds 😂 The stripe one I haven’t paid attention to see if other ones of the plant have the stripe or not…..it’s hairs to wait for flowers to open when I’m in the habit of cutting cosmos before they open.

blown_dry

These nasturtiums caught my eye on the hummingbird fence. These are all volunteers and I think some don't climb and others do, but this was definitely a climber and it was really glowing on the shady side. I've got a few abutilons and oddball fuchsia things to add to this planting. Turns out hummingbirds love abutilons and they really like my climate and I like abutilons.

calico20hill

I have a recipe for a delicious Nasturtium Salad. I took it to a family picnic and it went over very well. I always mean to make it again but I didn't get around to it this year.

blown_dry

My husband took this on a mountain bike ride. So pretty!!

Teddahlia

When I was about 6 years old I asked my mother if I could plant some seeds. She chose nasturtium seeds and I became a "gardener".

Teddahlia

Too rainy to dig dahlias so we went for a walk in our woods on the west side of our property with our dogs. The previous owner used a bulldozer 40 years ago to make a primitive path that goes to the bottom of the hill. I drove my Honda Civic station wagon down there when we first moved in. We can walk about 1,000 feet from our house and most of the walk is on our property. Adjacent to our property is an abandoned electric railroad line last used in about 1923. Tracks are gone but the forest does not grow on the site of the tracks. It is lined with old trees and brush. And since blown dry posted a picture of mushrooms, here are some growing next to the old railroad on a log.

Bessie

Teddahlia the mushroom picture is really "pretty". A quick search showed it to be poisonous and has bioluminescent qualities under UV light.
Sulphur tuft https://share.google/4K3SHQ0twvF6nAH9B

Teddahlia

I do not eat mushrooms in general. Once in awhile they are in some Asian food dish I have eaten. They did look edible to my totally untrained eye.

Bessie

Teddahlia I thought they looked edible too... thus why I did the search to learn more.

SteveM

Three years ago my neighbor grew several thousand tulips in bulb crates and when he was finished harvesting he dumped all of the potting mix. I recycled several yards of the used mix to plant dahlias in and to add to my soil. I never have seen a tulip grow since then but today I was surprised to see this growing in one of my crates and it took me a few minutes to realize what it was. Somehow this tulip survived for almost three years and managed to bloom. The stem is only about 2" long but it was a pleasant surprise. Tulips are one of my favorite flowers.

Juliarugula

I’ve been super sick in bed all week (Flu A), and have been very carefully attended by my furry companion. Yesterday my fever finally broke and today he was very insistent that I follow him into the backyard for some fresh air. Who am I to argue with my doctor? Anyhow, I discovered that my tulips were ready!

What’s that Lassie? The tulips need to be picked??

MissyWeitzel

Juliarugula well that was a nice surprise! I hope you're feelinf back to your usual self soon!

Juliarugula

MissyWeitzel ugh, me too. It’s been pretty awful. I think it’s been ten years since I last had the flu. Not fun. I’m back to feeling normal-sick, rather than surely-I-will-be-perishing-any-minute-now-sick.

Teddahlia

They grow Tulips commercially at Wooden Shoe Tulip farm. It is 17 miles from our house and it is a sight to behold.

calico20hill

Juliarugula I hope today is much better then the past few days!

Teddahlia

For more detailed picture:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hollyhilldahlias/55187372076/in/dateposted-public/

SteveM

Teddahlia At first glance i thought that must be a new form of dahlia you and Margaret were developing and I was going to suggest you get them patented. I love ranunculus and they have a great vase life, but I do not do a good job of storing the tubers (corms?) for a second season.

Juliarugula

Teddahlia

SteveM

I’m giving ranunculus a try this year for the first time. I was inspired by my neighbor/flower friend who had great luck with them last year, so fingers crossed! She stored her own corms from last year and reports that they don’t appear to be as vigorous as the new corms she bought. Corms aren’t super expensive so I may not try to store mine…

Did you grow these, Ted?

Teddahlia

Did you grow these, Ted?
Hell, no.
Maybe those over the top genes would cross with dahlias(I wish)?
I went to Lowe's to see if they had Pro-Mix soil. I walked by the display outside and took a couple of pictures. I went inside and took few more pictures of the ranunculus and one of the pictures is so outstanding that I will not share it until some special occasion.

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