Photos of Plants Other Than Dahlias 2023

blown_dry · 2023-02-04T23:42:11+00:00

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AndreaB

edewitt Especially like the Flamethrower echinacea.

edewitt

I wish I could say the same about my dahlias. I think the heat really stressed them out and they're 2 ft. tall and sprouting blooms all over the place. It's been in the 90's for what feels like about a month now.

blown_dry

edewitt I think the heat really stressed them out

My garden is the opposite. All those lovely echinaceas languish in my garden due to the cool temps.

MissyWeitzel

This is my first time growing Nigella / Love-in-a-mist and it's so fun! I'm going to leave them and cut as seedpods. I love things that are easy to direct sow and basically ignore except for water!

Juliarugula

MissyWeitzel nigella is lovely and reseeds itself for me every year. I just wish they had a longer bloom time!

I’m crazy about my cosmos this time of year.

Juliarugula

Yay! The glads are here!

Krista

Juliarugula You have some beauties growing, who doesn’t love glads! This is the first of mine to bloom - hoping the fancier varieties follow. I haven’t watered this bed once this year and had thought to rip them out and replace with dahlias. But I couldn’t do it when I saw them begin to come up!

AndreaB

It was a beautiful and clear morning for a stroll. High of 80 today and no sign of haze from the Canadian wild fires. These are the days I would love to bottle!

calico20hill

I love your shrubbery with the hydrangea! Is that dark plant behind it a Maple or? Beautiful pairing!

AndreaB

calico20hill yes, it’s a Japanese Red Maple, planted in my Mom’s memory.
We have a few “memory trees” on our property, for loved ones that have passed on. Still working on what to plant for our 12-1/2 yr old pup we lost in March. A dogwood would be a natural choice, but we don’t have many understory places to plant one.

drewtheflorist

MissyWeitzel Spray with Febreeze ----we used to do that with limonium at the shop. Seems the better limonium looked, the worse it smelled !

MissyWeitzel

drewtheflorist great idea - thanks!

drewtheflorist

Canna Phasion ( trademarked "Tropicana)

Teddahlia

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calico20hill

What an intense blue! Beautiful!

calico20hill

Here is my little Firelight Hydrangea that I rescued from drowning in our clay bog a few months ago. It is now 4' tall, and will start turning to shades of pink and red before long. The fragrance is like honey and I could sit by this plant for a very long time just observing and enjoying it. SO glad it was saved! It makes a fabulous bouquet miexd with dahias and roses once the flowers are mature enough. Now we have moved and planted 3 other varieties of Panicle Hydrangeas in a grouping around our new Catio. The tallest will grow to 5' tall and wide and they vary in size down to Little Lime Punch that should stay around 3'.

Krista

calico20hill I love hydrangea blooms so much but I know nothing about them - these are lovely!

AndreaB

calico20hill Here is my little Firelight Hydrangea

I love Firelight, too! Ours are just beginning to show some color.

calico20hill

Krista, you must run out and buy a Little Quickfire hydrangea right away so you can enjoy its fall color changes.! I am totally obsessed with the various forms of hydrangeas right now but particularly the paniculatas. They do well in th Seattle area but can grow quite large which is why I recommend LITTLE Quickfire. There are other small bush ones as well but there are also ones that grow 7 or 8 feet tall and wide so do pay attention to the finished size. It is so much fun to watch the white flowers turn to pink and then dark red before frost. As long as the roots don't sit in water in winter and they get water in summer they are pretty much trouble free. I fear I am obsessed with all of the hydrangea family and have just created a garden for them that has shade for the mopheads and afternoon sun for the paniculatas.
they are pretty easy to grow if the soil suits them. They can get pretty big so watch the projected size for each variety
They can scorch in the summer heat we are now getting, so I moved mine under the shade of an old Hawthorn tree. I have used shade cloth on them at tmes when they were growing in bright sun. THere are many types of hydrangeas ...another wonderful plant kingdom to explore! I am growing all the different types I can find. And now I have decided I need to add Fuchsias to that shady garden! I do love being obsessed!

Krista

calico20hill Ohhh! I’ve increasingly developed more and more interest in hydrangeas and this information is exactly what I need to get started, thank you! I’ll go on the hunt for a Little Quickfire and if not for this fall, hopefully have one to enjoy for next!

blown_dry

Looks like it's Matilija poppy time.

Krista

blown_dry How pretty, they look like little floating clouds.

Juliarugula

blown_dry so pretty! We don’t have those here in the Midwest.

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