Flowers 2017

[LanceMac10]

 

[petegreg]

In a bloom again.


...I do not rotate this tree, so to show you a trunk line the picture from back is needed.


And a young trunk starting to bark up...

 

[Carol 83]

In a bloom again.
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...I do not rotate this tree, so to show you a trunk line the picture from back is needed.
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And a young trunk starting to bark up...
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I love fuschias! I have had them in pots on the patio for the summer, but never tried to bring one in. It obviously works! Very pretty.

 

[my nellie]

Them Bachelor Buttons are frigging funeral flowers!
Them Zinnias are beautiful though...
Mexican sunflowers in the back.

Sorce, thank you very much for posting all these beauties!
You did remind me my mother's garden!
Ooooh such sweet memories!
Thank you!

 

[petegreg]

I love fuschias! I have had them in pots on the patio for the summer, but never tried to bring one in. It obviously works! Very pretty.

Thank you, Carol, this one is from the rooted cutting, since 2012. I grow it just for fun and flowers. It's deciduous or semideciduous here, kept in a cold room in winter. After leaf drop it can be pruned very hard, chopped literally, leaving right the portions of the tree I'm satisfied with. The wounds are sealed due to higher air humidity. The spiecies grow really wild, 2-3 feet a year, so I can have a little bit different tree every year. The branches are wired and bent while green, woody branches are pretty brittle, but bendable with some patience and small cracks.

 

[JoeR]

In a bloom again.
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...I do not rotate this tree, so to show you a trunk line the picture from back is needed.
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And a young trunk starting to bark up...
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Beautiful! I've always loved the species..

 

[petegreg]

Beautiful! I've always loved the species..

Thank you, Joe. Last time visiting the arboretum here on a hill I saw some dwarf variety and I'll have to go there to pick it up.

 

[Tycoss]

I'm letting my bougainvillea trees finish flowering before they get their pruning this year. They'd develop faster if I didn't let them flower so much, but the flowers look good on the bench this time of year.

 

[GrimLore]

Tiny Dwarf Pomegranate today...



Grimmy

 

[Wilson]

Crape blooms in the north.

 

[barrosinc]

Plum flowering out, azalea still getting ready

 

[GrimLore]

Another tiny one - first bloom this morning.

Green Cloud Texas Ranger – Leucophyllum frutescens ‘Green Cloud’



Grimmy

 

[Vin]

Another tiny one - first bloom this morning.

Green Cloud Texas Ranger – Leucophyllum frutescens ‘Green Cloud’

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Grimmy

Looks a lot like Texas Sage

 

[GrimLore]

Looks a lot like Texas Sage

Sure does

Leucophyllum frutescens

It is - The Green Cloud variety refers to the leaf color. Other varieties have a greyish leaf. Also different flower colors. I made the mistake of taking the photo under full spectrum light and not adjusting the camera so the leaf does not show all green but it is.


Grimmy

 

[GrimLore]

@Vin Here is a better shot outside of the foliage -



Grimmy

 

[Vin]

@GrimLore I've been playing around with Texas Sage for close to ten years. This one has put on some real size in the ground:





This one on the other hand is the same age but hasn't been out of the pot:





I had another potted one but I gave it to a fellow Nutter so I'm not sure how it's doing. They're kind of tough to work with but I'm still trying.

 

[Mellow Mullet]

Got a new lens for the camera and was playing around with it today. Here are some summer azalea flowers and a few others.

Random Azaleas






Hydrangea



Gardenia, I love the well they smell



Magnolia Fiscati, these smell good too



Wakaebisu (satsuki azalea)



Momo no haru (satsuki azalea)



Dwarf Crepe Myrtle, This one has multi-colored blooms

 

[GrimLore]

Dwarf Crepe Myrtle, This one has multi-colored blooms

Once again you showed me a plant I have never heard of - nice!

Grimmy

 

[barrosinc]

My new plum tree

 

[GrimLore]

They're kind of tough to work with but I'm still trying.

This little one is growing ok being young but I am going to attempt to keep and a Dwarf pomegranate even smaller and see how it goes. I am going for 4 inches or under thinking they could make a nice contribution to an accent planting.

Grimmy