Some pictures from my garden


Purple coneflower, butterfly weed, gloriosa daisy, and in front the whte flower is a weed I like. The gloriosa daisies are self seeding, and I just pull up the ones I don't want. This is the border in front of my front porch, and it almost never gets watered, and never fed.

Balloon flower and drumstick alliums. The green stalk to the left rear is one of my height challenged sunflowers, thanks to the long rainy Spring.

Drumstick alliums, Nigella (Love-in-a-mist if you like romantic names and Persian Jewels if you like exotic names) and Johnny-Jump-Ups (Viola tri-color if you like scientific names). The Nigella selfseeds like crazy, and the seeds are also used in Indian cooking. The Johnny-Jump-Ups also selfseed, but not as abundantly. In Fall, the Nigella has weird looking seed pods.

Sea Holly

How many flagrant violations of basic garden pond maintenance rules can you find in this picture?
:lol:

Wow, I really like the orange flower (butterfly weed(?)) and the blue flower (Love in the mist(?). Did I get them right? I'll have to see if I can get them here ...next year. Are they perennials?

Arey, the pond looks gorgeous along with your flowers! VERY nice!

Beautiful!
Can I have your coneflower? LOL....I have zero luck with those!

You've got some neat flowers!

Very nice pond & garden flowers Arey!

I'm glad you enjoyed the pictures, and thank you for the compliments. After seeing Rte 3 Drummer's pictures I'm even more displeased with my point and shoot digital camera than I was before. However, a Canon digital SLR camera isn't in my budget for this year.

As for the flowers, I've found that coneflowers tend to be choosy, and do well in my hot dry front boarder, but in my back yard which spends most of Winter and Spring cool and soggy, neither they or the Butterfly weed (the bright orange flower) do well. The Butterfly Weed is a member of the milkweed family, and in the Fall when the seed pods open I usually take handfulls of the seed and strew it about where I'd like more of them. They're a perennial, with a long taproot, and don't take to being transplanted in my experience. I'm trying to establish a small dry butterfly plant bed, so year before last, I planted several rows of their seeds in the Fall. Last Spring about 8 actually germinated (they don't flower in their first year), and of those 8 only 4 came up this year.

I've transplanted coneflower from where they want to be to where I want them to be, but they don't last long. They selfseed in the strangest places, such between flag stones.

The blue flower, Nigella, is an annual which selfseeds so generously that in following years all you have to do is pull up the ones you don't want. When started from seed you've bought they come in pink, white, and blue, but after selfseeding they eventually revert to their original blue color.