July Flower Photos of the Day

[Doll]

Acapulco Gold

Creole Belle


Compassion

High Voltage

[Darkhorse]

Gorgeous blooms John D... they're perfect!  Especially that Acapulco Gold!

I've fallen off the map lately.  Overcommitment to work and all that...  stuff...  but Space Oddity made my day today and I just had to share.  8 blooms!  I've never had so many on one plant at one time. 

A Black Dragon too. 

The unfortunate aspect of my garden now is that despite my spraying Spinosad every three days, I'm still ravaged by thrips.  More sensitive cvs are dropping every single bud.  The ones that are still blooming are all scratched up.  My neighbor has tons of flowers in his backyard which, in CA, is just a stone's throw away.  Maybe that's why...?

Anyway, enjoy the flowers.   

[farmer d]

Lynette your blooms are just awesome.  Great colors and variety.  Very bright and summery!!  I really like Firestorm and Solar Eclipse a lot, just incredible.

Wow John those are some beauties.  All so nice and your High Voltage just has such an amazing bleed of magenta.  I hope mine can do that as well, that to me is when HV is at it's best.  Like a clean cut conservative version of Cindy's Heart?

Jordan your Space Oddity is killer.  That bloom is so unique and wow, so many of them!!  That would make my day too.  I got a baby one coming along with some buds so hopefully in a month or so I can add to your wonderful shots.

Thank you both for sharing!!

Yesterday's blooms (too busy as well)...

Sea of Tranquility


Apricot Cookie - day 2


Flickering Flame - darkest ones yet








Acapulco Gold cluster


Black Dream - this one is really dark which I like a lot


Farmer D

[farmer d]

Acapulco Gold Fireworks - just in time for the 4th!!







Daisy Mae - always has some fireworks of her own too




Farmer D

[Charlie]

Farmer D, those last photos are some of your best yet, and that's saying something! The Sea of Tranquility is showing a pretty look, but those Acapulco Golds are show stoppers. I also like that version of Apricot Cookie but there is another version I think you will see as we move farther into summer that shows the different colors as rings.

And Lynette, I had to save that 8 bloom Space Oddity photo to my hard drive - super!

Charlie

[motherof4]

that was darkhorse charlie ..lynette

[motherof4]

darren luv that alcapulco gold....and sea of tranquility....so pretty....here are some blooms from today..lynette

[motherof4]

and the rest.....

[motherof4]

sorry i posted valentines day pic twice 

[davidwood]

That Wild Alure is no nice, a real eye catcher.

[farmer d]

Lynette that Dancing Dragon is really amazing.  The colors are so vibrant, especially the violet.  You're the only one I've seen with that cv.  All your blooms are really pretty, VD is so alive with red...looks like it's wearing lipstick!!!  Soft Spot is also very nice - thanks for sharing!

Charlie thanks for the encouragement.  I look forward to seeing what Apricot Cookie does down the road.  It is in a more shady spot under my Loquat Tree so I wonder if it will feel summer as much as other plants that I have.

Flickering Flame & Chariots of Fire








All That Jazz


Acapulco Gold












Black Dream




Farmer D

[Darkhorse]

Lynette, gorgeous Valentine's Day!  You get such great color!

Darren, your Acapulco Gold makes me want mine to hurry up and start blooming.




Summer Shore bloomed today.  I stuck a bush photo in there too.  Nice and full but mine did need to be staked up.  Voodoo Magic bloomed for me as well. 

[farmer d]

Jordan your Summer Shore & Voodoo Magic are both awesome.  SS is really a smooth operator and the bush looks great.

Happy 4th Everyone!!

Scarlet Beauty




Crystal Pink


Valentines Day






Hot Pepper


Acapulco Gold




All That Jazz




Rum Runner


Farmer D

[blupit007]

Jordan, Now I need to get Summer Shore... It is BEAUTIFUL!  And your Space Oddity!  Holy cow!  Great job! 

Darren!  Your Acapulco Gold is so awesome!  Mine is still just a baby.  It is having a hard time with the intense sun... Is that normal?  I thought this one was a sun / heat lover.

[Louis]

Happy Independence Day everyone.

I have only a couple to show you today, I have lost many of my plants to a deer attack.

I put some of my plants outside in an area that I have been using for years, a place the hibiscus love. I put out 8 really nice plants and the next day they were all gone, nothing left but the roots.

I have never seen so many deer as we have this year. they have devastated my garden eating everything in sight. I have tried everything possible to deter them, water blasting, electronic squealers, coyote urine. Nothing works.

I have a passion for tropical waterlilies also and have been cross breeding them for years. I grow them in the summer here in connecticut and in the fall i send the plants to a friend in hawaii and she will grow them for the winter. we have been doing this exchange for over 10 years. she sent me 13 huge plants and i planted them in one of my ponds and within a couple of days they were all gone. not even a root survived.

Needless to say, I will drop out of the waterlily business for good. Makes me think twice about my hibiscus also.

I still have many in the greenhouse where they will stay. This makes me sick. This state that i live in refuses to do anything about the over abundance of the deer.

Well, enough rambling, please enjoy the very nice simple pleasures and the intense electric red.

louis