Bunches Of New Flowers For Fertilizer Friday

It's Fertilizer Friday and everyone is flaunting their flowers so when ya get done here be sure to link over to Tootsies place at the bottom and see what she and everyone else is up to.
I'm going to do something different today
since I just showed close to 60 flowers that were blooming between last FF and
yesterday.
I do, however, have an Aster that is starting to show color. I always thought this was a bush until the other day when reading about them and decided to go look. Well I'll be . . . it's a whole bunch of little bunches that
I was suppose to be dividing every 3-4 years. Wonder how many years I've had it.
Bet I get around 20-30 clumps when I divide it. WoW! Am I gonna have Fall color
in my yard or what next year.


My Delphinium is blooming - for the 2nd time. Me, who's been trying to grow
Delphiniums for 20 years now and only succeeding in killing them faster than the
year before. Now I have one that came back this year (from seed last year) and 2
I bought that haven't died yet. And now one of them is doing this. I think maybe
I've died and gone to (Delphinium) heaven.
I said I was going to do something a little different today. Well I am . . . I'm
going to show flowers I bought yesterday and a couple of days ago. I was in town
and for some reason stopped by Ace Hardware and they had lots of perennials and
the price was right. I only wanted some Asters after discovering I need to
divide mine up and am going to have lots of that one color. But when I started
looking they had soooooo many flowers - so I bought 4. But the more I thought
about it after getting home the more I thought I probably should go back and get
more. I did a few days later and today going to show you what I hauled home.
I'll never get to quit working in the dirt this year if I don't stop this!
This Dahlia only says Dahlia Hybrid so guess it has no name. I hate
when they do that. O'well at least I get to see a Dahlia bloom in my yard this
year. Oh it's sooooooooooooo pretty.

Platycodon Astra Blue Balloon Flower. I know I already have one but it's small and will go
great on the front bank.

Platycodon Astra White Balloon Flower, also for the front bank.

Phlox Scarlet Flame, another bank flower.

Guara Passionate Blush. I had a Guara and just loved it but one year it just didn't
come back. Sure hope this one sticks around.

And this one too. Guara Snow Fountain.

Penstemon Margarita BOP

Nepta Blue Moon Catmint. This one is bushy, it should show up a lot better than my
Walker's Low does. I can't wait to see it next year.

I FINALLY have a daisy! Finally found one that knocked my socks off. Leucanthemum
Superbum Schneehurken Shasta Daisy. I hope that's the right name. My tag fell
through the cracks on the deck (don't ya hate when that happens?) and I looked
this up. I was even at the site where they buy their flowers.

Silene Clifford Moor. I bought another Silene earlier this year and the bloom time is
long so I had to try another one. And this one has pretty varigated leaves which
will be great for a different foliage color in the garden.

Perovskia Atriplicifolia Russian Sage.

Isotoma Blue Star Creeper, another for the front bank.

Pratia County Park. I can't believe this one and the one above are not the same
family.

Ceratostigma Plumbaginoides

Aster Hazy

Aster Dragon

Aster Marie III showing a little color.

Bob's Passion Flower, I don't know if it's going to be a perennial here or not.

Now back to the ones I just bought (threw that Passion Flower in). Only these I'm
going to show now aren't blooming. Still I wanted to finish showing you the
flowers I got, and still have to plant.This is a tiny little Heuchera Canyon Duet. I think I'll have to

put it next to my little tiny Hosta I got earlier this summer. I didn't know
there was a Heuchera this small, only 3 to 6 inches. The bloom may bring the
height up to 12 inches. Yup, teenie weenie just like the Hosta with about 6"
leaves.

Penstemon Blue Buckle - I'm putting the tag with these so you can see what they will look
like.

Penstemon Husker Red Strain

Coneflower Ruby Star

Coneflower Baby Swan White

Coneflower Prairie Splendor

Bloomin' Flowers Everywhere . . .

At last my gardens are just popping with life and color. Finally! I have to wait
a little longer up here since it's a bit higher and we're surrounded by huge fir
trees. I'm usually a couple of weeks behind Catherine of so I have to enjoy hers while chomping at the bit!!!
There is so much blooming that I will have to show the rest of them on my next post. I can probably do that tomorrow since our weather is so hot I have to stay in the house now.
My gorgeous Poppy is definitely the star of the show today. I wait
all year to see this one bloom. It reseeded and I even got a few more than last
year.

A closer shot of this delicate beauty!

The Lilies are in full bloom - what the deer didn't chew off that is. We sprayed
repellent and it worked great but then we had record breaking rain and as good
as it is something had to give. Just in time for a second course for the deer.
It was pretty strange though because they didn't eat everything and I even found
some blooms on the ground they didn't eat.

I'm thinking they're showing these cute little babies how it's done and got sloppy.
That or something spooked them. Is this little guy adorable or what? A pain in
the backside as far as eating my flowers but still cute. How mad can I be when I
see this fawn walking around in my yard just daring me to hate him. It's
definitely a love/hate relationship I have with all of the critters around here.
Another Lily - I thought this was where my Stargazer was but it has no speckles. Hmmm, I
must have planted another one here. Wonder where my Stargazer went.

These are some new Lilies I bought last year and the tag didn't say anything about
them. They look like an Oriental Lily to me (but what do I know about Lilies)
and they are really short. My neighbor said they are just called border lilies.
Who cares, they're pretty and just a beautiful rich color.

Would you believe I still have a Columbine blooming? Cardinal Song.My new from last year Dicentra Burning Hearts. It's suppose to bloom up to fall.

The Bleeding Hearts are still blooming. The purple Jacobs Ladder in the
background sure looks great with this pink.

Jacobs Ladder
I am so excited that I have Delphiniums. I've tried for almost
20 years to grow them and couldn't. But last year I had one show up from a
packet of seeds and it came back this year. Then I bought 2 this year and they
are still blooming so we'll see. If all goes well maybe I can work up to the
'Pacific Giants' that I'm dying to have!Look at this Astrantia. I just got it this year and am I ever impressed. It's
blooming it's heart out and it is sooooo different looking. I love it!!!

And last but certainly not least is Veilchenblau putting on it's own show. Another
one the deer usually gobble down. It isn't the most beautiful rose but it has so
many blooms in this purplish color that it's really impressive.
It's definitely my color.

New Flowers . . .

I went shopping the other day and somehow ended up looking at flowers and
amazingly enough buying new flowers. Hmmmm wonder how
that happened. Well, I'll tell ya . . . I was just going to take a little look
and see what they had and what they had was . . . a clearance section with a few
flowers I love and ridiculous prices. Usually the clearance shelves are full of
dried up ready to choke flowers that I really have to work at for that price to
make them live. But these looked pretty great!

Look at these beautiful pinks and purples - it's like the shelf
was hollaring my name. Somehow I didn't get the individual picture of the
Erysimum Bowles Mauve Wallflower but it's in this group in the front row. At
$1.50 I had to get 4 of them because they are soooooo gorgeous and will fill up
some big empty spaces in my flower beds.

And of course every year I fall for these Mums. It says annual but I thought the
ones I got last year were perennials. I think I'm seeing new growth on them too.
Doesn't matter - these will give me some color for now and I love them! For
$1.25 what could I say. I needed 4 of these too.

After 20 years of living on this property and trying to get Delphiniums to grow I
finally have one that is 3 years old this year. I use
to joke that I bought them only to see if I could break the record of the year
before on how fast I could kill them. So now that I have one plant that survived
a package of seeds I think I can grow more? And these weren't even on sale. Just
fat and bushy and tempting - oh and purple to go with the pinks. They weren't on
sale but a pretty good price and big enough to fill in some empty spaces so I
have to have 2 of them.

Then there was Silene Rolley's Favorite sitting somewhere that I couldn't walk
past. I've seen other people's Silene too many times to let this one slip by me.
Like the Delphinium it wasn't on sale but a really good price and will fill up
empty spaces in the gardens so there's my excuse for 2 of them.

Speaking of new things . . . I took pictures and never did show ya the mugs Mom
brought back for us from her Arizona trip. Here's Bobs and it's all about
retirement.

Wonderful Parking Strips - Sunday Favorites

Chari came up with a great idea for reviving some of our old
posts that have been buried in the archives - posts that someone new hasn't had
a chance to read or one you may have missed - she calls it Sunday
Favorites.
This was first posted on Monday, June 15,
2009
Beautiful
Parking Strips
This is probably the prettiest parking strip I've
ever seen. It is divided into 3 sections each trimmed with stones. The focus of
the first one is a big tropical looking plant.

The 2nd section has a tree and I love how she sunk a large pot into the ground
with flowers spilling out of it. The Delphiniums are to die for. What I'd
really like to do is go behind that fence and see what treasures she
has planted there. Maybe I'll go ask her how she grows such beautiful
Delphiniums and about if that tropical looking plant is just for the summer or
if it's hardy. Ya think she might give me a tour of the rest of the gardens?

A different shot of the first and second sections.
The third section also has a pot with flowers spilling out of it and another
tree.
Here are all three sections from the opposite end.

3 pictures of another very nice strip that is just stuffed with plants, shrubs
and trees.

I took this picture because this is the widest parking strip I've ever seen - but
then I haven't been noticing them for that long. There's a big section of town
that has this size strip but there don't seem to be any planted with flowers. I
only really started noticing these parking strips a few months ago after seeing
Karen at Greenwalks posts on
them. To see lots of great ones click on her blog name and head over
there.