Daylily Seminole Blood continues to bloom like crazy

I hesitate to post yet another picture of this daylily, but this variety continues to set blooms every day.  This is today's bloom.  Click on the pictures (any picture) to get the best view.

Can we say "Hot Cakes"

Today's new daylily to open in Diane's garden is called "Hot Cakes"  The bloom is about 6 inches across, very, very pretty.  Tell me what you think.

Daylily Mitchell Leichhardt

I saved the best for last. Each time I see one of the daylilies open, I think to myself, this is the most beautiful flower I've seen. Then, my eyes see this one called Mitchell Leichhardt.  It's bloom is about the same size as the Seminole Blood daylily.  You can see the bloom that will probably open tomorrow (at about 11:00 on the pictures above).

Pretty Cosmo

This pretty cosmo flower reseeded itself from last year, don't remember the name, but such a pretty flower. It looks like it is painted around the rims of each petal with a darker color. This flower is blooming even though it is probably only 6 inches tall.  You can see a bud off to the right in the picture. This plant grew to over 7 feet last year.

New Seminole Blood opens today

If you look close at the above photo on the right, you will see the bloom from yesterday that has now shrivled up and is dead.  The blooms only last one day, then new ones bloom the next day. The top photo and the middle photo are of different plants.  We are blooming everywhere!

Daylily Volcanic Explosion

This is the latest daylily open today in my daughter's garden. It is called Volcanic Explosion. The plant is only about 8" high, you can see this bloom is not as big as the Seminole Blood or the Mitchell Leichhardt.  Hope you enjoy the view as much as I did. Who says you have to go out to see and smell the flowers?  You can see the bloom to the right in this photo that will probably open tomorrow.  This plant is so tiny it looks like the flower is just blooming from the ground.  Image what these daylilies will look like next year when they are more mature.

Daylily Seminole Blood is fully open

I was so impressed with the bloom of the daylily named Seminole Blood.  What do you think?   You can see the size of this bloom, that is my daughter's hand in the picture.  Absolutely beautiful flower.

Lady Slippers

I was showing my friend at work my blog pictures. She then shared some of her garden pictures with me. Aren't these Lady Slippers beautiful.

Peach color Lanai Verbena from Proven Winners

This is the very beautiful peach color Lanai Verbena from Proven Winners.  This plant is stunning in the garden.  If you click on any photo, you will see the picture close up and very clear.

How close is Logan Airport to our Garden

It is so close that we can see the control tower at the airport from the garden, have a look. The control tower is the only building you can see in this picture, dead center.

Skyline of Boston from the Garden

This picture shows a decent picture of the skyline of Boston.  It was an overcast day today as we are expecting more storms to blow through the region this afternoon.  If you click on the picture, you will see the brown building in the center, with the top that slopes, and has the straight up sides, that is the building I work at in Boston.

Pagoda's on the Entrance of our Community Garden

There is a Pagoda on both ends of the Community Garden.  They are planted with purple grapes, which actually gave fruit last Summer.  You can see the low 4-foot fence, which does nothing to deter the thieves who constantly come over the fence to take the gardners veggies each Summer.  Most frustrating.

An Overview of the Community Garden

There are 42 garden plots in our Community Garden.  The ones that are along the fence are 8x20 feet, the inner plots are about 15x15 feet.  My garden is the one way down in the corner shown here.  My daughter's plot is the one just in the front of the fence plot as shown here.  Not everyone has fully planted their gardens yet. 



Thought you would enjoy seeing what this Community Garden is like.  This is only a small portion of the entire garden.

Blue Delphiniums

This is my daughter's blue delphinium blooming.  There are 3 young plants this year, so there will not be much bloom other than this.

Hollyhock

This is one of 10 Hollyhock plants I have across the back of my garden to hopefully form a fence type barrier.  The tubers were mixed colors so it will be a wait and see to see what I get.  You can see my delphiniums in the lower left corner of the picture.  The delphiniums are young plants and probably will not give me blooms this year. My Iowa friend  Gloria had given me seeds from her Black Hollyhock a couple years ago, they did not germinate.

New variety of Verbena called Lanai Purple Star

This is a Proven Winners plant, I absolutely love anything from Proven Winners, I always get the best results with their plants.  This Lanai Verbena is called Purple Star.  This is suppose to be a container plant, but I put it in an area of the garden where I needed some fill.  Isn't this pretty?

Plum Celosia Flower

I have some annual flowers of the plum type celosia flower, the red is particular pretty.  It rained pretty hard last night so all the flowers had some dirt kicked up on them.  I can see that there are some weeds in this picture, the weeding is never done!  I also see that the early leaves are sun burned, I will need to prune the leaves soon.

Scabiosa Flower - color blue

This is my 2nd year Scabiosa Flower.  I especially like this perennial as it is low growing, yet sends up a lot of blooms.  I purchased this as a started plant last year.  I do believe the flower is a darker blue than what shows in the picture, it was overcast today when the pictures were taken.

Seminole Blood Daylily trying to open

This is a picture of the Seminole Blood daylily trying to open this morning.  Tomorrow it will be fully open.

Talk about wanting to cry

I read this blog and it made me want to cry http://inkandpenstemon.tumblr.com/  Scroll down to her May 25th blog entry.  I am not going to give you any hints, except it does not involve dogs or babies.  I sure hope never to see this in my garden.  I will have to keep watching on her blog to see how she recovers.

No work, probably no garden today

This is my last day of my "mini vacation". I had hoped to spend it at the garden, but alas, today is not a good garden day. We are expecting some fierce thunder/lightening storms throughout the day, sure don't want to get stuck in one of them. Last night was some of the fiercest thunder storms I've heard in some time. Right now, it is humid and not raining and the sun is overcast. The rain last night was one of those that came in a straight downpour, all I could image was the beating some of the flowers were taking by the force of the downpour, but happy the garden was getting a good deep watering. I'm off to do some garden blog hopping. Happy day to all.

Ramblings

Today was an especially nice day to be in the Garden. We spent 3 hours there, visiting with other gardners, enjoying seeing each other after a long winter and discussing what we all are planting. Today's pictures from the garden are few, but what we do have are pretty. Enjoy the picture show.

Blue Delphinium

This is a blue delphinium in my daughter's garden. I especially love this picture.

This is my Trollis Globe Flower. I bought this plant the first year I had the Community Garden, in 2007. It never gave me more than 3 or 4 flowers and last year I came close to pulling it up. This year, it has a lot more blooms and even though it only blooms for about 2 weeks, the flowers are pretty.

Lupine is opening

I am so excited, my lupine is opening, it looks red, so pretty. Of course, there was no name, it was just a large plant I bought from Market Basket. They had the best looking perennial plants this year, the best I've seen anywhere. A lot of my new flowers came from Market Basket (which is a food store for those of you outside our area). See the post below just a couple of days ago to see the flower head before it opened.

First Daylily Bloom, Choctaw Brave

This Daylily is called Choctaw Brave. It is the first of over 45 Daylilies Diane purchased this year. This was a double fan and even though the picture itself is not spectular, the flower did not fully open, I wanted to share the moment with my blog viewers. In the background you can see one of her pink dianthus, sorry, don't know it's name. It is a 3-year old plant from Home Depot.

Diana Blueberry Dianthus

Two years ago my daughter planted from seed a dianthus called Diana Blueberry, from Park Seed. Last year it was just a small plant with no flowers. This year it has formed a hedge like plant that is at least 2 feet long. It is loaded with flower blooms that have yet to open, but a few have now opened. The flowers are HUGE, at least 2 inches across. When all the flowers open, this plant is going to be spectular viewing. Here is a picture of one of the flowers. Stay tuned for a picture of the plant when it is in full bloom.

Columbine Cut Back

Today I made the decision to drastically cut back my 4 year old columbine. It had tall stems that were starting to fade and they were so heavy that it was causing the plant to lean to one side, and even with a plant fence, it was still bending. This plant is in a part of the garden that when the wind blows, this plant was taking the blunt force of the winds. Every year I think about doing this, I just bite the bullet and cut it back. Here is a picture of it.

Neighbor's Tee Pee

I though you might like to see one of the neighbor's garden who does a tee pee for her cukes each summer. I love how it looks before the vines start to grow. She just put this up today.