Rudbeckia Praire Sun

A couple of close ups of my small Rudbeckia Praire Sun.

Hollyhocks in bloom

The top phots not only shows the Hollyhock in good bloom, but you can see my white delphinium.  You can see the purple delphinium leaning from all our rain lately.  It got really, really tall.  Did not expect the height from this plant for this year!  I see that I have one Hollyhock plant that is a "single bloom" plant, all the others are what is called "doubles". The Hollyhock are in colors of white, red and pink.

The middle photo shows the pink Hollyhocks and you can see some of my Blazing Star in bloom.

The bottom photo shows the pink single flower Hollyhock.  If you click on the photo, then click on it again, you can get a good close up picture and see all the details of the flowers.

Rudbeckia Cherry Brandy up close

Rudbeckia Cherry Brandy

I have to show you all 3 of these pictures of my Rudbeckia Cherry Brandy in bloom.  I'm telling you, this plant is spectular.  It is about 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide and just covered in blooms, with lots still not open.  This one was well worth the wait.  In the above pictures, click on the photos, you can see pollen on the flower petals.

Rudbeckia Prairie Sun does not disappoint

The Rudbeckia Prairie Sun is performing beautiful in the garden.  You can see some of my coneflower Hot Lava dead center in front and to the left is my Rocket Red Snapdragons.

Rudbeckia Prairie Sun

Rudbeckia Cherry Brandy

This is my Rudbeckia Cherry Brandy that I planted last year and it never germinated.  This year, I had one plant (this one) start to come up and I left it right where it was.  I wanted this plant so badly last year, it was planted from seeds.  I am particular fond of this plant in my garden.

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Rudbeckia Cherry Brandy

This flower is trying so hard to open.  This flower has a long way to go.

Rudbeckia Cherry Brandy

Rudbeckia Cherry Brandy is getting bigger.  This bloom has a long way to go before it is fully formed.  The plant is loaded with buds.

Rubeckia Prairie Sun open today

This is the lone flower on one of the Rubeckia Prairie Sun plants I have.  Remember, these are the ones that reseeded in Diane's garden this year, and I took the 2 plants from her to put in my garden.  The smaller plant has this one flower, the other plant has many, many flowers, but none open yet.  Isn't she pretty?

Rudbeckia Prairie Sun

Rudbeckia Prairie Sun plant is loaded with buds and just starting to open.  By next week this plant will be full of the flowers open.

Rudbeckia Prairie Sun

This Rudbeckia is the one I took from Diane's garden last year.  I loved her Rudbeckia much more than what I was growing.  The plant is full of buds.  Is going to be beautiful!

Rudbeckia Cherry Brandy slowly opening

Rudbeckia Cherry Brandy

Once again, I show you this most unusual looking flower bud.  In this picture you can see the red tinge color around the center of this flower.  It is not some type of spider!!  This will end up being a red flower with a brown center.  You need to click on the picture to get a close up view.

Rudbeckia Cherry Brandy

This is NOT a spider.  Click on this picture to see a larger view, the hairy leaf and the center of the bloom is so interesting looking at this stage of bloom.  This will be a red rudbeckia daisy flower when fully open.  The plant is loaded with buds right now.  This was planted last year and did nothing in my garden. Has come back wonderful, just this one plant, no others.

Rudbeckia Cherry Brandy

This was a poor germination from seed last year. I only had this one plant come back from last year's seeding. It looks like a big healthy plant, looking forward to seeing the blooms. This picture also shows my new garden labels this year. I used the P-Touch clear lables on the tag, I've read about how reliable this plant tag will be to the weather conditions.

Mystery Plants-Any idea what it is?

You probably can't see this plant good enough to identify it for me. I "thought" it was a Blue Aster plant, but it has grown so large, at least 3 feet tall, I'm wondering if I've been lovingly cultavating a WEED all Summer long. If it is an Aster, this corner of my little garden is going to be spectular when it blooms next month. I have my beloved Shasta Daisy in front of it. This plant overshadows my huge mums that are behind it.

Garden Pictures

Since my squash plants have all died from too much rain this Summer, I thought I would share some of my garden flowers with you. My good friend from Kansas sent me some flower seeds from her garden from an heirloom Celosia plant. The seeds germinated and have grown slowly but steadly and this is where the flowers are now. The flower heads are just now starting to grow, see the red on top of the flowers, that is the flower head which will get quite large, but here are a few pictures of the Celosia. The yellow flowers behind are my planted from seed Black Eyed Susans.

Here is another view of the flowers