This rose is "Midnight Blue", a shrub rose. Small flowers, strong clove fragrance, resilient shrub on its own roots. It usually has a deep purple color, must be the cool rainy weather right now. Or a weird duck-water side effect, maybe. It sends up repeat flushes of flower clusters, all summer long. This is David Austin rose "Happy Child". Basically no fragrance that I can detect. Very vigorous shrub. This is a yellow rose that I started from a coworker's bouquet, about twenty years ago. Not very vigorous, but it doesn't usually get any TLC, either, Nice nostalgic hybrid tea rose fragrance. Very rich fragrance. The buds are typical hybrid tea - type buds. I gave it stinky water from the duck pond, and now it's sending up a vigorous new shoot.
Anniekay very nice blooms and colorful. You have a huge variety of plants. The lily looks like an Asiatic lily similar to one I had called Susan. The ground squirrels cleaned them all out of the pots on the porch. The last pic the flowers looks similar to adenium's -common name desert rose? That plant is full of blooms.
Your roses are beautiful. I can almost smell the fragrance on the yellow rose from here. Soon they will all be in full bloom. A picture I am anxious to see. Duck water is fine fertilizer. I do the same with the pond water. You got chickens too. They keeps the bugs away and fertilize at the same time. Such a deal.
Yes, the maroon and orange Lily is called "Forever Susan" . The last pic was a Dipladenia with pink flowers. I keep it in the house in winter in a South facing window and it blooms it's head off every year. I highly recommend it as a houseplant.
Alrighty …I looked Dipladenia up and I am better familiar with Mandevilla. I’ve had the vines a few times they grow very fast in summer with beautiful long lasting flowers perfect for arbors. The dear are fond of them too. I tried to keep them inside over winter just never could. It’s to cold and no sunlight in windows. And grow lights are for other plants. Mandevilla are available here under the name mandevillia . I forgot all about them . May give them a shot again this summer. Thanks for the info.
Here is one of mine last July. I treat it similar to geraniums, let it dry out and keep in garage over the winter. Quite slow to wake up - just starting to, and the ducks got into it and ate all of the leaves off. My experience is if I fertilize with more nitrogen, they make vines that grow like crazy. If I give them a low nitrogen fertilizer, they stay compact. When I repotted them, I saw they had tubers sort of like dahlias. The pink one had bigger tubers than the red one, but was also a year older. Plus, each one was multiple plants, planted together. I don't know how the naming works. Maybe mine is really a dipladenia? https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/vines/mandevilla/growing-a-dipladenia.htm
Darn it. Looking back at photos, I liked the zinnias from last year. I wasn't going to grow any this year. Part of downsizing. Now I'm going to get into the seed box and start some. On well. I did give away about a dozen mini dahlias. So there's that.
Nowadays they use Mandevilla for Dipladenias (red, white or pink) and also for yellow Alamandas. I started growing these long ago when people differentiated between them. I guess because they are closely related and look very similar to each other, they just call all of them Mandevillas now.
Next year I'm going to try growing dahlias from seed. I got the cactus variety coming in the mail. I didn't grow many zinnias for spring planting and I missed them too because I like them for cut flowers in the house. So, I sowed more a couple months ago and just planted out 21 of them this morning. You just can't go wrong with zinnias !!
Got blooms on the Medlar tree Didn't get any fruit last year as rats climbed up the tree and ate the lot
Some from yesterday. The front little terrace that catches the morning sunshine and where we always have our morning coffee.
Everyone has lots of blooms nice varieties veggies, plants , …. from different parts of the world. Nice to see and share some delightful moments in all gardens.
Lovely blooms and garden combos. All so inspiring for spring planting. clematis.. Moser Clematis Mr. President Tree Peony’s Birds Eye view of the garden.
I love your property and you gotz Tree Peonies !!! I would LOVE to be able to grow those here. I struggle with regular Peonies in the heat here but they are nothing compared to tree peonies. Simply GORGEOUS !!
