What little color I have...

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  1. tschnath

    tschnath In Flower

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    Here are a couple pics I've taken over the last week or so since I've started feeling better and gotten out a bit. The weather here's been really funky with rain and sun in the same day or not so I've not gotten out much.

    I really need to take a look at the plants I've got and try to find some that will flower between what I have because it seems to me I have too many blank spots. Of course that could have something to do with this crazy weather I'm not sure. Anyway...

    My trumpet vine is looking good. There was a robins nest in it but I looked today and it looks like they've moved on. Not sure if there were ever eggs or not, mommy wouldn't let me get that close to see.
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    My daisies, not quite there yet but they are coming.
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    My dianthus.
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    One of my three astilbe looks to have some flowers coming.
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    My salvia, which I know I've posted but they look so much nicer now.
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    This one was big like the white and purple ones, I don't know what happened to it.
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    Thats it for now. My hollyhocks are getting tall but I see no sign of flowers yet, same with my phlox. Hopefully soon.
     
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  3. Droopy

    Droopy Slug Slaughterer Plants Contributor

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    They are all beautiful. Some years will be a bit crazy weather wise, and things won't bloom when we're used to. Such conditions tend to give a boring spell in the garden.
     
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    gardenmama In Flower

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    Thanks for sharing your lovely pics...I have a crazy honeysuckle like yours...Mine is growing so wildly and I love it!
     
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    eileen Resident Taxonomist Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    What a lovely splash of colour your dianthus are and those salvias are beautiful. I think you have more colour in your garden than I do at the moment.
     



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  6. gardengater

    gardengater Young Pine

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    Your borders looking good. Plants are healthy and that blue is irridescent. I love the vine on the lampost.
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  7. Netty

    Netty Chaotic Gardener Plants Contributor

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    Very pretty Terry. I like the Salvia'a and the color of that Dianthus really jumps out at me :)
     
  8. Sjoerd

    Sjoerd Mighty Oak

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    Wow 'T'! Those are looking very good. The rest will come eventually. yes, I enjoyed seeing your blooms. Just one lovely foto after another.
    That trumpet vine is realkly showing-off.
     
  9. Netty

    Netty Chaotic Gardener Plants Contributor

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    Just looking at your photos again I noticed that the plant second from the last doesn't look like Salvia. Are you sure it isn't Veronica?
     
  10. toni

    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    All the colors you have, wish I had some of them.

    Your blue Salvia-Mealy Sage, looks like mine this year. In the past it has been huge but this year it's a really small thing. It's between the Fig tree and the volunteer Oak tree and just not getting all the sun it needs.
     
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    glendann Official Garden Angel

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    I really like the blue slavia and the red diantus. They are so bright and cheery.
    I don't have much color in mine now.
     
  12. tschnath

    tschnath In Flower

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    "Are you sure it isn't Veronica?"

    Netty, it could be. It looks similar to the salvia and I don't know for sure. I'll have to look it up and see. Thanks for the correction. I'm not that good with some of the plants I didn't put in.
     

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