kitty's flower garden part 2

mellokitty

mellokitty

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so i know i've been slaaaack on updating this, but i honestly haven't been doing a lot of gardening this year. couple of the new acquisitions just flowered so i figured it was a good reason to get out and take some pics.

new this year: grandiflora 'Rock n Roll' - so now i have grandifloras 'Peace', 'Love', and 'Rock n Roll'... 'Peace' and 'R-n-R' were gifts from mr kitty. :)


delphinium trio - got the 'New Millenium' (the one in the middle) late last year, the other 2 were mother's day gifts.




asiatic lily 'mango' - going on 3 years with this one.


grandiflora 'Love', also year 3 for this girl. (the 'Peace' doesn't have any open blooms right now)
 
fumble

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Sweet garden Mello :) Love the hues of purples on the delphiniums. My asiatic is on year 3 or 4 and has several arms now. I put it in the ground where we moved. Sadly, my cannas didn't bloom. Must not have properly 'vernalized' lol.
Looking good sweetie, and love the Japanese maple in the background.

I have roses where I live now. I have never been a rose fan, though they are beautiful. The thorns are what turn me away. Yours are beautiful though!
 
MrEDuck

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They all look beautiful. I really love the asiatic lily. One day I'll get to have a flower garden.
 
mellokitty

mellokitty

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fumble said:
Sweet garden Mello :) Love the hues of purples on the delphiniums. My asiatic is on year 3 or 4 and has several arms now. I put it in the ground where we moved. Sadly, my cannas didn't bloom. Must not have properly 'vernalized' lol.
Looking good sweetie, and love the Japanese maple in the background.

I have roses where I live now. I have never been a rose fan, though they are beautiful. The thorns are what turn me away. Yours are beautiful though!
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thanks fumbz, i love delphiniums; i only have 3 right now, but i think they look simply majestic when there's a whole bunch of them together. i love how the blues/purples change with the age of the blossoms, sort of like hydraengeas do.
i'm one of those weirdos who loves things with thorns; especially if they also have beautiful flowers. thorny-ass cacti with adorable flowers tickle me pink. the pepper tree that you can see intertwined with the japanese maple (good eye, btw!) is one of the thorniest things i have, and it doesn't even have particularly pretty flowers, but i LOVE it. it's a lemon pepper and the leaves smell just lovely in the rain. just found out i need a breeding pair to get actual pepper off it so i'll have to get another one.

too bad about your cannas, i seem to have killed off most of my oriental lily bulbs last winter through improper storage. there's one survivor that's putting out little whispy attempts at plants but i don't think it's going to bloom this year :( i recently threw a well-deserved hissy fit at mr kitty and his make-up gift was a yellow calla (i couldn't get a pic yesterday because as soon as i picked up the camera a thunderstorm rolled in). the man knows me too well. "distract her with flowers....." i've gotten more potted plants than cut flowers in the time we've been together, and i wouldn't have it any other way.

MrEDuck said:
They all look beautiful. I really love the asiatic lily. One day I'll get to have a flower garden.
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thank you for the prodding about taking pics, i was totally not thinking about it but it inspired me to finally clean the junk off the deck. :) i'm a bigger fan of oriental lilies because i like things that smell pretty, but the asiatics have WAY cooler colours. 'landini' (black) and 'lionheart' (black with yellow tips) are my next purchases, as soon as i figure out where to put them.

i need to take more pics soon, i think the trillium is trying to flower.
 
mellokitty

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hexthat said:
how many Megapixels is your cam? pictures look fucking great
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thank you! it's 10.0 MP but it's a canon ELPH series so it has some sort of something-something tech that makes it seem like more (i don't know a lot about cameras)
 
mellokitty

mellokitty

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hexthat said:
well your a natural at photography
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thank you! :hug:
i looked up the specs and "built-in f/2 lens" seems to have been the big deal at the time. (it's all greek to me.....)
it was the store model they were selling when i went camera shopping, all i know is that i got way more camera than i bargained for, for the price. :bigjoint:
 
MrEDuck

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mellokitty said:
thank you for the prodding about taking pics, i was totally not thinking about it but it inspired me to finally clean the junk off the deck. :) i'm a bigger fan of oriental lilies because i like things that smell pretty, but the asiatics have WAY cooler colours. 'landini' (black) and 'lionheart' (black with yellow tips) are my next purchases, as soon as i figure out where to put them.

i need to take more pics soon, i think the trillium is trying to flower.
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You're very welcome. Do you know anything about pollenless lilies? I love lilies but I can tell you when the neighbors lilies two houses down bloom without going outside so the idea of pollenless ones sound really neat.
 
mellokitty

mellokitty

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MrEDuck said:
You're very welcome. Do you know anything about pollenless lilies? I love lilies but I can tell you when the neighbors lilies two houses down bloom without going outside so the idea of pollenless ones sound really neat.
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as far as i know they're the result of isolating a recessive trait in asiatics, many of the bulb catalogues have them now, they're generally marked as such, and i don't think there's any special tricks to growing them. this page from The Lily Nook catalogue has a few, "Easy Salsa" looks an awful lot like 'Mango' at first glance. http://www.lilynook.mb.ca/Asiatics-e-l.html (sadly they don't seem to have a search function on their page)..... asiatics are perennial up to Zone 2 (which is -40C i think?), which means they're an easy grow pretty much anywhere. haven't really given them much thought but i should...... mr kitty has bad hay fever and this orange one doesn't seem to bug him, however, the fragrant orientals i had the last couple years drove him right up the wall. i've read that many people develop hay-fever-like symptoms to the fragrance itself as well. i usually try to remember to pick the stamens off as soon as they open because they stain like orange coal tar.

ooooo, 'Easy Summer' looks a lot like the 'Lionheart' ones i want....
 
Toolage 87

Toolage 87

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Looks around for Kitty to see some update photos and finds her in the flower patch. I think I found her dannyboy602
 
mellokitty

mellokitty

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there's not much to update...... like i said, i haven't really been doing a lot of gardening this year. i'm trying to coax a second flowering out of the delphs and roses right now and once the lilies are done that's pretty much all i have going on for flowering stuff..... waiting on some gladioli too but i may have planted them a bit too late.....
 
dannyboy602

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It's ok. I personally have done NO gardening this year. It's too hot. What I wouldn't give for a blast of some cool Canadian air right now.
 
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