Off to Greener Pastures
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3y ago
I'm not sure if anyone other than the rare visitor referred by a search engine ever even visits this blog, at this point.  It's always been primarily for my own benefit, to record the progress I've made and to enjoy the occasional browse of my favorite photos from the garden... Well, if there is anyone out there reading-- and for the benefit of any casual visitor from the future-- you may have noticed that the photos are gone, replaced by error messages, and the whole blog looks absolutely hideous.  'Twasn't always thus. ;o)  No, before Flickr's new policy of allowing only ..read more
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Potpourri
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3y ago
Zephyranthes (rain lily). Caladium. Coreopsis 'Mercury Rising'. Succulents. Gloriosa lily (flame lily). Chaste tree (Vitex). 'Sunshine' ligustrum and 'Red Hot' Black Diamond crepe myrtle. Bee on bog sage. Crocosmia buds. Small gladiolus. River oats. Crepe myrtle. Jungly flower bed. Tiger lily. 'Red Hot' Black Diamond crepe myrtle. One day, I saw a large (and rather ugly) mushroom in the front yard and had Luna sit next to it for scale.  The only problem is, Luna doesn't usually love having her photo taken. She went from ambivalent ..read more
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'Lady Margaret' Passion Vine
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3y ago
It's been a good year from this passion vine.  The Gulf fritillary butterflies came fairly early this year, but for whatever reason, their hungry little caterpillars haven't defoliated it, as they did a couple years ago.  It's covered in leaves and is still blooming, even now in October.  Gulf fritillary caterpillars ..read more
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Rose of Sharon
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Crinum
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3y ago
Crinum x. powellii 'Album'. I think this is the first year this all-white crinum has bloomed in our garden.  Last year, we had our first blooms from the "milk-and-wine" type, which are white with a red stripe down the center of each petal.  Speaking of the milk-and-wine crinum, this was supposed to be another of those, but when it bloomed this year (for the first time in our garden), it was clear that it's another type-- maybe 'Ellen Bosanquet'?  (Though we have a small 'Ellen Bosanquet' elsewhere in the garden, it hasn't bloomed, yet, so I've only seen the flowers in pho ..read more
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Cleome
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Purple Coneflower
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3y ago
A whole bunch of them, along with some bees and butterflies. I'm no spider expert, but this might be a goldenrod spider ..read more
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Taking Things One Day(lily) at a Time
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3y ago
This may be the first year in the history of the world that autumn doesn't come to the Gulf Coast. Okay, probably not, but it's beginning to feel that way!  As someone who starts counting down the months, weeks, days to the end of summer in, oh, about June or July, this is agonizing. Around here, we know that September will probably remain uncomfortably hot and humid, but some of us like to fool ourselves into hoping that it might at least bring in the first hint of dry fall air.  (No such luck, this trip around the sun!) By October, we feel we honestly deserve some reli ..read more
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Earlier This Summer
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3y ago
Continuing to sort through photos from earlier in the summer... Rose of Sharon: Gladiolus: Gladiolus 'Atom': Passion flower, 'Lady Margaret': Rose: Bobwhite quail: Crinum x. powellii 'Album': Curcuma 'Scarlet Fever': Green lynx spider (just noticed how many legs it seems to be missing!): Metallic fly: Succulent: Gloriosa lily: Gardenia: Vitex (chaste tree, new to the garden this year!): Purple Coneflower: Bog sage: Cleome ..read more
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A Daylily (or Fifty) a Day Keeps the Blues Away
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3y ago
Actually, I don't know what's the highest number of daylily blooms we've had in our garden on a single day... Most of our clumps aren't "mature", so they don't usually have several blooms open at a time, but during Peak Daylily Season, there can be quite a few scattered around the whole yard on any given day. Fortunately (?) for you, I've saved up days and days-- weeks!-- of daylily photos to unleash upon the world in one fel...icitous swoop!  Fifty plus of them today!  A bumper crop!  (Get it? Crop?  Ah, photographer's humor at its finest...) Let's get started ..read more
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