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[greybeard59 32]

More from the wife's flower pots

nikon d850, 105 f/2.8 micro nikkor @ f/11, 1/125, auto iso

 

[Rickbb86 1]

Found this little lady feeding on the butterfly weed all afternoon.

 

[terri60]

Found this little lady feeding on the butterfly weed all afternoon.

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She's very happy with the food you provided. Well done! Beautiful image.

 

[Rickbb86 1]

She's very happy with the food you provided. Well done! Beautiful image.

Thank you.

 

[Inphoto59]

Still blooming

 

[SquarePeg]

a few quick garden updates

Blue False Indigo is in bloom and the color is amazing!

Couldn’t resist the deep coral color on this lupine. I have not had any luck getting these to come back for me. This is my last attempt. Any tips welcome.

15 out of 62 dahlias in the raised beds and pots are up. Checking daily for the rest. I have some back ups in small pots to fill in if any don’t make it. All the other extras I gave away or planted in the ground and will treat as annuals.

 

[Photo Lady]

 

[pixmedic23 2]

The rain slacked off for a bit. Playing with an old 135mm Nikkor that @pixmedic gave to Lazy Lobster a number of years ago.

Rhododendron

cmw3_d750_6024.jpg by Snowbear Photography, on Flickr

Lilac

cmw3_d750_6022.jpg by Snowbear Photography, on Flickr

The big lilac and a neighboring cedar (from a couple days ago). There is one dead trunk but theothers are quite alive. We want to find a way to move it away from the house (and overhead wires) , hoping it fills out.
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looks like its holding up well. those older lenses really were built to last.

 

[snowbear142 73]

It's great as long as I van focus it. I need new glasses.

 

[terri60]

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How gorgeous! Love all those purples in your garden!

@SquarePeg - that Blue False indigo is amazing. Never gave a thought to anything like this, but I do love finding ways to get blue in the garden!

 

[Photo Lady]

How gorgeous! Love all those purples in your garden!

@SquarePeg - that Blue False indigo is amazing. Never gave a thought to anything like this, but I do love finding ways to get blue in the garden!

thank you

 

[SquarePeg]

How gorgeous! Love all those purples in your garden!

@SquarePeg - that Blue False indigo is amazing. Never gave a thought to anything like this, but I do love finding ways to get blue in the garden!

I grew this one from seed using winter sowing method but I wouldn’t recommend that. I didn’t know at the time that they take 3 years to flower. Definitely worth buying in plant form from a nursery but I can send you some seeds in the fall if you want to go the patient gardener route. Also very irresistible to the bunnies. Of the 10 or so seedlings I started with, I have only the one survivor in the fenced in the fenced in part of the garden. They can get in there if they really want to so I usually put an upside down milk crate over this one until it gets past the tender morsel stage that they love so well. The foliage makes a great filler for my dahlia bouquets.

 

[terri60]

I grew this one from seed using winter sowing method but I wouldn’t recommend that. I didn’t know at the time that they take 3 years to flower. Definitely worth buying in plant form from a nursery but I can send you some seeds in the fall if you want to go the patient gardener route. Also very irresistible to the bunnies. Of the 10 or so seedlings I started with, I have only the one survivor in the fenced in the fenced in part of the garden. They can get in there if they really want to so I usually put an upside down milk crate over this one until it gets past the tender morsel stage that they love so well. The foliage makes a great filler for my dahlia bouquets.

Okay, we can file this discussion under the Strange Coincidence file.

A landscaper I've been chatting with about replacing the overgrown hostas and hydrangeas in the front garden texted me some mock-ups this morning. (Her sketches and some names of shrubs and flowers.) One I'd never heard of was called "Baptisia" - when I looked it up, it's AKA Blue False Indigo!

So, that's getting a thumbs up from me.

I am going to reject her butterfly bush suggestion (had one in Georgia, it was gorgeous, but I'd rather replace the idea with a native - Swamp Milkweed comes to mind).

Also rejecting peonies - I spent too many hours staking the ones at my mom's former house, dealing with the ants they attracted, etc., to ever be interested in having one. Yuck!

 

[snowbear142 73]

The six peonies we brought from MD have sprouted, and the bigger one that was here is ready to bloom. Luckily, they are on the other side of the driveway so ants shouldn't be a problem.

Glass company is coming to replace the truck windshield tomorrow. I'm going to play in the basement after that; I made a no-frills shelf for the most-used spices that will go on the wall, so we don't have to dig in the cabinet. I need to give it a final sanding and put some kind of a finish on it.

Maybe I'll drop a line in the pond, after that.

 

[terri60]

The six peonies we brought from MD have sprouted, and the bigger one that was here is ready to bloom. Luckily, they are on the other side of the driveway so ants shouldn't be a problem.

Glass company is coming to replace the truck windshield tomorrow. I'm going to play in the basement after that; I made a no-frills shelf for the most-used spices that will go on the wall, so we don't have to dig in the cabinet. I need to give it a final sanding and put some kind of a finish on it.

Maybe I'll drop a line in the pond, after that.

Happy fishing!

My mom loved her peonies - she had 9! They were massive by the time she finally moved.