Originally Posted by trigirl

Here is my in ground one at the end of last year. I had chopped this guy all the way down, gave it a dose of fertilizer and it grew like crazy last year. Hope it does the same this year! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...g/IMG_3053.jpg

Both look healthy. They've got gorgeous flowers.

I took a few pics of the garden today.

Blue Ginger:


Streptocarpella:


Cuphea (I have a few different varieties of these):


Impatiens:


Iresine:

and a few more...

the last of my tomatoes before winter sets in:


Clivea:


kohleria:


canna lily about to flower:


Crassula:

Originally Posted by Necromancer

I took a few pics of the garden today. Blue Ginger: Streptocarpella: Cuphea (I have a few different varieties of these): Impatiens: Iresine:

^wow...that blue ginger looks cool! looks like we live in the same growing zone...I've had all of those plants at one point or another. your garden must be gorgeous.

Originally Posted by Necromancer

and a few more... the last of my tomatoes before winter sets in: Clivea: kohleria: canna lily about to flower: Crassula:

^those tomatoes look fab! that crassula is interesting. it's a succulent, right?

Don't have much planted really other than what I've already mentioned. Just too much maintenance with all the weeding. But I do have a wide variety of wildflowers that sprout up everywhere.

The first two are unknown to me. The other is a variety of daisy (complete with Monarch butterfly).

I also have some Nightshade that shows up sometimes which I understand can be a deadly poison.

Originally Posted by frick&frack

^wow...that blue ginger looks cool! looks like we live in the same growing zone...I've had all of those plants at one point or another. your garden must be gorgeous. ^those tomatoes look fab! that crassula is interesting. it's a succulent, right?

Thanks, frick. Yes, the crassula is a succulent. It's a hardy and maintenance free plant.

Originally Posted by Echoes

Don't have much planted really other than what I've already mentioned. Just too much maintenance with all the weeding. But I do have a wide variety of wildflowers that sprout up everywhere. The first two are unknown to me. The other is a variety of daisy (complete with Monarch butterfly). I also have some Nightshade that shows up sometimes which I understand can be a deadly poison.

Pretty wildflowers, Echoes. That first pic looks a little bit like a wild petunia. It could possibly be Ruellia caroliniensis (Acanthaceae), aka Carolina wild petunia. The second one could be a Carolina catchfly, which is a pretty five petal flower. It's hard to tell for sure by the pics, so it's just a guess.

I thought the first one might be some kind of morning glory since we have those wild around here. The second one (pink/violet/fuchsia colored) is very small, maybe a 1/4" across.

Beautiful flowers, I think the blue ginger is really a form of lily, all your plants look so healthy!

Originally Posted by Necromancer

and a few more... the last of my tomatoes before winter sets in: http://i474.photobucket.com/albums/r...astharvest.jpg Clivea: http://i474.photobucket.com/albums/r...den/clivia.jpg kohleria: http://i474.photobucket.com/albums/r...gekohleria.jpg canna lily about to flower: http://i474.photobucket.com/albums/r...en/redcana.jpg Crassula: http://i474.photobucket.com/albums/r...n/crassula.jpg

Beautiful wild flowers, wish I had more of those.

Originally Posted by Echoes

Don't have much planted really other than what I've already mentioned. Just too much maintenance with all the weeding. But I do have a wide variety of wildflowers that sprout up everywhere. The first two are unknown to me. The other is a variety of daisy (complete with Monarch butterfly). I also have some Nightshade that shows up sometimes which I understand can be a deadly poison.

Originally Posted by Echoes

Don't have much planted really other than what I've already mentioned. Just too much maintenance with all the weeding. But I do have a wide variety of wildflowers that sprout up everywhere. The first two are unknown to me. The other is a variety of daisy (complete with Monarch butterfly). I also have some Nightshade that shows up sometimes which I understand can be a deadly poison.

^beautiful wildflowers...they're my favorite type of flower!

Originally Posted by Necromancer

Thanks, frick. Yes, the crassula is a succulent. It's a hardy and maintenance free plant.

^thanks...I need to look for those. I used to have a succulent garden, but we have so much rain here that they all rotted.

Originally Posted by habanerita

Beautiful flowers, I think the blue ginger is really a form of lily, all your plants look so healthy!

Yes, the blue ginger is not a true ginger, but it's ginger-like, which is probably how it got its name. It's actually related to the wandering Jew plant.

I don't think I've ever seen this cactus bloom before. I wasn't even sure it was still alive.





These are the second batch of bebby boidies I mentioned.

Originally Posted by Echoes

Don't have much planted really other than what I've already mentioned. Just too much maintenance with all the weeding. But I do have a wide variety of wildflowers that sprout up everywhere. The first two are unknown to me. The other is a variety of daisy (complete with Monarch butterfly). I also have some Nightshade that shows up sometimes which I understand can be a deadly poison.

Very pretty Echoes! The first one looks like a morning glory to me also (I have one of mine from last year in my avatar).

Originally Posted by Echoes

I don't think I've ever seen this cactus bloom before. I wasn't even sure it was still alive. These are the second batch of bebby boidies I mentioned.

that cactus bloom is beautiful! I'm not sure what I'm looking at in the 2nd pic. I googled bebby boidies to no avail.