Eklectic's Blog at GardenTenders.com http://gardentenders.com/members/Eklectic/blog Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:05:56 GMT My flowers! #20: Late bloomers!! http://gardentenders.com/members/Eklectic/blog/628 This year has not been a very good year for most of my flowers, but I still have some surprises!

I planted some hollyhocks from seeds, and for the first time since we moved here the plants grew!:-) and yesterday morning this is what I found:

So, I was very happy and decided to look around to see what was going on and then:

Just could not believe it!

]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:05:56 GMT http://gardentenders.com/members/Eklectic/blog/628 Eklectic Just wanted to share.. http://gardentenders.com/members/Eklectic/blog/559 As I am working in my pergola (my studio) at the back of the house, doing my concrete sculpting, I raised my head and saw how beautiful mother nature is and how lucky I am to be able to see all of this every day and especially today. It is sunny outside, comfortably warm, the bees, the butterfly, the dragonflies all around me going about their different business!

And then I thought about all the people who are not as lucky as I am, who never in their whole life would experience this and then I thought of my friends on GT and decided to share!

The first views are through the mosquito netting:

for these I did step out

]]> Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:04:45 GMT http://gardentenders.com/members/Eklectic/blog/559 Eklectic My flowers! #19: New and old plants! http://gardentenders.com/members/Eklectic/blog/536 As mentioned by some of you on some of my other blogs, I do have a lots of plants and I thoroughly enjoy watching them all grow as well as sharing with all of you!
So, you might have to put up with a few more of these…:-D
Hope you are not too bored!

Rudbeckies

In the next two pictures, these 2 sunflowers are growing side by side, on their own. I had one plant last year probably from bird droppings and this year….

And for the Butterfly bushes, it is their first year blooming! Interesting shapes! Anybody knows if you should trim them?
Butterfly Bush Naho Blue: This one is growing all over the place, it’s branches going at weird angles!

and Butterfly Bush Naho Purple (as per the tag). This one grows like a very thin tree!!!

It is also the first year for this one and it grows in spurts!! Go figure!
Obedient Plant Physostegia “White Queen”

]]> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:00:11 GMT http://gardentenders.com/members/Eklectic/blog/536 Eklectic My flowers! #18: A few more interesting plants! http://gardentenders.com/members/Eklectic/blog/533 Starting with an herb which used to be quite hard to find and rather expensive. People with diabetes or hypoglycemia use it as a sugar substitute. It is now found in a powder form in drugstores and other health related venues!

Stevia! 20” tall
(The dark green plant)

Lemon and lime. It is not edible but does smell like a mix of lemon and lime! about 24”tall!
(Tall 2 tones of green)

And a few pretty flowers!
Scabiosa caucasica

Matricaria

Ground covering Astilbe

]]> Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:45:35 GMT http://gardentenders.com/members/Eklectic/blog/533 Eklectic My flowers! #17: and more flowers! http://gardentenders.com/members/Eklectic/blog/525 a few interesting flowers!

Liatris spicata/ “Floristan Weiss”, Floristan, White, Dense Blazing Star

Cupids Dart

Echinops bannaticus”Blue Globes”. First year blooming!

Bride’s Bouquet

Hydrangea paniculata, “Kyushu”,
The flower:

The bush!

]]> Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:23:37 GMT http://gardentenders.com/members/Eklectic/blog/525 Eklectic My flowers! #16: Update on the Hymmalayan! http://gardentenders.com/members/Eklectic/blog/522 Hubby is 6 feet tall!!

The black dots are bees!

And they grow from zone 3 to ???.

]]> Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:44:26 GMT http://gardentenders.com/members/Eklectic/blog/522 Eklectic My flowers! #15: Some surprises!! :-) http://gardentenders.com/members/Eklectic/blog/504 Balloon flower growing in the “nursery”!

Wild morning glories, again in the “nursery”! Will be move on a “burn pile” to hopefully cover it!

This one I am sure I planted it, but I do not remember what it is !!

I have always had red poppies in this bed and this year this brown one “popped up”! Actually had a few of these!

]]> Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:23:29 GMT http://gardentenders.com/members/Eklectic/blog/504 Eklectic My flowers! #14: Night Walk! http://gardentenders.com/members/Eklectic/blog/498 Over the last few weeks, as I am taking my last walk of the day with my puppy, I kept wondering about night pictures of some flowers!
For a change it wasn’t raining last night so I went back outside with my friendly camera and :

]]> Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:24:30 GMT http://gardentenders.com/members/Eklectic/blog/498 Eklectic My flowers! #13: More lilies and daylilies! http://gardentenders.com/members/Eklectic/blog/471 This one gets better colors every year:

And for a new daylilie:

And a new lily:

]]> Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:22:40 GMT http://gardentenders.com/members/Eklectic/blog/471 Eklectic My flowers! #12: The back fence http://gardentenders.com/members/Eklectic/blog/460 I really do enjoy when Tenders, like GranT did on a few occasions, show the whole bed an then separate parts of it!
So, I decided to try it!

]]> Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:08:55 GMT http://gardentenders.com/members/Eklectic/blog/460 Eklectic