Walk around the yard today. Allium, American Wisteria (Kentucky I think), Clematis, Honeysuckle, Black Elderberry. The elderberry picture doesn't do it justice... the flowers are all a super light shade of pink, the leaves almost black. Impossible for me to get the color correct on my cell phone.

What a wonderful show! I love spring!

Very pretty. My alliums are done, honeysuckle just starting, Siberians coming on.

hahaha! Those seed sellers with the amazing alien parallel universe plants are just ........ unbelievable hahaha

It was just unusual that our ebay sites in Australia wasn't selling any of this sort of hibiscus plant ------ which surprised me. But getting seeds eventually will set us up forever ----- these plants are probably indestructable! Quite strong and fast growers.

Here is our Cherokee Princess dogwood. It's part of the Stellar Series. It blooms after our native dogwoods and before the Kousas.

Hello 👋 you all!!

Ok, so this is another jewel I have in my mad house. For years I've been criticized for having this beauty...;)

Anyone know what's it? Or even better what's does?.... (Not valid to search with Google lens :biggrin:)


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Yes. It's a Brugsmania. What cultivar, I don't know. It's a Datura relative so, the family is poisonous.

Brugmansia a/k/a Angel's trumpet. Nightshade family.
Good for keeping moles out of the yard.

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:rofl: Dolly and WW to the rescue! Guarantee we didn't have to google it either. :biggrin:

PS don't touch or prune plant without washing hands immediately after.

@Dolly and @WW I am surrendering, no more guess jokes or quest; too much knowledge in the forum!

:lovesite

I was the one looking out what was a Mole, never heard the name in English :roll:, we don't have it here or in my birthplace. Really look discussing, mouse with hands and nouse.

You haven't experienced the thrill of moles in your yard, until a dog goes along digging up the tunnels everywhere to catch a mole. Quite entertaining, dangerous to walk, and a lot of filling in holes.

Hard to beat a Tall Bearded Iris!

Here is 'Ancient Echoes". Smells like root beer!

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Wow! Simply stunning colors. I have one that smells like rootbeer, but it isn't nearly as gorgeous as that.

Or until you've seen someone sitting in the front yard with a martini and a pitchfork over a molehole.

Years ago I noticed my right eye had blurry vision. I looked in the mirror and found my right pupil was widely dilated. This can be a sign of a stroke but I felt fine. I thought back to what I had done that day. I had tip pinched a Brugmansia. I washed my hands afterward and later put in my contact lenses. There must have been residual scopolamine on my finger. It dilates eyes, raises heart rate and can make people delirious in a sufficient dose.

Swap some seed Sade?

I have a Datura with plain yellow flowers and one with purple and white. My understanding is that in general Brugmansia flowers face down while Datura face up.
I'd love some seed from your beautiful specimen, please!

https://i.imgur.com/vAEYcaZ.jpg

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Sure!! send me a PM with your address..

Still love those purple and yellow Datura. I looked them up to buy a couple... sadly, they wouldn't survive the winters in my area.

Just don't eat the root!:rofl:

Okay, check it out!
:shock: :shock: :shock:

Look what DollyTheHun found in her yard! A lot of folks never get the opportunity to see this. It's a praying mantis egg sack (ootheca)....

http://www.orchidboard.com/community...um/Mantis1.jpg

And for size comparison...

http://www.orchidboard.com/community...um/Mantis2.jpg

Isn't it marvelous?!? Here's hoping she can get a picture or two when those little buggers start to hatch.

Read to the end of the article.

Sacred Datura | Nature Collective

The purple and yellow ones can flower as annuals. They can be kept in a pot and overwintered inside. I can send people seed of Datura wrightii, a magnificent Sonoran Desert perennial. It wouldn't live over your winters but they begin flowering quickly. It produces seed readily.

All Brugmansias and Daturas are spider mite magnets. They make good indicator plants for mite presence.

You can over winter them here. It just takes a mound of mulch.

Does that mean you want some seed? Mine are flowering now, and I'll have fresh seed in a few weeks.

No. I have a huge one, thank you. My flowering tabacco all came back this year too.

I know this Dusty. I have a lot of plants in my yard that have medicinal properties. And a 10x10 area of the white datura. :biggrin:

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I'm still thinking praying mantis. But I'm no plant inspector. We should find out in a few weeks, eh? Either way, cocoons are always cool. :biggrin: Was out at the lake camping a long ways back... woke up with literally at least a hundred luna moths on outside of the tent. I was so dumbfounded I didn't take a picture.

What’s a good source for bearded lily bulbs? Any reputable online spots?

Also, a neighbors cape myrtle is in bloom and that is a WOW tree

Schreiner's Iris Gardens | Iris Bulbs | Iris Plants

Just visited this place a few weeks ago, heaven. These guys are legends.

And its rhizomes not bulbs :geek:

DC: do we gardeners have to take you to raise? (Clawhammer beat me to the punch.)

Forget-me-nots are another flower I like. I tried to grow them from seed twenty years ago. Nothing. I gave up. For the past two years, I have had forget-me-nots show up in the flower bed.

I love forget-me-nots, they're one of my favorite wild flowers! I too tried to grow them from seed here (Netherlands) as they remind me of home (France), but they seem very picky in terms of germination conditions. At my mother's village they are native flowers, and every spring the side of the roads and paths are an explosion of color, forget-me-nots included. My mother's yard (aka, a wild piece of semi woodland) is also full of forget-me-nots at this time of year.

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I've very sad that due to covid related restrictions I wasn't able to visit my mother this spring....

So beautiful - and love that little Ladybug. So hopeful for ending of travel restrictions as vaccinations drive down the COVID numbers!

I really hope so... I haven't seen my family in a year, and it's emotionally/mentally very difficult to deal with. I have my first vaccine shot already and the EU vaccination passport should let me travel this summer. However, the Indian variant is on the rise in the UK, and I'm so afraid that everything going to blow up again on mainland Europe before August.

1) I am always ignorant and looking to learn


2) the link calls them iris bulbs lol!!

Yep, my daturas are normally plagued with spider mites, but not this year!

Some kind soul posted on here about the eggs being destroyed if they got wet so I changed my watering habits. As we don't get rain the whole garden gets watered by hose at least twice a week - a labour of love where I get to inspect and enjoy every plant/tree. Now when I get to a datura I turn the lance to a fine spray and water the plant from underneath, lance pointing up. So far, no spider mite infestation this year - yippee! Thank you, whoever you were!

I was also going to suggest growing as annuals. My plants all do best on year 1 and 2 and then the salt build up gets too much for them and they decline. I'm quite ruthless now and pull them up when they finish year 2 flowers. There are always loads of seedlings ready to take over and I just leave the strongest few and pot up the rest to give away.

You can see here the seedlings that have popped up in a nearby pot!

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Love forget-me-nots! And they are super hard to get started and keep growing...at least here. Never have gotten any to survive a winter, and gave up. Love the heart spot on that ladybug.

DC... bearded iris don't do well in your area. They need a cold break. Try Louisiana iris for best effect.

:bowing

thanks!

any recommended sources?

I haven't vetted these in probably six years, but it was the place I found the first wholesalers (Louisiana Iris Farm and Bois d'Arc) when I was buying wholesale and still in business. I think those wholesalers also sell registered singles. (look at bottom of home page)
Sources for Louisiana Irises
Or I could also send you a few around September. That's the time to divide. :biggrin:

you know i can be patient :)

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besides, that is a good amount of time for the new episcia to root for you

Stapelia

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Bud
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Flower
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Seed pod
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