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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Guess That Flower

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Sunday Morning Garden Chat 21

From ace flower-portraitist & commentor Ema Ema:

Here are some pictures I took in July and August 2020 around Lincoln Center and Lexington Ave.

Sunday Morning Garden Chat 20

Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Guess That Flower

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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Guess That Flower 4

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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Guess That Flower 7

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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Guess That Flower 9

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I’ll be honest — there’s a couple there *I* don’t recognize, either!

Gonna let you more experienced gardeners take your claims first, though.

What’s going on in your garden (planning / indoor / retrospectives), this week?

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  1. 1.

    satby

    Ok, I’m guessing rose, hydrangea, Peruvian lily, ?, hibiscus (maybe mallow?), rose of Sharon aka althea (also a hibiscus), calibrachoa, sunflower, elephant ears with calibrachoa and ? in the pot, more hibiscus, bee.

  2. 2.

    OzarkHillbilly

    #1: ?
    #2: Hydrangea
    #3: I should know this one but I’m drawing a blank
    #4: Phlox
    #5: Hibiscus
    #6: ?
    #7: Petunia, Coleus, and Phlox
    #8: Ummm umm umm right on the tip of my tongue… ;-)
    #9: Elephant ears, Coleus, Petunia
    #10: Hibiscus
    #11: ? but the bee looks pretty balmed to me

  7. 7.

    Barbara

    @OzarkHillbilly: #3 might be Hosta. At least that’s what mine look like.

    I thought the flowers in #9 might be impatiens.

    The second, smaller flower in #7 might be verbena.

    Your other identifications seem right to me.

  9. 9.

    satby

    And yes, beautiful pictures, thanks for them!

    @OzarkHillbilly: #4 phlox? Hmmm…

    Calibroacha are the mini-petunia flowers, I went with them because they looked small in the pictures but you’re probably correct that it’s petunias.

  12. 12.

    Anne Laurie

    @satby: I think, from what I can see of the foliage, the brighter pink flowers in Photos #4 and #7 may be primroses.

    And I was guessing the other blooms in Photo #7 were pink thunbergia (Blushing Susies), but calibrachoa is probably more common as a ‘professional florist’ plant, so I’ll defer to you on that.

  13. 13.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Barbara: #3 might be Hosta. At least that’s what mine look like.

    Dammit, that’s it. Thanx. (eta, looking at the pic again, I do believe I espy a hosta leaf in the background)

    I’m pretty sure on #2 because I have one that is the spitting image. Which isn’t to say I can’t be wrong…

    @satby: Calibroacha are the mini-petunia flowers,

    Shows you what I know, I thought they were all petunias, these were just very small petunias.

  14. 14.

    Anne Laurie

    @Barbara: The hosta blossoms I’ve seen have all been ‘threaded’ along a stem, like tree lights on a wire.  The plant in Photo #3 seems to be a vine — I was thinking maybe some kind of jasmine, but my google-fu is not strong enough to get a match.

  15. 15.

    Anne Laurie

    @OzarkHillbilly: Aren’t phlox plants taller, though?  The ones I’ve seen hold their ball-of-blossoms on a ‘spire’ — primroses are also tight bundles, but they’re just a few inches off the ground, within a ‘rosette’ of rugose leaves like wild-rose leaves.

  17. 17.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Anne Laurie: There are several types. I have several Creeping Phlox (of different shades of blue, pink, purple, and white) that never get taller than 2″. They make a nice ground cover in shade and sun.

    eta: my pig farming buddy has a patch of 3′ tall phlox thriving behind an old foundation wall. Beautiful and photogenic. The wild phlox around here tend to be 10-12″.

  18. 18.

    Anne Laurie

    @OzarkHillbilly: Yeah, creeping phlox is pretty common as a ground cover here in New England (we have some in our front raised beds, spilling over the concrete blocks).  But around here, at least, it’s a very early-spring plant — right after the forsythias bloom, and before the tulips & early irises come in.   I could certainly be wrong, though!

  20. 20.

    Immanentize

    I like the pictures.  And I like the coleus here and there.  What is that cool purple/green variegated small leaf plant in with the Taro/elephant ears?

    Who knew you could see all this finery from the Mexington Avenue Bus.  (Desk Set)

  21. 21.

    satby

    @Barbara: ? my hosta haven’t bloomed yet, they’re only a couple of years old.

    @Anne Laurie: aren’t thunbergias more like vines? I tried growing some one year but had no luck with them. I like calibroacha for hanging pots, so I grow them almost every summer.

  22. 22.

    Immanentize

    @Barbara: Given the big hosta leaf in the background, I’d say hosta is a good bet.  Also, it’s inner-city New York.  Shady lots of the time — hosta.

  24. 24.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Not at all garden related, but I would be remiss if I did not pass this along:

    Wheelchair climber hauls himself 250 metres up Hong Kong skyscraper for charity

    “Apart from just living, I wondered what drives me? So I began to chase that, knowing that there was a possibility I could climb mountains, even in a wheelchair,” Lai said.

    “In a way, I forgot that I was a disabled person, I could still dream and I could still do what I liked doing.”

    Although he did not make it to the top of the skyscraper, due to safety concerns, Lai hoped to send a message.

    “Some people don’t understand the difficulties of disabled people, some people think that we are always weak, we need help, we need assistance, we need people’s pity,” Lai said.

    “But, I want to tell everyone, it doesn’t have to be like that. If a disabled person can shine, they can at the same time bring about opportunity, hope, bring about light, they don’t have to be viewed as weak.”

  25. 25.

    Gvg

    Rose
    Hydrangea
    Hosta
    Verbena
    Hibiscus family, probably rose of Sharon aka Althea
    Confederate rose or double Althea
    Petunia and verbena
    Sunflower
    Elephant ear, coleus, calibrochia and too small to see purple
    Althea
    Hibiscus family with bee, can’t see enough or flower to be specific

  31. 31.

    Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)

    I slept in, so I’m late to the garden today. Most of these lovely flowers have already been correctly ID’ed, but here is my list for completeness,

    #1 – A rose hybrid. My first thought was actually a Camelia, but it is the wrong place and the wrong time of year. Also you can see some of the leaf-margins have small teeth.

    #2- Hydrangea

    #3- Hosta flower

    #4 -Verbena hyb. Up close

    #5- and #6 Rose-of-Sharon a white and then a pink-double flowered form

    #7- Calibrichoa ( or maybe Petunia?) and purple Verbena

    #8- Sunflower

    #9- large pot with an Elephant ear (Colocasia), Calibrichoa and Coleus with a clock

    #10 and 11 – repeat of the Rose-of-Sharon

  32. 32.

    Jeffery

    I ordered seeds this week.

    Garden clean up continues. There only so much energy to do things. If I get an hour of clean up in I am doing good.

    The half hardy annuals planted in the fall are doing well enough. Moved annual poppies around as well as coreopsis and foxglove. The larkspur pops up where it wants to.

    Have five pots of one plant per pot gaillardia going. Why I have to start this native wild flower every year is a mystery to me. How does it survive in the wild?

    The clivias came up from the cold room, with two small southern exposure windows, in the basement. Waiting to see if they feel like flowering this year. If they are going to do it the flower stalks should appear in the next two weeks. 

  33. 33.

    Barbara

    @satby:  I can’t remember when mine first started blooming. They naturalize effortlessly in my climate, and when they are in full bloom my entire yard smells really sweet. I think I planted them before I knew much of anything about plants in general and they were advertised as shade loving, but whatever, it was a great choice. They are also big enough not to get overtaken by weeds, unlike Heuchera or Tiarella.

  35. 35.

    oldgold

    These beautiful photos were a beam of of sunlight on a gloomy winter day.

    Of course, I could not identify one of the flowers. I would do much better with a gallery of weeds.

  38. 38.

    Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)

    @TomatoQueen:

    @Jeffery: U sed to do the same thing with our cold basement garage. For the last two or three years I’ve used our greenhouse instead. There ather big pots of tender perrenials in the garage now :-) So I brought our big Clivias in from the coldish greenhouse this week. (The cold period in early winter helps the flower stems be tall enough to get the flowers up above the leaves.) Maybe I’ll put together some pics of flowering South African bulbs for a future Garden Chat.

  41. 41.

    Jeffery

    @TomatoQueen: Don’t know how to get pictures to you. The basement set up is a drawing table. Some sit on that. Some in plant stands. All the clivias are now upstairs where they get bright light but no direct sunlight. It may not be until late March or early April before they flower.

  43. 43.

    StringOnAStick

    @Jeffery: I love clivias!  I had a huge one that I got as a single from a late aunt maybe 25 years ago but I knew I couldn’t move is 1,500 miles without severely damaging it, so I took a baby from it and have the big plant to a fellow plant crazy friend.  It’s doing well here, along with tiny hybrid I bought as a bare root from clivia usa website, and once it gets warmer in going to splurge on another exotic hybrid; our new home seems like a clivia paradise in terms of light but no basement to do the chilling and darkness to force blooming. Even if they never bloom, I love their elegant foliage.

  44. 44.

    ema

    Thank you all! I like taking pictures of flowers, even if I don’t know what they are (but can always count on you to ID). #8 is from a flower stand so I do think it’s a sunflower.

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