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Cellphone pics – Riverside Drive (and Central Park South)
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What’s going on in your garden(s), this week?
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You are here: Home / Garden Chats / Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Guess That Flower (August Retrospective Edition)
Baud
I’m pretty sure that last pic isn’t a flower.
Very pretty photos.
debbie
Beautiful! Why don’t more people grow caladiums?!?
KSinMA
It’s great to see these again—they’re gorgeous.
Betty
It’s always a pleasure to see these lovely photos.
Ken
I think between “aster” and “day lily” I got five of them right — or at least partial credit, if we’re supposed to identify which of the 20,000+ species of aster is in the picture.
satby
Ok, let’s give it a whirl: 1 daylilly, 2 cleome, 3 daylilly (probably Stela Doro), 4 caladium (thanks debbie, couldn’t think of the name) 5 another daylilly, 6 daisy? 7 hydrangea, 8 more lilly, 9 begonia, 10 another hydrangea, 11 the common equus caballus.
MomSense
So pretty.
satby
The other day I dropped in briefly to mention that Breck’s is clearing out their hardy hibiscus stock. The Midnight Marvel I bought at $19.99, a price I was pleased with, is now $7.99. Mine arrived a couple of days ago and the dormant bare root ball is almost as big as my head. Grab one while you can!
O. Felix Culpa
@satby: LOL — and good morning!
O. Felix Culpa
@satby: That hibiscus looks beautiful. I wonder how well it would do in the high desert. We’re within their zone range. Might give it a whirl.
Immanentize
@Baud: That horse’s name is Flower — duh!
Potatoes. And more potatoes. I planted a 4′ x 4′ little plot for potatoes (red and yellow) and I dug up about 20 pounds this week. Mostly golf ball size which is just perfect for me. But too many! And I got no root cellar.
O. Felix Culpa
@Immanentize: I’ll trade you some Swiss chard for potatoes. Also many little green tomatoes.
Spanky
@Immanentize:
You’re obviously not Irish.
debbie
I used to grow caladiums as houseplants, back before there were varieties that included reds. My aunt and uncle’s home had a large, sprawling magnolia which shaded more than half their front yard. She planted lots of caladiums underneath and it totally brightened the yard. Whoever bought the house when they downsized ripped out the tree before I could get a picture of it. ?
debbie
@Immanentize:
Wouldn’t a garage work just as well?
satby
@O. Felix Culpa: Cheap enough to gamble! I just ordered a few more different varieties like the French Vanilla, which is down to $4.99!
Immanentize
@debbie: No garage. I have a shed, but it freezes in there.
Immanentize
@Spanky: Ha– True, but that size really is perfect for Syracuse Salt Potatoes which I truly love. Blood pressure be damned! (Actually, if the skins aren’t cut, there potatoes aren’t salty on the inside).
Immanentize
@O. Felix Culpa: We still haven’t had a frost or freeze yet, so I still have tomatillos on the vine. And scallions. Everything else is kaput.
Time to plant the garlic!
satby
Looking up recipe now, YUM
satby
@satby: Ok, I confess: because I’m insane, I also ordered the Spinderella one too. Some will be going into pots and overwintering in the garage. I’m saying goodbye to my now 7 food high Cavandish banana plant because I don’t want to drag that sucker back inside. So that pot and the one matching it with sweet potatoes growing will be free soon and need something for next summer.
satby
@Immanentize: I didn’t see a frost warning, and it doesn’t seem like the plants (especially that damn banana) were affected; but there was a hard frost on the top of my car last night. Probably only the metal got cold enough.
Immanentize
@satby: So good! The key to the magic is that the salt saturate increases the water temp. sufficiently to produce a creamier, less starchy potato after cooking. Put on chives and butter and serve. Quite easy, very yummy.
OzarkHillbilly
Beautiful pix Ema. Thanx so very much.
Still getting the odd Zuchini out of my garden. The rainbow BumbleBee maters started ripening up again too. Other than that, it’s all just clean up. Doubt I’ll get it all done before the surgery, there’s just too much of it and we are supposed to get a lot of rain this week.
Autumn is finally arriving here this week, highs in the upper 50s to low 60s with lows one side or the other of 40. I’ll be firing up the woodstove in the evenings for my Mediterranean Lizard. Hope I have enough wood for the season.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: Now you’ve done it. You got me looking too.
O. Felix Culpa
@satby: I’m sure there are twelve-step programs available, but then your garden wouldn’t look nearly as pretty. :)
O. Felix Culpa
@Immanentize: Yum. Contemplating what’s for dinner tonight as I drink my morning coffee.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: @O. Felix Culpa: INORITE???!
But hell, $4.99 for something that was nearly $40 only 6 weeks ago? I’m in, plus $7.99 for a plant with different color leaves year round? So my happy place.
Be sure to share if you buy something; and no, I’m not getting a commission. I just ? deals.
O. Felix Culpa
@satby: Speaking of deals, Burpee has 40% off flowering bulbs and garlic, ending tonight. Need to use the code BULBS1021.
Gvg
Daylily
cleome
daylily
caladium
daylily
helliopsis or hellianthus
oakleaf hydrangea
daylily
hydrangea
hydrangea, I think paniculata but maybe a lacecap
horse
Spartan green
@satby: You did not mention that there would be peonies on sale as well. I’m in trouble here.
jnfr
We’ve had a few hard frosts already, even though no snow yet, so my summer veg has all up and died. The snapdragons continue to bloom, and the sedums aren’t bothered, but we’re definitely moving into winter here.
WaterGirl
The caladium at #4 is Little Miss Muffet – I get that one every year.
Ken
@Immanentize: You could try to make chuño, though I’m not sure if it requires high altitudes.
satby
@Spartan green: I didn’t dare look more!
satby
@O. Felix Culpa: oh no…. thanks ?
Kayla Rudbek
Question: would planting peonies decrease the ant invasions into my kitchen (by giving them another target outside of my house) or increase the ant invasions (by attracting more ants to my front yard)?
ema
Thank you all! (Don’t know the horsie’s name but let’s pretend it’s Flower.)
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@satby: That Spinderella is a pretty flower, and attracts bees and deer resistant.
After the Atmospheric River rain started last night, our pond is full (and muddy brown) today. Water is going over the spillway in a sheet. The creek is booming too. It’s WET outside! We’re in N CA.