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Petunias still blooming away!

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One last look at the lovely purple petunias before they start to die down as it cools here in Toronto.

Petunias are such and easy flower to grow. They look good in a hanging basket or planter on their own or combined with other flowers such as snapdragons, spikes, small hosta, and annual geraniums (Pelargonium).

I’ve found that butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds enjoy petunias as well.

BTW if you want to see a beautiful rose please visit my photoblog Breath of Life Photography.

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Update – wow, I was dozing when I made this post. Two weeks later I finally realize I never gave it a title! Duh!





Fiery flowers

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crocosmia

I was just saying on my gardening blog that it’s time to buy some new bulbs for the garden. My oriental lilies didn’t come up this year and neither did my Lucifer crocosmia.

I think I know why my lovely red crocosmia didn’t come up though … Chris got out in the garden this past spring before I did, and he thought he was doing me a favor by tidying up the garden beds. I think he might have pulled out the crocosmia. It would have looked like long dead grass in the spring and he might not have noticed the tiny bulbs at the ends when he pulled them out of the ground.

Oops!

Hopefully I can find some new crocosmia bulbs in the store. Perhaps I’ll go later today and have a look.

Do you grow Crocosmia? It’s pretty easy to grow. Well, provided that no one pulls it out on you in the Spring.

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I miss my lilies

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Tiger Lily close up

Why are lilies so short lived. Well not the plants, I mean the flowers.

They are so pretty when they are blooming. Especially if you have a good clump of lilies growing in your garden, yet the blooms only last for a week or two depending on the weather. Then they are done until the following year.

I wish, like some day lilies, that they would bloom two or three times in a season.

Do you grow lilies?

Pretty Pink

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I didn’t plant a single snap dragon this year yet I have them all over the garden and in my potted hanging baskets. They must have seeded themselves quite well last year!

Several colors came up this year – white, yellow, an orangish red, red, and this lovely pink colored snapdragon. Isn’t this a pretty color?

Do you grow snapdragons? If so, do yours regularly reseed themselves?

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Do you grow … Grass? I do

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Blue Fescue grass that is. What were you thinking? That I only grow flowers? Nah … I grow grasses too. The grasses are sometimes the first plants to green up in my garden in early spring and the last to die down when winter arrives.

I believe this is Festuca glauca ‘Elijah Blue’ – It’s common name would be Elijah blue Fescue. Its a cool season, clump forming grass with power blue narrow foliage that grows about 4 to 8 inches tall. Mine, with it’s flowers is taller than that – perhaps closer to a foot in height.

This is a fairly easy grass to grow in the garden along side perennials or annuals. It can be grown in full sun to light shade in well draining soil. This grass is also drought and heat tolerant so it can stand some abuse.

Do you grow grass?

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