Great photos!

Keep sharing, please.

bk

Patriot

Ann Kulpa

Revolution

LUNAR ORBIT

STRIPTEASE

ELVIS LIVES

NATE THE GREAT (really long scapes)

SUM AND SUBSTANCE

AMERICAN HERO

WIDE BRIM

TWILIGHT (photo taken at twilight!)

mbug - thanks for starting this thread. It pushed me out the door in order to take these shots and I'm glad I now have a record of the prettier flowers. I might not have taken that close a look at some of them otherwise.

venusta

WOW....some gorgeous pictures!

A few more
JANET

Peanut

and Fire and Ice...getting ready

Lovely, I'm seeing all those same things. The flowers are really striking once you start to look for them.

Thanks for the photos.

bk

Blue NOID

Don B.

What an awesome collection of flower pictures. Worth saving it for the pictures. I had no idea so many had such a variety of colors! Wow.

Thank you all so much. What a treat.

'Fragrant Blue'

clausa v. normalis

'Ray of Hope', one of my favourites....

'Raspberry Sorbet'

Nature's bounty, 'Paradigm' seed pods

My seedpods are still not dry. I'm waiting, and hoping all the rain does not mold or mildew them too badly. I suppose yes, the seedpods are another form of the flowers, the reproduction cycle.

Have clausa v normalis 'Jadin' ('Jilin'??) from the auction wins, do not believe it is in bloom at this time.

I think we discussed my Fragrant Blue having a different color and maybe there are TWO stocks of the FB in circulation, to account for the differences? It has been in bloom for at least a month now, Shown here yesterday with Fragrant Blue Ribbons just behind it.

Fortunei Aureomarginata bud

Fortunei Aureomarginata

Great Expectations.

Guacamole.

This post was edited by newhostalady on Fri, Jul 26, 13 at 10:14

And what do I see out in broad daylight while I am trying to capture flower pictures? Look carefully.

EEEEEEK! There's a mouse in your hosta house!
How cute!

What did you do?

Did you see it while taking the picture? Or only later when you put it on your computer?

At various times while taking pictures, I've encountered the tiny peepers tree frogs, a toad, an anole, and a bee with only his butt sticking out of a flower. And my doxie girl Dolly digging between the pots where she sniffs out a mole.

A garden is not a sterile domain. It is filled with life of all kinds.

I was looking to see if my Golden Tiara was picture worthy and thought I saw something. So I kept still and there it began darting from one plant to another. It's destination was the lawn under my bird feeder which is full of empty sunflower seeds (and the occasional seed). It found a seed, then darted again between the plants to a "so-called safe location." I thought it strange that while the mouse was sifting through the sunflower seeds under my bird feeder, that it was out in full view. But they are quick moving and a good picture was difficult to get.

I must add that lancifolia is one tough hosta. (I know that most of you know that.) It has had to put up with a lot of squirrels rummaging through it for seeds. And it has continued to do well year after year.

The garden is filled with life of all kinds. I agree. It's the night time, while I slug hunt, that I don't appreciate that "life of all kinds!"

This post was edited by newhostalady on Fri, Jul 26, 13 at 18:48

Fried Bananas

Mystery blue taken by George the squirrel...Wondered where my camera went that day...little runt.

Don B.

Not only have the flowers been noteworthy so has the amount of flowering. Golden Tiara going nuts.

Paula, that is a GORGEOUS photo! Lots of outstanding flowering going on this year. Wonder if there is a message in this.

Is that green plant in the background the cannas? The ones I call "bees tongues?" that spread so quickly?

Those are the ones. 6 foot fence. It is a jungle out there now with all the rain we had been getting. Have great day!

OH OH OH, I know what you mean!
DH said to plant the bed he cleared QUICK, because the camphor seedlings will be back before I put the hosta in the ground. But I'm raising it up a bit with cinder blocks.
Love those tall cannas, and I think I have a pale lavender pink crape myrtle too. Out by my pink pirogue. I see some ginger lily too. Wow, you garden about like ME!!!

stained glass blooms

newhostalady , I see that little guy is eyeing up a good root or two!
Cherry Berry has small flowers but so purple

Ventricosa

'Bridegroom'

LS Babyface

DD..your Ventricosa looks like she's holding court! Lovely garden

twist of lime

arctic blast

blue cadet

blue Seer

Hillbilly, that Arctic Blast has SEVEN PETALS!!
Don't most of them have six for single blooms? Very unique.
And pretty too.

My Twist of Lime had a bunch of scapes this year, I was impressed by it.

Something blooms that fully, it gets my attention.

Celestial

Was going to stop at the 'b's , but

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Baneberry (Doll's Eyes)

oh, wait, this is the Hosta forum, oops . . .

Ooops again!

Don B.

Another flower photo. The lovely June.