Show me your favorite GARDEN PICTURE!!!

[flgardengirl]

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I have over 100 different kinds of brugmansia.

jennh: I grew Red Flare last year and loved it! The other tropical one I grew was Panama Pacific which is a blueish lavender and real pretty. That one is cool because it makes little offsets not from just the bulb but also little plantlets from the leaves. I spread them around in different barrels because I made habitats for the green treefrogs so they would eat the bugs in the garden. My two ponds are just the preformed type on the screened patio. One pours into the other and I have some small koi in there and some black elephant ears (colocasia) Black Magic and Maui Magic. I grew other water plants in the tubs out in the yard because the koi are piggies and eat up everything lol. Your pond sounds fabulous!! Do you have fish in yours?
We are going to dig a inground pond this summer.

 

[DaughterOfEve]

I just checked back to see all the great flowers and gardens. It gives me hope for spring. Here is my winter window sill garden as of this morning.

 

[CrazyFowlFreak]

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That is just beautiful!

 

[featherbaby]

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Thank you. I have been collecting doubles and even some triples for a while now. I do have CG (charles grimaldi), peaches and cream but they aren't in that set on the video. The one that looks like CG is probably Ludger's Windsong it is pretty orangy in color. I have a few of my own hybrids that I crossed myself as well now. Here is one that is Rosalla x Pink Perfection that opened on Halloween.
It is a nice double pink that gets dark as a cherry Twizzler (from dd's Halloween candy) lol.
first night it opened
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/45258_rosallaxpp3.jpg
day2

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/45258_rosallaxpp2.jpg

day3 (Lighting is pretty bad but cherry Twizzlers are pretty dark pinkish/red lol)

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/45258_rosallaxpp4.jpg


BTW I love your waterlilies and your leaf casting. I have some Monstera leaves that I want to try casting if I can get the hang of it. They have holes in the middle of the leaves like swiss cheese lol. So I am not sure how to go about casting them. Any ideas? I grew 2 tropical waterlilies and 1 hardy yellow one last year and a bunch of lotus. I hope they all made it through our winter this year.

Do you have any other photos of your Brugmansias? I LOVE them and want to grow some different kinds this year. I have the pendulous creamy ones with soft pink edges (a brugmansia) and the upright double light/dark purple combos (more like a true datura). I would love to purchase some seeds from you or trade you some of mine. I have a fantastic Aristolochia (Dutchman's pipe vine) that grows readily from seeds and blooms first year. Pictures available if you want to see it. I'm in Jacksonville, FL, where are you?

 

[jennh]

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Thanks

I have over 100 different kinds of brugmansia.

jennh: I grew Red Flare last year and loved it! The other tropical one I grew was Panama Pacific which is a blueish lavender and real pretty. That one is cool because it makes little offsets not from just the bulb but also little plantlets from the leaves. I spread them around in different barrels because I made habitats for the green treefrogs so they would eat the bugs in the garden. My two ponds are just the preformed type on the screened patio. One pours into the other and I have some small koi in there and some black elephant ears (colocasia) Black Magic and Maui Magic. I grew other water plants in the tubs out in the yard because the koi are piggies and eat up everything lol. Your pond sounds fabulous!! Do you have fish in yours?
We are going to dig a inground pond this summer.

Yes, we do have fish in ours. We have one huge koi that I bought my husband for his BD a couple of years ago. She's a beautiful yellow color. I named her "Goldilocks".
We also have shebunkins, comets, and other koi that were bred by other koi in the pond. Oh, one of the koi is black!

Jen

 

[vfem]

All this snow is March is getting me down. NEED to think of prettier flowering days.

Lily hanging out in our Azeleas last spring.

 

[Wifezilla]

Sedum with a duck? My ducks ate all mine!

 

[vfem]

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Its Creeping Jennie, and I have soooooo much of it, they couldn't rid me of it if they tried!!! LOL

They ate some out of a pot once, but I just transplanted a fresh chunk into it and its back to thriving. Besides, we have an acre with a piece of property with a 2+ acre pond on it. Usually the ducks are in the pond or digging through a neighbor's yard.

I wonder how many of them have lost good plants?

 

[BlackBart]

 

[flgardengirl]

I am loving everyones photos. You all take such nice pictures.

It is cold and horrible here lately (not as bad as for some folks but bad for here lol) these pics just cheer me up.
Featherbaby, I sent you a message. I will post some more photos later when I get on my other computer. I finally got a laptop for xmas and all my pics, music, recipes, etc. are still on the family desktop puter. I am so lazy lol.

Monk: Those are great compost bins. That is how I want to make mine..they are just in wire right now. Yours look so nice and neat. Are they made from pallets? Your plant a frames are really nice as well.

vfem: Lily is such a cutie. She looks like she is smiling. I like that Creeping Jenny. Anything that can stand the critters is good!

A note on the brugmansia/datura: All parts of the plants are poisonous to people and some pets. I am not sure about birds. I know the wild birds eat the datura seed but I have no clue about the chickens. I would errr on the side of caution and keep them far away from the chickens. My chickens don't free range because of the hawks etc and haven't got sick from the stray leaves that blow around etc. but I try to keep the brugs on the opposite side of the yard and keep seed pods and leaves cleaned up. The edible stuff like bananas, figs, grapes can go on the chicken side.