*Potted Plants*
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I had to get up fairly close to capture these beauties and their magical detail. Big pots were used to contain them, in and around the Spectacle Garden of Roma Street Parkland.
Calendula (Calendula officinalis) "Pacific Beauty" from San Diego Seed Company. Also known as the pot marigold, ruddles, common marigold or Scotch marigold, the calendula a flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae. Calendula's golden-yellow flowers are both medicinal and beautiful! Bees and butterflies love them too! Growing in my San Diego garden
Dragon Fruit flower blooms in the quite of night, and unless you anticipate and be ready, you miss the beauty. The flower is short lived and in few days it will be replaced by a fruit. This cutting travelled 2000 kms and 2 years later resulted in a beautiful flower and a sweet fruit.
Project 365, 2022 Edition: Day 194/365
Weekly theme: Tasty things
Rain finally came - just enough to dampen the ground. At least the tomatoes have appreciated the warm, sunny weather (and a steady watering can). This will be the first to ripen. There are lots of Brandywine beefsteaks, too, but they're still a couple weeks away.
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This whole garden was made up of pots and was a joy to behold.
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I love the profusion of colors and blooms in summer This is from one of our containers that grace our back patio...
It is Monday after all ...
No MM group for me anymore, so this is my macro shot for this morning. May God bless ya'll through the coming week.
These are a different type of my tomatoes growing. They are really dark and rich auburn color, a little bit mottled at the bottom. Unfortunately I don't have my hand watering down pat yet, and I think that's why these cracked at the tops of some of them. I just cut that part out and OH MY GOODNESS I have never eaten a better tomato ever! They are just delicious.
OBTW, one of these is not like the others.
Some of my vintage (and new) containers. I've planted them up with geraniums this year.
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Yellow Pear Heirloom Tomatoes.
Seeds kindly given by the Geek Gardener. Instructions too!
Thanks GG :)
Bear with me. I've only been shooting my veggies of late :P
This started out as a small hanging basket that was free from our grocery store. Replanted it in one of several large cedar baskets I built many years ago (roots need room to grow), and hung it in a sunny location in front of our garage. A neighbour stopped by in early June to laugh at this tiny plant in such a large planter box. I
pointed out, "Well it’s still just June". Marcia, my better-half, also pictured, deserves all the credit. She meticulously dead-headed and pruned it every day over the summer. As the days shorten and it is getting cooler it is starting to fade away, so we took some photos yesterday.
I'd never seen this flower before, but it was in a large planted container that I put on my front steps. It's Greek name is Craspedia.
A small mosaic pot ... on its side ... with a Lobelia growing out of it ... in another larger mosaic pot. The red chips of glass really sparkle in the sunlight.
So proud of how my balcony is looking at the moment.
One of my favourite bulbs from last year.
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Narcissus Sailboat is a charming spring-flowering bulb, renowned for its elegant and graceful appearance. Each stem of this variety boasts multiple delicate, ivory-white flowers. The petals exhibit a subtle hint of pale yellow at their base, adding depth and dimension to the flowers.
At the back of the large pot grows a Bougainvillea, while at the front rests a hanging basket, containing a cascading herb. Part of the basket's framework is making friends with an adventurous Bougainvillea branch. All the above is purely experimental.
The mosaic work is my own creation.
PS, for those that may be wondering, the pot plant on the right is a Curry Plant. It's uses can be numerous, but I am waiting for its tiny yellow flowers to appear.
The garden is flourishing this summer. The attractive plant in the foreground is a rose geranium, which produces a few small elegant pink flowers but I grow it for the scent of its leaves.
It shares this place in the sun with several varieites of thyme, one of my favourite things to grow. It's drought tolerant, very winter hardy, and makes an attractive show with minimal care. Here are silver thyme, golden lemon thyme, common thyme in back, and an ornamental creeping thyme sharing root space with the rose geranium.
Project 365, 2023 Edition: Day 183/365
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Today I took a stroll through sun-drenched Roma Street Parkland and I came across this rather novel idea, in the form of a man made 'ball' hanging from a ceiling hook. I am going to have a go at doing something similar.
the plant, which contains a mixture of compost and worm 'poo' is enveloped in sphagnum moss then bound with string.
Every year I plant, replant the hundreds of containers with wonderful plants. Each year it is different. I never know what colours or textures I am going to use until I start planning. This year I wanted to attract bees and wanted to work with height and the purple pink spectrum of colour. The yellow splashs of colour are always present because, to me, they represent the sun. I hope you enjoy it too
on a cone flower (Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii 'Goldsturm'
coneflower 'Goldsturm')
This plant has done really well this year (in its second or maybe 3rd year now). It is so popular with the hovers!
Rudbeckia fulgida is native to North Eastern America but is definitely at home in a pot in a sunny spot in Northern Ireland.
Shonen Knife – Tower of the sun
West Pond, Parsonsfield, Maine.
Fifteen seed potatoes going into a large tote today.
Three types:
#1. Red Pontiac.
#2. Long White.
#3. White.
I grew 5 Russian Red seed potatoes in a five gallon bucket last year and got about 30 usable potatoes so I though I would try the large tote this year planted with fifteen seed potatoes.
I can't stop photographing this beautiful leaf lettuce grown under grow lights. For this shot I moved it to the front porch under evening light.
Project 365, 2022 Edition: Day 111/365
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I composed this new collection in a container for the back patio. The Heuchera "Forever Purple" is a far cry from the simple green-leafed coral bells that grew in my mother's garden.
Project 365, 2023 Edition: Day 120/365
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We have another new addition to the back patio garden after I learned some clematis varieties tolerate partial shade and can grow in containers. This variety prefers dappled sunlight. Danny and I liked the pale mauve flowers. We'll train it on a trellis against the fence for the summer. It can watch the sunrise with me.
Project 365, 2023 Edition: Day 128/365
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