Re: What is blooming in your garden today (other plants)?
Quote:
Originally Posted by john_ny
A few years ago, a neighbor/friend gave me a clump of common purple tall gqarden phlox. They bloomed the first year. In the next year, I also found some white ones. In subsequent years, there appeared white ones with pink/purple edges, a daylily, and these:
[IMG]  [/IMG]
I have no idea what they are, but they're pretty. These were the first that bloomed this year, but they have really multiplied. I went out to take a pic of the hundreds that are there now, (8 PM) but discovered they close up at night. |
John- Those are Sundrops (Oenothera fruticosa). I love them, but they can, and will, take over your garden.
__________________
Men In Nursing- "A Few Good Men"
"Gardening is the purest of human pleasures." - Francis Bacon
"If by a liberal, they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind; someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions; someone who cares about the welfare of the people, their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties; someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicion that grips us; that is what they meant by a liberal, I am proud to be a liberal."
John F. Kennedy, September, 1960
http://flickr.com/photos/saltydad/ and
http://community.webshots.com/user/saltydad
http://s751.photobucket.com/albums/xx151/saltydad/
|