Your Yellow Glads

One of the patches in the sun garden turned out to be yellow and orange. I am sure you are right... the orange looks exactly like Hunting Song. I was so happy to see the yellow and it looks awesome with the orange. I seem to be adding more and more yellow and orange yet they were colours I was trying to avoid. I never know my own mind in the garden it would seem.

 

Purple Glads

This is the first time I am seeing this purple one. You recognize it?

Pink Glads

Another that I won't know the name of until I look it up. Blooming in the front garden.

Dahlia

 

Galley Red by Miles.

Longwood Dainty

It is tiny, tiny, tiny but it opened today and it looks like there are more buds :)

New Glad Closer

It's pretty, whatever its called.

New Glads

I don't know what these are called. The map says the 2 patches planted here are 'Hunting Song' and unknown. Since these are not 'Hunting Song' and I don't recognize them, I guess they remain unknown.... at least until I pull out my catalogues and order sheets.

Alpen Cherub?

Opened today.

Hunting Song

I love this!

Last of the Cactus

 

How cool are the tall ones?

Cactus Group

 

This is the best angle I can get for all of them together. It is just missing the baby that is off the bottom edge of the pic. It is a baby from the tree shaped cactus in front. That is the only one that doesn't look very healthy. We'll see.

Little Round One

 

I am not at all sure which is my favourite of the cactus but I really like this little guy. He has long, deep red spines and it a short, squat little thing.

My New Cactus Garden

 

I have admired this in Judy's neighbour, Nyla's, yard for several years. This year, she was getting rid of it and I volunteered to haul it away for her. She is tired of dragging it inside every winter. I am willing to do that for a couple years anyway so we will see if I can manage not to kill it this winter.

It is growing in lava rock and there are two rocks that are apparently a set but only the large one has cactus. It is one of my new favourite garden things so the next four pictures of this will be of this - from different angles.

More Red Blooms

My Galley Red has three blooms now and two of them are perfect. It is a huge plant!

Galley Red

 

Not the greatest pic but here is the first flower along with an aphid, much to my disgust. There are lots of other buds and I think I have sent the aphids on their way. Keeping my fingers crossed anyway.

One Opened Inside

This was a slightly open bud when I brought it in the day before the frost hit. It managed to open inside but is starting to look a tad wilted so I thought I'd better get it posted. It is a completely different colour in sunlight.

Bowl of Blooms

If you can believe it, all three of these are 'Gerrie Hoek'. I think the cold started to make them open before they had time to colour up because none of the earlier blooms on the plant were white in the centre like two of these are. I kind of like the white with pink edge but it really doesn't look like that in the garden!

'Yvonne'

In Judy's garden today.

Egads!

Wet, cold and rainy today. This is what I found when I wandered through the Front House Garden with my camera. Every single direction I turned, there they were, on the 'Baron Katie'. I left them alone because most of these blooms are waterlogged from all the rain and almost done. I was thinking it might keep them off the more perfect blooms in that garden.

Bad Time of Year...

for this to be taking its' time to open like this. No frost yet but it is really cold today. More rain as well. I had to run into the city and it took most of the day. Feeling a bit grey myself today, feeling like I didn't get anything done and the fall list of garden chores is growing. Going to crash earlier and hope for sun tomorrow... both outside and in my brain ;)