Beautiful! Inspired me to run out and take pictures :)

Lovely pictures, Laura!

Here's a few of the plants blooming in my garden right now.
White buttercup

coneflowers



Purslane

Some type of hibiscus, I think.

white/yellow firecracker

cassia

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Passiflora Ruby Glow
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Brugmansia Mountain Magic
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Brugmansia Rosalla-gets alot darker but keeps the same tones-this was the first bloom and the rain ruined it before I could get a shot of its darker color:(
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Double Rangoon Creeper
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globba winitii -mauve dancing girls with some philos
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Standard Hibiscus -lost the tag not sure of the name
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Plumeria
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Pitcher plant
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Passiflora Belotti and Victoria
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Brugmansia Dorthea
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Medinilla flowering again
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Close up of actual ginger flower- Looks like a scorpion.I finally found the pollen under the stinger lol.
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Sky vine
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Presents blown down from TS Faye-anyone know thier names?

Birdcage Project -found this at the Habitat for Humanity Store full of old pine needles. My dh thought I crocked for buying it.

Here it is now sanded and painted. I want to fill it up with bromeliads and orchids etc. It is hanging in the screenroom where it gets indirect light.

Thanks, laura, for starting this thread. I thinkw we all needed it. Great photos already, as always :)
Here is some of what I've got going on.

Giant Star Potato Tree - Solanum macranthum.
I love how there can be three differently colored flowers on the same plant...

Jewels of Opar - Talinum paniculatum? that I got at the last Tampa swap, and one curious ant. Thanks again, whoever gave me this plant!!!

Indian blanket - Gaillardia pulchella

Coneflower - Echinacea purpurea

Blue Sky Vine - Thunbergia grandiflora

Yellow Ixora backed up by Plumbago. I like the contrast.

Lion's Tail starting to bloom again! - Leonotis leonurus

Hibiscus, "President"

Thanks for lookin' :)

Hmm...MM-You got the jewels of opar from me. I can see the leaves in the background so I know that is what you have. BUT the flower is different than mine. Mine has a lot of smaller flower. I was looking for a pic but can't find it right now.

Great photo's everyone, thanks.

Sultry, I love your brugs, very different ones, where do you get them? And the bird cage is a real find, stunning! A hanging plant would look great in it too, even if you have to cut out a few bars for the tendrils to hang out. :o)

Wow I hadn't looked at this post for a few days and boy everyone has something fantastic to share.

Wow, a lot of color for this time of year. My yard is looking a bit tired with the heat and little rain.

Laura, is that purple knight alternanthera with the rudbeckia? Very pretty combo.

SJN, those brugs are very unusual colors and look great for all the heat right now. I finally pulled all mine up last year. What's your secret?

Musicman, I do love the yellow ixora with the plumbago combo. Always learn something new here.

Thanks Laura, I was thinking of wbiyg.

Anna

I love that potato tree. I miss the one I used to have it was always blooming.
That is a good idea with the hanging plant. There is an upper part and lower part to the cage I can put stuff in. I just gotta get stuff that likes indirect light and will stay sort of small.

Most of the brugs I grow are hybrids. I grow some from seedlings that I cross and some for other hybridizers. Some are pretty rare. I get them from trading with others, buying on ebay or there are a few good online nurseries that specialize in brugmansia. Seedsprout is one but I think they are closed now. Another good one is http://www.countrygdn.com/
If you join the Brugmansia Growers International you can get good seed crosses for postage. They are easy to grow but just take up alot of space lol.
~SJN

thanks Anna, yes, that is purple knight (from Ill). As for the combo that would be dumb luck as there wasn't any planning. You know you get these plants at swaps and you don't really know what they are going to do so you just stick them in the ground. Sometimes it works.

SJN-love your brugs.

Alright, I want to share too!

Zinnias and butterfly weed volunteered this year. I am testing this new for-me groundcover since last year. It's purple lady iresine.

Foliage has always been my favorite, and is becoming more practical as my yard develops more shade. This is coleus blackberry waffle and I wanted to show the pretty beautyberry bush, but you can't see it that well in the pic:

My tibouchina has been blooming for six weeks now and is past its prime. Nevertheless, the pic doesn't do it justice. I've been experimenting with kalanchoe thyrsiflora as a groundcover here and after 3 years it is filling in. I'm rather liking it now. The other groundcover I use to edge a lot of my beds. It is the dwarf acalypha and it's starting to fill in nicely.

Another foliage/penta/furcrea combo.

This is a shady area toward my back neighbor. I just love the beautyberries here. Again, nothing flashy, but to me, foliage can be so pretty.

Anna

All one can say is wow. Everyone's pictures are dazzling. It reminds us why we are so lucky to live in a climate that can produce this splendor even during hot and dry summer.

Thanks for sharing, now I have to spend some time uploading all my new pictures so I can share too.

Susan

IÂm jealous, I have nothing to share.

Here is what I uploaded today
Hummingbird moth!

One of the surviving hybrid cajun hibiscus.

Every type of insect loves this plant.

The sun side of this passiflora is the only one blooming.

An odd bract-plant found in big bix store. (Musedena,sp?)

This is the plumeria I rescued from the neighbors trash pile.

The frogs find it a great place to hang out.

Fay did a number on my cassia trees, but they kept on blooming and growing.

Sadly, I have so many more pictures than I have time to upload them. I have a really interesting picture of a CK attacking a cicada up in my red maple tree, but I think its still on the camera card. What a wild sight that was.

Susan zoozue

Laura! Thanks!
sorry my memory is so hazy.
That is one awesome little plant.
Always blooming, happy through the drought.
And edible, too, I have heard (although have not tried, yet)
Thanks again!
:)

-Ian

MM-the other name of the "jewels" plant is "leaf a day" plant. Eat one leaf a day and it is supposed to keep you healthy. I was doing that but it got to the point that I didn't want to "dine" after the slugs!!! I think the slugs are backing off right now so I might starting eating them again. They taste ok.
If I remember I give out an information paper about the plant. Sorry you didn't get one.

Everyones pictures are just beatuiful!

Here are some of my blooms:

Seashore Mallow:

white salvia:

epiphyllum, disocactus ackermannii

Purple porterweed:

Globba winitii

Bromeliad (forgot the name)

Blue Tango getting ready to bloom:

Evelyn :-)

Susan, love the butterfly bush. I've given up on those. I've killed a couple. Yours is lovely. The hibiscus looks like an incredible sunset.

Evelyn, what beauties you have also. I've never seen that delicate pink seashore mallow. So pretty. And that epiphyllum....wow!

Laura, I've been wondering about that african foxglove. Do you know what the scientific name is? Looks really interesting and about to bust into bloom.

WOW! Beautiful pics, everyone, thank you so much for sharing.

Anna-I got that "african foxglove" at a swap from Martina (ariodgardener). I have not had the chance to look up botanical name.

information on the foxglove:
http://tampa.craigslist.org/hil/grd/801704989.html

Thanks for starting this thread Laura! Everyone's pictures are so gorgeous they inspired to go see what is blooming in my neglected, caterpillar ravaged garden. Here are a few beauties that have survived pretty much on their own over the last month

Miss Caroline, a great little rose with a wonderful scent

Confederate Rose

Tacoma Stans, has pretty much bloomed the entire summer!

Lavender Lady, the caterpillars haven't found this piece of the vine, YET!

Rose of Sharon

King's Mantel

Butterfly Ginger

Dancing Lady Ginger

Jewel of Burma

nova

ohwow Nova, your flowers are great! I admire the rose of sharon, and of course the Jewel of Burma!

Evelyn

Nova,

Where do you have your King's Mantle planted? I have one that has been sitting in its pot because I am not sure where to put it. Is it better up against something or unsupported?

Nice pictures everybody. I'll have to get myself out tomorrow to find out what HAS been blooming in my garden. I have hardly had the chance to check it out lately.

Thanks, Laura! Another pretty perennial I have never seen. I will keep my eye out for it. Learn something new here every day.

Nova, those gingers are beauties! Especially that jewel of Burma. How long do those 'flowers' look good?

Anna

Everything looks soooo good. I love this thread...

I am feeling re-energized now after hitting the wall from all the heat a few weeks ago.

Here's a few of mine.

I love this orchid. It has a chartruese lip and also bloomed in the spring. Very nice fragrance. Next to it is my favorite caladium Wrightii Humboldt. It's a mini and has spread VERY well.

Amaranth, ornamental.

King's Mantel. Planted in mostly early morning sun then deep shade. Blooms very well and I would say that it cascades out at 5X5'.
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The garden gazebo with yard long beans, marconi peppers (STILL FRUITING!!!), and a Brandywine that set two fruits in July!?!?

I just love this copper leaf.

Succulent.

A great apricot-yellow hib from WallyWorld. There were 4 plants in the pot. They are now separated and in two locations in the yard.

Now for the roses... Lol.

rudbeckia triloba, from marcia:

From september blooms

winter squash:

From september blooms

not a bloom, but still...
From september blooms

black currant swirl datura:

From september blooms

Salvia greggii 'Big Pink'

From september blooms

texas sage... it was one foot tall when i planted it this spring:

From september blooms

Salvia farinacea 'Augusta Duelberg'
From september blooms

confederate rose:

From september blooms

this salvia's been identified as 'anthony parker'-- i don't know if that's correct. it's very fast growing, upright, not too much space between nodes, VERY drought tolerant. it's weird -- the only sage i grow that bulbs. all around the mother plant, it gets thumb-sized bulbs from which new plants grow. not quite invasive, but i pull a lot of it our of beds... it's not quite in bloom yet, but you can see the racemes developing. all these sages grow in full sun, never get watered.

From september blooms

Thonotorose, what an incredible orchid! Great lip, shape and color and it blooms twice yearly?! Do you know what the hybrid is? That little succulent in the pot is too cute.

Ill, your salvias are so pretty. Your little girl is precious!

Anna

Thanks, Anna. It is the best one I have ever had and it just began to bloom this year. I usually get the small ones in the net bags from the box stores and keep them fed and watered. Those are frequently mislabeled so even if I could find the label....

I did go out to look but I did not recognized the pot...Lol... I will look if I come across it again (or when it blooms next year).

Ill man your babies are so lovely, you must be so proud.