My wine cups do better in your yard. It all looks good to me. I do not see overgrown.

I love your garden Roselee!

I am a huge fan of larkspur especially when it's this shade of blue!

What is the first orange bloom from, an aloe?
What is the orange bloom in the second picture?
Is the pink bloom a bougainvillea on steroids?

Mara, I hope the one you passed along from the swap grows as well as this white one. It is magneficient! Also, you do not see overgrown because tons has already been removed. The yellow shrimp would love to ingulf the pot as well as the borders if not trimmed. Even with the extra work I love what rain does for plants!

Pam, the first picture is of soap aloe blooms. It's kinda' like you mentioned in your amaryllis thread. I put extras out by the curb and now it's all over the neighborhood ... :-)

The orange flowers in the second picture are snap dragons. Funny thing is I haven't planted snap dragons in that bed for years. Apparently they came up from long ago dropped seeds.

Yes, the pink flowers are from a new-for-me bougainville. The colorful bracts are two or three times the size of regular bougies, plus it's thornless, or almost thornless. The cultivar is named 'Silhouette' I think. I'll have to double check that name. I remember Cynthia has it and posted photographs of it a couple of years ago. I've wanted it ever since. I'm interested to see if it throws out long stems like regular bougies.

If the winecup that you got this time is not purple, I will mark one or get some seed from a purple one. I have some striped ones too but I have never gotten a plant out of it. It is planted in the wrong place. Too much shade.

Your garden is so pretty. I can't get larkspurs to grow here. And if I do, they don't come back the next year.

I have trouble with them as well, Marti..................think my soil is too heavy. I sowed them one year and a big wind came along and sent the seeds everywhere but where I wanted them, and it was the best year I ever had.

Your garden looks beautiful in every season! I love the yellow shrimp plant...I need to start hunting for one this spring.

Molly

Larkspurs, huh? I have something in my veggie garden that looks very similar. I didn't plant it and I've never planted flowers there, but there sure is a pretty volunteer. Thanks for the potential ID. I may post a pic to have y'all tell me for sure.

And your garden is amazing!

English gardeners eat your heart out! Christopher Lloyd should return from the grave to experience your amazing garden. But maybe not. I've heard he was pretty damn crusty in life.

We don't want no stinking moldy brit hanging in Ragna's garden. It would stink up the place. That function has already been taken up by her voodoo lilly. Any competition would run off the civilians caught in the crossfire.

Yes, and this is my favorite photo of it ... LOL

It 'pret-n-near' ran everybody off the patio. We had to put a sack over it!!!

Larkspur is so easy-peasy to grow here it's hard to imagine that anyone would have trouble getting it going. It may be worth another try. Lynn Marie, it'll be interesting to see if the mystery plant in your garden is larkspur.

Thanks all for looking and for your kind and funny comments ...

Wow, didn't know there were white wine cups. I have a few of the purple varieties in my yard that are almost getting too big.

Larkspur spreads readily for me with the copious seed it produces. Here's a stand of it in one area of my yard:

It has spread to many other beds and I have to pull some to keep it from smothering everything else! And like Roselee, the rains have caused many to fall over to the point that I've had to cut a bunch of it down near paths.

That does look like the mystery Louisiana iris that keeps appearing near my black gamecock. I've given many away, so it may be.

I love primroses! My neighbor gave me some from her garden.

Everything looks so pretty!


The voodoo lily sure looks interesting!

I think primroses are beautiful. people complain about their thuggishness. I tell them to plant them in the grass and be slow to mow in the spring. Give them an AREA of their own .and don't byatch at beauty. I am improving some bottom-ish land and putting in some of Patty's rain lilies and primroses.

"Bluegirl" Karen, thank you for posting your beautiful garden photos! I swear I can smell the Sweetpeas. Will someone please remind me to plant them this fall?!

Brian, thank you for your photo of the different colored Larkspurs. All the colors are beautiful.

That Louisiana Iris looks like my "Rhett Butler"!

Molly