Nice photos, blackwillow! My glads are mostly done already. I have a red variety that blooms really early. They've multiplied like crazy. In fact, I probably should dig them up and separate some--maybe this fall.

How long have you had the gloriosa lily? Is that a perennial?

Thanks! I still have two more glads that haven't bloomed but hopefully soon? I'm hoping my start multiplying soon?

I think I've had the gloriosa lily for 3 or 4 years. I think it's marginally hardy here but I always lift the tubers each Fall and plant then the following spring.

Some of my happenings right now:

American beautyberry:

Lysimachia congestiflora

Flame acanthus

Pink rain lily

and oregano "Barbara Tingey"

Looking nice, Omar.

First time I've come across Lysimachia congestiflora. It has really neat foliage.

I noticed one of my flame acanthus bushes starting to bloom, too. I moved some that had self seeded to the front yard and the deer like to nibble on them. It's strange as they leave a large one in back alone.

briaustex,

L. congestiflora is kinda new for me too. So far, so good. It's a trailing plant that seems to enjoy light shade, regular water and it blooms frequently.

Omar

Brian, love how you show the whole bed! Hey, nice cone flowers ... :-) I have one of 'your' castor beans growing and flowering in my compost pile ... lol. Everything is lovely.

Blackwillow, those are some great photos, so clear and crisp, of some gorgeous blooms.

Omar, I'm especially impressed with your oregano. And you are always coming up with something different like the (mouthful) Lysimachia congestiflora.

Thanks to everyone for your photos.

Lovely, y'all. Here's some action in my white bed. White glad with a background of Shasta daisies. The stick you see was a support for my white bottlebrush tree, which died to the ground last winter but has reappeared.

Daylily Oktoberfest

Noid pink. Deer continue to leave my DLs alone, I'm thrilled!

I miss dicliptera suberecta. So showy! But I ran out of dry real estate and IME this plant resents moisture and rots easily.

Looking good, bossy. Thanks for the tip about dicliptera. I'm trying to grow it and I think I was over watering it.

Blackwillow, I used to grow gloriosa lily but it wouldn't bloom in my garden. I gave it away to a fellow gardener in zone 9b and it bloomed for him the very first year.

Ragna, I found this teeny tiny place in Wimberley where a lady has a bunch of interesting plants and original recycled containers. I found the oregano there.. Kinda pricey but worthy (I think). She has all kind of salvias and sedums, and even some maroon bougainvilleas. I should take pictures and create a post about the place. It is fun visiting nurseries and find uncommon cheap plants.

Omar

Maroon bougie? pls pls post

@roselee Thank you! I'm always thrilled when my gloriosa lily blooms. Last year I even collected a few seeds from it.

@bossyvossy Beautiful DL blooms and the glad looks great with the Shasta daisies.

@Vulture61 I wonder why your glorious lily failed to bloom for you? I think mine bloomed the second year from a small tuber? I even managed to collect two new ones from the main plant.

bossy, I didn't take pictures when I went last week. I'll try to go back sometime this week.

Omar

Blackwillow, I think it was a matter of growth zone. At that time I was living in Utah (zone 8A). The spring and fall there are very short and very few plants would grow in summer and winter. By the time the plant was going to bloom, it was already too hot or too cold.

Omar

Thanks, Ragna. You'll probably never be at a loss for castor beans. The one in the photo was a volunteer. I try to trim the seed pods off to minimize the self seeding.

Nice photos, bossyvossy. Are daylilies known to be deer resistant?

I forgot to comment on your pretty plants Omar. I started some beautyberry from seed last Fall and a few seedlings survived. I'm hoping they'll eventually look like your plant one day? That makes since about the gloriosa lily not blooming in Utah, but at least it was healthy enough to bloom for a fellow gardener in zone 9.

Nope, in fact DLs must be a delicacy for them, but not so far this year.

Everyone has such lovely blooms. Briaustex, I love your garden with the castor bean front and center. I love to see plants that I haven't added to my gardens. They give me inspiration.

On deer and daylilies, this year the deer broke my banana just a few days after I'd moved it outside. After I cut the broken parts they visited again and nibbled off the short pups. The daylilies and firespike which are the usual deer candy were left unscathed.

Do not love deer, except this one

Everyone's pictures are beautiful. Omar, what's the name of the nursery in Wimberly.? I haven't done a plant road trip in a while and that sounds like a neat place to check out.

Lisa

Everyone, beautiful photos! I love them, especially the whole-garden photos. I love your plant combinations!

Carol in Jacksonville

Lisa, there are 2 nurseries in Wimberley. One is King Feed. The new one has a name like "Grow it!", or something like that. It's more a sale point than a real nursery. It's located at the rear of a house that functions as a real state office. King Feed is bigger and offers more plants and pots. Grow it! (?) is more a "boutique" where they offer bigger and showier plants, some of them already in fancy and artistic pots. I'll try to post pictures this week.

Omar

Here's one of my favorite combinations, Spotted bee balm, sneezweed,and Mexican Hat.

Ligularia 'Bottle Rocket'

A pale blue columbine that I got for free from a local nursery.

My crowded front flowerbed.

Those Mexican Hats are fabulous! What a rich color!

Thanks PKponder! I also have some that have more yellow on the edges. They're one of my favorite plants. I started some with solid yellow blooms but they're still small seedlings.

Omar- Thanks for the names. Maybe I can get over there this summer.

Lisa

Beautiful.... all of them! MargeeTx