Nice pictures! I love morning glory. I usually have volunteers but none this year so I guess that means next year I will actually have to plant more!

I will try to post some pics tomorrow.

Very nice

This is my repopulated from almost total devastation by a vole bed. It is really coming along nicely and provides a good punch of color in each season. The summer colors are tall phlox, shasta daisies, orange mango popsicle red hot poker and some type of purple bell flower.

Ice plants still blooming.

A few pictures of some of the flowers. Mostly I'm a vegetable gardener but I do dabble some with flowers.

A patch of ice plants.

Some snapdragons.

A view of the front yard from the sidewalk.

A few echinacea

The back border of buckwheat,

Some pink Cosmos.

Creeping Thyme that's planted between a lot of the stepping stones in the vegetable garden.

It has recently just started flowering.

Some alyssum.

The hops are starting to flower.

Sorry about multiple posts but if I try to post more than one picture at a time it almost always fails.

Love the pics of your colorful plants, mmmm and gjcore!

My Chocolate Flower bloomed!! I started these from seed in the spring and didn't expect any blooms this year, but they surprised me. There is a slight chocolate fragrance to them!

The bud and center of the flower is very interesting - looks sort of like a rosette.

gjcore - yea, adding photos to a post is tricky. The way that works best for me is to hit my return key several times in order to make some extra space before inserting the first photo. I then put my cursor to the top of that space I just made and insert a photo. Then I click just underneath that photo and add another space or two, then back up to the top of that space and add next photo. Keep repeating that process for all photos I want to add.

TH 07.23.20 @ 1015 MDT

Misty, your chocolate flower will have more scent at different times of the day, so sniff it anytime you happen to be in the area and sometimes it’ll absolutely blow you away! I never figured it out for sure, but we used to sell them at Paulino’s—I was always sniffing them!—and sometimes they smelled so strongly of milk chocolate that I darn near started chewing on them! I think early in the morning might be the strongest scent, but not sure about that! Clearly the more flowers you have, the more scent you’ll have! Enjoy!

If you decide to collect some seed—and we ever have another swap!—possibly next year???—I’d love to get a few seeds to “try again!” I love them and tried growing them when I moved into this house, but I didn’t had any luck keeping them going from year to year! At Paulino’s Kelly once said that they can be more like reseeding short-lived perennials, and I tried reseeding them a couple times with seed I had saved from the first year, but never succeeded in getting more going and I finally ran out of seed!

Wish I had a scratch-and-sniff screen so I could smell them right now! ;-D

Skybird

All My Loving rose and some kind of ice plant with petunias, marigolds and a struggling lupine

L Clark, love that ice plant. Have not seen that color combo before.

Yeah, my wife came home from Wal-Mart with it and disposed of the tag before I could see it . I wasn't aware of how much space they need. As you can see it's getting cramped.

Skybird - I do have some seed already! Someone contacted me through Houzz last fall asking for some of my seeds that I had posted about several years ago. Fortunately I still had some, but I told her I had no idea if they were still viable. She sent me some of the Chocolate Flower seeds in exchange. I didn't plant all of them, so I could mail you some, or we could meet up. Also, I have several of the plants in a container so I could pot one of them for you if you'd like. I plan to collect the seed now that it's blooming (have 2 flowers right now, and another bud or two), so if you'd rather wait I'll reserve some seed for you!

It's kind of an interesting plant even besides the lovely scent and the unusual flower formation. The "Chocolate Fragrance Award" goes to the Chocolate Scented Daisy (Berlandiera lyrata), and also called green-eyed lyre leaf, or lyreleaf greeneyes in reference to the shape of the leaf, which is curved like a lyre and the green disc which is left behind when the ray florets drop off which is thought to look like an eye. Found a site that has a lot of good info on it: https://www.mountainvalleygrowers.com/berlyrata.htm

Here's a pic of the unusual bud:

I think that ice plant is Wheels of Wonder. Looks great!