My longest blooming hosta is Blazing Saddles. It bloomed on 7/16/21 and I took this picture

this morning.

debra

So, most of my flower pics aren't worth posting. Here's a few that are.

Barracuda:

Azure Frills

Here's the flowers from that Kaleidochrome seedling bud I showed earlier.

Lemon Snap

Appletini:

Another fragrant seedling revealed itself today. my goal is to get a reliable fragrant and fertile hosta. emphasis on fertile. which currently doesnt exist. the fragrant ones have fertility block. im guessing 5% viability. And there is no guarntee it will be fragrant. i got one seedling from about 50 pods of summer fragrance last year.

War and peace. Dark reddish purple flower. the green leaves are pretty boring tho. its quite prolific so i will attempt to make it more interesting.

and every one wants a solid flower that color.

Frozen Margarita again, Monkey Business, and non-Hosta Pearl Crescent on lantana

Fantastic flowers all! hosta_maker those War and Peace flowers are very desirable.

Still waiting on some and have not taken many close ups.

Bridegroom finally put on a good display.

Fire and Ice is a great example of when the buds are better than the flowers.

Gemstone

Goober just starting.

Lemon Frost and London Fog

Praying Hands does not have great flowers but has a lot of them this year.

Puddles and Bumps

P and B up close

Rainforest Sunrise

Peren, ditto RE War and Peace! Also, your plants and beds look beautiful!

Blue Tooth, Martini, Rainbow’s End, and Autumn Glow toad lily

utog, that pink toad lily is not nearly as toadish as my common variety.

These pictures are great!! hosta_ maker, I agree with utog and peren…….those War and Peace flowers are beautiful! Who said they want white flowers…… not me!!

debra

Finally sorted through the rest of my pics. Here's what I deem worthy to post. Flemish Beauty

Love Song

Midnight Oil

Peek-a-Boo Purple and seed pods from previous seedling flower pic. Interesting that this seedling's pod parent is the fragrant Mojito and this is a prolific seed setter. However, the flowers are not fragrant. I suppose I'm not as surprised now thanks to Hosta Maker's observation.

A different seedling's flowers (and bee).

flowers from a yellow/viridescent seedling

Stand By Me - a lot like June, go figure

Winter Snow

(never mind the ones I didn't post, lol). Oops I skipped June

Really like that Midnight Oil, with shiny dark leaves and darker purple flowers. Nice Nice!

Practice makes . . . well better than my other flower pics.

Waterslide

Ruffed Up

Extasy

Urchin

Steve, just WOW! Waterslide, Ruffed Up, Extasy, and especially Urchin photos are so well-composed. Wow!

Some beautiful flowers. Mine are close to finished due to the weeks of hot weather, only now finally getting some rain. Rainbow's End still has some flower and an unknown small green hosta.. I love the color varigation. Only reason to keep it.

Begonia Pink Teardrop, rosebud, and Hosta Avocado and Rainbow’s End at opening into garden path

Great, now all I do when I wander into the garden is take pics of Hosta flowers. Thanks DJ. 8^{(>

You are welcome !! :-D

debra

Have been having much needed rain the past week and have found a few hostas with flowers. Yeah!

Rainbows End

June

First Frost

Touch of Class

A couple more

Designer Genes (up close)

Designer Genes

Guacamole (with the tall stem)

Guacamole - Up close

Monkey Business and Rainbow’s End

utog, your Tattoo looks much better than mine!

debra

Thanks, Debra. I ignore Tattoo, because I am sure it will die if I notice it. I try not to take a picture of it as the main focus. When I water it, I pretend it was by accident. When it looks pretty, I tell it that it has to stay in its pot of NC clay soil mixed with oak leaves. Really, Tattoo and I have a complex relationship, sort of a prolonged driveway treatment. It tried to bolt on me in the first few days after I got it, while it was still in the PDN grower pot with PDN growth media, before I repotted it to the clay mixture. I spent the next month watering it with undiluted antifungal. So, I am sure it will misbehave if I praise it. Naughty plant.

Hahahaha! 😂

debra

Honeybells

Tenryu

Summer Fragrance, a sweetly scented labendar just for Debra.

*lavendar

whatever happened to the edit button, sigh?

Edit is hidden in the three dots on the lower right of your comment…for some of us, anyway.

tj

Ahhh. I see it now. It used to be obvious, but I guess that was bad. ROFLOL!

Hibiscus syriacus I grew from seed, Danubie Isla in bloom, and 2 of Unruly Child, a personal favorite

Guacamole with busy bee, Royal Standard with same bee, Martini, and omg Rainbow’s End with 10 flowering scapes

Sweetness, old blooms of Tuff Stuff hydrangea, Restless Sea with blooming liriope, and coral Knockout rose

Thank you Indianagardengirl!

debra

some delicate flowers with reddish lavendar on this yellow hosta

Unruly Child and first cyclamen hederfolium flower of the season

This is the smallest flower I have. Cha Chartreuse Wiggles:

Sorry it’s blurry…….you don’t know how hard it was to get this photo.

debra

Reds

More rockin reds

Red too

Bob solberg stopped by this week for a visit. he liked this combo

red white and green

Looking good there hosta_maker!

debra

Strawberry Yogurt blooming for the first time!

Lets see if war and peace and raspberry sorbet want to make nice

a hacksaw seedling lets blush it

I call the dried flowers after sexy time. party dresses

these purple ones on theses tets kinda look interesting.

Those flowers are stunning hosta_maker!!

debra

Anyone show Restless Sea? Well, here is mine. Lots of bloom stalks for this one.

Restless Seas has got some awesome flowers!!

My last flower bud showed it’s head this morning: Astral Bliss

Irish Eyes just getting started in one of my weedy beds

This one comes with a story from years ago. I was at Wade and Gatton, after a great day and getting my order written up, when a car pulls up. It was Dick and Jane Ward, come to visit Van. And my sister and I are standing there with one of their plants in our hands! They were lovely people, chatted a bit about what a nice plant i had picked, LOL! That’s it for my encounters with Famous Hosta folks - other than Van Wade, whose place I visited many times.

I have two hostas that are re- blooming…….that is they bloomed at their regular June times and now both are shooting up new blossoms.

Sagae

Vulcan, also did this last year

debra