Dee, it's a common lily though the name escapes me at the moment. It's only been in the ground a couple of years. It has that candelabra form and I always forget to stake it. This plant was really leaning, and thankfully I've had less and less red lily beetle damage. I almost gave up on lilies all together, but one year I was determined and I started early looking for the buggers and would go out w a paper cup of water and hold it under them and knock them into it before they could drop to the ground on their back and become invisible. I went out every day. It was a pain, but it made a big difference. Of course, there were quite a few years I didn't have the time to do that.

They still kept coming though and one year it just stopped. And I think it might have been the experiment they were doing in New England to discover a predatory wasp that targeted them? I also chose to limit the number of liles in the garden when I was having heavy infestations of them. Last year, in an area with less sun that I don't maintain well, I did see some minimal RLLB damage and I'm going to have to start paying attention again.

Prairiemoon - yes, I remember a few years ago that the U of Lethbridge (sort of near here) was releasing these predatory wasps to see if they could survive the winter. I yanked all of my lilies about 5 years ago, because of these beetles...and I love lilies...maybe I'll google and see if they survived here. I'm really glad that you can grow lilies again!

Martagon lilies are so wonderful Carol and hardy in Alaska too.

Yes, I'm still waiting for those predatory wasps to make their way to CT! They appear to be a slow-moving bunch lol. PM2 I think it might be a Stargazer lily, but can't quite remember off the top of my head. I cropped out some of the ratty foliage but unfortunately (or maybe in this case, fortunately, lol!) the focus seems to be more on the agastache in the background

And here is an even worse photo of a whole stem of these in a vase - sorry it's so dark but you can see the beautiful form. ...well, you can kinda see it lol

:)

Dee

Dee - I just checked - I bought my Lily at the Lily Garden and it was 'Black Beauty' They look very similar. Yes, that is the form of mine too, if I would stake it. lol Next year. I was surprised the flowers are smaller than I was expecting. I'm waiting for mine to spread into a patch. I wish I had room for more Lilies.

Rosecanadian - I love lilies too. I never did quit on them, I always had at least 'Casa Blanca'. I had to keep ONE at least. [g] But as soon as I got a season of no RLLBs I bought more. lol

Shelia, I LOVE those dark lilies!

Ooh, PM2, I got mine from the Lily Garden too, and I think it's Black Beauty too, now that you mention the name! I had a feeling it really wasn't a Stargazer, and now that I think of it, the Stargazer doesn't have those recurved petals, I don't think...

:)

Dee

Glad

Canna president

Hope for humanity rose

Sheila - yes, those lilies are really lovely!! And...hardy to Alaska?? Oh my goodness!!

Dee - what a cool picture of your lilies in a vase!

Prairiemoon - maybe I should try a lily again! :)

L Clark - your HfH rose is perfection!! I love those dark blooms!

Lasting Love, accessorized with a pair of glasses.

Same rose later in the same month.

Maltese Cross

Rosecanadian - I had Lasting Love once, but it died. I remember it was fantastic and yours looks awesome. My Hope for Humanity took a beating the last two years due to horrendous (I mean truly horrendous) late and early freezes. Severely weakened the plant, we'll see if it snaps out of it and I have a couple more ordered. Love this rose! Blooms constantly from June til frost.

L Clark - that's too bad that your LL died. Was it due to cold temps? I just checked and HfH is zone 3...so yours should be okay. Here's hoping. The color is really beautiful!!

Yeah. LL was one of my first roses, I didn't know how to protect them at the time. We had a 4-5 day stretch in mid April where the temps did not get above 15F and a day where the high was 1 or 2F all when everything was coming out of dormancy. Then the next fall had a -15F in October! Lots of damage to plants occurred.

William Shakespeare 2000

Passiflora Ruby Glow

Castor bean pods

Lil red playhouse..for baby goat kids

Caterpillars

Epiphyllum

Double Rangoon Creeper

Munstead Wood

Don Juan

Red Cockscomb :)

Sultry, the red Cockscomb makes me laugh. So funny! LOL

L Clark - for sure...we have to look every day for weather lows...they can sneak up on us. :)

Sultry - those caterpillars made me do a double take. :) Those Castor Bean pods are wonderful!! I've never seen them before...so pretty! Beautiful Passiflora and WS2000! I love the kid, fowl and frog!! :) :)

Sultry - I did a double take with the caterpillars too. What kind are they?

The Passiflora 'Ruby Glow' is a pretty version. And you remind me of how I keep telling myself I need to get a 'Munstead Wood' rose. Do you mind if I ask where you bought it?

LClark - What kind of rose is 'Hope for Humanity' and does it have fragrance?

They look like pipevine swallowtail caterpillars.

Sultry, wow!! You have some great reds, my favorite is the goat in tbe red house, so darn cute

hi

I forget which variety of caterpillar they are but they can live on the giant pipevine whereas most pipevine cats, cannot.

Here is my giant pipevine they live on..they seem to mostly eat the flowers.

This is next to a 5 gallon home depot bucket lol. The flowers are huge!

Prairiewood, I got the Munstead Wood from the David Austin website. Its very thorny but had a nice wafting fragrance. It is grafted.

Kristine, me too! Here's another baby goat pic with red lol.

Ok I just googled about which Swallowtail can eat the Gigantea Pipevine..it is the Polydamas Swallowtail. Here is a link showing the difference between the Pipevine Swallowtail and the Polydamas Swallowtail. Everyone kept telling me that I should get rid of my Giant Pipevine, that it would kill all the Swallowtails etc.

I have other pipevine varieties that Pipevine Swallowtails can lay their eggs on. I've only seen the Polydamas Swallowtail eggs on the Giant Pipevine for the last 13 yrs.

I guess the butterflies can tell the difference by now lol.

https://lepcurious.blogspot.com/2014/07/pipevine-swallowtail-vs-polydamas.html?m=1

Neat!

Sultry - I've never seen anything like that!!! Incredible!! What a cute enrichment for goats!! Those butterflies are beautiful, especially the teal one...and even the caterpillars are striking...and that's saying a lot, because I have a phobia about caterpillars...those hideous tent caterpillars. Blech.

Getgoing - Great pictures...my favorites are the 2nd and 9th pictures!!

@prairiemoon2 z6b MA Hope for Humanity is a Canadian shrub rose. One of the Parkland series. No fragrance whatsoever to my nose. Morden Blush is another Canadian rose I couldn't be without.

L Clark - when I used to garden in the ground (old place...here, glacial till prevents that) I had Morden Blush....it's a fabulous rose!!! Oh my goodness!!!

the only question about the goats.. is do they use the ladder behind.. or scramble up the front.. lol ... presuming of course.. if there is a ladder ...

ken

Aesculus x carnea 'O'Neill Red'

btw.. thats a copper beach behind.. dont know if it should be in a red or purple color post.. lol ...

and this does stay a rather nice smallish tree .. in my MI ... though mine has a huge trunk wound on it ... that im sure reduces vigor ..

and gorgeous chestnuts in late fall ... of which i dont think i have a pic .. there is something about the color and design of the chestnuts that really intrigues me ...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=horse+chestnuts&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

never got many ... and never ate one in my life ... not a MI thing ... but i did often pot them and leaves them out over winter.. often got a few to sprout... but AL

WAYS lost track of them.. and would find the pot dead a year or so later ... and BTW ... never did find out it they would come true from seed with the deep red color ... dont recall if my tree was grafted or not ...

ken

I don't have any red plants in my garden, but I did find this little guy on one of my roses last summer:

Maltese soldier bug (Spilostethus pandurus)

LClark - That's a great looking rose. I have a Buck rose that I thought was a Canadian Rose but now I'm not sure. I tried a rose without a scent once and I just never enjoyed it. Your HfH is a beauty. So full of flowers and compact. It looks very happy there!

Prairiemoon - I agree...my roses have to have fragrance. :)

Ken - beautiful tree!!

Seaside - that's a really intense looking bug! :)

lets bump this one back up..ken

Tradescant, Heathcliff, and Chianti!

I usually don’t have red in the garden but today I have this peony!

Port Royale

The 1812 Rose

Ascot

Our Anniversary

Crimson Glory

Ingrid Bergman

Florentina

Roxanne Veranda

Amazing reds everybody!!

Bee balm

Lala, I love your Roxanne. I have a new baby from Hirt nursery.

Seeing how big and beautiful yours has gotten is pretty inspiring.

James, I love your Bee Balm. I hope that mine is that color .

  Easy elegance shrub roses, Westerplatt Clematis

clematis rebecca

lobelia cardinalis

indian pink

nandina berries

pulsatilla

daylilies

dianthus

texas star hibiscus

salvia hot lips

Red - love it!

Sweet_ betsy, Iove red too

Your Rebekah clematis is fabulous! How long does it bloom ?

Kristine, it is still only about 3 years old so not very large yet. Its bloom time is just dependent on the number of blooms that it manages to have--more each year so far. I have been pleased with it but this is my third Rebecca. I couldn't get the other contenders to survive so I kept trying. You know we always want those things that are hard to have. It is most beautiful.

Sweet-betsy , I am just discovering the wonderful world of clematis.

It seems like the reds and dark reds are less common.

I guess that the third time is the charm. Im am glad that you got her to produce such beautiful flowers.

Red huckleberries, best year ever.

Gypsy soul

Hot Cocoa

Munstead wood

Papa Meiland