Comments | mummm: Around the ranch again

mummm

Around the ranch again

Aug 01, 2008 10:24

The first few photos were taken today. The others are from a couple of weeks ago.

Click several times on the pictures to see closer if you want to.

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flowers, potted_plants, patio, flower_beds, pond, garden

Comments 16

pondhopper August 1 2008, 15:38:21 UTC

Fall-like?
Yikes!
I especially love your hibiscus.
:)

mummm August 1 2008, 15:59:50 UTC

The Brown-eyed Susans are usually out in the fall... late summer.

You'll be seeing them soon!

marswalker August 1 2008, 16:23:48 UTC

So... do any of those have nice aroma? I was looking at hardy hibiscus, thinking about trying some here.

mummm August 1 2008, 16:42:23 UTC

The Milkweed flowers smell wonderful believe it or not.
The lilies have a little nice light scent.
The Dahlias are too highbred... no scent that we can detect.
I've never noticed a scent from the Hibiscus... but there might be! I don't cut those. The flowers only last about a day but the bush gets TONS of flowers. It also can get huge.
The petunias have a scent.
The Phlox, Brown-eyed Susans and cone flowers - nope (except maybe to the insects)

Spring is the best time for aroma from the flowers.

low_delta August 1 2008, 16:59:18 UTC

Today, for the first time I noticed the scent of the coneflowers. Very faint, but not displeasing. I don't care for the scent of the petunias.

mummm August 1 2008, 17:14:14 UTC

Notice that I didn't say that the petunias have a NICE scent. *grin* I don't like it either.

The coneflowers have a scent? I need to check that out.

low_delta August 1 2008, 16:40:58 UTC

Good stuff! I wish I had a place for a trumpet vine.

Did those irises live?

mummm August 1 2008, 16:43:46 UTC

Yes, so far!

Put up a trellis or arbor and you can have vines!

low_delta August 1 2008, 17:03:02 UTC

They'll probably make it, then.

I could do that. I'm just not sure where. We've got some growing on a utility pole at the corner of our lot, but our neighbor keeps trying to kill them.

My dad has a spot in his yard that used to be for a clothesline. The kind that was two posts with a cross piece on each side. He put a little patio between them, with a bench and a birdbath, and trumpet vines at each post. It's very nice.

mummm August 1 2008, 17:10:14 UTC

That sounds very pretty!

I don't know your property well enough to have ideas, but I know that you and Cyn have plenty of them without my help! *L*

rodluvan August 1 2008, 17:24:43 UTC

I loved to see the flowers. Wonderful!

mummm August 1 2008, 17:48:37 UTC

I am glad to make you happy!

roadskoller August 2 2008, 00:04:02 UTC

So pretty.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to deal with the fact that my little flower garden just won't thrive without me being there.
*sigh*

mummm August 2 2008, 05:37:53 UTC

Yes, they really need attention. :^(