Some Pictures to Share

[Tulirose]

The following were taken earlier this month of my new acquisitions:
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It's late and the name of these plants escapes me now. They begin with a "C". Coriopsosis or something to that effect.

Here's a closeup view of one:
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These are the new Black-Eyed Susans I bought. Not as pretty or delicate as the ones I dug up from SIL. But interesting just the same.

Close up view:
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I have photos still in camera of this plant a week or so later. Notice the flower on the left and see the small bud on it in the upper left. That bud bloomed later as a "Double Eye"!!

I'm not so sure I like these plants that much. But, I sure hope they don't die on me! LOL

 

[olena]

I love them!

The retaining wall looks great, too....

 

[Tulirose]

Oh - P.S. - DH and I went to an arboretum over the weekend and he says that I should have taken the camera with us to take pictures and post those pictures on the internet and tell you guys that they were pictures of my flowers!!!! How I wish they were!!!

Nope, instead I give you the truth. My flowers are fat ugly Black-eye Susans. I think I definitely decided I don't like this variety.

 

[Tulirose]

Oh Olena - You posted while I was doing my P.S. Thank you. You're so sweet. I think I'm just in a down mood. They are kinda pretty in an ugly sort of way......

 

[Snowwark]

Your beds look great Tulirose! The coreopsis (Tickseed) will look so bright and sunny there when it fills out!

They are kinda pretty in an ugly sort of way......

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LOL! They're starting to grow on you already.....lol. I bet a lot of us have black-eyed susans in our garden, I'm going to have to take another look at mine.....poor little flowers...lol!

 

[TigH]

Looks great! I am addicted to all these photos. Thanks for sharing. The wall is beautiful!

 

[Mamu]

Tuli the wall looks beautiful and I like the flowers. I think you need to give them a couple of years to fill out before you decide. I agree the are small but you are planting them in a drought year and they are not going to do well until next year.

When you are dealing with perennial it takes a couple of years to decide if this is the right spot.

Some trive in certain areas, some just never fit in and never do well.

Give those flowers a chance, I bet next year you will love them.

 

[amid chaos]

I believe both of those will spread and get taller next year....i'm sure you will like them....remember that perennials sleep the first year, creep the second and leap the third.

 

[gina2000]

Just beautiful, Tuli!

And I agree with everyone else. Hang on to those babies. They may be the hit of your garden!

Only time will tell!

 

[DixieDreamer]

I LOVE your blackeyed susans! They are hardy and add a bright splash of yellow... same with the coreopsis. The lighter colored plant is important against the stonework (which is awesome by the way!).

Thank you for sharing these tuli!

 

[December99]

Very nice!!!!

 

[Tulirose]

Thank you all for your nice comments and thanks Amid for that saying - I was trying to recall it a few weeks back but couldn't remember it. I told my DH about it so now we go around the yard and say: This plant is sleepy and this plant is creepy!! j/k LOL

Since planting those Black-Eyed Susans, I've seen the other variety of B-ES (the one l like better) planted with purple cornflowers behind them. Looks fantastic! I guess it wouldn't really be a good idea at this point in time to get some corn flowers and shift the B-ES plants more forward in that narrow bed and put the Corn flowers behind them, huh? Maybe I should wait a year or two and see how they do first?

Or maybe since the variety of B-ES I like are the ones I got from my SIL last year and the majority of them are sleeping in the higher part behind the wall, I should get some cornflowers to put behind them?!

Gardening is such a big decision-making process!

 

[Tulirose]

Oh and my wall! They did do a wonderful job with that, didn't they. The wall replaced rotting railroad ties. We had that job done about three years ago. About three years prior to that we had two big blue spruces cut down that grew from those same beds where the tickseed and BE-S are that I just planted. It was great privacy and many birds lived there but the trees had to go, unfortunately. Broke my heart to have them taken down but they were really too close to the pool.

 

[Snowwark]

Good morning Tulirose!

I'm not sure I would put coneflowers (?) and BES in that bed Tulirose, it would get quite crowded in a year or two. Is there another spot in your yard where you could put the two together?

Sorry about your spruce trees, that would hurt.