Plumbaga

Plumbago

If I plant this in zone 8 will it be a shrub or just a plant?

\I saw it growing in the big garden in Huston Texas,  it looked like just a flower, I have wanted one every since.  Such a pretty blue.  Our roses are all just about died.  In 2014 5 died, in 2015 some more,  now the ones that remain look awful.  Can not stand anymore.  They took some kind of virus and slowly all the others  are dying.

Now we have to redo most of it.  I would like suggestions of plants that grow as tall and as wide as roses and bloom most of the summer  Or garden accessories.  I will show you a picture of one I have  and what I have planned for it.  My goal is to make arrangements in each section of my yard.  I will  place small rocks in the bottom to make my pot level.  It is not deep enough to plant in with out a pot.  This birdbath will go were we dig up a rose. 
 

  

  The Plumbago will be planted on both sides of the bird bath one each.  In front and back we will plant  Shasta Daisies and in the bird bath will be the red flowers you see with the Plumbago on both sides.  Not only am I changing from rose to other things my color will be deferent also. When I finish this I will show you  I will transplant from stock in my yard the Shasta Daisies in the spring.  That is the best to transplant here.

We have begun.  Carrel dug up a red running roes from the arbor.  I never did like that rose.  It bloomed only on top.
I have two Clematis vines.  May plant another one. 





                                                                                                                                                 

 Carrel came in and told me the blue plant has more blooms one it today.  

I hope will be pleased with this plant and won't have to treat it as annual.  I will give you up dates on our progress.  I am 80 now and can not be planting the same plant every year.

I hope you have enjoyed this page I think everything will be fine.  Thank you for watching my garden grow and bloom.  I hope you will grow one of your own.  Happy gardening from Carrel and I.

                                                             

This is the moss I will plant in the bird bath.  the colors in this area will be red white and blue. 

Touch-me-not

Touch-me-not

I planted the flower above for many years in Ar.  I lived in Ashdown when my Mother came up and stayed with my brother for a week.  She brought me 3 or 4 plants that my Aunt Earline gave to her.  I planted them not knowing what they were.   I went to my favorite nursery in Eudora and found my friend was still there.  I bought a lot of flowers like I always do.  As I was living I heard someone say don't  step on the Touch-me-nots.  I looked down and I said "Do you have the seed".  Just one seed pod gives you all you will ever need.  Elizabeth reach down at my feet and very gently pulled up 5 plants,  warped them in wet paper and I planted them before dark.  Now I will soon have seed.

These plants like a lot of others came from Asia.  They were popular in the early 20th century until after World War 2.  Then impatiens came along.  These plants are easy to raise.  What is so good about them even I can get the seed to come up.  Just throw them out don't cover and keep moist they will sprout in 4 to 5 days.  You can grow 3 new crops in a summer.   Plant in sun or shade you will never have to plant again.  They come up year after year.  I have never planted  in the shade,  however I will now over in my evergreen room.  I have always had sun beds.
I hope you enjoyed this new page to my blog.  I want to thank you for watching my garden grow and bloom.  I really hope you have planted one for yourself and people who pass by.  I love to look at flowers along the highway.  There is not enough and you may cheer up some unhappy person.  Happy gardening from Carrel and I.  Juanita

Daily blooms

Day lily time May, June, some in April and sometimes into July.  I love them.  Several  years ago I  would not even think about putting them in my yard.  So much improvement has been made  with the Day Lily and now they are beautiful and much easier to control.   

                                                                        

First Daylily

This is the first Day lily  to be planted in this yard.  My Sunday School Teacher had a Day Lily  farm here .  Charlotte came up from Shreveport, La. to see them.  She and I bought some.  Edna gave Charlotte and I some cuttings from some of her other  flowers.  The rest of these Day lilies plus the first at the top of this page came from Smokey's Day Lily farm.  Just go on line and dream.
                                                                              

                                                                              

The above Lilies started blooming in April and are still blooming.

 

The last one blooms the longest.
                                                             

  

                                           
                                                      

I hope you have enjoyed reading this blog page.  Thank you for watching my garden grow and bloom.  and hope you are growing one.  Happy gardening from Carrel and I,  Juanita

Mother's Day

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Debbie with my gift, Ken is behind

Debbie and Ken came to see me yesterday, Saturday May 7, 2016.  We fixed a big beef, vegetable soup.  Carrel called  it a stew however soup has more liquid, so it was soup.  Carrel made corn bread, yes he washed dishes.  I told you he is a dream come true.

Ken bought  Debbie and I the same beautiful orchid. I wore mine for them yesterday.

                                                                                                                                                                     



















Debbie and I walked through my flowers.   Debbie said it looked like bouquet  That's what I wanted.    I am not  finish, someone said you never are.  I had a goal when I started to have something blooming every month,  I think I have this now however I will have to organize my pictures.  Now my goal is to get rid of grass.  All but one of my beds are fine.  The biggest one is awful.  I will not give up until I have the perfect plan.  You should always have a goal.



Well you can see the blank spot full of grass we planted lilies there however we got so much rain they rotted.  While  Debbie and I were over in Carrel's yard look what welcomed us. Debbie  found him first.  He was fussing at us  and Debbie fussed right back.  He was so cute.

 This rose is Cinco De Mayo   ( May fifth  )           Mexico's Independence day.  It did not take the virus my other  roses had  and it is  a very good bloomer.

We were using a spray on our roses   I had lots of Butterflies they left. This is the first one in several years.
Three years ago we stopped.  This year we started using one you pour in the ground.  I would see butterflies fly around but never lite I planted Butterfly weed in 2013 and it has come ever sense.  So I hope I have many more.










I hope you have enjoyed this blog as much as I have enjoyed  writing it.  Thank you for watching my garden grow and bloom.  I hope you plant one of your own.  We can not have too many flowers, not possible.  Happy gardening to you from Carrel and I.   Juanita.  

                                                

Spring at last

We are always glad to see the first Daffodils mostly it means winter is over.  It was a hard one for me.  

I love the pear trees. 

These Camellias bloomed beautifully.  We have two like these in this yard and on in Carrel's

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 This is another spring blooming Carmella

 Ann Magnolia This tree was here when I bought this house.
 

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These are from our new "Garden Room".

 

I hope you enjoyed my new blog page today.  Thank you for watching our garden grow and bloom.  I hope you will grow one of your own.  Happy gardening from Carrel and Juanita.

Back Once More

 I have not written a post for one year, sorry about that.  When I tried to get on my blog it was up for sale, after a while they let me write another page.  This has not been the best year of my life, but not the worst.   We had lots of rain this past winter, ice and some snow. Limbs fell from trees, and of course everything looked dead.  But then  SPRING  will follow winter.  It really makes us cheer up just to think about it. 

 This is fall and all the leaves.

 I think the Carinal is so pretty in a tree with snow.















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 This is my "Evergreen Room.   I thought I had this picture already but I could not find it.  I am standing in front of "Azelia " an 8'  by 4 'wall' I    On my right are "Azellia and Sasanca".  I have 3 "Sasanas" now 2 red and 1 pink.

 

 
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 We do have some pretty blooms in the late fall and all winter with the red and white  and Pink Camellia and now 3 Sasancs two red and one white.














 

  I hope you  had a good winter and you have enjoyed this blog page.  I thank you for watching our garden grow and bloom and hope  you will grow one of your own.  Have fun, Carrel and Juanita.
 

   



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August Blahs

All the bright Black Eyed Susans are gone.  There are four beds of them and there seem to light up the whole yard.   I really miss them.  How ever I do have a few roses and a couple of beds that are bright.

                                                                            
 This is my mailbox bed, this potato vine is growing
from the pot.   I cut the old blooms from my Phlox and they are beginning to bloom back.  That is a good reason to grow Phlox but they have bloomed and are now in the rebloom stage.  They will bloom until frost. A lot of perennials once they have bloom out do not bloom any more until the next summer.  I have 5 beds of  Phlox so I will have lots of color yet.

You can always count on these two for color all summer.  The Begonias are never without blooms.  I really like the leaves of the copper Begonia  best of all.  I was worried about the sun on the leaves of the Caladium. The 11-00 AM until 2-00 PM are  suppose to be the  hottest time of the day,and that is when the sun is on this bed, also between 4 and 5-00 PM.  

 The Crape Myrtle is beginning to bloom again.  Carrel cuts the old blooms off and it reblooms . How ever he waits a while before he does it.  One year he was nice I only had to ask him one time and it bloomed  three times. I love to see its bright color.
I do not like the mess the falling blooms make, and I do not want the seedlings around the bottom of my tree.

 The Humming Bird is one of my favorite  summer visitors to my yard.  We have five feeders out and I know two are eating at each and there are others fighting to eat with them.
This is my first  picture this year.

This little Rose is turning 4 today.  Happy birthday my sweet Rose.













I hope you enjoyed this new page of my blog.  Thank you for watching my garden grow and bloom, and I hope you grow one of you own.  Happy gardening to you from Carrel and I, Juanita.