These dahlias have been blooming and blooming since mid summer. I just planted them in the vegetable garden where I found space. Next year they deserve a better location and tying up. The question now is, do I leave the tubers in the ground or dig them up and store them in the garage for the winter.
I grew these dahlias in the vegetable garden. There, they were safe from deer and rabbits. I didn't tie them up very well, and the garden is crowded, but some came out very nice.
The Four O'Clocks are all volunteer. I moved a few seedlings this Spring and left the rest where they were. I think they are a few generations past the original seed packet now. There were only two yellow flowered plants. I want to save those seeds, so I labeled them. They are open-pollinated so who knows what the seedlings will be. Honeybees don't seem to like them. Despite being Four O'Clocks, they seem to bloom best in the am so should be "Nine Am O'Clocks". :-)
This dark one is especially brilliant. It's not a pure red. I think the marble types interbred with the pure color types.
These are wild petunias. The flowers are the same size as the Four O'Clocks, but the leaves are very different. Also, they stay open in the afternoon, when the Four O'Clock flowers are closed.
I just like taking photos of flowers with bees.
I didn't think the honeybees were into dahlias, but this time there were a few.
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| Volunteer Cosmos. Very pretty white. 7.28.2020 |
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| Tigridia, survived the winter and now blooming. m 7.28.2020 |
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| Dahlia. I think this was a tuber in a box at Winco this winter. 7.28.2020 |
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| Shirley Poppies. These seeds were a couple of years old. First time growing them. Honeybees love them. 7.28.2020 |
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| I grew these Echinacea from seeds a few years ago. I didn't know if they would survive. They did. 7.28.2020 |
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| I grew this rose from a cutting about 15 years ago. I forget the name. 7.20.2020 |
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| These gladiolus were from a box at Winco. They should survive the winter, so I"ll leave them there. 7.28.2020 |
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| Yellow Cosmos, a volunteer among the squashes. 7.28.2020 |
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| Another Dahlia from a grocery store box. 7.28.2020 |
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| Zinnia from a 6-pack. I had trouble getting the seedlings to grow this year and something ate them. 6.28.2020 |
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| Another zinnia from that six pack. 6.28.2020 |
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| Another Shirley poppy full of honeybees. 6.28.2020 |
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| French marigolds from an old seed packet. 7.28.2020 |
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| African Marigolds from an old seed packet. So far they don't look great. 7.28.2020 |
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| Another rose I grew from a cutting about 15 years ago. 7.28.2020 |
