These are Shirley poppies. It's interesting how many seeds one can collect from the pods, even though the pods seem small. I'll continue saving them, since the honeybees like them so much and there aren't as many other bee forage plants blooming now.
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Saving Poppy Seeds. 8.11.2020
Some Flowers. 8.11.2020
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.
Wednesday, August 05, 2020
Gardening Update. 5 Aug 2020.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Flowers and Some Honeybees. 7.28.2020
Volunteer Cosmos. Very pretty white. 7.28.2020 |
Tigridia, survived the winter and now blooming. m 7.28.2020 |
Dahlia. I think this was a tuber in a box at Winco this winter. 7.28.2020 |
Shirley Poppies. These seeds were a couple of years old. First time growing them. Honeybees love them. 7.28.2020 |
I grew these Echinacea from seeds a few years ago. I didn't know if they would survive. They did. 7.28.2020 |
I grew this rose from a cutting about 15 years ago. I forget the name. 7.20.2020 |
These gladiolus were from a box at Winco. They should survive the winter, so I"ll leave them there. 7.28.2020 |
Yellow Cosmos, a volunteer among the squashes. 7.28.2020 |
Another Dahlia from a grocery store box. 7.28.2020 |
Zinnia from a 6-pack. I had trouble getting the seedlings to grow this year and something ate them. 6.28.2020 |
Another zinnia from that six pack. 6.28.2020 |
Another Shirley poppy full of honeybees. 6.28.2020 |
French marigolds from an old seed packet. 7.28.2020 |
African Marigolds from an old seed packet. So far they don't look great. 7.28.2020 |
Another rose I grew from a cutting about 15 years ago. 7.28.2020 |
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Better Flower Photos. 7.21.2020
Shirley Poppy. 7.21.2020 |
Artichoke Flower. 7.21.2020 |
Dahlia. 7.21.2020 |
Dahlia. 7.21.2020 |
Dahlia. 7.21.2020 |
Shirley Poppy. 7..21.2020 |
Flower Border. Deer avoid these. 7.21.2020 |
Echinacea. 7.21.2020 |
Shirley Poppy. 7.21.2020 |
Shirley Poppy. 7.21.2020 |
Sunday, July 12, 2020
Flowers. 7.12.2020
Oriental lilies. I don't know the name any more. They only survive here in containers. 7.12.2020 |
Echinacea, grown from seeds about 4 years ago. 7.12.2020 |
Cosmos from 3rd generation volunteers, cilantro from saved seeds. 7.12.2020 |
A daylily I created by pollinating two varieties that I liked, a few years ago. 7.12.2020 |
Chives, wild petunia, cilantro, and rose moss. 7.12.2020 |
A flower basket that Ning put together. 7.12.2020 |
My first attempt at growing poppies from seeds. Now I know how. 7.12.2020 |
Crocosmia, descended from some I planted 20 years ago. 7.12.2020 |