Walk About and Plants, Misty River and Emmy Lou, and Crinoid.

Emmy Lou and I did the morning walk about,

I took my camera with us. 

Dayflower, dug this out of 

the wooded area.

 

Spiderwort in front of

Jacobs Ladder.

                                                                                                   Bee Balm

This is my hummingbird. Someone commented

on this in another post. I think it was 

Sheri from Red Rose. I got this from 

a very talented guy who worked with

all sorts of metal. His name is Major

Hall. Unfortunately, Major now suffers

from Alzheimer's and just recently lost

his beloved wife Anna. 

 If anyone would like to see Major's work

you can find it on this post I did years ago.

Post: Edit

Such talent.

Another wild petunia peeking out of the 

weeds in the wooded area.

Buds are just so cool looking, wrapped so 

tight just waiting for the best moment to

BUST wide open.

This is something I have never

grown before but thought it would

look nice behind the water wagon.

Pampas Grass.

Wandering Jew.

With pinky purple flowers.

Just another shot in front 

of my crazy bottle tree.

Look...I have blooms. For those

that are wondering, this is 

my gourds.

I also have never grown this

before. I have two on my porch, 

my oldest brother bought these for me.

They are Coleus.

HAHA.....the greenery growing

up on my Coleus, is a Forseythe Bush.

I planted it in this pot last yr. and 

since I felt it was still too young to 

put out in the yard this past

spring. However, I have 

read that fall is a good time

to plant bushes in this growing

zone, so, come November it goes

in the ground.

I have two maple trees,

one redbud and a crepe myrtle growing

in this pot.

Again, did not want to chance planting

them this past spring and again,

they will get moved this fall.

I can't remember what color

the crepe myrtle is, red I think, but

I am proud of it, I grew it from a seed.

The two crepe myrtles I have growing now

have these really dark leaves, with a purple

tint to them.

internet pic.

This is the red crepe myrtle I have had

before and I am pretty sure this is 

what I have growing in the pot.

Leaves are a lighter green.

I love the red crepe myrtles and

like I said, I am excited about the fact

that it is growing from seed.

This is a Cosmos Bipinnatus.

Are you seeing a color theme?

I tend to go straight for purple

or pinky purple blooms.

Plains Coreopsis

Brown Eyed Susan

Cosmos Sulphureus 

This wild petunia is coming up

in the burn pile.

I love a Rose of Sharon bush and have not

had one for over 40 yrs. 

Kriste gave me a clipping from her

bush. Said she remembered her mom would

cut them off and stick them in water and 

they would root.

So, I decided to give it 

a try.

Yes, I did read up on it, and 

yes, it is supposed to root.

I know a very tight bud

has opened up while in the water.

Really, really hoping for it to root.

I will plant it in the pot if it

does so I can maybe put it out

in the spring.

Lily has no issues with Emmy Lou

being here at the house. You know that

girl goes with the flow. Misty, on the other hand,

would just as soon not be here.

This was a touching encounter,

Misty even head butted her. 

Later in the day however, 

Emmy was laying on the couch, Misty

went to jump up causing Emmy to move

and Misty took offense to that, 

did a couple of big hisses and 

a couple of paw slaps.

Poor Emmy.

While at Kriste's house I walked

to the end of her sidewalk waiting

on her to come out when I just looked

down.  I saw this.

A crinoid AKA Indian Money,

larger than I have

found in a while.

Hoping you are having a 

great start to July.

Thanks, 

Pam