This is one of my beautiful fall dahlia's. I grew these last year but they haven't put on the show that they did then. They have grown ok...lost a couple but then that's not unusual for me, but they haven't put out the blooms like they did last year. I'm hoping its just a bit too early and they will come around when it cools down more. Last year I grew yellow with red tips and solid reds. This year I thought that was what I bought but I ended up with the solid reds but the yellow ones are more orange/yellow mix and not nearly as pretty of a bloom.
And then there was this hungry fellow....couldn't get him to pose for me...just kept his butt in my face.
And this is just a shot of the vase full of the sunflowers....they looked good this morning but are drooping this afternoon. They just don't like the water, I guess...
That's all for today....maybe a few more tomorrow.
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These are fabulous. Makes me homesick for IL. We just can't grow pretty things here in NC. I love the begonias. So you can't spray their leaves with water? Is that what you are saying. I never knew that. I know geraniums don't like wet leaves either. TFS
ReplyDeleteThanks,Dawn...next to sleeping and eating, growing flowers are my favorite things to do...LOL. I've always wanted to live in a state where you could grow flowers year round. We visited Louisiana during Sept. one year and they were just then planting annuals. Made me sad to go home cause I knew our plant season was coming to an end. I hate the brown landscape of winter.
ReplyDeleteI never even gave it a thought when I was spraying the fertilizer....its how I do all my plants, they absorb the fertilizer through their leaves but the begonia leaves burnt instead. But, it recovered nicely and now I know to give the fertilizer to it through the roots. LOL
The Dalia's are coming around nicely now...are covered with buds so I will have lots of blooms shortly. I love the big splash of red color that they give my landscape.
I never realized that geraniums didn't like wet leaves....must be why I don't grow them too well...LOL...always have yellow, brown leaves on them.
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