Home and Gardening With Liz: Coleus

August 9, 2023

Summer Gardening 2023, Backyard

I'll start out with the only three roses I have. I'm real pleased with how they've been blooming.

This one is Cherry Parfait, a definite favorite of mine!

Sarah Bernhardt peony was absolutely lovely! Sure wish they'd last longer!

One of the mixed planters with dahlias, geraniums and supertunias.

This is a favorite, love all the colors. The yellow ones were called Cape Daisies, and have grown quite a bit since I took this picture. I think they are also known as Cape Marguerite Dasies. I hope to find more next year to plant a bunch!

One of two planters in front of the garage. Salvia and coleus did well I've had to pinch back the coleus because if is overrunning the salvia. The hummers and butterflies love the salvia!

I planted these Angelique begonias in May and it took until the end of July to bloom!

Some of the blooms are 3" & 4" across!

Campanula Rapido Blue Bellflowers, I love them, such a pretty color.

A good reliable Spirea, Little Princess

Another spirea, Pink Sparkler

I replaced some hydrangeas with these because I had trouble with frosts ruining my hydrangeas. These are much more tolerant of our cold weather up here.

A large planter filled with a mix of peachy pinks, coral, lime green and burgundy.

This planter has been beautiful. Prettier in person!

My new Gorilla Cart in green I got early this summer. Always filling it up!

Bright Lights Double Moonglow, Osteospermum

Burgundy Glow Ajuga has spread nicely carpeting this area of the retaining wall.

This a Red Wine Lofos vine. I mixed it with a couple of other annuals, but the prettiness of the vine is the eye grabber!

Some pink Bellflower. This is my "pink" garden so I stick pretty much to pink!

A few weeks ago.... I do have one blue delphium for contrast!

This blue plant is from Proven Winners called Blue My Mind, dwarf morning glory. Looks especially pretty with the backdrop of my Annabelle hygrangeas!

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September 13, 2012

What season is it?

I'm joining Tootsie Time: Fertilizer Friday

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Fistail Cottage: Cottage Garden Party

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I walked about the yard this past weekend and took random pictures of things still blooming. I kept thinking about how we are at the end of summer yet there is still plenty of life in the plants.

One of my hibiscus (Rose Mallow-Luna Blush) finally bloomed! I found it peeking up behind the shrub where I planted it last year...of course I expected it to be much taller...

perhaps next year?? The other one I planted looks like it's going to bloom but so far it's still holding out.

Not exactly flourishing but I'm new to growing these so I really don't know what to expect.

Still a few peeps of color here and there....

This magnolia has been re-blooming for a few weeks...

I've seen it bloom a 2nd time before but we had a lot more flowers and it's lasted a long time...crazy year!

Shaggy...

Our Ash tree dropped a few leaves early....they magically land in my flower bed!

Peek-a-boo

It's more enjoyable to have fires in the fire pit now that it's cooling off.

This plant was identified to me by Mindy as being Kenilworth Ivy...I googled it and she's right! Interesting too it says it's native to Northern Italy! Who would have known! I love this turtle now that he's getting a nice patina! My husband likes to bleach off the green from the stones, but I stopped him a few years ago and now it's aging nicely!

Coleus always provides color!

The weeping Japanese Maple is starting to change it's colors...

These will look the same until the first frost...then things will rapidly change.

I recently stained these concrete pedestals. Truthfully they didn't come out the color I wanted but I'm going to leave them be. They look more like stone now which is better than the white concrete look they had.