Hello everyone....

i registered some time ago....then 'disappeared'.... But now m back...had to reset my password to b able to login....!

Here r some flowers from my garden for u to enjoy...

First my orchids... not an orchid enthusiast so i dont have many ...only a few....i tend to go for fragrant flowers more.....thus tend to b picky where orchids r concerned... i usually choose d fragrant ones....

This is a very fragrant Cattleya...

woops i had to redo...seems had posted more pics than allowed....

...so heres another one.......n this is a fragrant wild orchid...d flowers only last for a day...but they r rather abundant...n emmm fragrant...

...n finally this....another wild orchid growing in my garden...but sadly it has no fragrance....



Enjoy everyone...n have a nice day in d garden!!

Thanks Annie!
Those are beautiful.

The orchids that I can grow [in the garden], are tiny. I'll take some pics when they bloom.

We're just entering spring, you must be at the end of summer.

It's nice to see some signs of life around here. There's not much going on outside with 2 feet of snow still on the ground in northern NY.

Those a beautiful orchids - wish something like that would grow here. I do have an Iris you'd like. It's one of the few fragrant ones and smells like Bazooka Joe Bubble Gum with nice blue-purple blooms.

Hi stone....

tq...i look forward to pics of your orchid....well we r not really at d end of summer s u know it...meaning d 4 seasons that u know...we do not have your four seasons n it is 'perpetually summer' here.... only cools down during very rainy days...or d rainy season of the monsoon...

Hi wiseacre.....

tq sooo very much for d offer...i have two irises growing in my garden.... both fr american friends fr another forum.... n both have not bloomed.... one is a lousiana iris thaz pink...n d other m not sure...supposed to b blue or may b purple....

d lousiaan iris is showing very vigorous growth... has grown rather big...hope it wont b long till it blooms...but d other...which i had much longer is still rather small......

...n here r some more flowers to cheer your winter up....

..these r old pics....

First...my peach colored hibiscus...



...n one of my terrestrial orchid/ Spathoglottises....ahhh this one has finished booming some time ago...in fact most have died...fortunately i do see some new growth coming up....

...a closer shot of d spathoglottis above....n another type...different species..



...think this may not b from my garden...tho i do have d plant...emmm old pics...cant quite remember exactly...think i got this pic from d net while i was browsing trying to find d name for my plant...

Enjoy...n have a nice day!

Winter in GA doesn't mean no flowers.

January Colour

3 pics from the winter garden posted on the calendar....

I back-slid some, no pics from March, & it's been spectacular! The Helebore have peaked, as have the forsythia, bloodroot, trillium, camellias...

It's nice to see some color. I wouldn't have thought you'd have that much in winter Stone. All I see when I go out is shades of gray/brown on white.

Your pics r beautiful, stone....aahhh all d flowers i would love to grow if situation permits....

s such i m not able to grow 'em!! i took some Camellia cuttings some time ago... all died out except one.... but it did not grow either.... it had two dark green leaves for a long long time .... sometime ago one dropped....n only one is left.... but no new growth at all...has been like this for ages.... i can't even remember when it was that i planted d cutting....!! But i loathe to pull it up n throw away.... s that one lonely leaf is still dark green...i presume it is still alive..??!!??

Sorry to hear that your camelias are doing so poorly.

I don't really know how to grow them from cuttings either. I mean, I know the theory... just haven't done it yet.

I have grown them from seed very successfully. I gave the best seedlings away when I had my plant nursery taken from me.

The seedlings that I gave away are doing very well. Matter of fact, one of the blooms on the winter picture came from one of them.

I split the topic, Annie... and moved your fish to the water garden: My fish
Not a very creative title, & my apologies... Maybe shoulda called it "bretta pictures"? I still might if I can figure out how....

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Nice snow pic, wiseacre. Brrrrrrrr.

Hi everyone....

i suppose spring has come to your place....coloring up your garden beautifully....

Let's see some pics, huh?

Here r some of mine....

My Portulacas.....



...n my sweet smelling pink rose...

...n some water plants...a white water-lily....





...n a blue...or is it purple? one....

....n my water hyacinth...





Enjoy...n have a nice day everyone!

It's only fair to want to see our pics....


This is indigo. It's growing wild all over in my new garden.

My dogwood trees earlier this month.


Yellow buckeye


I've got a bunch of pics from this spring here. But you must create a myspace account to see them.

Here's a Kentucky lady slipper orchid that I planted last autumn!

I took the pic yesterday.... More ladyslippers are getting ready to bloom. Lady slipper orchids are a very recent plant being provided by a few reputable nurseries.

Beware trying to dig these from the wild, they will not live! Apparently, if even the smallest part of a root is damaged, the entire root dies... When did you ever dig a plant without severing roots?

Wow...beeauuutiful!! Wish i can have a Dogwood tree growing in my garden...itz such a beauutiful tree...n d Slipper Orchid too...

Some time ago saw some being sold at a local nursery but...it was EXPENSIVE..!! err not for d likes of me..!!

Here r some more of my blooms.... first a rosebud promising great fragrance...



...n a pink bloom...very fragrant...

...n here's a very invasive plant...but i love invasive plants...coz we dont have to worry about it dying out on us.... n if we need to get it under control...we'll just need to cut or pull it out...emm i love invasive plants...

This is Telosma Cordata....hanging from my pergola..n d blooms r fragrant....





Enjoy n have a nice day!

Here's a foxglove.

I usually can't grow foxglove because they like to be watered... I don't water.

wow ...thatz beeauutiful...ahh this is another plant i cant seem to b able to have in my garden..... funny tho we do have a wild variety....flowers r small n not s showy...not showy at all.....same leaves... i thot we'd b able to grow 'em here...but sooo far ...i havent been able to.... seeds that i sowed never germinated..!

Here's chinese foxglove, (In bloom now). Not actually a foxglove, but maybe you'll do better with it.

Dunno why your foxglove seed didn't grow, how deeply did you plant them?

Hi Stone...

i wonder if u do seed exchange...m hoping to get some seeds of Helianthus angustifolia or Swamp Sunflower.....

Sure.

If you'll look into what we need to do to get them through the mail.

Swamp sunflowers bloom in October, it'll be a while.

thanx zillions...i can wait...impatiently tho...

s far s i know we dont need to do anything apart from d usual of packing into a bubbled envelope n putting d addy n stamps....have received lots of seeds from US friends from another forum....

PLMK what i can send u in exchange....

Hi Stone...

Howz d weather out there n howz your garden doing..? Here r some more flowers from mine.....







Have a nice day....

...n this is a culinary herb....used in some cookings...supposed to have medicinal properties too i think...but never tried it tho.....



Have a nice day in d garden...!

Pretty...

Of course I have echinacea... Was kicking myself today for not taking pics this year...They were very pretty.

I took some pics of the naturally occurring orchids we have here in middle GA... today...