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<\/a>The flowers are not big and showy, but the color is good and the foliage is very attractive.<\/p>\nSpeaking of attractive foliage, here are some potted plants whose foliage is super pleasing:<\/p>\n
Very impressive giant leaves on this Paulownia tomentosa seedling\u2013just in its second year from seed<\/p>\n Always impressive, this cane begonia from brother Tim will reach 6\u2032 in a good year<\/p>\n This pelargonium is called Petals, which is ironic, given its puny floral display against its amazing variegated leaves.<\/p>\n This is a seedling pelargonium, so the flowers are less showy than the cutting-grown hybrids.\u00a0 The leaves are gorgeous, though, and a perfect contrast with Petals and Grossersorten.<\/p>\n Not a lot of flowers here, yet the display is lovely.\u00a0 The heat and dry have not impacted the pelargoniums at all!<\/p>\n My brother calls the clearance area of nurseries the \u201cDent and Diddle\u201d, and we always head there first when we visit a plant store.\u00a0 The above begonia is an example of what a discounted plant can turn into!\u00a0 This is the third year I\u2019ve grown this plant and I enjoy it more every year.<\/p>\n And while we\u2019re on begonias, take a look a this beauty, also a late-season Dent and Diddle find.\u00a0 This is Begonia boliviana:<\/p>\n Below are the lovely leaves of Dioscorea battatas, a tropical vine that I worry might be not so tropical and invasive in the ground.\u00a0 I keep it in pots and it is lovely, especially this year in all the warm weather.<\/p>\n Below\u00a0are a bunch of flower pics that I\u2019ll just post\u00a0quickly.<\/p>\n Echinops ritro.<\/p>\n Althea syriacus shrub blooming for the first time\u2013love this color.<\/p>\n Weedy as they are, I can\u2019t help but love borage.\u00a0 The blue is true, and the form is graceful from every angle.<\/p>\n Below are the berries on the Voodoo lily (Dracunculus vulgaris).\u00a0 All of them set hundreds of seeds this year, no doubt due to the heat.<\/p>\n Below\u00a0is one glorious flower from a flowering maple (Abutilon megapotamicum)\u00a0<\/a>from brother\u00a0Tim\u00a0 \u00a0<\/a>Another of the Eucomis hybrids I grew from seed.\u00a0 This is my favorite, with the purple centers and graceful spikes.<\/p>\n Streptocarpus still blooming strong in the greenhouse\u2013a riot of color!<\/p>\n Dietes irioides, the Fortnight Lily, is blooming in the greenhouse.\u00a0 There are ten flowers on this iris relative that are about to bloom.<\/p>\n The flowers on this seedling abutilon are less showy than the Bella series, but it is putting on a good show right now.<\/p>\n Pelargonium Grossersorten blooming in the greenhouse.\u00a0 I take cutting every year and intend to place them all in patio pots, but inevitably they end up staying inside and blooming happily the whole summer.<\/p>\n The Griffinia continues to bloom\u2013eight flowers on this spike.\u00a0 I\u2019m hoping for a second spike, as the plant has\u00a0spread nicely, but no sign of more flowers yet.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Oxalis triangularis blooming.\u00a0 The flowers are elegant and the leaves are impressively colored.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Another pic of Roguchi\u2013so beautiful!<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Granted, it was hardly a rain of biblical proportions, but we did get some precipitation over the last few days.\u00a0 The plants are visibly relieved!\u00a0 I was really annoyed when I read my last Christopher Lloyd book because every page had some detail about the weather.\u00a0 I understand it better now.\u00a0 At some point the … Continue reading Rain at Last!<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>I\u2019m not the only one who thinks so\u2013just ask the bees!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a>\u00a0Fuchsia \u201cCardinal\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0Fuchsia \u201cJanice Ann\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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