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In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin in Motown, z6 on August 19, 2025, 10:37 pm Hard to believe that summer will be over, in just over a month. Night comes about an hour earlier, than it did, a couple months ago... Another of my ROSE of SHARON cultivars, is blooming. This one has a semi-double flower. The cultivar is 'Freedom'... https://photos.app.goo.gl/Mc7Y217FhfHYKnhz6 The GLOBE THISTLE, Echinops sphaerocephalus, is blooming! https://photos.app.goo.gl/XBWogt3tJma3kNii9 https://photos.app.goo.gl/nGqT3ZBajuBZ8EgD8 'CLEOPATRA' is blooming! Any idea, as to what type of plant she is? Ordinarily, the foliage is half green and half purple. The flowers can also be half red and half yellow. This year, the foliage is a solid dark purple/black, and the bloom is dark orange, and mottled with yellow. Odd how this plant type can vary from one year, to the next... https://photos.app.goo.gl/JjubzMeAecoFFBns8 Here's a pic of the RICE PAPER PLANT, Tetrapanax papyrifer, in my garden, in summer. Anybody else growing this plant, in their garden? It has great looking, large, tropical-like leaves, that are nearly a foot across... https://photos.app.goo.gl/vQRRBx56BSx7yAY77 The NATAL PLUM, Carissa macrocarpa, is blooming. This tropical, fruiting plant is native to South Africa... https://photos.app.goo.gl/94xPvUZzAEUy5SiM9 The FEVERFEW, Tanacetum parthenium, is blooming! https://photos.app.goo.gl/nG8n4XHL9rVWTSoK8 The BUTTERFLY WEED, Asclepias tuberosa, is blooming, even though I've seen very few butterflies, this year... https://photos.app.goo.gl/kv21rofRFVM8FFrY9 The CARDINAL FLOWER, Lobelia cardinalis, named for the colorful robes of men who select popes, and a red bird also given this name, is blooming! https://photos.app.goo.gl/TCUJqGfBaKEgbFGaA https://photos.app.goo.gl/4Dzu4orCbut2rX5s6 Another ORIENTAL LILY is blooming, in my garden. The cultivar of this one is, 'Gold-Banded'. You can probably see why it was given its cultivar name... https://photos.app.goo.gl/oWKHiZPpYbCu8RCM8 The MEXICAN FIRECRACKER, Hamelia patens, is blooming! https://photos.app.goo.gl/LBvNniDqMZdYAnVL9 https://photos.app.goo.gl/55p5XUXPBbsnuMtVA - NEW PLANTS - Below is a pic of a new WHITE SAPOTE, Casimiroa edulis, tree, I got. For those unfamiliar with this tree, it is a tropical fruit tree. This one is of the 'SueBelle' cultivar... https://photos.app.goo.gl/A4j8WuB9P7xpxkku8 Below is a pic of a dwarf MANGO tree, Magifera indica. For anyone unfamiliar with the mango, it is a tropical fruit tree. Many in tropical areas describe its flavor as similar to that of temperate peaches. The cultivar of this one, is 'Pickering'... https://photos.app.goo.gl/Mnt96WZ2a9irDe5a7 Below is a pic of a new OAK LEAF HOLLY, Ilex 'Conaf', I got... https://photos.app.goo.gl/isjba3ycnYgmmBU26

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Mark z7 Sharptown, MD on August 20, 2025, 7:30 am, in reply to "In My Garden Today" I like the globe thistle. The canna is nice. My rice paper plant grew fine in a tub until I transplanted it into the ground and promptly died. It had been outside year-round. Everything looks nice. Thanks for posting. I look every time even though I don't post a lot.

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin, z6 on August 20, 2025, 9:43 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Thanks, Mark. Although Globe Thistle is a hardy perennial, it also self-seeds, but not in an "all over the yard" invasive sort of way. My Rice Paper Plant has been growing in the ground for years. It gets a garbage bag amount of leaf (from fall yard raking), or a hay mulching (if I have a extra bale left), each fall, and regrows from the root, by late spring. So, it is root hardy, in z6.

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