This is one of the MAIN plants I grew from seeds this year. And for the life of me I cannot remember what the name of these flowers is. I can tell you this...I've been watching very closely for a good opportunity to photograph them because they only bloom for like a day or two and disappear! I was really lucky to get this many blooms sprouting at one time! This flower plant was growing all summer and only recently started sprouting it's flowers!
6 at once!! Amazing!
This is the delphenium. You might remember the picture of it from earlier in the summer. It sprouted very nicely in early Spring. I had it out on the front porch and I thought it started getting too hot for it out there so I moved it to the back porch in the shade. It almost died right there. I've found it needs just the right amount of sunlight, so I moved it to the garden table which gets mainly just evening sun. And now it's growing amazing again after I pruned it down! I only took this picture a few days ago and it's already grown much more - new blooms will be sprouting on it again and I'll be sure to take more pictures!
My 3 petunia pots out front. I'm proud of these because they weren't doing so good in early Summer. The big pot was so sparse most of the summer. I tried just moving it back a few feet and guess what? It started growing like crazy! Just a few extra minutes a day of shade or something has really made a difference for the flowers in that pot. Isn't that so weird how flowers work! They really do have a life of their own and you have to figure out what they like and don't like in order for them to thrive :)
My favorite petunia pot. It's probably obvious why it's my favorite :P
The 3 main pots on the back porch. I added in some of those little blue/purple flowers in with the petunias and they are cute. I think they're not great for pots though. I've seen many flowers with them and they do much better in the actual ground. I have a feeling they are spreaders and like to spread their roots around.
The garden table. More petunias, blue flowers and the delphenium.
So here's a story for you! I water the plants every other day or so, depending on the heat outside. One day over this past weekend I went to water my favorite petunia pot out front! As I poured the water I saw a quick scampering from something. I've seen this before, lots of creatures like to live in my flowers :P This time though, it was a very green praying mantis! You can see from the two pictures below that I got it pretty good with the water - you can see droplets on it's back.
So I hurried and got the camera to snap some shots. In this one below I was pretty close to it. I think that combined with the fact that I had just tried to drown it really pissed the thing off :P After a few seconds of photo taking the thing actually FLEW at me!! Like right into my face! I honestly didn't even realize praying mantis' could fly!!! It was so weird and funny.
And after it flew/lunged at me, it landed on the driveway. It just stayed there for a few minutes and I gave up watching it and went back into the house :P
I'm always pruning the petunias. Every time a flower on them starts to wilt and shrivel, I'll pull it off. I've had to watch myself a few times because I've come close to grabbing some weird insect hiding out in the flowers. Ahhh the joys of gardening!! I love it!
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