I'd love it if anyone that feels like it would join me in posting pics we've taken over time of our plants? This is a "get us through this durned Winter" type thread, lol.

I'll start:


Salvia c. 'Coral Nymph'


Salvia c. 'Lady in Red'


Echinacea 'Big Sky Twilight'


Pineapple Sage (S. elegans)


Red Mandeville


Red Hibiscus noid



Maryjane
W Ga
Zone 8a

Maryjane, your pictures are lovely. Made me want to post some too.
When my hubby first bought me my tiny digital "point and shoot," I was enthralled with the macro funtion and took close-ups of everything that was blooming. I'm still intrigued by the camera's ability to give us a "bird's eye view" of the flowers we grow for them.
Here's everybody's favorite, B&B

And a hummer favorite, Coral Vervain

And one of my favorites, "Confetti" Lantana



Lizette, New Orleans, La.
USDA Zone 9

Nice photos, girls. I took a few today of what's in bloom.
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Joan Garvey - Metairie, LA Zone 9

Maryjane,good idea

Lizette, wonderful thumbnail flower pics,but for some reason when I click on them all get is a message saying "The action that you were trying to perform has failed. Click here to go back to what you were doing."

Perhaps you have some Photobucket setting restricting access?

Joan, you may be using the Photobucket image code for the "other" Hummer forum? Try this code for our forum





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Cheers,Bob

USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 6a
Lexington,Ky.
It's Winter!

I don't know much about computers, Bob. Do you want me to re-post the pictures?

Joan Garvey - Metairie, LA Zone 9

No need to re-post the pictures;just trying to show you how to post them without the extra HTML bits appearing

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Cheers,Bob

USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 6a
Lexington,Ky.
It's Winter!

Hi Bob...it looks like Photobucket continues to make their never-ending changes...not to complain - I use them exclusively for posting pics here. While the changes at Photobucket seem to be improvements, I wish they'd finally get the site the way they want it and quit changing it so much. Because of their changes, the directions in the link you gave Joan no longer apply.







I experimented with posting a thumbnail & found, unlike the older directions you created for us, there is no longer an option with "URL" in the label. It seems there are several options, but what I did was set my "options" to HTLM THUMB. When I located one of my pics in my Photobucket album and mouseovered the pic, options popped up below it...at the bottom, in blue text, was "Link Options" & I clicked on that. In the resulting display, under the heading HTML FOR WEBSITES & BLOGS, I checked the "Clickable Thumbnail" box and de-selected all other checked boxes. Now when I select a pic, HTML THUMB is the only option that appears. I can right-click on it and return to our Forum, then right click in the Message Text box where I want the image to appear. Making the Clickable Thumbnail the only selected option might not be recommended for everyone, but it's adjustable and I think it works well for me.





Patrick



USDA Zone 8b



Heat Zone 3



Sunset Zone 5



SeaTac, WA...one cool place

Thanks for the info;I'll look at updating the FAQ's with this new information.



Cheers,Bob



USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 6a

Lexington,Ky.

It's Winter!

Oh my gosh at all the pretties y'all posted! This has cheered me right up!







Just a lil violet







Summer Dayz







Ye old Gerber Daisy







One of my bromeliads blooming







I have NO idea what this is? It grows wild all over the woods.

I've found it to be impossible to get seed, root or dig up. (It dies)

But it's a dainty, pretty lil vine.

Maryjane

W Ga

Zone 8a

Hey Lizette? Is there another name that Coral Vervain might go by? I've searched all over for seeds, and I'm getting zero hits using that title. (Even EBay..)

Maryjane
W Ga
Zone 8a

Maryjane, I don't use the common name(Porterweed)cause it's like fingernails on a chalkboard to Nancy's ears. It's a Stachytarpheta, which one I don't recall right now.
I'm sure I can collect seed for you, can't vouch for it's germination rate though. Last year, seedlings from my blue ones popped up almost overnight, while only a few of the dwarf red ones ever sprouted, and that took a couple of months.

Bob, I'm clueless, and don't have the patience to figure it out. The conversation you and Patrick had left me cross-eyed!

Lizette, New Orleans, La.
USDA Zone 9

Lizette, I think they were talking Latin and I never took that subject. Maryjane, whenever a guest utters the word 'portersweed' all of us who know Nancy get a panic-stricken look across our face. She just hates the name. Very nice pictures! Lizette that is a beautiful vervain, and Maryjane I love the butterfly picture.

Joan Garvey - Metairie, LA Zone 9

Great shots everyone !
Lizette I love your Lantana , just yummy .
Bob what is that small - flowering purple plant with your penny ? really cool !

Zone 6b New Jersey

visit my hummer garden at http://www.picturetrail.com/stephennj

I agree with Nancy, in that I dislike the term 'Portersweed'. I do use it when posting, though, as many folk know it by that name and no other.
In fact I think the first plant posting I ever made was in 'DG' on Dec 6, 2004(just checked) and said that I didn't understand how anyone thought this could be considered 'a weed'!
I managed to collect a few Coral Stachytarpheta seeds when I was 'mulching' some branches that were 'shaken' out.
Lizette, I found that if I laid the dried stalks on the ground, there would eventually be quite a few seeds that had germinated. I have done this with the coral, the lilac and the white ones I have come accross.
I also do have two very small plants that have germinated from the Red species you sent me, so thanks again!

I'll try hard to remember that about Por...uh, you know weed, lol!

Stephen, if my old eyes don't fail me that's Coleus Bob is holding a penny by. I grew many colors of them this past season, and I have a bunch of cuttings shoved in the greenhouse for Spring. I order them from: http://www.rosydawngardens.com/ and they are a nice bunch of folks that give great plant.

Thank all of you for participating in this thread. It really is cheery!

Maryjane
W Ga
Zone 8a

I missed the penny somehow. I love your columbine Bob.

Joan Garvey - Metairie, LA Zone 9

I've updated the FAQ page to reflect the changes you pointed out.


Personally,I do not like the Mouse-over feature of Photobucket,so I've shown how to do away with it.

http://tinyurl.com/2oqbuj

Stephen, that is a coleus that I've let flower,as Maryjane pointed out. The penny shows how tiny the flowers are,but that doesn't discourage the Hummers from using it

Joan,I like columbines too



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Cheers,Bob

USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 6a
Lexington,Ky.
It's Winter!

Thanks Bob , Maryjane . Very nice plant

Zone 6b New Jersey

visit my hummer garden at http://www.picturetrail.com/stephennj

What I do now on Photobucket, is this:

'Click' on the small image of your choice.
Copy the whole address on your computer
Paste on your 'post' then 'remove this part "?action=view&current="







These blooms and seed pods are 'amongst' my favorites. They are from an Cocholspermum vitifolum or Buttercup tree.Locally, they are called 'PoroPoro'
I love the variety of textures that show on the last photo. The woolly fiber is sometimes used to stuff pillows.
They are not 'garden or ornamental' trees but are usually seen in the wild. Which is a shame!

All I can say is that all these beautiful pictures are giving me major zone envy!

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

Maryjane, I meant to add the the vine on your post is part of the Clitoria ternatea or Blue pea family. We have the identical species growing wild on the farm. I have seen some and managed to 'acquire' both the White variety and the usual Blue species.

Good job, Bob...I suspected it might be good to go with more options than I had chosen. Your explanations were very helpful. I modified and saved my options to match your example.

Patrick
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place

Ok...sorry to drift OT...here are a few pics to add to the collection. All these great pics make me want to be outside gardening - but the remaining snow piles have dissuaded me from that, so I'll just keep looking at the pics.





Patrick
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place

Patrick, you must tell us/me what plant is 'Raggedy man', your first pic!

This is a rerun but you might enjoy seeing how many you know or how many you also grow.



Russ Thompson
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Louisville, Kentucky

ditto



Russ Thompson
http://e-hummingbirds.com
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Louisville, Kentucky

I have enhoyed the Flower Show this morning. Looking out a back window it is hard to believe it is winter. The sun is shing on the hayfield and it is green. Right now I am just too lazy to post any pictures.

Maryjane a very good thread.

Dianne
Southeast Alabama
Heat Zone 8
Sunset Zone 31

Patricia, thanks for the ID! (I think I'll call it Blue Pea, lol.) Thanks Dianne.

Hey, I'm going to post a few pics I took when I went back home for a visit. These are from Marie Selby Botannical Gardens, Sarasota, Fl. I'm just adding them for cheer!



Some variety of Ginger, I think?



A flower off a huge old Bombax tree



Dendrobrium orchid



An Antherium in bloom, and I think a Shrimp plant behind it?



Tillandsia ionantha



Doesn't the color of this orchid remind you of Daffodils?

Speaking of Daffodils..mine are already coming up!



Maryjane
W Ga
Zone 8a

Ok, I'm gonna try a couple more, the old-fashioned way. The first one's for Patrick. Took it this morning while running errands, just happened to have my camera.






Lizette, New Orleans, La.
USDA Zone 9

Patricia...Raggedy Man is my member name at Photobucket. Around 1900, a children's book by that name was written by James Whitcomb Riley. The family's hired hand was called the raggedy man & the book is about things he did for the children & the work he did for the family. A copy of that book has been in my family for many years & I still have it.

Lizette, thanks for the pic of the big brugmansia. It is probably either Charles Grimaldi or Dr. Seuss...2 very dependable brugs that are often the standard against which other brugs are compared. It's really cool to see one blooming this time of year, when mine are mostly dormant.

Patrick
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place

Gorgeous pics Lizette! My brugs are still blooming (and putting on new blooms) in the greenhouse.

Hey Patrick? I'm not doing them harm by not allowing them to "rest", am I?

This is what I have blooming in my yard right now. (Overcast sky..crummy pics.)





The pinks are about to pop in a week or so.

Maryjane
W Ga
Zone 8a

Lizette, is the third photo an Abutilon? It's very pretty.

Patricia, yes, it's Abutilon pictum I believe.

Lizette, New Orleans, La.
USDA Zone 9

Maryjane, where do you have your brugs this time of year? I've read varied opinions and tend to agree that brugs really need a rest, unless grown someplace warm all year-round (like Florida). If you have a greenhouse, you might want to keep a brug or two going thru the winter there, then let them rest the following winter...maybe letting some alternate like every other year.

The camellias are really pretty!

Patrick
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place

Maryjane, the pink one that you though may be a ginger, is a Calathea but which one I don't know.