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May 2015 Container Garden

We have been getting super hot weather, up to 27C some days like today! Our flowers sure enjoy it, we've been busy making tables to put them on too!

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Nicandra


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Biggest Borage I've ever grown!


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Datura


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Purple Alyssum


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Our Cerinthe is getting to be quite large now!


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Here is the first flower table


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Second flower table


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Our Honeysuckle started blooming a few days ago!


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It is the second year for our Foxgloves and they started blossoming last week! They are all different colors and so pretty!
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Wow those look great! I love the honeysuckle.
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Great Job!! Those look fantastic!
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Looking great. When your plants start growing, they don't stop.
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Thank you everyone! Really appreciate it, we've been working hard! :-()
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Here are some photos of the updated flower container garden! Taken May 30 2015

Thanks for stopping by! :-()
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Nicandra Plant
Nicandra Plant
Nasturtiums and Split Personality Moonflower
Nasturtiums and Split Personality Moonflower
Nasturtiums and some Cerinthe
Nasturtiums and some Cerinthe
Milkweed Blooms
Milkweed Blooms
Calandrina Blooms
Calandrina Blooms
Stokesia Blooms
Stokesia Blooms
Cerinthe Close Up
Cerinthe Close Up
Borage Blooms
Borage Blooms
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Absolutely lovely!! But your "Milkweed Blooms" pic is misidentified. The pic you're showing is actually of a weed sometimes called "Redshank" (aka Persicaria maculosa/Polygonum persicaria, I believe).


https://www.downgardenservices.org.uk/redshank.htm
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Oh really?? I also have true Milkweed in there..I guess I will pull it out and give the real Milkweed a chance!! :) :) Many thanks!
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It's still a lovely photograph - worthy of a wildflower guidebook. But I recognized it immediately because I have that wildflower/weed everywhere here.
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Thank you! I am actually going to leave them after researching them a bit they are not bad plants. A knotweed familiar. They look nice too as you said, we will see if the Milkweed I have in there still has a chance to grow! Thank you :)
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Hey - many of the wildflower/weeds are outstanding. It's just a matter of "suggesting" to them that they need to grow where we want them to grow, as well as not become bullies. :wink:

I've kept a patch of Common Milkweed going for several years now. Not because they're outstanding in any way, but simply because the Monarch butterfly larvae are so dependent on them, & they're really suffering from habitat loss these days.
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I agree with you, we also keep bees and know all about the scarcity of some species of insects in the garden! I notice our bees love all our flowers and also our bees enjoy pollinating! It is super cool. We usually just leave them and check the hive once a year when we take a few frames out,. It gives us usually 4 jars of honey for family around Christmas time. We don't really like to bother our bees, just let them do thier thing, help keep them warm in the winter, and make sure they have lots of honey and water to live on. It's funny that you mention butterflies having a hard time, we've seen a lot of butterflies and hummingbirds so far this spring. Must be the Honey suckle and other flowers like our foxgloves etc..Hey if you ever want to do a seed exchange I'd love to! Have some flower seeds left and a few pepper seeds kicking around :)


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