Before the Rains
Jul 17, 2017 00:05:41 #
drowned everything
Aggie infant
Aggie adolescent
Aggie adult
Allamanda
Petunia
Mandevilla
Black Knight Canna Lily
Jul 17, 2017 01:28:30 #
Jul 17, 2017 01:41:40 #
Absolutely beautiful, Sherry, and I hope your lovely garden will perk up again and do a happy dance once our daily deluges are over!!
Jul 17, 2017 04:20:08 #
Sylvias wrote:
Excellent set of beautiful flowers. 
Thank you for your kind comment, Sylvias.
Jul 17, 2017 04:53:37 #
Dixiegirl wrote:
Absolutely beautiful, Sherry, and I hope your lovely garden will perk up again and do a happy dance once our daily deluges are over!!
Thank you kindly, kind Donna. We have some lumber stacked in the backyard (if it hasn't floated away) which was destined to become doors for Hubby's barn. But right now, we're thinking "Ark".
Looking for a ray of sunshine, I've analyzed the extended forecast. During the next 236 hours, we will have: 35 hrs of T-Storms; 72 hrs of light rain; 3 hrs of rain showers; and, YAY, 22 hrs of mostly sunshine!!!
Jul 17, 2017 06:08:45 #
Jul 17, 2017 08:22:38 #
STVest wrote:
drowned everything
A very beautiful set, and such a shame. Hopefully they will recover under more reasonable conditions. It just the opposite here with no rain since almost the
first of July and having to water the hanging baskets and potted plants twice daily an most days and temperatures have been up to 100 F. on most days!
Jul 17, 2017 10:17:33 #
Sherry, I heard about all the rain down there... Ma Nature better get her act together soon!!
Love this set, especially the three stages of an Aggie, which I've never heard of! Beautiful colors and compositions on all!!
Hope things dry up down there...
Love this set, especially the three stages of an Aggie, which I've never heard of! Beautiful colors and compositions on all!!
Hope things dry up down there...
Jul 17, 2017 13:28:17 #
Swamp-Cork wrote:
A very beautiful set, and such a shame. Hopefully they will recover under more reasonable conditions. It just the opposite here with no rain since almost the
first of July and having to water the hanging baskets and potted plants twice daily an most days and temperatures have been up to 100 F. on most days!
first of July and having to water the hanging baskets and potted plants twice daily an most days and temperatures have been up to 100 F. on most days!
Thanks for stopping by and for your kind comments, Cork. Mobile's status of having the greatest annual rainfall of any US city notwithstanding, we do have our droughts; last year's was especially severe and prolonged. That twice-a-day watering is quite demanding - and I usually fail at it. But, when it comes to the weather, we don't get to pick our poison!
Jul 17, 2017 13:44:25 #
angela k wrote:
Sherry, I heard about all the rain down there... Ma Nature better get her act together soon!!
Love this set, especially the three stages of an Aggie, which I've never heard of! Beautiful colors and compositions on all!!
Hope things dry up down there...
Love this set, especially the three stages of an Aggie, which I've never heard of! Beautiful colors and compositions on all!!
Hope things dry up down there...
Angela, thanks for looking and your compliments!
You've never heard of an Aggie? or its stages? The Aggie is an agapanthus, commonly known as a Lily-of-the-Nile. I don't know that anyone but me calls them Aggies; and I totally made up the stages. I first planted them in mid-August last year and they were full of blooms, so I thought their blooming season would be lengthy. But, each plant has only bloomed once this year. I read that they like to go dry between waterings, so maybe the rain has caused that problem - or maybe last year's late blooming was a fluke. Most of my lantana is not blooming - I've read that too much water or too much fertilizer will suppress their blooming.
Jul 17, 2017 13:47:22 #
DOOK wrote:
A beautiful set, Sherry.
Earl.
Earl.
Thanks for looking, Earl! I'm glad these made you smile.
Jul 17, 2017 14:03:42 #
STVest wrote:
Angela, thanks for looking and your compliments! b... (show quote)
Nope... never heard of Aggies or Lily of the Nile, but they are beautiful. Hope yours surprises you with more blooms after it dries out a little!
It is crazy with all the rain you are getting and Donna told me of this terrible bacteria is now found in the water!! Yikes!!! Stay dry and don't go swimming!!
Jul 17, 2017 14:19:52 #
angela k wrote:
Nope... never heard of Aggies or Lily of the Nile, but they are beautiful. Hope yours surprises you with more blooms after it dries out a little!
It is crazy with all the rain you are getting and Donna told me of this terrible bacteria is now found in the water!! Yikes!!! Stay dry and don't go swimming!!
It is crazy with all the rain you are getting and Donna told me of this terrible bacteria is now found in the water!! Yikes!!! Stay dry and don't go swimming!!
Yeah, that flesh-eating disease is pretty scary. Our son has been taking our little fishing boat out in those waters; while I'm happy the boat is being put to use, we warn him about the dangers every time we talk to him. It can be a horrible and a quick death.
Jul 17, 2017 14:34:40 #
STVest wrote:
Yeah, that flesh-eating disease is pretty scary. Our son has been taking our little fishing boat out in those waters; while I'm happy the boat is being put to use, we warn him about the dangers every time we talk to him. It can be a horrible and a quick death.
Very scary, I even read you can catch it from eating contaminated seafood! !
Jul 17, 2017 14:39:20 #
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