... The garden is coming along. The impatiens and petunias and the sunflower need no introduction, I suspect. The peach-colored flower is a Virgin Islands hibiscus and the cluster of purple blooms is heliotrope.
Do you call impatiens "buzzy lizzies" in the US as we do over here? Yours are far more bushy than mine -- but we have a hosepipe ban here so they aren't getting watered enough. Jenny has taken some more photos of our garden for me so I am going to post them when she's put them somewhere I can access them. I love your garden, beautiful pictures. It is so fantastic how a tiny garden can make so much difference to one's spirits.
Beautiful! Envy your green thumb. I'm curious about the hibiscus, too. One of my favorite childhood memories was visiting my grandmother in Florida and, every morning, going outside to count the hibiscus blossoms on her bush in the backyard. She lives in Pennsylvania, now (she's the one near Tunkhannock) and I always wanted to get her a hibiscus for up there, but worry about the harsh mountain winters.
Buzzie lizzies is new to me, Maxine, though the wild impatiens are called touch-me-nots, because when you touch the seed pods, they burst open and scatter the seeds. And no, Bonnie, this hibiscus is not winter-hardy. I take it inside in the fall. But I do have a Hawaiian one - which will be blooming shortly, with flowers the size of dinner plates - and that dies down to the ground in the fall and sprouts again in late spring.
... The garden is coming along. The impatiens and petunias and the sunflower need no introduction, I suspect. The peach-colored flower is a Virgin Islands hibiscus and the cluster of purple blooms is heliotrope.
Do you call impatiens "buzzy lizzies" in the US as we do over here? Yours are far more bushy than mine -- but we have a hosepipe ban here so they aren't getting watered enough. Jenny has taken some more photos of our garden for me so I am going to post them when she's put them somewhere I can access them.
ReplyDeleteI love your garden, beautiful pictures. It is so fantastic how a tiny garden can make so much difference to one's spirits.
Are your hybiscus winter hardy, or do you take them in for the winter?
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Envy your green thumb. I'm curious about the hibiscus, too. One of my favorite childhood memories was visiting my grandmother in Florida and, every morning, going outside to count the hibiscus blossoms on her bush in the backyard. She lives in Pennsylvania, now (she's the one near Tunkhannock) and I always wanted to get her a hibiscus for up there, but worry about the harsh mountain winters.
ReplyDeleteBuzzie lizzies is new to me, Maxine, though the wild impatiens are called touch-me-nots, because when you touch the seed pods, they burst open and scatter the seeds.
ReplyDeleteAnd no, Bonnie, this hibiscus is not winter-hardy. I take it inside in the fall. But I do have a Hawaiian one - which will be blooming shortly, with flowers the size of dinner plates - and that dies down to the ground in the fall and sprouts again in late spring.