Unfortunately these are not in my garden, we went to a park the other day and I found these beauties !!
DAHLIA BACKSTAGE
DAHLIA SEATTLE
DAHLIA POOH
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY
ART ? NO, THESE ARE SHOOTS (also called knees or pneumatophores) OF THE SWAMP CYPRESS ( taxodium distichum)
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY
FUCHSIA TRIPHYLLA
PASSION FLOWER GOING WILD
I have 2 passionflower plants in my garden, the passiflora caerulea and the passiflora constance eliott. But the caerulea is comming up everywhere, the birds like to eat from the passionfruit and drop seeds in the garden and voilà ,you have a strong growing new plant, they are everywhere, despite the heathwaves we have had.
THIS IS THE PASSIFLORA CAERULEA
WE CAN’T KEEP UP REMOVING THE NEW PLANTS.( here he made himself a home in a bush)
(here he found a nice place in an ivy)
(and here he seeded himself under a tree in a big tongue fern)
IT IS DEFINITELY A PLANT FOR THE NOT SO GREENFINGERED AMONGST US !!
Have a great day !
A SIGN OF AUTUMN COMMING CLOSER
When the flowers of the sedum spectabile are opening it is a sign of Autumn comming closer. The days are definitely shorter, the evenings colder but after the crazy hot Summer we had I am welcomming Autumn for once, normally I am not so keen. The garden is a mess with burned plants and leafs but the sedum spectabile is looking good, ofcourse being a succulent it loves warm dry weather. And this plant is a heaven for bees and butterflies.
SEDUM SPECTABILE (also known as butterfly stonecrop or ice plant)
SEDUM SPECTABILE IN FULL BLOOM
Have a great Sunday !
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY
LOOK AT ME !
Ten (10) weeks ago I looked like this ;
ME AND MY MUM
Now I look like this:
IN 10 WEEKS TIME I AM TALLER THAN MY MUM BUT I AM STILL A BIT SKINNY BUT THAT IS BECAUSE I AM NOT AN ADULT YET, RIGHT ? By the way, my name is opuntia ficus indica Burbank.
Have a great Sunday all and thanks for your visit !!
Maybe this will cool you off a bit ?
THIS IS AN OLDIE, SNOW IN MY GARDEN
Keep cool !!!!
SILENT SUNDAY
DAHLIA
MY POOR GARDEN
My poor garden, burned to a crisp !!! We had such hot weather lately, up to 38 C°, and a lot of my plants are burned. And as we have a severe water shortage as well we can’t water the garden. It breaks my heart to look at it ! It looks like Autumn even though it is only the beginning of August !!
THIS USED TO BE A DWARF RHODODENDRON
THIS LITTLE BUSH IS BARELY ALIVE.
THESE ARE ALL LEAFS FROM MY AMELANCHIER
FERNS NEAR THE POND
HYDRANGEA IN THE SHADE, BEGGING FOR WATER
LYTHRIUM SALICARIA NEAR THE POND
VERONICA VIRGINICA
GWENNIESGARDENWORLD 
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