Gardening Pictures Past & Present... Friday 8/26/16

[steve232]

Welcome to our Friday picture thread. We invite everyone to post the picture or pictures of your choice.

Ok sorry but I gotta post one more zinnia picture today.



And these are some tomatoes that volunteers all over my garden every year and some years even out in the field. We call them tommy toes and they are great in a salad or just to pluck one while your in the garden and eat it right then.

[iliz9]

Ste, nice to see another Zinnia, they are so beautiful, and I would love to have some tom volunteers...
Weather and air were nicer today, so, I did some yard work, added more cement blocks to my pots' display..


While working, I got a visitor

[marnee]

Steve, that's another beautiful Zinnia and wow those volunteer tomatoes look really good.
Ili, your display is lovely and I see you have a hummingbird visitor.

Some Roses



I was so happy today to see the Stellar Jay's have returned to my backyard.
   

[plantdoctor]

Steve...pretty zinnia.  Both you and Melissa have commented about planting zinnias closer together.  Mine are actually spaced 18" apart in picture I showed the other day of zinnias.  They are Benary zinnias and get to be quite a large bush.

Ili...love your new arrangement!  What a nice visitor to have while you are working.

Mary...those are pretty roses and I bet you are happy to see those Jays back to visit....great shots.

A few years back I got seeds from both Stella and Leroy for the Blue Satin Rose of Sharon...so this is my "Stellroy ROS"



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Just another monarch on a butterfly bush...ready to fly away

[mnwildflowers]

Steve-Nice pink zinnia.

Ili-How lucky you had your camera handy to get the hummer pic.

Mary-That bird is just gorgeous!  Fun to see the birds from different places, and that surely isn't one we get here.

Saved this one for Friday!  This life sized guy was outside a store when we were on our trip.

[mnwildflowers]

Charlene-I'm jealous I can't grow bb here!

[flowerlady2]

Remember these? I know some of you will. Have never in my life seen this! It was sickening. When we went outside they flew everywhere. 

It was only for that summer.

[Deleted]

Good late morning! Steve, nice zinnia! Il7, pretty courtyard and nice hb pic! Mary, nice jay pics! Charlene, pretty bf pic and nice rose of sharon! Melissa, nice pic of the dummy monkey! Abey, nice pic! LATER.

[posy]

Enjoyed seeing all the pictures. Thanks for sharing.

Marnee, glad your stellar jays are back at your place. I have the regular bluejays and many of them daily after the peanuts and seed.

[flowerlady2]

This was suppose to be with the other picture. Grasshoppers one spring.

We never had these as bad again. None this year.

Abey

[Kathy_SD]

Abey I remember the year you had that happen and thank God it hasn't happened again. 

[mnwildflowers]

Abey-I've never seen anything like that! Wow! And yuck!

[Gayle]

I remember those Abey.  Double Yuck

Mary those Jays are pretty.  We have the "regular" ones

I have to post pictures from the laptop these days.  I'll be back for that later.

[Gayle]

OK, I'm back.  For some unknown reason, Zinnias haven't done well for me the last couple of years.  But I have plans to try again this year.

From the past:

[iliz9]

Those are horrible...I hate to see just one, can't imagine having that many!!!  They have make holes in  most of the leaves of one Bougainvillea and even they got into my pink Iceberg rose, they must be so hungry but if I see them they are dead!!!! (they hide)..lol.

Mel, I was trying in vain to take pics of a beautiful butterfly, glad took a pic of that mad Hummer


Mm, my Stellar Jays, back in previous place, were not as deep blue color, glad you have them back