Mary Beth Posted August 12, 2006 Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 Just wanted to share a piece of my garden with you today. This is a Moon Flower that I planted in the spring. There are about 6 blooms getting ready to pop open, I wish they would do it all at once, however they only last about 1 or 2 nights then they are gone. It is suppose to reach 15 feet in height, so I was hoping it would climb up to my deck, but hasn't yet. Hope posting this picture works, I resized one and can't remember which one:D I'm bad!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenscratch Posted August 12, 2006 Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 MaryBeth, It is beautiful. I feel a quilt coming on. We used to grow these in Florida. The plants got really bushy, but I don't remember them getting very tall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted August 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 Teresa, Thanks for the info. I received the seed pods from a woman I worked with at my previous job. Since we live in zone 5 I need to collect the seed pods when they are ready to be picked, then save them for the next year. I wish the flower lasted longer since they are so beautiful. Wouldn't they look wonderful in red or fuschia?? Okay, I am finally quilting that vintage Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt and it is going very well. So why am I on the APQS chat - I think I'm addicted;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenscratch Posted August 12, 2006 Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 Guilty, also. I'm supposed to be sewing binding on 4 customer quilts. Instead I'm talking to you guys. I haven't been on here much since I started back to work. I think I'm suffering from withdrawal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Linda S Posted August 12, 2006 Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 Very pretty! I must admit that my yard and garden are on hold until I can retire. Either that, or until a bunch of delightful children show up and decide they need to bring it back to life! My back yard has 54 rose bushes, high grass, and a ton of weeds! In about three years, I'll have time to look after it as well as quilt. Linda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted August 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2006 Last year I would not go out into the yard because of snakes:(. I hate snakes - doesn't matter if they are garter snakes or whatever. My flower beds grew up in weeds and looked terrible, then when customers came to my house I felt terrible:(. So I decided this year I would make them look presentable:)....then my daughter decided to get married:), wow, what a summer:o. Anyway, now my silly hostas are going crazy and I need to split them up....so guess what my DH gets to do;) We are way down on rainfall so the ground is as hard as a rock....so he gets to dig, but I'll let him wait till fall - then I will just point and direct;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phyllis Posted August 13, 2006 Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 Mary Beth, Aren't the Moon Flowers gorgeous.....we've grown them for several years. We live up by the Iowa border on #71 highway and believe me you don't have to save the seed pods......just leave them lay and next year you'll have LOTS of Moon Flowers. Ask me how I know! Also, here, the hummingbird moths (aka. sphinx moth) loves the necter....we watched one moth climb down into the flower and got so intoxicated that he couldn't get out. Had to dump him out of the flower and a little later he was fine. Like you, I wish the blooms lasted a little longer. I'm with you on the snakes(shudder). A gal that works with my husband had one in her house. There isn't a house big enough to contain me and a snake and the snake would win the house hands down 'cause I'd be out of there!:mad:: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted August 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 Phyllis, That is the best news I have had all day!! I hate plants that I have to "baby". I am leaving the seeds this year, if it doesn't work - you don't live that far away - I'll come visit;) It is good to know I am not the only sissy out there. My DH says that I need to be more of a country girl, but I know plenty of country girls that don't like snakes. We have some property on Truman lake, and I went around a travel trailer that we slept in, (you notice I said slept), and there was a black snake going up under the trailer. I know, I know, black snakes won't hurt you - you are right, because I am gonna be where he ain't!! It just so happens that we have 2 travel trailers, so we now sleep in the other one. My DH is working on building a critter tight cabin:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrna Ficken Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 I want flowers again. I just have rocks, not even pretty rocks. Well unless I look up past my yard. Beautiful Moon Flower . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GERRY Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 I got my Milli. in late May, & didn't plant a thing this year. All I've done is prune a bit hear & there, my garden can wait, family & my "Gracie" will not. I just love the whole LA thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted August 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 Myrna, Just remember what I said about numbers when I finally take one of your classes:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindaSusieQuilts Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 Our mom flowers were a bush too....... we had them 30 yrs ago.. then they died off and didnt reseed........ Hubby dug a pit for the celler sort of door to allow access to the crawl space.. and apparently he dug up a seed that had been safely saved in the ground for all that time...... and up popped a bush and bloomed like crazy....... they still seem to see back but only once in a while................ My flowers also consist of flowers that fend well for them selves.......... if they are sissy plants......... they dont make it. I have tall phlox, peony,....... My mom grew tons of differant kinds of lillies...... glads that can stay in the ground..... Butterfly bushes...... that reseed themselves, Hosta and blackeyed susans that come back. Mumms balloon flowers, sweetpea vines that are older than me, and lilys, OH and Lupines........ I love those, and I inhereted them all since she lived in a trailer on the edge of our yard....... Love wood chips you get from the tree services........ they work great for an english look garden....... flowers come up.... easy to weed and it all goes back to the ground......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9patch Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 I love to plant the big 'heavenly blue' morning glories. Someone once told me that moon flowers would go well with them. I guess so. The morning glories would overlap the bloom of the white flowers for a little bit each day. I might have to try that next year. We had a wet spring and beginning of summer. But lately it has been way too hot to garden, and now it is too dry to weed. I might as well stay inside and sew. Linda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrna Ficken Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 LOL Mary Beth, won't we be a pair. I feel lots laughter coming on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peaches Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 Pretty moon flower. I tried them in the past but never could get them to grow. Must try again if I can get some seeds. What kind of glads can you leave in the ground??? We are in South Dakota and I really don't like to dig and store. This country girl doesn't like snakes either!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted August 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 Myrna, I will be reading that story in Unlimited Possibilities, "Good Student/Bad Student, Where Do You Fit?";) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramona-quilter Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 Mary Beth, It is called a Datura. I had one when I lived in Lemon Grove. The flowers only last til it heats up about noon here. Every morning, my Mom used to walk around the side of the house to see if there was a flower waiting to greet her. When we moved to Ramona, I found an Angel Trumpet, it's Brugmansia from the same potatoe family (Solanaceae). I planted a 15-gallon pot on a hillside just outside my fence and it has taken off. 8 feet tall now. Lots of blooms. It caught me by surprise one morning very early. It was foggy in the driveway and the plant looked like a ghost. I snapped a picture. http://ramona-quilter-big-dream.blogspot.com/2006/06/angel-trumpet-in-full-bloom.html I planted it outside the back yard fence to keep the grandkids away from it. The whole plant is quite toxic. You may have heard it called jimsonweed. It has quite a colorful history from poison to aphrodisiac. But it sure is pretty. Mine does not have much fragrance though some plants do, the pink ones maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted August 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 Linda, Those flowers are beautiful. I would like to fill my yard with flowers, but I have decided not to take my chances with the snakes. This year I planted tomatoes and peppers in my flower bed....they taste better than most flowers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giftedhands Posted August 16, 2006 Report Share Posted August 16, 2006 looks like these that bloom at the beach..sure are pretty. I like some of the night blossoms too...nothing like the smell of honeysuckle on a summer night... Cynthia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted August 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2006 Cynthia, Are you calling that white flower honeysuckle?? We have it too, but it is a little yellow flower - a vine has tons of little yellow, or sometime tiny white flowers. When I was a kid I would pull the flower apart from the stem side and pull the center down through the flower and a sweet liquid would drop out. I must have eaten a billion flowers like that. The flower in your picture looks almost like a morning glory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiltsinmotion Posted August 16, 2006 Report Share Posted August 16, 2006 What a wonderful flower , I don't have enough water for my flowers soooo my flower garden looks good until late June , depending of course on how much it rains . Does honeysuckle need water to grow ? gotta go quilting break is over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giftedhands Posted August 20, 2006 Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 Oh, no that's definately NOT a honeysuckle. It's one of those beach flowers...I KNOW what honeysuckle looks/smells like. ahahahaha..... Cynthia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.