05-21-12 Blooms, blooms and more blooms!

The vegetables have been doing well; you can just about watch the tomato plants and corn stalk grow by the day.

















I have been spending time staking my tomatoes. One of the cherry tomatoes started changing color and the cucumbers are changing from flowers to baby cukes.

But the real attraction have been the flowers. Lilies, especially have been blooming in all kinds of colors and sizes.
Part of downtown Artsplosure this weekend were a numbers of statues representing impressionist characters but the plant side of things sure did not look too much Monet-like. Here is what Monet's garden looks like:

Lilies of all sorts:

Gladiolus bearing one of my favorite color combinations.

When i bought this rose bush, twenty some years ago, it had been guaranteed as not growing more than 3' tall. Here it is growing on the Crepe Myrtle and reaching 15 some feet. So much for guarantees!

Leek bloom made up of hundreds littles bloomlets, especially appreciated by bumble bees.

This wild onion, on the other hand produces tiny little onions ready to grow from the "flower". All it needs is to fall down and thirty new bulblets are ready to set root. Survival!

Banana plants reaching for the blue sky

The quiet corner under the dogwood.