Sunday Sparkle Blooms

Good Morning Gardeners!
I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend.
Granny Get Out The Long-John's!
We are having one of the coolest July's on record
here in the Buckeye State. When it reaches only 65
degrees in the daytime in July here it is very wrong
somehow. Just not what we are use to here at this
time of year. Although I do not miss the humidity
we generally have I do not want it this cool either.
Will my poor flowers get mixed up and think it is Fall
already?
The cause may do to a volcano eruption in the island's.
If so two or three eruptions of volcanoes could take
care of our global warming and put us closer to returning
back to the ice age.
This time of the year there is so much blooming and
growing in gardens the everyone is very busy outdoors.
I have saw so many beautiful lilies on gardening blogs
that a new list had to be started.
I forgot to bring the bird feeders inside last night
so those little masked varmints wrecked them.
I would not mind them eating the seed if they would
just not tear apart the feeders getting to it.
Raccoons are so smart sometimes. They can get my
lock down garbage can lids off with out a problem while
I struggle to get it off.

Before I forget, everyone go to Abe Lincoln's blog and
Help Abe Make History!
Click onto the picture of Abe at the top left of the blog.
He has some of the most beautiful pictures of flowers
and nature. You will not want to miss seeing them.

Happy Gardening Everyone!

Sunday Sparkle

My geranium's keep multiplying in the garden every year
so that now I have a few different color.
I love the old fashioned flower because it just keeps on going.
I over winter them in pots and by hanging them by their
roots in the basement and re-potting them in the Spring.
It seems then that every Spring I always try another new
color that grabs my fancy so I have a few now and I started
some this Spring I started seeds for the new black leaf variety it
is just now starting to bud and I am looking forward to see
what they will look like. It will appear in a later posting.

So for my 'Sparkle Sunday' I am sharing some
pictures of a few of my Geraniums.

This is 'Imperial' pelargonium Ivy Geranium that
over wintered in the kitchen. I love the deep red color
fading out to a lighter red and into the white on the top
part of the bloom. The lower petals are white with just
a hint of pink tinting them.



I have another Ivy geranium called 'Gardener's Joy' but her buds
are just starting to open so I will show her off later.



This is 'Rose' she is so bright it appears she is neon rose
in color and is almost to bright for the eye.







This one is a subtle pink or almost light salmon color
and she is very pretty with the 'Sweet Caroline' purple
potato vine.






Just have to have 'Pinto White' to break up the colors
and add some brightness to the containers.








I have had this geranium for three years and she is starting
to show her age. Her blooms do not get as big now and her
body or stems are getting woody. {Kind of like her owner}
I just love the deep salmon color of it and should try to
get some starts from her, though I have no success with
cuttings.






This is 'Bright Eyes' and she appears orange in the pictures
but she is more of a red orange.She was from seed started
a year ago and she was over wintered in the basement in
pots and hanging by her heels or roots. I have too many of
her and she is so hard to mix in with the colors that she may
not get to spend the winter in the basement this year.
She really clashes with my pink pot. I should have put 'Rose'
in this pot maybe.





There has been a little problem with Photobucket
uploading the pictures for posting in that they are
loading very slowly. Also Blogger has been wigging
out again and slow in saving postings and the feed
is not picking up new postings fast enough, if ever.
Since it is free I cannot complain to much but just
wanted everyone to know of the possible problems.
Thanks Lynn for the contacting me!

Happy Gardening Everyone!