Garden Pics

BethL

More later, but wanted to share these photos from our garden. The first and second one were taken yesterday and today. The other was taken a few years ago.

Ed1937

That is really nice, Beth. My wife would have loved it. I'll post a pic of a lily(?) that I bought for my wife about 6 or 7 years ago. Maybe you or someone else can identify it for me?

Ed1937

ButterflyWings

Beth - Thank you, thank you! So beautiful. I would love to just sit there. You made my day!

M1

Thank you SO much Beth--those are just beautiful, and as a fellow gardener I can appreciate how much work is involved to make it look so effortless (and weed-free!)!

MaryG123

Wow!  Beautiful gardens Beth.  My gardens are my therapy.  This is my goldfish pond with a new water lily.

BethL

Thanks for the compliments! It's my happy place! And a place where I get lots of exercise. lol

Mary, your pond looks amazing, with beautiful fish! Ed, love your lily. From looking at it, I cannot tell if it is a daylily (hemerocallis) or a true lily. 

True lilies are in the genus Lilium, and they grow from true bulbs. Some other common plants, such as daylilies and canna lilies, may have the term “lily” in their common name, but they're not actually lilies at all. They grow from tubers, not bulbs, and they're in a different plant genus. Also, the blooms on daylilies each only last for one day.

billS

Ed1937 wrote:

Ed my iphone app "Picture This" thinks that is an orange daylily also known as Ditch Lily, Common Daylily, Tiger Daylily and more.

Question for you that has probably been answered here before, how did you embed the photo (instead of just a link)?

billS

Absolutely beautiful garden Beth, I imagine you spend many pleasant hours there. It looks so inviting and peaceful. Do you have hummingbirds where you live?

jfkoc

Oh, Beth...so beautiful. Mostly perennials, right?

Thanky for the lily info. I guess my lillys are not actual lilys. I am longing for a bed of Casa Blancos. Also a bed of white peonies. 

Jeff86

Thanks for the uplifting garden pics.   

Here’s one from our garden.

Lorita

Love this thread, Beth.  Beautiful garden pictures and good therapy to boot.  Mary and Jeff your gardens are beautuful.

Beth, are the red flowers next to the coneflowers, red ones or roses.  Beautiful either way.

Thanks so much for the walk in the gardens.

loveskitties

Thank you all for the wonderful pics of your gardening efforts.

A ray of sunshine, on an otherwise dreary day.

toolbeltexpert

Beth that is so beautiful. Love the path. I bought my dw a garden building and I turned it into a she shack I would love to embed a picture of it ED how do you do it I have a chrome book. I don't see that option.

Mint

Enjoyed all the pictures.  Beautiful

BethL

Bill, yes, we do have hummingbirds. I live in Iowa. 

Judith, I have a few Casa Blanca oriental lilies. They smell wonderful! I like Stargazers for fragrance also.

Jeff, your garden is beautiful! What amazing hardscape!

billS

toolbeltexpert wrote:

Beth that is so beautiful. Love the path. I bought my dw a garden building and I turned it into a she shack I would love to embed a picture of it ED how do you do it I have a chrome book. I don't see that option.

I don't know how Ed did it but I finally found a way to embed photos that works for me. First I use an image editing program, something similar to Photoshop but simpler, and redice the image file size to 200 kb or less. Then with the image open in the editing program I select "copy" from the image editing menu. Then in the forum compose message window I use ctrl-v to past the image in to my post. Here are some of my wife's succulents-

 EDIT: Actually pasting an image in as above it can be larger than 200 kb, however I can't find a way to make them display larger than the little image above.  I tried 190 lb and 600 kb and both are the same small size once the post is done. Hmmm. can someone (Ed) give us some pointers for embedding images?

Ed1937

Bill, try posting it without any text.

Ed1937

Stewart, get a pic on your screen, then at the bottom right, where the battery indicator is, click on a blank space, then click on "screen capture". Now you can just drag the corners to select the part of the image you want to post. Click "capture", and your screenshot will be on the clipboard. Click where you want to post it, then hit ctrl plus V. That should paste it.

billS

Ed1937

billS wrote:

Ed1937 wrote:

 

 

 

 

Ed my iphone app "Picture This" thinks that is an orange daylily also known as Ditch Lily, Common Daylily, Tiger Daylily and more.

I bought this for my wife about 6 or 8 years ago. She saw it in a magazine, and wanted it. I paid $100.00 for it at the time. But I don't know what the name of it is. She knew all that stuff.

billS

Ed1937 wrote:

Bill, try posting it without any text.

Bingo!

M1

I'll chip in!  Nothing fancy, but cheerful zinnias and sunflowers by the barn.

Ed1937

Great thread! Something a little different, and relaxing to think about being there. Nice stuff.

BethL

Bill, Great she shack! 

M1, love your barn with pretty flowers! I sense that your partner may have had something to do with the beauty on your farm.  

Let's keep this thread going with pretty yards and gardens!

toolbeltexpert

Ed I can't wait till I get home to try this. I am still at the er and it is looking like a geripsych stay for dw. This is gonna be a hard night.

Ed1937

Sorry, Stewart. It seems like there are just not many easy nights anymore.

Ed1937

Ed1937

That's one of our sons in my wife's shade garden.

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