Choice Morsels

Today's Garden Pic of the Day is of a Torch Lily or Hot Poker! The photo was taken in mid-April this year!  You can see 4 O'clocks flower buds in the background. I have several Hot Pokers, but this is the only one that bloomed! H ere's a shot of recent plant purchases: Purple Veronica and Creeping Jenny. The Verconia got put in a sunny back flower bed, where it will have room to spread. I've never had it before, so it's something  new to try. The 5 Creeping Jenny plants I spaced along a barren sandy strip of soil that's opposite my front door that grass simply won't grow well in. (pine roots & shady)  It's a low growing ground cover that I hope will spread and eventually fill it in. It's so low, it can be mowed over. 

  Welcome back! Finally got the guest room all cleaned and put in order. I planted my tomatoes I took so much trouble to raise indoors outside, but they promptly keeled over and didn't take. :( So I planted seeds in those spots and, at my Mother's suggestion, covered them with milk cartons cut for the purpose. You leave the cap off and it creates something of a terrerium enviroment. The seed is new, so maybe I'll come back to some baby tomatoes growing under there. Today's Garden Picture of the Day is of a type of lily called a "Hot Poker." It gets that name for it's coloration. The tiny unopened blossoms are orange and the open are yellow. As they open, the yellow color progresses upward.   (That bit of blue in the foreground is Sea Holly.)   I bought a bag of Hot Poker roots from Walmart last spring and this one is the first of them to bloom. I have another Hot Poker plant that I ordered from a catalog many years ago that i...