They're Dead!

Hi Grandpa B, My tulips which are not giving me any flowers last spring are still alive! LOL! I have tried to plant some flowers last week and when I got them , they have blooming already since I was too late..LOL! They are still giving me flowers but I do know what's it's name, I also didn't asked the lady! LOL! I will try to post a pic here so you can help me to identify it! LOL!

I'm working on the same thing as you - flowers from spring to fall but slow going. After I read your message I had to run out and check my lillies - tada surprisingly they are in bloom right now. Guessing they would have normally bloomed before yours as your further north but I moved these to a new location just a month ago so wasn't sure if they would even bloom this year. Here's a picture I took just for you:) Right now I have daylillies, tiger lillies, sunflowers (small one - larger ones will be coming in a week or two), patunias, and several wild flowers which I'm relocating to the hill beside the house for a more 'natural' planting.

Sounds like you need some chrysanthemums for fall. And pansies. No, I do not have a set up that keeps blooming right now. I am presently just enjoying the fruit of my fruit so to speak, with tomatoes and grapes. I will have apples to eat soon, and I have soooooo many pears I am afraid the tree will break. I have spring flowering bulbs in my refrigerator to plant in a week or two for next spring. I never got them planted this year. I hope, like you, to have flowers for a very long season, next year. I have to transplant some because the trees around them keep them from getting enough sun.

My mother used to love to mess around with flowers and plants and living in south Texas she could usually have pretty flowers year round. That is one advantage of living down here.

My lilies are gone but my others are annuals and are doing beautifully. In a few days when they get going, I'll take a photo of my Portulaca (moss roses). I wish they were perennial. In AZ, they came back year after year but last year I planted some and they didn't come up. Guess the ground got too cold for them!