What's looking good in August 2017

[MaryMary]

My orphaned orchid is still blooming!

 

[Larisa]

@MaryMary
That's why I love your phalaenopsis! It blossoms long and has a beautiful color!
You can show it in September, in October, in December ... Only the landscape outside the window will change.

 

[alp]

My orphaned orchid is still blooming!


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Very nice, @MaryMary! I must feed my orchids. I have now a pressure spray A draper .. It works a treat.

 

[MaryMary]

@MaryMary
That's why I love your phalaenopsis! It blossoms long and has a beautiful color!
You can show it in September, in October, in December ... Only the landscape outside the window will change.

It's going to bloom that long? Yay!!

Well, you'll know when it stops blooming. When it stops popping up in the "What's looking good" thread.

Very nice, @MaryMary!

Thank you!

 

[mg guy]

a bright August day..

and the impatiens by the entry in full glory

 

[mg guy]

the August patio just gets bigger

 

[mg guy]

this is a hydrangea called 'pinky winky', (seriously.)
planted last year, it should eventually fill this space along the path, and grow above the fence.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Common Sneezeweed. Mine is growing twice the height it did last year. It's just over 6 feet tall! Most websites list it at 4 feet tall, and I've never seen it over 3 feet in the wild. Everything grows taller in my yard, though. That's the one flaw, everything grows so tall that it flops over easier than it would if it were an average height.

Partridge Pea, a native annual, is starting to flower nicely. I collected five seeds two years ago. This was the only one to grow and it waited two years to grow! I thought I lost them all, but somehow, one lasted and grew. Hopefully I'll get a lot of seeds this year so I can establish a population in my native garden and maybe around my pond. The foliage is amazing!

Great Blue Lobelia is in the part of my garden that's only a year old. It was a seedling last year, so it has a full season on most of the plants around it. I really enjoy its size, shape, and color. I'm adding much more of this in the future. It produced five or 6 seedlings last year, and I'm expecting it to self-seed heavily this year.

 

[Larisa]

Sunset

Full moon

 

[Larisa]

Begonia

Coleus

The Last Spiraea

Rudbeckia

Somebody

 

[alp]

@Larisa Love your friend / foe in the last photo!

 

[zigs]

Flower

 

[Beverly]

@Larisa agree the caterpillar named "Somebody" is beautiful and i have never seen one quite like it. So unique, i think i will do a search for it.

 

[Beverly]

@Larisa it looks like Acronicita alni or the Adler moth caterpillar (in english)

The range is from the southern British Isles to Russia

 

[Larisa]

@Larisa it looks like Acronicita alni or the Adler moth caterpillar

Yes, thank you, Beverly! Now I recognized the moth.
What an unjust life a moth has. Crawl among the grass in a bright outfit, but fly in a gray homely dress.