Flower of the Day for a year - a Challenge!

[cheops]

Being a variety of poppy your seeds will be viable for decades. No, i’m not in the seed swap.

[cheops]

Thx Veggie I’ve read the link and will happily join.

[rary]

Today my flowers are begonia semperflorens showed them before but still flowering away good style, I suppose I could have Photoshoped them and they would have lasted me for the month
But I think there is a chooky burdie that would have had a go at me with a pointy stick


It has been a very good year for baskets and containers, a good display and I have hardly watered or deadheaded since they went out

There is a tuberus begonia in there also

[rary]

Tried to edit above to add there is a tuberus begonia in there also

EDIT - did it for you

[roitelet]

Two today to make up for missing yesterday. First a double Summer heather and second Perovskia.

[cheops]

This is a rather unusual begonia - unusually narrow shaped flowers and unusual threads of colour edging the leaves. I have added a second photo to show there are three different varieties of begonia in one pot. Previously I posted the pink roselike begonia. I’m not good at naming varieties of begonias.

[rary]

Today again one of my baskets of begonias, they are beginning to go over with the cold now but as I said it has been a good year

[cheops]

Wonderful combination and very showy, rary. Do you lift the tubers out of the baskets soon and replant in the garden next spring?

[veggiechicken]

My Flower is Linaria (probably Fairy Bouquet) - part of a Lucky dip bedding plant collection. Like a baby snapdragon.

[rary]

Wonderful combination and very showy, rary. Do you lift the tubers out of the baskets soon and replant in the garden next spring?

Yes cheops I will be breaking up my baskets quite soon now I should actually label them for colour before storing them, but that would take some of the anticipation of waiting for them to flower next year
This year I am going to try keeping some of the fibrous rooted begonias over the winter, just to see if I can

[cheops]

This chrysthamum is a loner and lives beside the gooseberry bushes. It�s pretty but not great for the pollinators. I don�t know the name of this variety which rather annoys me.

[Martin H]

This chrysthamum is a loner and lives beside the gooseberry bushes. It’s pretty but not great for the pollinators. I don’t know the name of this variety which rather annoys me.

It's a Dahlia. I don't know its name either though.

[cheops]

How stupid of me. Too early in the morning. Thanks Martin -I’ve loads of dahlias and not one chrysanthemum so I must be succumbing to dementia.

[roitelet]

Sedum spectabalis today, strangely the Butterflies don�t seem to be very interested in it even though it�s said to be a butterfly attractor.

[veggiechicken]

My Flower is another Begonia survivor - this time in a hanging basket that hasn't been replanted for a couple of years (because I'm lazy).