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Pink Balloon

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A lovely pink Balloon flower.

I believe my pink balloon flowers have stopped blooming, but my blue Balloons are still pushing out a few blooms each day. Soon, now that it finally seems to be cooling down a bit, they will stop blooming all together.

I’ve found these flowers to be very easy to grow once they get started. I’ve only had one transplant fail and that was a clump of white Balloon flowers that I took from my parents home after my mother passed away. I just couldn’t get that clump to grow. I believe that Balloon flowers have long tap roots and most plants with similar root structures do not transplant well.

Hey, I had to try.

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Now I’m stumped

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What the heck is this anyway?

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I thought I planted a clematis.

I’m sure it’s flowered for the last two years and that it produced flowers that look very much like a clematis’ flowers.

This is the first year that I’ve ever noticed berries on the vine.

I’ve even got another “clematis” growing with one of my honeysuckles and it too appears to be producing berries.

I tried doing a search to see if any clematis produce fruit or berries and I didn’t have much luck in my search. Does anyone know if this is a clematis and if it’s not what could it be?

This is so strange!

I’ve got to admit that whatever this is the berries are nice and plump and healthy looking.

I’d like to wish a Happy Thanks Giving to my fellow Canadian visitors. It’s a long weekend here and that’s one of the reasons why my GTS post is a bit late. I hope that those celebrating Thanks Giving are having a fantastic long weekend.

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Vibrant plants – gorgeous colors

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I have so many great photos of flowers and plants that I took last week that it was really hard to come up with just one for this weeks GTS.

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These leafs are Canna Tropicana leaves. My cannas never did flower this year. It’s been a strange year for a few of my plants. It did however produce the colorful leaves that it’s known for and I think I can forgive the dear plant for not flowering since it has such vibrant leaves.

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This photo is of a black Hollyhock.

My hollyhocks did well this summer. No rust on the leaves and as you can see they produced lovely flowers. This hollyhocks blooms are such a deep purplish red that they appear to be black. It’s blooms look as glossy and vibrant in the garden beside my ever producing raspberry bushes as they do in this photograph.

If you’d like to see one of the most gorgeous rose photos I’ve ever taken please stop by Breath of Life Photography. It’s a delight!

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