Please let me know.

Thanks,

Neil

I thought someone walked by and removed the petals.

Also, this morning, I took some pictures again. Everything was great. In the evening, one of the very healthy nasturtium is dead. I can't believe why it would died that quickly. The other plants beside it are all doing great! It was really weird!

My nastriums have not bloomed yet. I sowed them in the spring though

The poppies I have don't look very nice. I wish they bloomed more because they are pretty.

Karen

It was kind of a test to see if I could have some kind of poppy blooming all growing season.

Thing is, our cool summer is probably aiding how long they're lasting-- it might not be the same deal every year.
Here's a couple of them:

From 2009-06-30

From 2009-06-30

As to nasturtiums, this is probably not your problem, but aphids felled all mine every time I tried to grow them, they hide out on the under side of the leaves. I tried saving them with some powdery pesticide to no avail.

Maybe the one you lost is too close to that drain. The others don't look all that robust, but maybe they are not getting enough sun or too much water.

About my dead nasturtium, I'm going to check it later. Looks like I saw 2 new small leaves few days ago.

I'm also looking for other flowering plants that flowers summer until last frost. What do you recommend folks?

So far, I'm happy with safari primrose but not sure if they flower until frost. The first flower that came out is still there and beautiful. It's like plastic. LOL.

I also remember cleome on my friend's house, it was already cold but the flowers were still gorgeous. I think, most of her flowering plant are gone but the cleomes.

Also have bachelor buttons, zinnia envy, coreopsis but don't know anything yet about them.

Cosmos. I think I've recommended them to death, but I've got a shorter (30") "Gazebo" percolating in a few containers right now to replace the poopy poppies later on. They'll take that bed right through October here.

My poppies are doing 'ok' despite the constant barrage of rain here.
I think I'll end up pulling them out earlier than usual this year, simply because there are too many, and they are blooming shorter & smaller because of it. I'm going to pull out a lot of the soil in the bed this year, and replace it with some new compost and start over so they aren't as thick next year to make for a taller/better show. But they're still pretty...from far away. Just don't get up close & personal (ick!).

I've had nasturtiums keel on me like that before, but I don't have an answer for you as to why. Perhaps the cutworm diagnosis was right.

Zinnia will be fine til just about frost, too...keep them cut to keep the show going. Coreopsis and Blanketflower are also the last to go around my yard. Keep the coreopsis deadheaded...they'll get all stringy with dead blooms on you and go to seed, but they'll stick around for the duration.

Wendy (p.s. we just got a heavy rain and those poppies in the picture, taken today, are all now drooping, waterlogged, and their stems are snapped..wah!)

Coreopsis mahogany midget is a great dark red. Shasta daisies for mid summer white blooms. And you can never have too many daylilies. Collect seeds from stella d'oro in parking lots and here on Garden Web. They wintersow well and should bloom in 2 years.