Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day is hosted on the fifteenth of each month by the fabulous Carol at May Dreams Gardens. Click here to see what's blooming all over the world this month.
June in pacific northwest gardens is a floral fiesta! Here's some of what I saw when I went out on Wednesday morning to snap some pictures.
"Oh my luve's like a red, red rose that's newly sprung in June" goes the Robert Burns poem and, although I'm not much of a rosarian, there seem to be a number of them blooming in my garden right now. Following are just some of them. I've forgotten most of their names.
Double impatiens. Love these as they happily winter in the greenhouse and root easily from cuttings. They're also darned cute.
You may be wondering about all of those begonias crowded into the little glass room. The season's first blooms have started.
First Calla lily with Calycanthus floridus 'Hartlage wine'. The Sinocalycanthus chinensis above is also blooming.
Why, oh why did I ever let this set up shop in the parking strip? Chamerion angustifolium is native and requires no care other than to pull it up where you don't want it. It likes to spread everywhere.
Aesculus indica or Indian Horse Chestnut. The flowers are a bit more pink and the green bit around the conkers is smooth, resembling figs.
June in pacific northwest gardens is a floral fiesta! Here's some of what I saw when I went out on Wednesday morning to snap some pictures.
"Oh my luve's like a red, red rose that's newly sprung in June" goes the Robert Burns poem and, although I'm not much of a rosarian, there seem to be a number of them blooming in my garden right now. Following are just some of them. I've forgotten most of their names.
'Betty Boop'
Blurry 'Fragrant Cloud' is really more orange. than what the picture shows.
'Zephirine Drouhin'
'Westerland'
Knock Out
Double impatiens. Love these as they happily winter in the greenhouse and root easily from cuttings. They're also darned cute.
Sambucus nigra 'Black Lace'
One of the several abutilons that spent the winter in the greenhouse fighting off whitefly and aphids.
Crinodendron hookerianum of which I can never get a good picture.
The last of the Bleeding Hearts for this season.
Martagon lily
A native lily that likes growing in damp places.
Clematis
Martha Washington Geranium (a pelargonum of some sort.)
You may be wondering about all of those begonias crowded into the little glass room. The season's first blooms have started.
Another Pelargonum (Geranium) with interesting flowers.
Parahebe perfoliata
Meconopsis somethingorother
Fuchsia
First Calla lily with Calycanthus floridus 'Hartlage wine'. The Sinocalycanthus chinensis above is also blooming.
Kolkwitzia amabilis now has a new name - Linnaea amabilis
Lonicera periclymenum 'Sweet Tea'
Abutilon vitifolium is hardy in the ground here which is fortunate as it's already about 15 feet tall.
Magnolia macrophylla
Bunch of stuff in the parking strip.
Fremontodendron
Why, oh why did I ever let this set up shop in the parking strip? Chamerion angustifolium is native and requires no care other than to pull it up where you don't want it. It likes to spread everywhere.
Argyrocytisus battandieri (Pineapple Broom) really does smell like pineapple.
Symphytum × uplandicum 'Axminster Gold'
Amsonia
Aesculus indica or Indian Horse Chestnut. The flowers are a bit more pink and the green bit around the conkers is smooth, resembling figs.
Artemisia sort of thing that came from Dig via Xera. Lovely little blooms and the buds are adorable.
Penstemon 'Electric Blue'
Kalmia latifolia
Deutzia 'Monzia'
Threatening to take over.
Thanks, Carol for hosting the monthly florapalooza!