On the fifteenth day of the month, Carol at May Dreams Gardens hosts Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, a way to both share what's blooming in our gardens each month and to keep a journal from year to year. Having participated in GBBD for six years now, I can now look back at previous year's posts when I think something is blooming earlier or later than usual. Thanks, Carol for coming up with this great idea! To see more Bloom Day posts from around the world, visit Carol's blog.
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A messy tangle of fuchsia, Rose 'Zephirine Drouhin', clematis and a couple of jasmines. Some of this has got to go!
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Centranthus ruber. Thirty years ago, his came from a crack in a paved parking area outside a big Victorian duplex in Seattle, the home of a friend. The building and parking area are long gone, having been replaced with s high-rise apartment building.
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Winter pansies were flopping out of their pots so they got stuck in the ground and they seem perfectly happy there.
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Salvia 'Amistad' and some annual red dianthus, a teacher appreciation gift last year. Seems they decided to stick around.
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Here's some of what's blooming in my garden this month.
Tropaeolum speciosum
The first brugmansia bloom this season belongs to B. 'Snowbank.'
Of course there are begonias. I won't bore you with all of them.
Pelargonium (Geranium)
Kalmia
Martagon lilies
Cardiocrinum giganteum. Who knew it would grow up into the leaves of the tree?
Meconopsis 'Lingholm'
A messy tangle of fuchsia, Rose 'Zephirine Drouhin', clematis and a couple of jasmines. Some of this has got to go!
There are other roses blooming here and there.
Deutzia
Magnolia macrophylla
Centranthus ruber. Thirty years ago, his came from a crack in a paved parking area outside a big Victorian duplex in Seattle, the home of a friend. The building and parking area are long gone, having been replaced with s high-rise apartment building.
Argyrocytisus battandieri (Pineapple Broom)
Volunteer perennial sweet peas.
Carpenteria californica
Winter pansies were flopping out of their pots so they got stuck in the ground and they seem perfectly happy there.
Cotinus coggygria 'Young Lady'
Senecio leucostachys
Salvia 'Amistad' and some annual red dianthus, a teacher appreciation gift last year. Seems they decided to stick around.
Clematis.
More hardy fuchsias.
Dogwood. Taken from an upstairs window as one usually misses seeing this in the garden.
Abutilon 'Red Tiger' will represent all of the Abutilons this month.
Alstroemeria (let's call it Pink Mystery.)
Allium with fallen Kolkwitzia blooms. Everything in this area gets covered with them.
Dracunculus vulgaris not yet opened but will be gone by next GBBD.
Happy GBBD all and have a spectacular weekend!