Can it be bloom day again already? Time is sure flying. I want it to slow down now so that we can savor every minute of spring and summer! Thanks to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for hosting GBBD on the 15th of every month. Garden bloggers from all over the world share what's blooming in their gardens at this time of the year. Click here to see more!
We've had a mild winter and a rather warm stretch of weather so some things are blooming a bit earlier this year than last.
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Akebia quinata 'Shirobana'. The scent of the flowers is gorgeous and reminds me a bit of fragrant stock.
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Tête-à-tête daffodils and that poor Rheum palmatum atrosanguineum that looks like it really wants to be divided into four plants. Maybe next weekend...
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One of the two magic Abutilon megapotamicum which have bloomed all winter this year! Gotta love a plant that blooms constantly!
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One lone Anemone blanda from a small group planted many years ago soldiers on year after year. I rather like it's common name Grecian Windflower. Perhaps next autumn I'll give it some companions.
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Couldn't resist throwing a poinsettia or two out there for extra color after the holidays were over.
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Grevillea 'Ned Kelly' just starting to show color.
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We've had a mild winter and a rather warm stretch of weather so some things are blooming a bit earlier this year than last.
Camellia japonica
Here's the giant camellia I inherited with the garden. Joining it in bloom this month is the also inherited magnolia.
Lots of hellebores blooming. Here are three - 'Anna's Red'
'Cotton Candy'
'Onyx Odyssey'
A few last crocus.
Some crocus planted by the gardening squirrels. I find bulbs coming up in the strangest places.
Ribes sanguineum planted by a bird years ago.
Akebia quinata 'Shirobana'. The scent of the flowers is gorgeous and reminds me a bit of fragrant stock.
Kerria japonica 'Pleniflora'
Tête-à-tête daffodils and that poor Rheum palmatum atrosanguineum that looks like it really wants to be divided into four plants. Maybe next weekend...
One of the two magic Abutilon megapotamicum which have bloomed all winter this year! Gotta love a plant that blooms constantly!
Stachyurus praecox.
Double flowered Primula vulgaris.
Daffodils and very fragrant Skimmia japonica.
Pieris japonica
One lone Anemone blanda from a small group planted many years ago soldiers on year after year. I rather like it's common name Grecian Windflower. Perhaps next autumn I'll give it some companions.
Pulmonaria popping up to say hello.
Ceanothus
Viburnum bodnantense 'Dawn'
Forgot to take pictures of the Grevellia and Lonicera fragrantissima, still blooming.
Meanwhile, inside the greenhouse- our old friend, Impatiens congolensis.
Agapetes
Couldn't resist throwing a poinsettia or two out there for extra color after the holidays were over.
I'll compost them when the colored bracts fall.
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Clivia.
Jasminum officinale perfuming the air.
Grevillea 'Ned Kelly' just starting to show color.
Begonia 'Gene Daniels' continues to bloom and grow. What a great plant!
Happy GBBD!