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Re: Flowers in bloom now
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2018 8:33 pm
by applestar
Blue Flag Iris in the NE Corner Bog Garden
...and Virginia Sweetspire next to it
Re: Flowers in bloom now
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 7:59 pm
by rainbowgardener
Bee balm, purple coneflower, salvia, asters, gayfeather any day now, lavender, petunias, begonias, etc etc
mullein would have been blooming, but I cut it all back, so it will make multiple flower stalks, not just one.
(Special bonus, if you click on the bottom one, you will see one of our chickens in the background. I didn't even realize I was taking her picture.
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Re: Flowers in bloom now
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 1:17 am
by applestar
Monarda Jacob Cline in iPhone 8 Portrait mode
Re: Flowers in bloom now
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 10:06 am
by lovegardening
Beautiful flowers! I love planting honeysuckles.
Re: Flowers in bloom now
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2018 12:10 pm
by applestar
Lilies — native Turk’s Cap (in portrait mode and regular) and lone surviving yellow Asiatic Lily — I think others got eaten by chipmunks and/or voles. The shorter ones are either remnants of other survivors or pieces of bulb scale that propagated and grew.
Re: Flowers in bloom now
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:42 pm
by applestar
Re: Flowers in bloom now
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2018 4:53 pm
by applestar
Sunflowers and Pink&Purple Mexican corn...
...also...
What happens to sunflowers and corn when you give up on planting them and leave them in their cups.....
Re: Flowers in bloom now
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2019 6:13 pm
by applestar
I have a super neglected Abraham Darby rose. I didn’t even weed around it this year, but it grows as a climber so managed to stay above the riff-raff.
I noticed it had put on two dainty (stunted) blooms today, and they smelled so wonderful that I decided to enjoy them inside. I found a few other blooming plants to keep them company in the vase (bottle) then walked around the garden with it, looking for a good background to take a picture in front of.
- The Portrait mode image on the right turned out nice, but the limited focal depth cut off the sprig of Red shiso at the top, making the arrangement look unbalanced.....
- Abraham Darby rose
- Autumn Joy sedum
- Blue Mist flower
- Garlic Chice blossoms
- Red (aka) Shiso (perilla)
- Goldenrod
- Aka Manma (red rice) flower
Re: Flowers in bloom now
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2019 8:23 am
by rainbowgardener
Sunflowers still blooming, daylilies just quit a few days ago after blooming for months, beautyberry not blooming, but covered in those neon purple berries, reblooming azalea is reblooming, camellia is covered in buds (but they are small and will take awhile yet), my yard is covered in little red cypress vine flowers which the hummingbirds and sulphur butterflies love. (The cypress vine has now appeared in the front yard also, even though I only ever planted it in back. It is actually becoming a bit weedy and can tend to smother other stuff.) Asters of course. Sedum not blooming yet. Carolina allspice and lorapetalum keep putting out one more blossom here and there. Okra (I think their flowers are beautiful) and squash blossoms. New guinea impatiens just keep blooming and blooming. Goldenrod, zinnias hanging in there, black eyed susans still producing some flowers, especially the ones I did some deadheading on. Dianthus around the mailbox keeps blooming and blooming despite little care and being overtaken by the lawn growing back into their bed.
Added: I forgot, the blanket flower (gaillardia) in the front foundation planting keeps blooming and blooming. It is a solid yellow version, which I was not expecting. I think when it is done and the weather breaks, I will move it to the back yard and plant something there that goes with the color scheme better. Lavender is blooming. Not flowering exactly, but the pink muhly grass has its delicate pink seed heads and all the pokeweed is in deep purple berries.
Added again Some of the bee balm succumbed to powdery mildew (which monarda is very susceptible to), but some of it is still hanging in there and producing flowers. Annual and perennial salvias still blooming as long as I keep them dead headed.
Re: Flowers in bloom now
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2019 10:42 pm
by imafan26
Double rose pikake (Jasmine sambac), Princess Michiko Hibiscus, Roses, a few dendrobiums, Parrot beak heliconia, Desert honeysuckle (It is a weed coming from my neighbor's yard,) Dragon fruit, Crown of thorns, bougainvillea, and lavender. The eggplant and peppers are putting out new flowers.
Re: Flowers in bloom now
Posted: Mon May 17, 2021 7:20 pm
by applestar
Honeysuckle “Alabama Crimson”, Golden Alexander, Rhododendron, German Iris close-up, Alternating-leaf Dogwood, German Iris, Whorled Milkweed? (mine seems to be blue but is supposed to be white), native Azalea “DelMarVa?”
Re: Flowers in bloom now
Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 12:02 pm
by applestar
It used to be much more muted dusty color — maybe it’s trying to compete with the
Amsonia Tabernaemontana “Blue Star” ...Unless it’s possible fore those two to cross....? Amsonia isn’t blooming just yet this year.
* It’s true, though, that the color isn’t as sky blue as it looks due to trick of the light/photo in the above photo. *
Subject: Flowers in bloom now
applestar wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2016 5:35 pm
applestar wrote:
Whorled Milkweed Asclepias verticillata
Amsonia tabernaemontana blue star
Erigeron (fleabane?) -- I'm actually allergic to these, but DH must have thought they were pretty -- you can see he mowed all around it and left it standing in the grass near the shed
He will also almost always leave flowers in the lawn unmowed, especially if there are bees working them.
Yellow Baptista has joined the party
I thought I'd lost this plant. It hadn't shown up for the last couple of years -- well almost ...LAST year, I saw the round leaves and thought "wait a minute, could this possibly be...?" But it didn't bloom last year. NOW the three plants I planted together for this color effect are in synch.
...it's kind of funny -- in this photo, the yucca flower stalks are not up yet, right? I can't see them. But just today, looking out of the window, I saw that they are up and already about 3 feet tall -- I've no idea when they showed up.
Re: Flowers in bloom now
Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 3:33 pm
by applestar
Lyre-leaf sage and Sweet yellow clover patch in our polyculture lawn is blooming.
More than a little worried that I’m not seeing the blossoms buzzing with bees and wasps … but hopefully the hummingbirds are getting a kick out of visiting the purple flowers.
Lyre-leaf Sage is a Native American herbal and this is supposed to be the time — to harvest “the aerial parts when they’re in full bloom”
Re: Flowers in bloom now
Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 6:57 pm
by imafan26
Beautiful. I noticed that too. The camera has a hard time capturing the true blue color of some of the plants.
Re: Flowers in bloom now
Posted: Thu May 27, 2021 3:52 pm
by imafan26
I have a lot of orchids in bloom right now and the Little Chief crepe myrtle is blooming early.
Re: Flowers in bloom now
Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2021 12:27 pm
by applestar
Common milkweed (Asclepius syriaca) on left is starting to bloom, and right on cue, a male scout-ahead Monarch butterfly visited the orange butterfly weed (A. tuberosa)
Re: Flowers in bloom now
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2023 3:27 pm
by Gary350
Yard is filled with 1000s of nice little flowers every spring.
Re: Flowers in bloom now
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:44 pm
by imafan26
Very nice. I just cut some of the roses and I need to cut the rest, so the peak bloom won't happen for about 6 weeks. The lilies do look nice and some of the flowers you have, I don't see here because they probably don't bloom in my zone. I have to go out and take more pictures now.
Re: Flowers in bloom now
Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 5:04 pm
by applestar
Strolling around the garden taking pictures …
Re: Flowers in bloom now
Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 9:26 pm
by pepperhead212
Only ones I had were daffodils...and weeds.
Re: Flowers in bloom now
Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 10:14 pm
by applestar
It’s taken me a long time to gather and plant so that there are almost always flowers blooming to attract pollinators, beneficial insects, butterflies/moths, and hummingbirds. Many of these will later develop fruits and seeds that attract birds and other wildlife.
* Don’t dismiss the weeds. Early bloomers support the earliest spring activities of honeybees, pollinators and beneficial insects.
I haven’t listed everything blooming in my garden. Some are ornamentals like Bearded iris, there are some early spring blooming trees like Redbud/Cersis and apple trees that are still holding blossoms, paw paw, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries…. dandelions, creeping charlie, purple dead nettles, chickweed, various grasses, and more.