Flowers in bloom now

[imafan26]

I still haven't figured out how to upload pictures from my phone and windows 10 won't recognize my camera but right now in bloom I have virea (tropical rhodies), butterfly bush, agapanthus, daylilies, coreopsis, alyssum, pelargoniums, and some of the lavendins are also blooming now. The rainbow and golden shower trees are also in bloom.
I have a pink vireya similar to this one.
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Golden and Rainbow shower trees are planted in parks and along streets in Hawaii. They bloom in summer.
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https://www.hawaiinavigator.com/stock/pr ... _tree.jpeg

[Ksk]

Wow. Great colors Everyone. Really lovely.
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Since our Zone 7b monsoon rains this gaura is a favorite behind some lavender.
Grows so well in desert heat once established. Tender shoots can be damaged by rabbits but once the stems get tough nothing seems to eat them.

[pinksand]

My 'Winter's Snowman' camellia is blooming for the first time

The blooms are so big and bright that they can be easily seen from my kitchen! I definitely tried to plant it somewhere that I could actually enjoy the blooms.

The bees seem to be enjoying the blooms as well! Each open bloom contained a bee.

[rainbowgardener]

Beautiful! My brand new baby camellia has buds all over it, so I am hopeful it will bloom this year.

[applestar]

VIOLETS

The patch of intensely fragrant violets that had been descimated several years ago when the neighbor sprayed herbicide over the fence is finally regaining ground. Also, when they went to seed, I scattered them in my front doorstep garden and they have formed approx 1ft sq patch of lovely purple blossoms just off the front porch.

Even a tiny sprig of 1/2doz blossoms scent the room as they dry. I have some in one of those little sampler jam/honey jars by the bed. I gathered about 1/2cup today. I’m thinking of harvesting more and making violet oil or hydrosol or maybe violet syrup.....

[rainbowgardener]

violets, dandelions, spring beauty, purple dead nettle, and the things I started from seed, including salvia and impatiens. AND the apple trees!

[rainbowgardener]

And I just discovered my Florida anise planted last year is blooming.

[sandman900ss]

Trying to identify this amazing spring blue wildflower. Zone 5- Northern Illinois. Sure has spread, and the effect is eye catching!

[rainbowgardener]

I think it is squill. If so, it is not a native wildflower, it is an invasive exotic.

"This is a classic case of gardening gone awry. Siberian Squill was brought to this country as an ornamental and is still sold in Minnesota and elsewhere, but it has also escaped into the wild and become invasive. It readily spreads itself and is difficult to get rid of, as broken roots often resprout. It is very hardy and cold tolerant, and is left untouched by critters from voles to deer. Sadly, the same traits that make it attractive as a garden plant (besides the vivid color) are also what make it invasive. Large colonies of squill can be seen in the eastern counties of the state, from Duluth to Rochester. There is even an infestation at the University of Minnesota St Paul campus, just a block away from the Bell Herbarium. It is currently unknown how far west its range has expanded... Please, all you gardeners out there: stop planting this. Spring blooming native species with blue flowers you might plant instead are Hepatica (Hepatica nobilis), bluebells (Mertensia virginica or M. paniculata), blue phlox (Phlox divaricata) or any number of native violets. Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia) could provide bell-shaped blue flowers for the rest of the season." https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/f ... ian-squill

[sandman900ss]

Yes, that's absolutely it. I appreciate the response and subsequent education!

[thanrose]

It is lovely, Sandman. Sometimes beauty comes at too high a price.

We have stretches of tradescantia (spiderwort) blooming in blue-violet along highways. Right now, it will grow in dry areas as well as damp, but when summer heats up it's only viable where there is adequate moisture and some light shade.

Starting to see Gaillardia with bright gold and dark red centers in waste places. Salvia lyrata with low rosette of green and short spikes of blue-violet. Some rudbeckia, bright yellow. These are all often seen along railroad tracks here. One of the sorrels and seedlings of red maple supply random tufts of deep red. I was farther south yesterday and saw a field of phlox (pink).

Amaryllis planted in yards is blooming now, and some early crinums and agapanthus. Those strange rhizome less iris haven't really stopped except for a few weeks, so occasional tufts of sword like green leaves topped with flat blooms of white, violet, yellow. Viburnums and confederate jasmine are blooming to my consternation along with millions of other allergy sufferers. Every time I hear someone say they are getting a cold, I know they aren't. Oh, magnolias! Big creamy white blooms on trees with glossy forest green and cinnamon brown leaves. Leaf drop is a PITA, so I prefer them either in the wild or on office park berms.

Bright orange flowered shrubs called sesban sometimes in waste places, and invasive Japanese honeysuckle. Intense childhood memories with that last one.

Several different thistles, tiny yellow flowers and big purple ones.

I think I spied some Zephyranthes post a day of rain but it's quite dry now and they are ephemeral as well as deadly.

While not blossoms, my sister's retention pond has a Canada goose family with five goslings, and they invited two more families for a picnic yesterday afternoon. There are good sized snapping turtles in the pond so vigilance in parents is important. And two households here let their cats roam. They haven't found my small pot of catnip yet, though.

[thanrose]

Oh, oleander is starting the months long show already. Mostly it's a dusting of color seen at a distance along highways, but lots of people do plant it in their yards.

[imafan26]

Right now the glads are blooming and the first agapanthus bud is out. The roses are budding up and a few are in bloom now. Gardenia, Jasmine sambac, cymbidiums, dendrobium and popcorn orchids are blooming ( they are a little early this year). I even still had a dendrobium anosmum bloom. The strawberries are actually putting out flowers and berries. Hibiscus, plumeria, amaryllis, sunflower, tithonia, lavender multifida and stoechas, coneflower, alyssum, dwarf chenille, cardomom, and the calamondin and peppers are flowering again for another round of fruit. My holy basils and perilla are in bloom as well. The begonia, kimi ginger, and sansevieria are blooming. They grow wild in my yard

[applestar]

There is an avenue in a nearby town where they planted cherry trees all along almost the entire length of it that passes through the township bounded by two major roads. Some trees are really old, some have died off, but they keep replacing them. The trees are in full bloom

[imafan26]

The sakura in Wahiawa bloom in January, but some of the Okinawan trees can bloom this late. They are beautiful in bloom but it only lasts a short time. Enjoy while you can.

[applestar]

Blue Flag Iris in the NE Corner Bog Garden


...and Virginia Sweetspire next to it

[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. )

[applestar]

Monarda Jacob Cline in iPhone 8 Portrait mode

[lovegardening]

Beautiful flowers! I love planting honeysuckles.

[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.

[applestar]

[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.....

[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

[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.

[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.

[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?”

[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

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.

[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”

[imafan26]

Beautiful. I noticed that too. The camera has a hard time capturing the true blue color of some of the plants.

[imafan26]

I have a lot of orchids in bloom right now and the Little Chief crepe myrtle is blooming early.

[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)

[Gary350]

Yard is filled with 1000s of nice little flowers every spring.

[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.