Flowers in bloom now

[applestar]

Looking forward to seeing your pictures! I took some, too.



LEFT: ALternating-leaf Dogwood, Native Azalea, Carolina Allspice
CENTER: Trumpet Honeysuckle
RIGHT: Hawthorn, Highbush Cranberry, Aquilegia

[MiddleNameGrace]

Taken just this morning!

Anybody know this one?

I wish I knew what this is!

Pink plumeria

Periwinkle

[Lindsaylew82]

I think #1 is astilbe
#2 I think is Mexican petunia
#4 I guess is know as just plain annual vinca here. Periwinkle is know here to be vinca minor. It's a purple perennial groundcover. Same family though.

I am SO JELLY of that plumeria! It's one of my favorite perfumes!

[rainbowgardener]

Astilbe usually keeps its flower spikes upright, not drooping, and the leaves are serrate:

astilbe


#1 is possibly love-lies-bleeding (?)

[Lindsaylew82]

Oooooooo yeah! I like your answer better!

[MiddleNameGrace]

I think you're right! *scurries off to the Internet to find out everything I can*

[Lindsaylew82]

We literally can NOT get rid of Mexican petunias here in SC!

[pinksand]

Clematis - does anyone know the variety?

[rainbowgardener]

Just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in. Since I started this spring with absolutely a blank slate, there is still not very much...

Annuals: salvias, petunias, marigolds, nasturtium just opening, zinnias just opening, chamomile

Perennials: spiderwort has been blooming and blooming for six weeks already!, lavender, coreopsis, viburnum, veronica speedwell, bee balm has buds, will bloom pretty soon.

I harvested the chamomile for the third time today, picked about 250 little flowers off it.

[LIcenter]

It seems Long Island, NY is having an exceptional year for Viburnums. I have three varieties, and all are doing great. Here's a pic of my hobblebush viburnum (V. alnifolium, also known as V. lantanoides) It's a real shade lover, and even though mine sits in dappled sun it's doing just fine.

[rainbowgardener]

I have to say I'm a bit disappointed in my viburnum. I don't know what V. species I had in Cincinnati,* but when it bloomed it would perfume the whole yard. What I have now is V. nudum var. Winterthur. Nudum is native to the eastern and southeastern US; I got it from a local native plant nursery. But the flowers are only very lightly fragrant, only when you get close to them and the fragrance is not as sweet. The flowers aren't as pretty either, being flat topped umbrels of tiny florets.

V. nudum


*[It may have been a V. burkwoodii var. Mohawk that I got from the Wayside Garden catalog before I was as committed to native plantings]

[applestar]

Whirled 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.

[applestar]

I have Sisynchium (Blue-eyed grass) that I discovered I had when I let all the lawn grasses grow out and bloom to find out what kinds of grass we had, and to see -when allowed to grow naturally- just how tall these lawn grasses grow.

When I find one growing (easily recognizable by the flat fan-like growth) it gets a free pass, so here's one forming a rather unsettlingly large clump in the Spiral Garden.

They are often described as preferring/able to grow in poor, wet soils. I'm guessing mine are S. atlanticum.
Note that they actually belong to Iris family.

Sisyrinchium atlanticum (Eastern blue-eyed grass) | NPIN

Eastern blue-eyed grass
Iridaceae (Iris Family)
Synonym(s): Sisyrinchium apiculatum, Sisyrinchium mucronatum var. atlanticum
USDA Symbol: SIAT
USDA Native Status: L48 (N), CAN (N)
A grass-like, clumped perennial, to 20 in. high, with pale-green foliage and flattened flowering stems terminating in loose clusters of pale-blue, six-petaled, yellow-centered flowers.

http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result ... plant=SIAT

The other possibility, I suppose, is that they are
Sisyrinchium angustifolium

[Susan W]

Monarda, Jacob Cline. Quasi native.

[Susan W]

Anise hyssop, coneflower pallida, natives. Bumble bee on hyssop along with tiny native bees.