Tag: garden bloggers bloom day

  • Bloom Day May 2012

    Bloom Day May 2012

    Farewell to Spring never lies. It’s supposed to be 80 degrees this weekend! Hooray!

    Farewell to Spring Clarkia amoena ‘Aurora’

    Salal Gaultheria shallon
    Allium shubertii
    I really need Scott to teach me how to photograph grasses.
    Tufted hair grass Deschampsia caespetosa
    Penstemon
    Black lace elderberry Sambucus nigra

    Viburnum plicatum var. Watanabe with a sleeping bee. HE’S SLEEPING, RIGHT?

    This ladybird poppy is on my shit list. If the other one’s foliage goes dead overnight like this one, it’s getting yanked. I don’t care how pretty its blooms were for two days.

    Ladybird poppy Papaver commutatum ‘Ladybird’

    Brakelights yucca and roses
    If anyone wants this penstemon, I saw it yesterday at Garden Fever.

    Penstemon ‘Dark Towers’

    Jasmine

    Salvia microphylla

    Paeonia lactiflora ‘Sarah Bernhardt’

    Spiraea japonica ‘Magic Carpet’

    Heuchera ‘Hollywood’

    Monkey flower Mimulus cardinalis

    Ocean Spray Holodiscus discolor

    Jerusalem sage Phlomis russeliana

    Juncus effusus

    Juncus ensifolius

    Sedum oreganum


    For the full show of bloom day entries, head over to May Dreams Gardens
  • Bloom day April 2012

    Bloom day April 2012

    Man, I love this time of year. The daphne is still scenting the yard, the tulips are all opening, and we still have all the summer and fall foliage and blooms to look forward to.

    Dicentra spectabilis ‘Alba’

    Tulipa ‘Orange Princess’

    Erythronium oregonum

    Lonicera involucrata

    Pieris japonica

    Tulipa ‘Flair’

    This flower hasn’t opened but I had no idea that oxalis even made flowers, so . . .

    Oxalis oregana

    Helleborus x ballardiae ‘HGC Cinnamon Snow’

    Tulipa ‘Merry Christmas’

    Daphne odora variegata 
    Strawberries

    Ribes sanguineum

    Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

    Check out all the gardeners’ blooms at May Dreams Gardens.

  • Bloom Day February 2012

    Bloom Day February 2012

    Here in 8b we’ve had a very mild winter and yet this is the only bloom I have in my yard at the moment. Good thing it’s showy.
    Helleborus x ballardiae ‘HGC Cinnamon Snow’

    We have lots of bulbs starting to poke up, my daphne is *this close* to blooming, and I’m hoping that by next month my flowering currants may be putting on a show. Note to self: plant crocuses and snowdrops for next winter so you have as many blooms as some of the others on the garden bloggers’ virtual tour.