Five days late. I considered skipping it this month. But participating in Garden Bloggers Bloom Day has allowed me to track changes in the garden, so I decided to post most tardily. Several plants that were blooming last year are done blooming already, such as cephalaria and pink foxglove. The tunic flower and perennial flax died out on me. And I have a couple of new beauties.
Old faithful. This one pansy plant comes back every year and blooms all season.
One section of the birthday garden. Lumber to rebuild the porch in the background
New Beauties
Sophy's Rose.
Gertrude Jekyll
Incrediball hydrangea
Invincible Spirit hydrangea with Black Negligee actaea
Unexpected Beauty
Bolted lettuce
What’s in Bloom
- Pansies
- Petunias
- Malva sylvestris ex ‘Bibor Felho’
- Hyperion daylily
- Bright Eyes phlox
- Cerise Queen yarrow
- Veronica from Bedlam Gardens
- Six Hills Giant catmint
- Cynanchum ascyrifolium
- white rose campion
- pink rose campion
- American Revolution daylily
- two different yellow daylilies
- coral bells
- William Shakespeare 2000 rose
- Shirley poppies
- breadseed poppies
- peony poppies
- Tangerine Gem Spanish poppy
- Beppie daylily
- Red Rum daylily
- other daylilies with forgotten names
- some hostas
- Apricot Delight yarrow
- meadow rue
- meadowsweet
- yellow foxglove
- Johnny-jump-ups
- creeping bellflower
- Sneezeweed yarrow
- flowering tobacco
- Lady’s mantle
- Concord Grape spiderwort
- Cape Diamond rose
Inspired by the words of Elizabeth Lawrence, “We can have flowers nearly every month of the year,” Carol of May Dreams Gardens started Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. On the 15th of every month, garden bloggers from all over the world publish what is currently blooming in their gardens, and leave a link in Mr. Linky and the comments of May Dreams Gardens.
About Kathy Purdy
Kathy Purdy discovered the joys of writing in fourth grade, when she started corresponding with a former classmate. She's been writing letters ever since, first on looseleaf, then electronically, and now as weblog entries. That makes you, the blog reader, her pen pal. Her first independent (though frustrating) attempts at gardening were made in high school, though the gardening bug didn't bite hard until her mid-thirties, when she found herself mistress of a rural home on 15 acres. • USDA Hardiness Zone:4 • AHS Heat Zone: 3 • Location: rural; Southern Tier of NY • Geographic type: foothills of Appalachian Mountains • Soil Type: acid clay • Experience level: intermediate • Particular interests: colchicums, narcissus, cottage gardening, NY native plants, gardening with/for children
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Twitter: @thefrugalgarden
This year I added pale green sweet potato vine to the pot I had grown my lettuce in. The mix of the dark red bolting lettuce and the vine looked great. So I say yes to the kind of wild bolted letuce
desperately searching for lemon lillies-given some that are not lemon lillies but something with a feeble scent and a brownish heart{center}.no other alternative but to go to the mail order medium-which has never been enjoyable or satisfying-mostly disappointing.any auggestions would be very much appreciated.
The flowers are amazing! All of them looked so vibrant and lush!
Well, good for you finding a way to be happy about bolted lettuce! The black pansies are fun. I have considered buying ‘sophy’s rose’ before, but by now I have so many pink english roses that I’m about done for now. I hope it works well for you.
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Hey CCG,
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I also wanted to make sure you received my new link for Gardening With Confidence’s blog
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Thanks!
I hope you are doing well!
H.
What bounty! I still love that pansy. Wanted to let our lettuce bolt but yanked it to have room for more cilantro. Say–the meadow rue you gave me got SKY high in full sun (after a tree it was planted under was felled). I want to say 7 ft. Then it bloomed, but the stalk bent in half after a rain. Sad about that.
.-= Lynn´s last blog ..first the bad news- maybe late blight =-.
Twitter: @commonweeder
My Red Sails lettuce looks just like yours! It stands for the moment, but I am slowly working my way down the row, and pulling it out. I will be eager to hear how the David Austin roses do for you. Mary Rose and Mrs. Doreen Pike are the only two that have lasted very long in my garden.
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Better late than never they say. I lke the lettuce. Down here we plant a lot of ornamental cabbage and kale over the winter. The experts say to putt it out when it bolts, but I like the flowers and let them stay.
Twitter: @suburbangarden
I left my lettuce after it bolted last year, and it had pretty yellow blooms that looked good with the ruby foliage. I had thought ‘Gertrude Jekyll’ was the prettiest of the David Austin Roses, but I like ‘Sophy’s Rose’ even better.