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.
New Beauties
The roses are trial plants from David Austin Roses. I will be testing their mettle this winter. These two hydrangeas are trial plants from Proven Winners. They’ve already made it through one winter and are growing robustly.Unexpected Beauty
Sometimes you just have to take a fresh look at a plant. We all know what lettuce is “supposed” to look like. We all know you are supposed to eat it, so we usually pull it out before it’s gone this far. But really, I think it’s pretty in a wild kind of way. Click on the photo for a larger image. What do you think? Does thisWhat’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.
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.
.-= VW´s last blog ..My First Japanese Iris Blooms =-.
Hey CCG,
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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 =-.
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.
.-= commonweeder´s last blog ..New Friends and Their Blogs =-.
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.
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.