This is my regular post about what is blooming in the garden on Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, the 15th of each month. Due to an unseasonably warm month of March, we are about two to three weeks ahead of schedule. There is lots going on in the garden! I’ll just show you a few of [...]
Well, I knew it was too good to last. The amazingly warm weather we were having has given way to more normal, cooler temperatures. Our summer preview is over, and it’s back to regular spring weather. Of course the fabulous Hellebores from the Hellebore Gold Collection, above, have been blooming since February. They don’t care [...]
It is garden bloggers bloom day again – the 15th of each month, when garden bloggers everywhere show and tell what is blooming in their garden. I always look forward to the pansies and violas, like the violas above, that bloom early in the season. It is a sure sign that spring is on it’s [...]
First a howling blizzard woke us, Then the rain came down to soak us, And now before the eye can focus – Crocus! – Lilja Rogers, New Hampshire poet, 1901-1998 The first week that I see crocus blooming in the garden, I start off my horticulture class by showing this poem with a picture of the little [...]
December 15, and what is blooming? Not much. We are having an unusually warm spell (60 degrees!) and continuous drizzle, though I’ve braved the elements to get these few images. And I’m finally learning that the only thing normal about Cincinnati weather is . . . that it is never normal! Above, the intrepid perennial [...]
It is the 15th of the month, and that means it’s Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day, when we bloggers report on what is blooming in our gardens. I’ve done a lot of garden clean-up this past week, but I left the cool season annuals that were still blooming intact. Cool season annuals do best in the cooler spring or fall weather. [...]
There are lots of things blooming in the garden today. Here is a small sampling, starting with plants from my sunny patio border, above. With the bright sunshine, it’s hard to see the plants in this distant shot, so let’s take a closer look . . . The wild looking, hot-pink poufs are from a [...]
Here are a few things that are blooming on June 15, Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. Coreopsis grandiflora ‘Early Sunrise’ always looks great in early summer. When the flowers fade, you must cut this plant back to get another flush of blooms. No so with the newer selections of Coreopsis verticillata, which continue to bloom without being [...]
Here are a few things that are blooming in my Cincinnati garden on Gardener’s Bloom Day, May 15. I sneaked out between rainstorms to get a few images from the gardens nearest the house. Allium ‘Purple Sensation’ is a favorite blooming bulb from the onion family . . . Here’s another spring bloomer that grows from a bulb, [...]
I always loved this little saying from my childhood. My mom would quote it whenever we complained about a rainy day in spring. How true it is! This year we almost broke the local record for the rainiest April in recorded history, but had to settle for second place. I’ve been on vacation for the past 10 days [...]