Mid-Atlantic Gardening: FIRST FLOWERS OF SUMMER!!! Yay it's finally here!!!, 3 by CatMint20906

CatMint20906 wrote:
Nice blooms, Wind! The Northern Sea Oats grass is very pretty--very graceful looking! My viola are still blooming, too--love to see them. They're so cheerful.

Some blooms from my roll call this morning:

1) 1st celosia baby bloom of the year. This one's a bit of a 'cheat' since I purchased the plant at a nursery this spring. ;-)
2) Yarrow 'Strawberry Seduction'--came back huge this year although it was the last to bloom of my yarrows
3) Balloon flower 'Sentimental Blue'-- first blooms open this morning. Very happy about this because this plant just *was not* happy last year and I had so much trouble finding a good spot for it. Then it was quite delayed coming up again this year and I was sure it had died, then all of a sudden, much later than everything else, there it was! :-)
4) My very first Clematis 'Rooguchi' bloom--yay! Also thrilled by this. My daughter saw a photo of it last year and decided she just *had* to have it, but we couldn't find it anywhere. Finally found it available online somewhere and it arrived as a very tiny plant and grew very slowly. Glad to finally have a bloom...
5) 2nd flush of dianthus at last--always a joy to see it