What's blooming in your gardens?
Here's one of my Savannah Holly trees in bloom.
April Blooms
Columbine
I've been waiting on this Sweet William to bloom since last spring!
My blanket flower wins for the first bloom of the year.
Pincushion daisy
Lastly, the poppies have started blooming.
Here's the full pic of the poppy.
I have 2 kinds of roses. speed well, corieopis, pincushion flower, daylillies, iris, tulips, azaleas, foam flower, coral bells and salvia, along with pansies, snapdragons and wax begoinas in bloom today
I can't wait for my coreopsis to bloom! I love coreopsis.
This little cranesbill geranium is starting to bloom, too. It loves the hot sun and does well left outside over the winter. I need to divide it and plant some in various places. If anyone wants some, I can bring some to the RU in Arlington. Just say the word!
I too have a lot of roses in bloom & snapdragons.. dianthus, of course the spring flowers ( daffodils, hyacynths) have come & gone. Sorry I do not have pictures to post. My violas & pansies are either gone or soon to go.
Stephanie,
does the geranium bloom all season or just before and after the intense heat. Would love to grow one here if it can take the sun and heat.
C
It will bloom all summer, but when it's really, really hot, it will stop blooming. It will pick back up when it cools off, though. I've grown it in a container for the past several years. I didn't do anything special with it this past winter except when it snowed. I did bring it in then. It doesn't do diddly in shade or partial shade. It loves the sun.
salvia and columbine
white and red salvia greggii
Rose Vervain (Thanks Charlene)
Spiderwort
spanish lavender...seems like the only kind I can grow
Four nerve daisy...love this one!
Some Johnny jump up volunteers....why do they come up so late?
Dianthus and salvia greggii
Stephanie, I love that little cranesbill geranium. maybe in the fall.....
Stephanie, I grew those and other similar geraniums in zone 5, they are completely winter hardy. I would love a small start if you are coming to Arlington.
Banana, is that the moss verbena that grows and blooms here in the spring (your purple flower). I see it all over around where I work but the bloom period for the native(?) seems relatively short. I have one spanish lavender that I planted last year and have not had a single bloom! It looks very yellow still. Just a few new leaves are forming and it is in a pretty sunny place, oh well.
Now I feel badly, my plants are so far behind!
Cheryl
I think it blooms all summer but I can't remember. Maybe Charlene knows.
Lovely photos, everyone. My Yaupons and PossumHaw hollies are blooming now. The blooms are teeny tiny, but I was happy to see one lone bee gathering nectar from them. As far as blooms, the Scabiosa (Pincushion plant) and Dianthus are blooming like crazy, and the Salvia greggiis are starting to put on a show.
Don't you love this time of year? :-)
Carla
Amaryllis Apple Blossom.
This was bought as a pink iris. It's a bi-color yellow & white. It's had about 10 huge blooms this year from one rhizome!
Louisiana Iris
Another Louisiana Iris. I think this one is Top Notch.
Louisiana Iris "Jeri"
Knockout Rose, pink.
Some things seem to be slow getting started this year. I was surprised to see one of my tomato plants already has baby tomatoes on it this morning though. Now if I can just keep the hornworms off of them :( I'm going to start early and hope I don't have the horrible time I had with them last year.
Crow
I don't think that plant is rose vervain, the leaves look wrong. Now I wonder what it is I see growing and blooming in the spring. Thought it was moss verbena, the Texas variety but am not sure.
C
It looked like that to me too. http://ag.arizona.edu/pima/gardening/aridplants/Verbena_tenuisecta.html
newtonsthirdlaw, I wonder if what you have growing is Dakota Prairie Verbena, Glandularia bipinnatifida. The flowers look similar to those of the Moss Verbena (Vervain) except the flowers don't have a white eye. The leaves are larger and courser looking. http://www.bio.utexas.edu/courses/bio406d/images/pics/vrb/glandularia_bipinnatifida.htm
Even though they are drought tolerant, they've loved our wet winter and have appeared in larger numbers this year, even in places I hadn't seen them before.
The leaves on the plants in question are not coarse, they are extremely finely dissected and soft to the touch.
C
White flowers in our meadow.
My Roses & Clematis are the stars in the garden right now. Here's 2 of the clematis (fireworks & HF Young) & SDLM Rose. Pincussion is starting to bloom in the bottom left corner here.
Here is Hwy 290 pink buttons rose
Clematis 'the President' with the about to pop 'Peggy Martin' Rose to the left.
Pretty flowers everyone! Love that field of white flowers. Must be striking!
Sweezel, you roses and that clematis are gorgeous!!
Some of my poppies have lost their leaves and are in the seed-making process now.
