Show us your bloomers!!!

My heavens Raggedy Ann...My Daddy was born in 1900.....LOL

Trust me dahlin... that ain't my body them Bloomers is on...I just did it to give y'all a giggle...

I can't wait to get back down there...This state is no place for a Suth'un woman to be...especially with bones as old as mine are...
I am still hoping to find a small derelict farmhouse down there on an acre or two...I haven't given up hope yet...Hopefully I can get down there soon to do my snooping...Y'all keep yer ears open, and yer eyeballs peeled for me...I doubt I can be ready to move now much before next Spring, unless something wonderful comes up...

No Bloomers here yet, but this is my newly tilled Veterans Garden...That rose is Memorial day, and the daylilies are Uncommon Valor, and Enola Gay...

Dusty - a Veteran's garden is such a neat idea. Is part of it in shade? You could get some neat patriotic named hostas if it is. Good luck on your property search. Do you know what area you want to move to yet?

RaggedyAnn - the weed oxalis has yellow flowers. I pull it out all the time too. It doesn't have little bulbs like the pink. but it has stolons I think. My pink kind doesn't spread hardly at all. That clump has been there 3 years and is only 18 inches wide now.

The weed oxalis is EVERYWHERE. It's often bronzy-leaved, sometimes green. For you folks too?

I just realized that the plant I thought was wild strawberry is apparently Cinquefoil.

Julia Child floribunda rose

Our Lady Guadalupe floribunda rose

My favorite rose! Rainbow Sorbet floribunda

Moondance floribunda rose

erdooley, that Rainbow sorbet is fabulous; looks unearthly. And I wouldn't kick the others out of bed either!

Several of my roses, all floribundas.

Thanks cedar18! I bought it as a container rose at Hastings several years ago on a whim and it has just performed wonderfully. Mother's Day is always esp. special because the roses are at their peak.

Tuscan Sun floribunda

I posted some of these next pics on another thread somewhere, but what the heck...

Hardy geranium

Sweet William

Woodland phlox. This pic is from a couple of weeks ago. It's starting to fade now.

Green and Gold. These mounds spread quickly, making a very hardy groundcover.

May Night salvia

Oh I love that Tuscan Sun. Your May Night is doing so much better than mine. I need to move it into a sunnier location.

erDooley... I have the hardy geranium here as well...I just moved a huge clump of it less than an hour ago, watered it in, and it's a tad mad at me right now...but tomorrow it should be okay....

I envy your roses...mine are just now trying to bud out...

I moved a few of the dark blue batchelors buttons as well, down into the back of the Vets Garden....I have tall white Cosmos seed in behind them...They weren't happy with me either, but have perked back up after a good drink of water...This garden was originally planted by my adopted baby Sis who moved out last spring, and took what she wanted, and left the rest...It looks like a hodge podge now with all of the gaping holes everywhere, and tons of weeds galore...
I filled a second 33 gallon can with weeds today for the compost bin, and I know I can fill at least 4-5 more.... There is a 3500 gallon pond and waterfall here as well, that I have had to literally tear apart to find all of the leaks, but thankfully that is over with...now I just have to reset the rocks after a bit of backfilling...I am trying to get the property in order and looking good to a prospective buyer...Sis and Bro intend to sell it...

It has been a real trial with all of this rain we have had...It is supposed to start again Wed. and go for 7 days again...It is virtually impossible to contain these weeds when we have that kind of weather...I am digging and moving plants to new beds as hard and fast as I can...trying to get them to look somewhat organized...The rest will see the weed whacker and sprayer full of Herbicide, and I hate chemicals, and I hate killing plants even more, but something has to be done to get this riot under control...

I am so used to Southern gardening....and some of these weeds I have never even seen before...

I will get some pics for y'all tomorrow....

Have a good evening !!!

Passion vine blooming.

Down on the coast the magnolias are in full bloom. I couldn't get a good picture so I just held the camera over my head and hoped for the best. LOL.

Cannas are coming out. I'm surprised I never see anyone from Savannah on this board. Basically Savannah is where I live BTW.

'Show time' floribunda.

Hey ladies , the little wild irises are starting to bloom in the woods . Can I move them to the yard successfully , and what is the name of them ? digger

digger, I don't know which Iris you mean. Can you post a pic? My Dwarf Crested Iris, which are a native but I bought them, bloomed quite a while ago. If yours are like these, they are very shallow rooted, basically threads on the ground connnecting the rhizomes. So when I've moved them, I've had luck only when I potted them up for a season and let them develop more roots. Then they do great.

Hey Sally, We call the beautiful blue ones Blue Flag! Mine are just now starting to stem up. Usually I have first bloom the first week of June.

I'll go look again . digger

My computer died (motherboard, I'm pretty sure) so am using my hubby's ancient one. Too much trouble to post pix, I'm afraid.

But our Water Irises are blooming (I really love those dark dark purple ones), and we have Corrida and Petite Brigette asiatic lilies. The first dwarf orientals are just now opening and I'm sooo grateful for the fragrance. Big rhodies are happy too. Oh, and we have some snapdragons that have self-seeded and/or survived the winter in our sorta greenhouse (along with some plain old but lovely nursery geraniums).

Some alstroemeria that we got years ago are finally getting settled and the first bloom appeared yesterdeay. There is some kind of wildflower that I think is called Miami Mist popping up everywhere and some kind of pink wildflower/weed that is appearing alongside some crimson clover that I can't remember ever seeing here before.

jo

I took a second look , closer and it isn't blooming yet . What I saw from a distance was a piece of purple plastic trash . That comes up in the woods , and it's right off my property line. Looks like tiny irises 6"-8" tall .digger

My Asiatics are blooming all over the yard. Here's Tresor, one of my favorites; it's almost neon orange.

I think this one is Brindisi? I have lost all the tags and am working from memory. I planted these last spring and they have really multiplied.

Is this Yelloween?

I have no idea what this one is but I have four or five of them. Any ideas?

Gardenias around the deck smell soooo good.

I think this is California.

This is the only daylily I found open this evening. I will try again in the morning. The neighbor's dog removed all my tags from this bed, but they all came from a coop a few years ago.

Night shift is kicking in.

Its a little late... but here are my iris in April. They have a good year and I was very pleased with them.
Helem

I should say they had a good year. Here is another shot of my iris bed.
Helen

Helenchild, Very nice iris beds. Do you keep all your iris separate from other perennials?

Here is another shot of "right now" in the garden. I do love coneflowers. This is Magnus that I grew from seed in 2007.

I meant to post this first:
Thanks Helenchild for kicking this thread back into play.

Here is Stokes' Aster "Color Wheel" - new for me last year. I really like the purple and white flowers on the same plant.