Bloom Day August 15

Well, now I see I need to plan for more August blooms! Squash blossoms still to add. And borage.  Find many more bloom posts at May Dreams Gardens.

Cosmos living with the vegetables

The bees like the mint

One garden bed have a variety of flowers and herbs

Sort of a bloom - a baby frog grown in the pond

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day June 2020

After many years, I'm happy to have a Bloom Day post again! It is a cross point between spring and summer flowers here in the Pacific Northwest.  See many more flower post links at May Dreams Gardens. 

Rose Campion

Wild rose on hillside

A fragrant dianthus

   

Dogwood

Foxglove

Honeysuckle

Mountain Laurel

  

Another dogwood

Bleeding hearts

Hen & chicken bloom

Oriental poppy

  

April Blooms and Bees

This smaller cherry tree made it through the snow and ice earlier this year.  I know the bees and hummingbirds are missing our 3 large cherry trees damaged by the ice.  See them in bloom in this link.  We had to cut them back significantly so no blossoms this year (but a few new limbs are sprouting now).  

The mason bees are busy today.  Here is what their house looks like.  The fruit trees are blooming too, so they must have what they need.

Star magnolia.

Bloom Day February 2010

It's Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day Feb. 15th. You can find links to blooms around the world at Carol's Bloom Day post at her blog May Dreams Gardens.


Here is what I found at Petunia's Garden:

We've had some mild weather and blooms are running a little early. Above, the neighbor's old wild or ornamental plum tree is starting to bloom.

Forsythia.

Some snowdrops survived in the area where we had a large tree removed.

This young ornamental cherry has been blooming already. I'm glad the large trees are holding off a little longer.

Heather, and a bee!

Money plant adds some interest in the fence row this time of year. You can see a new, green start of it growing at the base of the fence post.

Bloom Day September

It is Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens. You can find links to many more blooms from her site. Nicotiana and calendula make a nice accidental combination, above.

Here is one of the very, very tall sunflowers growing in the pumpkin patch.

Cosmos, also in the pumpkin patch. You can see a little of a pumpkin in the background.

This is Tip Top Alaska Nasturtium. Notice the varigated foliage. These are compact plants that can be in a variety of colors. I only ended up with this orange one this year.

Black-eyed Susans / Rudbeckia and Echinacea are still the happiest garden residents.

These are some of my flavorites. I really like this time of year (especially when we still have some of these very nice days around) and these bloomers help keep it quite bright.

Bloom Day August

It's the Garden Bloggers Bloom Day gathering over at May Dreams Gardens. I'm bringing some flowers (& a few friends) I haven't posted yet this summer. Above, fragrant nicotiana with calandula and blue borage in the background. Nicotiana came home with me from the July SAGBUTT gathering!

Above, this fee found the blooming basil in the greenhouse. The door is always open right now, but he had the place to himself. I've been deadheading the basil like crazy until the August heat hit and I let it go. The aroma in the greenhouse is fantastic after pinching back the basil.

Above, I've never seen bees with pollen baskets as full as they are once the broccoli starts blooming. See that yellow bump on the bee's leg? That's the pollen basket. I leave a few broccoli plants in the garden to bloom because the bees seem to like it so much.

This is blooming oregano, above. It is covered with this type of bee/critter. Do you know what it is?

I have my first feverfew plant this year. It is a very happy plant. I just read, though, that bees hate the smell of it! And they will stay away from other plants near it. I'll have to go check the surrounds plants to see how far that ban goes.

Bloom Day June

Here are some of the bloomers in progress today in my garden. Find out what's blooming around the world by visiting the Gardeners' Bloom Day post at Carol's May Dreams Gardens.

(Please stop by here on Tuesday, though, for some special roses I found blooming this evening and still need to photograph. They are self-caring roses beautifully growing in a fence line!)

Where is the scratch & sniff button when you need it? This is an amazing year for the honeysuckle growing along our driveway fence. The fragrance really takes off in the evenings.

It was just a few thin plants when we moved in 5 years ago. The bees and hummingbirds seem happy with the progress.

Self-planted foxgloves. That might be some white splashes of dogwood in the background.

Above, the catmint attracts so many bees, the plant is just a buzz. Funny, today I noticed how yellow these bees are now (vs weeks ago). Perhaps in honor of Carol's Yellow Dedication!

The first of the lavender. These came inside to dry, hung high to keep Maria (aka indoor garden pest) from eating them. It looks to be quite the lavender year, although I lost my Spanish lavender to the winter.

Mountain laurel. It is a wonder, small shrub (at least where it sits on the north side of my house). I love the blossoms before and after opening.

The peas, tomatoes, one cucumber, thyme, sage and the borage, of course, are also blooming.

Thanks for visiting us at Petunia's Garden. And, thanks for hosting, Carol!

~ Paula

March Bloom Day & Creative Weather Writing

Yes! There are some open flowerettes on this tree, under the snow. I checked, though, and none of my prior years' March Bloom Day participants are blooming today, well, except the heather. See 2008, 2007

The camellia is usually one of the first bloomers and I don't find a bud even tempted to open. It must have known this weather was coming. I'll be watching it closely every day now for signs of hope. Visit Carol at May Dreams Gardens to find links to the other bloom day bloggers.

The garden today.

Weather forecast for the week:

Today: Windy, rain or snow showers
Tomorrow: Rain and snow showers

Tuesday: Mostly cloudy, showers

Wednesday: (and here is the new twist on things) Rain at times!

Thursday: Morning showers, partly sunny

How to cope? There is enough likelihood of error that we can still hope for more sun breaks.

Bloom Day February

After a bloom discouraging January, I found some blooms (...and near blooms) to post this month. Visit May Dreams Gardens to find other Feb. 15th bloom day garden bloggers.

The heather in the bright sunlight caught the attention of me, and a huge bumblebee.

I added some forsythia twigs to the black pussy willow twigs Molly shared at the Feb. 7th SAGBUTT meeting. There wasn't a bud on them, but the flowers popped out after some days in the house. I wonder if the pussy willow will sprout some roots in the vase (I hope, I hope).

Unlike last year, there are no open snowdrops yet. This one is the closest to opening.

When I first saw this plant, I thought it was a pussy willow. Then I learned it was a star magnolia. A few months later, it became one of my favorite plants! Here is an April preview.

Bloom Day April

The late March snow on the buds for these flowers in this post left some of the blossoms a little rough around the edges, but they bloomed anyway. I'm really glad that the star magnolia shrub, above, was still up for blooming.The cherry tree photo is after today's rain, hail, lightening & thunder afternoon spree. No blue sky behind the flowers today.

It has been a cold spring and things are behind. At least half of the flowers I posted about last year are not blooming yet. Something to look forward to!

Visit Carol's Bloom Day post here, and the post comments to see all of the other bloom day posters.

It does sound like we have 3 or 4 Pacific Tree Frogs singing out around the little patio pond. In the past, we've only heard one or two voices. It seems to be getting on Maria's (the cat) nerves. She stares out the window at the pond, and does funny little running spurts around the house after they've been singing for a number of hours.