Blooming Friday

Katarine at roses and stuff asked what we are enjoying most in our gardens. Hard to say -- at this time of year there's a lot to enjoy.

I didn't get nearly as many Shirley poppies as I wanted -- I sowed 'Cedric Morris' and 'Choir of Angels' and didn't get very many plants -- but this one has formed a huge bouquet that's been blooming for weeks.
 

The last of the Louisana iris
 

Foxi Pavement -- love the fragrance. It's a wafter.
 

Foxglove
 

 

 

Eastern Gray Beardtongue
 

Devoniensis
 

Iris virginica
 

 

 

Oak-leaved Hydrangea with Devoniensis and foxglove
 

I love the long spurs on this Yellow columbine (Aquilegia chrysantha)
 

Doesn't he look rotten?
 

Verbena bonariensis
 

I have thoroughly enjoyed Veilchenblau, for its beauty, fragrance, and long bloom time.
 

 

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Blooming Friday May 21, 2009

It's a celebration of late spring flowers here: the last of the iris, larkspur, roses and foxgloves..

Border of vegetable garden, with big perennial bed in background.
 

This is a partial view of the plantings between the house and the driveway, looking down over the vegetable garden and down to the big perennial bed. That's the well cover off to the left, and the makings of a new bed behind that.
 

Part of the garden between the house and drive.
 

Looking the opposite direction, toward the neighbor's pasture.
 

Lots of foxglove in the garden this year, although I always think I'd like twice as much as I have.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Festiva Maxima
 

Siberian Iris
 

Louisiana Iris 'Sinfonietta'
 

A noid Louisiana Iris
 

No, it's not Delphinium, but heck I'll take it.
 

 

 

Carolina Bush Pea
 

Veilchenblau
 

Perennial Sweet Pea
 

Rosa palustris scandens
 

Hansa
 

 

Dusky Challenger
 

 

Rosa carolina
 

Thank you to Katarina at roses and stuff for hosting Blooming Friday.

May Roses

May and September are the chief months for roses here; in the summer months Japanese Beetles eat them up.

This is a China/ Gallica cross that I got from a trade. The shrub is arching and fountain-like, mostly thornless, with one big flush of bloom in spring. The flowers are wine-red/ purple and fragrant.
 

 

 

 

Pink Pillar is a rose that I'm not sure I would have picked if I hadn't seen it in person. The red buds open to these delightful sunset pink fragrant flowers. I saw this rose blooming in combination with the climbing miniature 'Work of Art'. Normally I hate pink and orange together and dislike miniatures, but the combination was a wonderful one.
 

Mutabilis truly is well-named. I'm always amazed to see these tangerine buds
 

open to these pale cool pink flowers
 

that then darken to raspberry pink.
 

Belinda's Dream
 

 

Sombrueil
 

A young Rainbow Knockout in the bed next to the neighbor's pasture. It's bedded with hay around the base.
 

Aloha
 

Veilchenblau looks its most lavender/ purple to me in the midday sun, which has surprised me. In the morning sun it has more of a wine-red color. Its fragrance, which is not at all rose-like, is sweet and wafting. I think some people can detect it and others cannot.
 

 

These Veilchenblau are growing as free-standing mounds at the border of the vegetable garden, where they may eventually become monsters. lol At least it hardly has any thorns. I'm layering it so that I can also grow it on the fence between the pasture and the old front yard.