The garden is really greening up and coming into flower, and it's time once again for Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day.
Woodland phlox and foamflower
Phlox 'Clouds of Perfume' with native Jacob's Ladder
With new fronds of Southern lady fern in azalea bed
Woodland phlox runs the spectrum in color from very
pale blue (almost white), to icy blue to lilac to purple.
pale blue (almost white), to icy blue to lilac to purple.
Woodland phlox 'Louisiana' in foreground
'London Grove Blue'
Bleeding Heart (Dicentra eximia)
Toothwort
Eastern columbine
Running Green and Gold
Dwarf crested iris
First bearded iris to bloom here, 'Crimson King'
The rambunctious but beautiful Wisteria that we grow as a shrub.
Jessamine growing up into one of the Encore Amethyst azaleas.
A native Viburnum which I am guessing is Blackhaw, mostly because the Blackhaw at the NC Botanical Garden is also in bloom and a tree form like this one. These get to at 20-25' in height and grow on the creek banks and in one of the sloughs.
Piedmont azalea (Rhododendron canescens) to the right
White-flowering Piedmont azalea
Apple tree blossoms, from our dwarf apple trees.
Wild crabapple tree growing at the edge of one of the floodway fields.
Thank you to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for hosting Bloom Day.
Oh, this is so delicious! You're quite a bit ahead of me here in MO. Such beautiful flowers, giving me hope that yes, spring will come to my garden too!
ReplyDeleteWow, spring is really busting out its best for you! Love all the gentle colors of your phlox and apple blossoms. Foamflower, is that tiarella? I need to get that combo going here next spring. Happy Bloom Day!
ReplyDeleteI love all the photographs but I'm really taken with the woodland Phlox. It looks so good with Tiarella.
ReplyDeleteRob
The beauty is just extraordinary! I am really liking the woodland phlox so much. I picked up 'May Breeze' yesterday and noticed its sweet sweet scent. Your place must smell great.
ReplyDeleteDear Sweetbay! It is phlox and native heaven in your garden! The Green and Gold ids impressive! The blue sky is a welcome sight...it has been cloudy and cold. I love it all!
ReplyDeleteHave a great fun day today! gail
Wow! I can't believe everything you have in bloom already--your April is our May. I also love foam flower, it's one of my favorite spring bloomers and it just looks like faeries live near it. I love the pairing with phlox, too.
ReplyDeleteI loooooove the pictures of the crabapples! They are my favorite flower to sniff. To me, if pure, clean water had a smell, it would smell like crab apple flowers. Happy Bloom Day!
ReplyDeleteWhat a bounty of blooms. Love the woodland phlox and you have it mingling with other blooms. It makes a wonderful effect. I will definitely get more this year. Now I only have a couple small patches.
ReplyDeleteThis was a wonderful post!
Marnie
Sweet Bay, I LOVE native azaleas! I can't wait until we get a little shad so I can plant some!--Randy
ReplyDeleteHi Sweetbay, your garden is just heavenly. I had to run to the store this morning, and they had Phlox divaricata for sale! I had to add these beauties after seeing them on several of the bloom day posts today. Yours are just scrumptious! Hooray for climbing old blush, I have the non climber and she is so reliable too. Isn't spring grand? Happy bloom day!
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What a beautiful show of blooms. I love the Piedmont Azaleas, the apple blossoms and the phlox. Well, I love all of them but that was all I could remember by name. I can't wait until I can get some blooms up here.
ReplyDeleteHi Sweetbay, what a marvelous show in your garden. I love how the flowers naturally mingle together. Here shimmers a sea of blue interlaced with ferns and Irises. The lovely pink dicentra, Jasmin and roses.Clouds of blossoms from apple and crab apple trees. A natural garden like this radiates warmth and pleasure and artistic energy.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen so many beautiful blue/purple/pink/white blooms all in one post. My goodness, it's gorgeous there in NC. I'm noticing that good gardeners are also good photographers. I'm wondering if what you call Running Green and Gold is what we call Marsh Marigold here in WI. Yes, that's a big and very old lilac bush in my header. Sad to say that it's not in my yard but growing in the empty lot next to our bank...used to be an old house there.
ReplyDeleteGreat shots and you have reminded me that I forgot to photography my Jacob's Ladder. Do you have the variegated one called "Stairway to Heaven"? It is really nice.
ReplyDeleteLovely!! Lovely!!
ReplyDeleteYou are a bit ahead of us. My woodland phlox have buds on them. I have only a few in the ground, and the rest in a wash tub. It amazes me that they come back every spring. My attempts in the past to get them going in the ground failed, so I am tickled the ones I transplanted last year are growing. You sure have lots of them!
ReplyDeleteYour gardens look great!
Happy GBBD!
oh my Sweet Bay ~ there are so many beautiful blooms in your garden I don't know where to start! Love that Piedmont Azaleas ~ the blooms are just luscious. and the fact that your oakleaf hydrangea has leaves is amazing. Mine still looks as dormant as it did all winter! I'd say you are at least a month or so ahead of me. Lots and lots of pretty blooms in your garden this month, that's for sure!
ReplyDeleteWhat a glorious show you have for Bloom Day! The Piedmont Azaleas are so delicately beautiful,
ReplyDeleteand I love your phlox divaricata.
I can't wait to see our crab apple blooms, and the wild apple blossoms over in the hedgerow.
That wild crabapple is magnificent.
Isn't it wonderful the way everything pops when spring comes?
Wow! That is just so many flowers I can't believe it! Everything is so pretty. I love the woodland phlox, I don't think I've seen that before, it looks so pretty with all the other flowers. Now, I need to see if I can grow that one here.
ReplyDeleteYour garden is just lovely with many plants I adore but can't grow here. But it's a kick to see similarities, like the columbine, iris, and rusty blackhaw viburnum. You've got a beautiful place!
ReplyDeleteumm, esp love those azaleas! thanks for your visit to my blog, too!
ReplyDeleteWow! Great display of blooms & photos. Everything looks like it belongs...so natural!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely gorgeous! Everything is so lush and I love all the purples and various combinations. I could just look at these photos forever.
ReplyDeleteI hope you try some Society Garlic and like it. It prefers sun and doesn't need allot of water.
Oh, I love your drifts of woodland phlox and Jacob's Ladder! They really bring back memories of growing up in WI. I always loved the scent of spring phlox in the evening and it's been years since I've smelled it.
ReplyDeletebeautiful!!! Thanks for following my blog too. Love your blog.
ReplyDeleteLove that stand of phlox. It is just beginning to bloom in the forest here. Happy GBBD.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous photos and blooms. I could almost smell the many blossoms!
ReplyDeleteHello Sweetbay,
ReplyDeleteWhat a paradise... and horses too! Gorgeous photos! plants and flowers... so lovely to see especially since we are so behind... i love the phlox and must it get again... I suppose you have fairies too! Magical world!
Happy Spring and Bloom days!
The subtle combinations of the different phlox varieties is a great effect. And the different Piedmont azaleas are gorgeous too. Enjoy your blooms--I sure did!
ReplyDeleteWow, I can't believe you have Bearded Iris in bloom already. Well ahead of us. Lovely collection of wildflowers, especially including those Azaleas.
ReplyDeleteI especially loved seeing all your native plants. I have toothwort, too, and know it's not that showy, but you made it look special.
ReplyDeleteThanks! That gives me a much better idea now.
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