|
Post by breezygardener on May 12, 2023 14:07:00 GMT -5
The only things I have blooming here right now - apart from some impatiens & geraniums I purchased - are my everbearing strawberries, & the wild blackberries, honeysuckle, & multiflora roses. I've been in the process of ripping the Triffid-like honeysuckle out at every opportunity, but have been enjoying both the scent as well as the Ruby-throated hummingbirds working it. I also LOVE the scent of the blooming multiflora, but most of that gets cut back to the ground once it's finished flowering, not to reappear until next Spring.
|
|
|
Post by binnylou on May 12, 2023 14:13:47 GMT -5
I forgot…the Impatiens that I started for the hanging pouches are blooming, even though they are still in the laundry room. I’d best get them planted in the pouches.
|
|
|
Post by datgirl on May 12, 2023 14:50:01 GMT -5
The petunias I started from seed are blooming and the geraniums that spent the winter in the basement windows are blooming too. They went outside today.
|
|
|
Post by binnylou on May 16, 2023 7:48:12 GMT -5
I found “not yet open” blooms on the white petunias. These plants have been out in the plant trailer for several weeks and are quite robust. No blooms on the red nor purple petunias, but they are starting to trail. The white petunia grows in a more mounding fashion (assuming that what I grew this year is the same as previous years).
Blooms on the lilac are starting to fade, but the fragrance is still there. The Cranberry bush is in full bloom, though I don’t smell a fragrance from it.
|
|
|
Post by Mumsey on May 17, 2023 5:32:16 GMT -5
Purple globe allium are in full bloom. Lilacs fading, but Miss Kim Lilac is yet to bloom, it's later. So fragrant, it's almost overpowering! I see the hibiscus plants have shoots, right on time!
|
|
|
Post by datgirl on May 17, 2023 14:03:21 GMT -5
The Columbine are blooming today.
|
|
|
Post by pepperhead212 on May 17, 2023 15:31:00 GMT -5
Not much blooming yet - just the sugar snap peas, with a few formed, but nothing full sized. The plants to the right have no blossoms yet, and are much smaller - they are the snow peas, which will catch up eventually. Sugar snap peas, flowering, 5-16 by pepperhead212, on Flickr
|
|
|
Post by desertwoman on May 17, 2023 22:34:03 GMT -5
I pinched off the first tomato flowers today. They aren't even in the ground yet. First austrian copper rose, iris and coral bells have bloomed, vinca and Mediterranean Spurge are in full bloom, lilacs are fading (poor show this year due to a freeze that damaged the buds), a few tulips still in bloom,, crabapple still flamboyant, wild strawberries, sweet woodruff, dianthus, lobelia.
|
|
|
Post by Mumsey on May 18, 2023 5:24:28 GMT -5
Dianthus and Columbine are starting to bloom. Glads are poking up!
|
|
|
Post by binnylou on May 22, 2023 11:54:36 GMT -5
Yesterday I noticed the white peonies are starting to share some color. If the days continue to be warm, I doubt they’ll make it to Memorial Day.
And I found a bloom on one of my tomato plants…it has been given to our neighbor to the north. The man of free eggs. He left with about 20 plants yesterday morning. I hope they do well for him…he lost all of his starts, probably due to damping off.
|
|
|
Post by emmsmommy on May 22, 2023 15:31:12 GMT -5
My great grandmother's peony. No white on the flower, it's a trick or the light. Always first to bloom and relatively short compared to the others. Also has absolutely no scent! It's at least 60 years old if not more and I think Iay have found the variety name a few years ago but it has escaped me now.
|
|
|
Post by Wheelgarden on May 22, 2023 16:46:39 GMT -5
Native and rare white milkweed just now popping out, the ones that the Monarchs love so much:
|
|
|
Post by Mumsey on May 26, 2023 20:18:13 GMT -5
Chives, tallest they have ever been. And the Lupine is the best it's ever been as well. I didn't expect it to show up this year, it's on year 4. Grew it from seed.
|
|
|
Post by datgirl on May 27, 2023 8:06:26 GMT -5
My Peonies are just opening. I have a few that same color@emmsmommy,they were my mom's. The columbine is still going strong and my chives are blooming too.
|
|
|
Post by binnylou on May 29, 2023 13:08:22 GMT -5
Peonies…hundreds of them. 15 pink and one white. All pink ones are the same variety from the farm where hubby grew up, and one white one that was here when we moved here. I think the white one might be “Shirley Temple “, just from researching.
It’s been a good year for flowering plants…hope it continues with tomatoes and peppers.
|
|